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This is from memorie but here's my ist one in high school.
3/4 in dowel cut to 5 in with one end at a 45% angle
Sand other end to a taper
take a peice of sand paper an wrap around another peice of dowel
Hold in place and rub tapered end -the front end-of plug bodie back n forth till the taper is cupped a bit
drill pilot holes for screw eyes with a smalllll drill bit then put screw eyes in
belly hook is 2/3 rds of the way up from the tail
put in screw eyes . 1 to 1 1/4 in from tail hook drill a 1/4 in hole 1/2 in or so into the body from the bottom
I used 1/4 oz split shots but 00 buck works good.
glue in place-back then gasket glue was best.better stuff now
paint white with modeling paint
3 or 4 coats then let dry
wait a day-found out the hard way LOL-then put open eye hooks on
go fish it
Remeber this was back around 1970 . After Bob saw my ist one he showed me how to do tail hooks .This was one of my ist and it worked great. Learned how to through drill in shop but thats later.Weighed somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 oz. Dowels were pretty heavy wood at times andseldom did I get the same type as I used scraps from the harware store mostly.School only had 1/2 in dowels. Ron
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