I would imagine you can figure out how to do this from these photos but if you can't, I'll look up the tip and post it.

I'm showing this with brass cases but Nickel plated cases look better.  The hose can be colored with magic markers or worm dip.  You can use PVC pipe or the bottom section of ball point pens.  I sometimes use Poly ski rope if I want a wild color.  I'm showing this with 00 buckshot but a split shot will work fine too.

Life is too short to catch little fish.

Bill

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And a special thanks to all the forum members for sharing so much info.Hope to meet all of you one day  

  

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I much prefer the longer nickel plated cases.  I used chrome plated copper tubing for lots of years.

Going fishng in a few minutes.  I'll make up several different kinds this evening.

Life is too short to catch little fish.

Danno

"Scars are tatoos with a story"

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Do they wobble at all or do they simply track straight and not "swim"?

With that vinyl coated braided tubing, does the lure track with the "tail" up or does it track pretty straight?

Doesn't the brass tarnish really quickly in salt water?

I always like to see what others are using for making their own lures. My dad and I used to tie flies to match the hatch on the water that day when I was growing up in PA. I can remember going to a "fly fishing only" stocked trout stream in Bellfonte, PA when I was a kid and the minimum keeper for Browns and Rainbows was 18", Brookies were 16" if my memory serves. This place was called "Fisherman's Paradise" for good reason!

Anyway, the people would stand on the bridge crossovers on this little creek and toss bread to the fish below to see how large some of these trout actually had gotten. My dad immediately went back to our station wagon and got out the fly tying equipment and started doing some really weird thing with a piece of bucktail on a small hook!! When I asked, he merely replied, "You'll see son, you'll see." Good ol' Dad, always one to keep me in suspense.

Well, he fashioned the nearest thing to a little bread crumb out of that piece of deer hair that I had ever seen and we proceeded to start catching so many fish that the creek marshalls came over and asked us to leave!!! They accused us of using real bait which was against the rules for that part of the creek where the special fish were dumped in each morning. My dad had to show them up close and personal what we were using before they let us continue fishing! By then our "secret" lure was out but those other guys didn't know the real secret to how to hold that deer hair onto the small hook with all that hair pointing in the right direction so, when it was finally trimmed to look like a piece of bread, it looked natural.

That's what separated my dad from all the other fishermen that I have known in my life.

5.65 and 7.62 ammo works too.  Degrease the cases with acetone then etch them with vinegar then dry and paint to get any color you like.  Yeah, brass tarnishes almost instantly but you can scrape it with a pocket knife. 

BTW, I seldom paint jig heads.  I just scrape them with my knife to make them sparkle.

The lead shot in the head rattles, giving the lure some sound.

I sometimes punch the primers, especially if I am making trolling lures.

The vinyl tubing shown is stiff and tough no action at all other than what you give it.

Life is too short to catch little fish.