spook tail weight ?

[stripercrazy]

was the year of the spook...big pogys in the prov aera...I would be in a line of 50 people throwing poppers and..the blues would swim by all the poppers to hit my spook (or who ever had a spook on) it was nuts.. at least 20-1 hits over the poppers....they would also hit a pencil that was glided...pickey bluefish...only a few of us had spooks...most people off line don't use them, very few had pencil poppers too

[gldnbear93]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Those nylon bushings get expensive real fast. I gave up and started center drilling dowels. Drill a hole in a wood block (clamped to your drill table) about 3/4" deep, the same size as your dowel, swap out drill bits, put a short piece of dowel in the hole, and drill 1/2 way through, flip it and drill the other end. String a bunch on a wire, soak in your sealer, dry......spacers galore good to go.

You can also use tubing as a cheap spacer, but you lose some buoyancy as the space will fill with water.

Pay attention to this man, he always seems to have a great idea and/or analysis!

[stripercrazy]

there 3/8 dowel...I thru drill them sometimes

[PNG]

Dont forget to seal'm

[Ake G]

More horizontal = better glide (no matter where you choose to weight it). The belly weighting gives less roll on the swing.

Spooks with glide are more productive than those that "pop" IMO

[splinters]

awesome thread. i am planning on turning out some spooks soon. this will def help as i was a bit questionable on the weighting.

[Lower]

Your right splinters there is a lot of great info in this one. Let us know how they come out!

[splinters]

will do. i will be posting some pics as soon as i can get the cam away from the GF. i have only been building since last year but i pretty much just build what i use. swimmers/needles/ few poppers. been wanting to try some spooks but just was scratching my head on the weighting. i remember using zara spooks for freshwater and how much fun topwater is. need to build some of those zig zaggers.