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| What size shrink tubing is the best to use for holding hooks strait on bucktails and topwaters?
Where to get?
Thanks much
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Location: Madison, WI | I get mine at HF in rolls, cheap also. They sell it in a number of sizes.
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| You can get a wide Variety of sizes at Fleet Farm for less than $2 a package. Alot cheaper than what the bait shops are selling them for. It all depends on what you are trying to cover.
Lance
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Part of it depends on the size split ring and hook.
That being said, fleet farm, home depot have nice prices, and Moore's sells it by the foot now also.
Moore's
.70 per foot for 3/8
.60 per foot for 1/4
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Google up double wall shrink tubing. The double and triple wall PVC stuff is allot stiffer and will keep the hooks pointed out. |
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Location: Richfield, MN | I have not yet made lures that need the shrink tubing but I am in the process of putting things together.
Where I work we use alot of shrink tubing so it is really cheap for me to buy. But the stuff I would think would be the best his shrink tubing that we use on certain cables that actually have adhesive built into the tubing.
What this does is make the srink tube stick to both componets and it also makes the tubing a little stiffer. I would think have the adhesive tubing would be better as far as helping the hooks stand out better than a less thicker shrink tubing would. Not sure yet but I think my therory will be kinda close. So I will find out in a couple weeks when I start making my own lures!!!!
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | I've done several of my smaller glide baits with dbl wall shrink tube. I cut it long enough to fit over the eyelet, split ring and onto the hook shank. Shrink her down and the hook stays straight out. When the fish are just nipping the tail of the bait, these are the ones that go on. I've used it on twitch baits too. |
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| Muddy, be careful if you use the stuff with adhesive. If water gets into the shrink tubing, and it will, it needs to be able to drain out and dry properly or you will eventually see rusted out split rings. Of course you'd probably have changed hooks and/or split rings by then, so maybe it's not really an issue.
Also, the really thick stuff is harder to cut off in the boat while your hands are wet and shaking, and you're anxious to get that bait back into the water.
I get the meter rolls of 3/8" Gardner Bender brand shrink tube from Menards. It's WAY cheaper than the little bags of 3" lengths. |
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Location: Richfield, MN | knooter - 1/21/2011 7:37 PM
Muddy, be careful if you use the stuff with adhesive. If water gets into the shrink tubing, and it will, it needs to be able to drain out and dry properly or you will eventually see rusted out split rings. Of course you'd probably have changed hooks and/or split rings by then, so maybe it's not really an issue.
Also, the really thick stuff is harder to cut off in the boat while your hands are wet and shaking, and you're anxious to get that bait back into the water.
I get the meter rolls of 3/8" Gardner Bender brand shrink tube from Menards. It's WAY cheaper than the little bags of 3" lengths.
I never thought of those issues. Thank you for thinking outside the box for me.
My thought was with the self adhesive and the thicker material it would help the back hook stick out better ands longer. Never thought of what water would possibly due to it.
One is never too old to learn something new.
THanks
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Location: In a shack in the woods | The evil e. Got my 100' roll for $23 to my door. |
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| Has anyone found a good source for the double walled shrinktube? I did a search but best I found was around $1 per foot. Thanks in advance!! |
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