Not long ago one of the members here posted a pattern using legs/tentacles from this toy monster.
I can't remember how the legs were attached to the hook shank.
The legs move all over the place.
Help, please.Green Toy.jpg
Making Rubber Tentacles Work?
Not long ago one of the members here posted a pattern using legs/tentacles from this toy monster.
I can't remember how the legs were attached to the hook shank.
The legs move all over the place.
Help, please.Green Toy.jpg
HUMMMMMMMMM...thread??
Brad
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
-W.C. Fields
I would go with a thread base for 3/8" behind the eye, CA glue and a light thread and more CA to secure. Thread the leg on for 3/8" like you would a plastic worm.
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Do a test on that stuff before you use CA glues on it. The ones I have, the CA melts then disentegrates the plastic. If yours will handle the CA, then Uncle Jesse has it nailed.
I just tie the stuff on with medium tension thread wraps. I'm still playing with the concepts, though, and haven't got to a fishable fly yet.
Buddy
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Type "weenie" into the search bar at the top. Here is one thread
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...t=Green+weenie
"Trust, but verify" - Russian Proverb, as used by Ronald Reagan
Here's some pictures as how I do these tentacles, as described by Uncle Jesse. I have never had any problems with the super glue attachment.
To make it easier to thread onto the hook, I heat a bodkin and "drill" a hole in the tentacle.
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Last edited by Sirrom; 10-23-2012 at 08:59 AM.
I have tied a few on by running the hook point through the middle of the strand.
A few X- wraps of thread to help hold it on.
Wacky worm idea. Has worked a few times for me.
Rick
Chuck,
You using that for trout, bream or both. I knew I should have bought that thing last Sunday when I saw it.
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After several failures, I tried Sirrom's approach. Works great. I used a heated bodkin to put a hole longways in the tentacle, then ran it onto the hook and put the hook in the vise. Then pulled the tentacle down around the hook curve and wrapped the hook shank with thread. A little CA glue on the thread where i wanted the tentacle to stop, move the tentacle up onto the thread and Voila! Permanently attached to the hook. Caughts bluegill and bass on it today.
Uncle Jesse,
Trout, Bream, Bass, etc.
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