Here's a super light-weight jigging spoon I make using #1 willow blades and popping the second hole for a split ring as a tie-on. I make these in gold-plate too, but I am out of them right now.
Fished on a light line from 1 to 4 pound test they are a dynamite crappie and sunfish lure when tipped with a tiny thread of plastic, wax worm, spike or a minnow head. The finished one shown is my personal crappie and sunfish color of dark purple with a glow eye. Gold-plate with an orange strip of tape running from eye to eye on half of the convex side is my favorite trout color when jigging under the ice.
We watched fish hit these using a camera under the ice a couple years ago and crappies could suck these guys in from a foot away. I've tried the soldering using an Aberdeen hook but I don't like the action of the weighted blade. These light-weights flutter all over.
I sell a ton of these during the ice season and just got my first request yesterday so I took the pic to show them before I ran out. I need to order blades tomorrow, both silver and gold.
