Another Dollar Store Treasure

[Mac2]

I bought one of those squooshy play balls with the little legs sticking out all over and have been using the legs for trailers on ultralite jigs. The one I have now is bald as I've clipped off all the legs and ended up with 320 dynamite stinger type trailers.....extremely flexible and only a buck.

The additional good news is the colors available include a hot pink ball and one that is a yellowish chartreuse.

Each leg is about 3/4 inch long, but is flexible enough to stretch to a length over 4 inches. I'm recommending a dollar store ball as the ones at other places are much more expensive. The jigs I tie are a multi species jigs and catch largemouth, smallmouth, rainbow trout, bream and crappie.

Good Fishing, Mac

[coldbasser]

Hi Mac2
Can you post a pic of those rollar store specials?
Thanks

[Marc David]

Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing a picture as well. Sounds like a cool idea.

[Marty]

Mac,

Now I understand, your handle is short for MacGyver, right?

[Ebbetsguy]

Try This also; Those lime green dollar store ear stopples ( for noise) put em inside your tubs, floats em high, I use these when i am c-rigging tubes

[bamabassman]

ebbets....you talking about the foam plugs? now THAT is interesting for sure. hhhmmmmmm..................

[Ebbetsguy]

Originally Posted by bamabassman

ebbets....you talking about the foam plugs? now THAT is interesting for sure. hhhmmmmmm..................

Yes, the lime green ones at Dollar General, Use an EWG hook and your good to go

[keithdog]

Originally Posted by bamabassman

ebbets....you talking about the foam plugs? now THAT is interesting for sure. hhhmmmmmm..................

I've thought about doing this after saturating the ear plug with a fish attractant. And why wouldn't that work with a t rigged worm or creature bait placed between the worm and the weight. Or weightless for that matter.

Thats a pretty darn good idea Mac with the ball. I'll have to remember that!

[islandbass]

Originally Posted by keithdog

I've thought about doing this after saturating the ear plug with a fish attractant. And why wouldn't that work with a t rigged worm or creature bait placed between the worm and the weight. Or weightless for that matter.

Thats a pretty darn good idea Mac with the ball. I'll have to remember that!

That is done here in the Pac NW very similarly for steelhead and salmon fishing. It is cool how concepts and ideas can be conceived and brought to reality independently throughout the country.

[Ebbetsguy]

Originally Posted by keithdog

I've thought about doing this after saturating the ear plug with a fish attractant. And why wouldn't that work with a t rigged worm or creature bait placed between the worm and the weight. Or weightless for that matter.

Thats a pretty darn good idea Mac with the ball. I'll have to remember that!

Like Old Spice????

Good Idea, I am going to use your idea of putting these things on t rigged Brush Hogs, good thinking and thanks

[cassidyta]

Originally Posted by Ebbetsguy

Try This also; Those lime green dollar store ear stopples ( for noise) put em inside your tubs, floats em high, I use these when i am c-rigging tubes

One of the things that I will do when you have a lot of grass and the bite is darn right touch is this.
I cut the earplug into a smaller piece. Before inserting it into the tube, I will add a small piece of alker seltzer (about the size of a a pencil eraser)

This will release bubbles at a fairly slow rate and at times will get the fish to come a littl emore out of hiding to investigate the bait.

If you are going to do it, I suggest prerigging them so that you do not get water on the seltzer too soon.

I will also put the alker sletzer inside of my paca craws from time to time.