7 Weeks to Go...

[Linesider82]

Those look awesome Eric... I am in the same boat, stuff to finish, stuff I want to make, but feeling the need to focus on other gear & make sure my *cough* plastic lures have fresh or sharpened hooks as well.

I turned a jointed eely this AM for a friend, came out awesome but I'm recessing the joint to decrease the joint width.. will have to see if it works ok.

Still have a dozen and a half needles to finish but it should go quick.

Here's some 8.25" needles, gold eyes are 2.3-2.4oz finished, red eyes are 2.6-2.7oz finished. I think the "purple cow" pattern is going to be the one. I found out that this particular needle took on an additional weight of 0.10 oz of epoxy from my question earlier in the build year. I did well last season on this style needle during the last and first two of high tide in certain locations because it works a deeper water column, then switching to a wadd style after these bottomed out.