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| I took my LifeLike Lure 6 inch pan fish out for the 1st time today and after about 20 casts the weight ripped out thru the front of the bait. I thought these things were "indestructable" I am having the same problem with my bulldawgs. At $11.00 to $16.00 per copy I would like to get a few more cats out of a bait before it is ruined. These aren't being eaten they are just falling apart from being fished. How do you prevent that? I tried to melt the bulldawg back together but that isn't going to work. Has this happened to anyone else? |
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Location: Bristol, IN | Write to the company.
Edited by MuskyTaleMike 7/12/2007 9:16 AM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Get in touch with the manufacturer and get them replaced. Both will take good care of you. |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Sounds like an Uptown Dawg to me. Stick with the original Dawg. |
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| Bytor - 7/9/2007 1:03 PM
Sounds like an Uptown Dawg to me. Stick with the original Dawg.
that wont make any difference, they are made from the same plastic. only difference is the eyes and scale pattern between the two |
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| Guest - 7/9/2007 4:52 PM
Bytor - 7/9/2007 1:03 PM
Sounds like an Uptown Dawg to me. Stick with the original Dawg.
that wont make any difference, they are made from the same plastic. only difference is the eyes and scale pattern between the two
wrong. uptown dawgs are, or at least were at one point and I believe still are, made of a softer plastic that was supposed to have more action. |
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| BALDY - 7/9/2007 5:45 PM
Guest - 7/9/2007 4:52 PM
Bytor - 7/9/2007 1:03 PM
Sounds like an Uptown Dawg to me. Stick with the original Dawg.
that wont make any difference, they are made from the same plastic. only difference is the eyes and scale pattern between the two
wrong. uptown dawgs are, or at least were at one point and I believe still are, made of a softer plastic that was supposed to have more action.
Uptown dawgs were the first of the Chinese made dawgs, they were softer because the Chinese can’t get the hardness (or softness) of the plastic just right. Now all the dawgs are made in China and from the same extra soft plastic as the uptowns. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | everyone has and will have the same problem it seems and i learned from my partner andy grimm that all bought new should go through the same upgrade before they get tossed around. he melts some of a grub or a donor dawg onto the nose using a cheap soldering iron ... he also makes an addition around each hook eye with adding some rubber to reinforce and it really makes a difference ...
you could complain and return them til the cows come home or begin to learn to do repairs and additions and fish them. it doesn't support the issue of out of the box quality, but it works and so do the baits. the process of improvement and repair are being done by many who continue to have success with the baits ... i know i had an eye-opener last week with the versatility of doctering dawgs and suzi's ... |
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| anyone who throws soft plastics should invest in a butane torch or even a larger propane torch for repairs...bass pro has a great butane torch with a very defined flame for 20 bucks....it works great!
it does suck they fall apart..heck I've got a pounder that is falling apart and hasn't even put one in the net for me...wish they made them just a bit harder!
oh well, they work.... |
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| I got some glue from Hawg Seekers and I'm going to give it a try. |
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| Hawg Seeker glue works great! |
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| Bring the Dawgs back Stateside!!!!! |
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| You can do what Sled said. I've been playing around with various ways to melt dawg plastic and grubs -- lighters, heated exacto knife blades, heated wire nails... I even tried cooking the stuff in a spoon. (which actually works pretty well)
So far the easiest and most effective way is to use an exacto knife blade and a pair of needle nose vice grips. Heat the blade over the stove until its red hot and then any cuts/splits, holes, etc can be melted back together with the blade. The cool part about that is you only melt the part you want, and it melts all the way through and not just the surface.
I haven't figured out a good way to stop the nose from splitting again, but I think Sled might have nailed it -- add some rubber to the nose. Next time I have a dead dawg it's going to get chopped up for that very reason.
Next experiment is using a metal measuring cup and melting the stuff on the stove. A bit worried about the vapors though... |
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| esoxaddict - 7/13/2007 10:55 AM
I even tried cooking the stuff in a spoon. (which actually works pretty well)
Hopefully no sergical tubing and syringes were involved in that experiment.
Might have to start calling you EsoxJunkie.
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Problems with soft plastic baits