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https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=152687.0Been secretly doing it for a while...
Eyes came from Thundermist Lure Company. Paid for them, my own opinion, fyi. If they work and I order again I'd get the smallest size (1/4) mainly and a couple medium (5/16).
I bought the Impulse minnow heads through ebay. The small white and black ones with some dangling plastic are through Clam. If you find something like the Impulse let us know, please.
Tricking fish to bite something with hooks attached to it is way fun. In the end most rigs becomes nothing more than a weight, a hook, and some bait. I also like to jig in a bucket or in the fish tank to see how the rig works. Helps to let me know how little motions gets the lure to quiver, bobble, dart, flutter, sink, etc.,... Also to figure which rod imparts the best action on the rig. Or even sometimes just how the lure free falls and flutters or wobble will give me ideas or clues if a fish will bite it. In the end, this is what all trial lures must beat.(Image removed from quote.)The simple weight plus spinner blade rig. Although the weight is from Hildebrandt's Thingamabob rig.When someone sees a commercial bait and goes "hmmm, why did I not think of that. Well you know what someone did, be it Rapala, Eagle Claw or just a guy/gal thinking what can I do that is different.
Few more perch eye mods. Roadside Minnow perch eyes.