I shot a few colors today in this new mold and I guess I couldn't be happier with the product outcome. Of course when I want to show them off I have camera issues, but hope to have something to show here yet today.
Without pics I'll give you some thoughts. Anytime an angle or two or three o r four, whatever, gets configured into a length, you create an inherant stiffness. Look at angle iron vs the same length of re-bar the same thickness. You bend the re-bar long before the angle iron bends. Plastics are the same way, only up here this stuff gets compounded by the cold...air and water. Over the last twenty years or so I have been tied pretty close to the ice fishing industry and tackle makers and the one area regarding winter tackle that breaks a lot of these outfits, especially in the area of plastic, is having a product that doesn't respond to the slightest twitch the angler gives it. Keep in mind too that often we are talking 30, 40, or more feet straight down from the rod tip. Its been my experience thru all of this that those makers who market plastics with angles aren't around for mor than a year or two.
In the pic I'll get up late I have a Micro Nuggie and a dime together with the plastics I made so a good comparison can be realized. The Micro Nuggie in the pic has a roundish tail like the ice stinger. That Nuggie has been a standard for maybe five years now. BUT...its the ball at the hook end that many don't care for. These new stingers are basically the same length as the nuggie, have the same tail configuration and action. From the standpoint of marketing these stingers, they will do very well up here smply because they do not have the bulk at the hook like the nuggie but have as much if not more tail action I don't see how its possible to get the tail action in a tail that has any angles involved.
I picked up a pile of 60 of these stingers after they were plucked and trimmed a bit and they looked like a ball of maggots in my palm. Personally I think you will do better with a tapered round tail Jason.
