"Welding" a skirt to another Bait....Who Knew???

[andrewlamberson]

The Question:
How to "weld" one bait (a skirt) to another (Mad Dad) without crazy glueing my fingers shut??

A Solution:

Even though I've been fishing soft plastic baits for over 40 years....I must have missed the memo on this one.....but all I needed to do was heat each end in a candle ...melt the plastic and stick the two parts together!!! Thank goodness for the power of Google Search!

There is also a video on the web with a guy melting the plastic with a soldering iron...but the candle seems to work great!

I guess I don't need for Jason to make skirted versions of all the baits now!!!

But I still would like a 5" or so diameter skirt mold where the center section is the right diameter for the Mad Dads!

Are there any other memo's I missed and should know??

[pjmcla]

You can also heat a butter knife with a torch.  Clamp the knife in a vice and heat the top of the blade and slide the two ends across either side and bring them together.  You can also use a product called Soft Bait Glue that works very well. 

[firetiger]

I use a soldering gun for some tubes that I pour.  It works great and the skirts stay on.

[Frank]

yes a candle will work great till you use it on a white bait. It has a temdancy to sut the white. Use an alcohol lamp if you want a flame. No residue from the flame.I believe that is my video you saw. Frank

[andrewlamberson]

Frank...thanks for the video...that is the way to do it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_OHozRyI5w

I had a buddy over in our shop weld a 1" square piece of metal to a soldering iron bit...works perfectly. Nice and flat coming off the metal.