Thread: Santa brought jig molds

Yesterday morning when I awoke I found two jig molds in my stocking. One spearhead and a grave digger. Today was spent pouring lead. Tomorrow will be a paint day. Right now I plan on painting the jigs white, pink and fluorescent yellow with the majority being white. Going to experiment with the powder paints to see if I can do a mix to produce a grayish pink color of a sand flea to use on the digger jigs. Also looking at a copper color to use with new penny gulp shrimp. Going to be a busy winter making jigs. I'll post a picture tomorrow after I get some painted.

This is my first time trying to powder paint anything. Fairly simple, just need to have a way to get a uniform heat on each size jig. I'll get it figured out here in a day or two. Mixing these paints is not a problem at all. You will notice in the picture two differnt sahdes of pink. All I did to achive that was to mix some Hot Pink Powder with some Pearl White at about a 2 to 1 ratio to get the lighter shade. Going to do somemore experimenting with various colors to see what I get. Anyway here's my first attempt at making jigs for those beasts that swim off Gulf Shores. Left to right---Spearheads 1 oz down to 3/8 oz, Diggers 1/2 oz down to a 1/4 oz and a few old swim jigs that I repainted with the powder, probably going to turn them into Goofy Gus jigs with a teaser on them. I have 50 pounds of old lead to pour so I'm going to pour and paint everything before I start to tie the Crimped Nylon tails on. Going to leave the Diggers bare hook and just dress them with gulp shrimp or swimming mullet.

Look really great.

What is the pink one on the far right and how much does it weigh?

The one on the far right is a "Swm Jig" weighs 1/2 oz. Ìt was green and gold and used for Walleye and Smallmouth bass. It's the same jig that the Gus Goofy jig is made from and used for Pomanno. I have about a dozen of them that I'm going to repaint.