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pamuskyhunter |
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Posts: 613 Location: big cove tannery pa |  I have looked at alot of lures that you all make on here,and i have been considering making my own inline spinners with silicone and flashabou. I was just wondering what is the easiest way to attach the silicone/flashabou too the wire? How do you all do it?Do you use coil springs or do you buy brass skirt collars? Thank U "2007 Year Of The GATO" | ||
| muskyme |
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Posts: 324 Location: Bloomington, Illinois | Although by no means an expert, I have made several lately using brass skirt bodies...the magnum sized starflash silicone skirts are nice and then I make my own skirts using one pack of flashabou and a rubber skirt collar... then placing the flashabou on the inside of the silicone skirts...They look pretty good...But...I've not seen them in the water yet  matt | ||
| Grunt Lures |
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Posts: 786 Location: Minnesota | The few I have made I do the following: 1) Take collar and put small piece of rubber band ortubbing on it. 2) Take your skirt material and place over the collor/tubing 3) Take a very small zip tie and secure skirt material to collar I have tried a few other ways but I always have a few strands pull out. Putting this small band under the skirt allows the zip tie to really dig in and hold everything down. I think th ezip tie will have a much longer "hold" life than just rubber bands too. Also much quicker than using string or other tieing material. If you find a better and faster way please let me know. Time is money!  Thanks, James | ||
| ToddM |
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| muskyme |
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Posts: 324 Location: Bloomington, Illinois | I use the skirt collars from stamina and a skirt maker...If you use scotch tape to tape the end of the flashabou with the metal ring on it and then cut the ring, you can thread the entire bundle of flashabou through the collar...once this is done it can be pushed on to a brass body just like a silicone skirt...If you do very many of them, its pretty tough on your fingers matt | ||
| Grunt Lures |
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Posts: 786 Location: Minnesota | |||
| pamuskyhunter |
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Posts: 613 Location: big cove tannery pa | |||
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