Big Dog Squid Divers

I keep finding stuff when I clean.  Another sweet find under the work shop table.

This time 4 boxes of 'big' painted Musky spinnerbaits (about 500 of them). I got them in a trade with a Denver Tackle shop. They're not dressed out with blades and skirts, but are twisted .051 heavy wire and the hook shanks have 1 1/8 inch gap. The bodies were air brush painted in several multi-color patterns.

3oz Spinnerbait bones

2oz form

I tried dressing some out with blades and silicon skirts and also with some banded zonkers, but didn't like them.

Next attempt to get some traction on them is using Hoochy Squids.

I sniped off the blade stem and slid on a Squid. These could be attached to a cowbell and go deep. Also bounced thru fat deep water chutes for big Trout or Salmon. Water where is hard to get down to the fish.

Big Dog Squid Divers

The pink one in the middle has a stinger squid trailer. a sleeve crimped cable loop off the main hook, a worm collar for the squid, and a swivel clasp for stinger hooks.

Nice looking bait (in my opinion). Get'em wet. 

Let me know if you want any of the big spinnerbaits!

Trolling Cowbells - that Glow or are they Glowbells?

 I came across a box with some Large hammered Copper Colorado blades and also some Gold Fluted Willow blades. Big ones like #8s and #9s.They were hiding under my workbench in a box, never unpacked since my move in 2014...

Cowbell Component stash

Took awhile, but I decided to make some more Cowbells. This time I placed a small glow spinner body after each of the large blades on separate crimps and spaced them, to make them more consistently visible. 

Most Cowbells on the market put a few beads under the large blade on the same crimp. In my recent observation/opinion the beads are hidden by the blades rotation while trolling.

Anyways, I spaced and separated them, adding a small glow blade and separated spinner beads as well. 

Here's a few more pictures.

Big blades on cables

BTW, it's hard to get photo's of glowing cowbells! 

For all you crafty cowbell photographers out there... What I ended up doing is hanging them behind a closed door to a inside room/closet. 

After they kind of settled down swinging and hung vertically, I used an LED flashlight (a big one), to heat up the glow beads and blade. I got my phone's camera set up for night pictures, and turned off the light. Still a bit blurry, but practice makes perfect.

Lights Out - Glowbell do your thing!

Closeup of latest glow segment separation

A black light would have also heated up the UV beads on the cable (bead in the gap). Bring one with you if your ice-fishing night-time adventures! You'll be surprised how well the black lights work. Plus you can hang up some black light posters in your shanty and spark them up too! How Glowcool is that?

For more cowbell pictures Check out one of the website cowbell items

P.S. These glowbells are not out on the Square website yet, I'm still deciding which degree of separation I want to market.

Cheers and noise on the line!

 

New Bullet Test spinners

 Spent yesterday with the Bullet box open. Three new test models using Willow blades came to life.

Small, Medium, and Large (1/2oz, 3/4oz, and 1oz). Five colors each.

They're published on the website under the Pricing deals - Test Models - Metal Bullets category hierarchy.

1. Smooth Gold Willow blade (#4), single bullet body, #6 brass treble on 1/2oz
2. Hammered Nickel Willow blade (#6), long single bullet body, #4 brass treble on 3/4oz
3.  Smooth Nickel Willow blade (#7), double bullet body, #4 brass treble on the 1oz 

Six colors in each model (Black, Blue, Gold, Green, Purple and Red)

Brass accent beads and friction disks on the 1/2 and 3/4oz

Nickel accent beads and friction disks on the 1oz

$1 off each models price for the next couple months.

Test Metal Bullets link

Take a look if you get a chance. Happy new Noise on the Line! 

Test models startup Sale

 The winter weather has got me back in the shop, looking at component inventories and imagining new designs.

What I've come up with are a use for #5 white blades,  #4 Glow blades, High Vis plastic beads, and some dyed bullet bodies. These components will result in 3 new models and about 20 spinner choices.

1/2oz White Bullets, 1/8oz White Plastics, and a new 1/9oz Glow Spinners

All 3 designs will start off on Sale. But they're still under construction Pictures are taken, Categories setup, but I still need to photoshop the item images. 

1/2oz White blade metal bullets on sale for $3.50

1/8oz White Hi Visibilty Fluorescent Plastics on sale for $2.50

FCS Glow Spinners on sale for $2.00

Have to see how these spinners do. Cheers and Noise on the Line!