stuff in progress

[Diggin Jiggin]

I'm not going to get anything done for a while but here's what I'm working on...

I want to try to get some stuff that goes down a little other than needles, so here's an off center darter I'm messing around with and another thats kind of like one of those tuna trolling lures. I'm still at the beginning stages of these, working out line tie position and the weighting etc.

I sealed a batch of topwater today, it has 4 polaris style poppers and 4 that are similar to shapes I've done in the past but I'm experimenting a bit with the weighting. I cut the heads on all of these at a sharper than normal angle so I can overweight them and let the current in the canal hold them up without ripping my shoulder apart. The ones I made last year had a flatter head and dragged way too much water once the current was moving.

Then I turned a few pencils in a couple of different body styles, trying to see which is the longest caster and whether a flat belly makes any difference casting distance wise. Theres's also a couple in there that will be slightly larger, hopefully they'll come in around 4 0z for a new rod I'm building.

Last year at times distance was real important and while the poppers and pencils I made all worked, some wobbled on the cast and that cost a lot of distance so I'm trying to really work on that aspect of the topwater...