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Put eyes on all my baits no problem OK stupid question beautiful baits where are the hooks
Put eyes on all my baits no problem OK stupid question beautiful baits where are the hooks
I normally do not make or use jigheads with eyes and I only put eyes on the baits shown for the camera. We did a little test by fishing with the baits in the top photo with and without eyes side by side and it made little difference, the fish were all over both. I suppose on some days eyes might make a difference but for the most part I don't use eyes on anything I am fishing and have outstanding success most of the time. I'm more inclined to think that color and profile and action have more to do with the fish hitting. Most recently water temperature has been a huge denominator. With the persistent cold temps the water doesn't get much time to warm. When we get a nice day with sun the water temps rise right up. The next morning, early, has been the best time to fish while heat remains in the shoreline rocks and bays and the fish are undisturbed by anglers yet.
99% of the water I fish is stained from high levels of tannin in the water from decaying vegetation or darkened by run-off from melting snow [pretty much gone now] or from heavy rains. I feel eyes are a moot issue. Now if I was fishing very clear water I may have a different opinion.
No two waters are the same when it comes to fishing and fish. I've fished a flowage where two entirely different lakes are separated by a road but connected by a large culvert. For all intents and purposes, the two lakes appear the same as far as water clarity and all. One lake almost always will require a plastic or a jighead with eyes to get hit while across the street the fish hit anything without eyes.Huh, no eyes, that sure knocks a hole in things I have read.
Learned something.
I am starting to fish crappies in Indiana as the weather allows. Spent the last week of march fishing lake Enid Mississippi. My favorite fish to eat.
Most times lures are made to catch a person's credit card.
fishdfly....
Here are some baits I did back a while ago using color shifting pigments dry-brushed across the back of these baits. The back's plastic color is a thick dense smoke, almost black.
The baits on the left shift colors from gold to orange to green, to red depending on the angle the light hits the baits. Those on the right shift from gold to green to orange to pink, again depending on the angle light hits them.
If one looks carefully they can see the different colors each one will shift through. The color shift pigments used in making these is horribly expensive but makes for a supe attractive bait. When I posted these baits, this picture, originally I had something like 90 requests for them. All were declined simply because the baits would not be the same without the eyes and if I made them with the eyes , the eyes would be the fist thing to get peeled off the bait. People would have been pissed to no end even though the eyes missing would not have had any influence of the fish hitting them.
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