One of my buds has quit bass fishing and brought me a bunch of plastics including lots of tubes.  I don't like the skinny ones and have had them in a box for about a year.

I got to looking at them and decided to make them fat so I'd throw them.  I have done about 100 in different colors.  I melted down old plastics of like color and quadruple dipped them.

I like!

Just curious why you don't like the skinny ones?

have you tried pouring your own tubes yet?


Neat idea.  I might have to copy off you.  I've got a bunch of skinny useless tubes too.

have you tried pouring your own tubes yet?


Neat idea.  I might have to copy off you.  I've got a bunch of skinny useless tubes too.

We have dabbled around dipping them and hand cutting off and on for quite a while but I always wound up buying by the 100.  The price has jumped from $28 to $45 this year.  Pouring now looks like a viable option.  But I am going to have to come up with an easy way.

I heard that an injection mold that doesn't require cutting is about to come out.  My interest is peaking on this invention.  I have been "mind" inventing an injection process but haven't put it into anything concrete yet, too many repairs around here to spend a lot of play time.

let me know how that injectoer/no cut thing works.  I know on TU those guys build a razor cutter for those things.

You can take a bunch of carpet knife inserts and bolt them together, put them in a vice, lay your tube on top of them and roll a big dowel rod across to cut them.

I've been thinking about making one that will fit in my drill press.  Then maybe put the tube under it on a board press down and gently pull it out. 

The thing I am wanting is to pour them instead of dipping them over and over.  That is ssslllloooowww and why I don't make my own very much.


An injection mold with multiple cavities is what I have been thinking about but haven't figured it out yet.  Maybe Bears will solve that problem for me.

JM, I know we've probably gone through this before but. how do you rig those tubes?, and, what are your rigging plans for the fat ones. The reason I asked is, I read an article not too long ago that was based on suspended fish(bass). In the article they were rigging them on a jigheads hook exposed and of course fishing for those suspended fish well off the bottom. Both, kept in the strike zone swimming them pretty much, and, using them much like a jigging spoon verticle. Really the only way I've fished the tuubes myself is on bottom.

or can I search for a key word here and find something you've already done.

Thanks Jig Man!

Buzz