spook tail weight ?

[gldnbear93]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

I've been doing that with needles for years
works good for spooks as well

yup works great with needles. starting to play with it for topwater

here's an example (not a spook but same ideafor the weights) this one is drilled almost to the belly hole about 3" deep. These are not the inserts I'm using for this plug-just what's handy at the moment. The nose hole is way down almost in the botton of the cup, so the weight acts as a keel along with the bouyancy of the wood above the through wire, keeping this plug upright. I'm really looking forward to this one hitting the water for further testing.

[numbskull]

Those nylon bushings get expensive real fast. I gave up and started center drilling dowels. Drill a hole in a wood block (clamped to your drill table) about 3/4" deep, the same size as your dowel, swap out drill bits, put a short piece of dowel in the hole, and drill 1/2 way through, flip it and drill the other end. String a bunch on a wire, soak in your sealer, dry......spacers galore good to go.

You can also use tubing as a cheap spacer, but you lose some buoyancy as the space will fill with water.

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Those nylon bushings get expensive real fast. I gave up and started center drilling dowels. Drill a hole in a wood block (clamped to your drill table) about 3/4" deep, the same size as your dowel, swap out drill bits, put a short piece of dowel in the hole, and drill 1/2 way through, flip it and drill the other end. String a bunch on a wire, soak in your sealer, dry......spacers galore good to go.

You can also use tubing as a cheap spacer, but you lose some buoyancy as the space will fill with water.

You always got me learning ..

[stripercrazy]

was the year of the spook...big pogys in the prov aera...I would be in a line of 50 people throwing poppers and..the blues would swim by all the poppers to hit my spook (or who ever had a spook on) it was nuts.. at least 20-1 hits over the poppers....they would also hit a pencil that was glided...pickey bluefish...only a few of us had spooks...most people off line don't use them, very few had pencil poppers too

[gldnbear93]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Those nylon bushings get expensive real fast. I gave up and started center drilling dowels. Drill a hole in a wood block (clamped to your drill table) about 3/4" deep, the same size as your dowel, swap out drill bits, put a short piece of dowel in the hole, and drill 1/2 way through, flip it and drill the other end. String a bunch on a wire, soak in your sealer, dry......spacers galore good to go.

You can also use tubing as a cheap spacer, but you lose some buoyancy as the space will fill with water.

Pay attention to this man, he always seems to have a great idea and/or analysis!

[stripercrazy]

there 3/8 dowel...I thru drill them sometimes

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Dont forget to seal'm