started on the texas rigs

[3legged_lab]

i always wondered how the mold was set up to put a hole in the center of the weight on egg weight molds. those "do-it" molds will last for ever. my mushroom mold has had thousands of weights poured in it.

I just pour round balls and drill holes in them after.

I had terrible luck with drilling the lead. I had a few eggs that I pulled the pin too early while the inside was still soft, and it caved in. Thought to myself "No big deal, lead is soft I'll drill it out", no luck. Seemed like the lead was 'gumming' up the bit, so I sped the drill up and broke the bit. Said F it, and put them back in the pot and re-poured them.

[duckkillerclyde]

You have to go pretty slow. I use a high speed drill press and make your way through it slowly.

[FlintRiverFowler]

YoU sHoUld StArt TyPinG LiEk ThiS 2 gO wITh YoUr FoNt cOlOr ClYdE...

[duckkillerclyde]

YoU sHoUld StArt TyPinG LiEk ThiS 2 gO wITh YoUr FoNt cOlOr ClYdE...

http://www.waterfowlforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=382

[Bufflehead]

You have to go pretty slow. I use a high speed drill press and make your way through it slowly.

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[duckkillerclyde]

You have to go pretty slow. I use a high speed drill press and make your way through it slowly.

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Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

[Bufflehead]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

are you making egg sinkers?

[duckkillerclyde]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

are you making egg sinkers?

just round balls as that is the only mold I have.

[Bufflehead]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

are you making egg sinkers?

just round balls as that is the only mold I have.

then you're just talking irrelevant non-sense. you need to buy a new mold, everyone knows that a round ball won't hold anything in place. WTF are you a puddle duck hunter?

[duckkillerclyde]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

are you making egg sinkers?

just round balls as that is the only mold I have.

then you're just talking irrelevant non-sense. you need to buy a new mold, everyone knows that a round ball won't hold anything in place. WTF are you a puddle duck hunter?

they work just fine in the bays and in the columbia

[assateague]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

are you making egg sinkers?

just round balls as that is the only mold I have.

then you're just talking irrelevant non-sense. you need to buy a new mold, everyone knows that a round ball won't hold anything in place. WTF are you a puddle duck hunter?

He meant to say "pounds", not "ounces". A 4 pound cannon ball will most certainly hold a goose floater in place.

[Goldfish]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

You have to go pretty slow. I use a high speed drill press and make your way through it slowly.

So does it go fast, or slow?

[Bufflehead]

they work just fine in the bays and in the columbia

you've obviously never even hunted the big C! everyone knows that it is the harshest waterfowl hunting enviroment on earth! everyone that hunts there is a professional, whick you obviously are not.





POSER!!!!!!

[duckkillerclyde]

Not when you pour 4oz 5oz and 6oz out of the same mold at the same time.

It takes about 1 second to drill it.

You have to go pretty slow. I use a high speed drill press and make your way through it slowly.

So does it go fast, or slow?

drill bit speed- fast
drilling speed- slow


Do you need me to make you a video?

[duckkillerclyde]

they work just fine in the bays and in the columbia

you've obviously never even hunted the big C! everyone knows that it is the harshest waterfowl hunting enviroment on earth! everyone that hunts there is a professional, whick you obviously are not.





POSER!!!!!!

I don't know if it is the harshest but it is definitely up there. 10'+ tidal swings, West wind on a West flowing river that is 5 miles across.

Notice the swells in the water. This is near where we hunt.

[duckkillerclyde]

I know you're a seaman buffle and have probably been in worse conditions than I have.

Here are a few photos of the bar.








There are bar pilots that they air lift or take a boat out to the ships.

Almost 2,000 vessels of all types and about 700 lives have been claimed by the treacherous waters off the Peninsula over the past 300 years. Why is it so dangerous for ships? In the days before GPS equipment and cell phones, sailors sometimes had little idea where they were in relation to the shore, especially during raging winter storms that can last for weeks. Even when visibility was acceptable, ships often had trouble traversing the Columbia River bar, the area in which the gigantic flow of the river rushes headlong into towering ocean waves. Sailing ships had a terrible time getting into the Columbia, since the two natural channels through the broad, sediment-choked river mouth, particularly the north channel, forced ships to turn sideways to the wind and waves.

http://funbeach.com/local-attractions/shipwrecks/

[FlintRiverFowler]

I think i saw a documentary about a family there who has run those pilot boats for generations and they're the only ones who do it... maybe based out of Astoria? correct me if im wrong clizzyde.

[duckkillerclyde]

I think i saw a documentary about a family there who has run those pilot boats for generations and they're the only ones who do it... maybe based out of Astoria? correct me if im wrong clizzyde.

I don't know if there is only one family that does it. Maybe? They would be based out of Hammond not Astoria but for television they probably called Hammond Astoria since most people have never heard of Hammond and they are next to each other. But there are pilots for the bar and pilots for the river so maybe Astoria is where the river pilots are?

I've always heard that the bar and river pilots make the big $$$$.

[duckkillerclyde]

A friend of mine, Rotokiller on DHC and ksducks.com, sunk a 38' tolly about 10 miles off the bar.

[duckkillerclyde]

Don't get me wrong, I know the Mississippi, the great lakes, CB, and most other places are just as bad. I've just never been to them.

[3legged_lab]

You have to go pretty slow. I use a high speed drill press and make your way through it slowly.

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[Bufflehead]

Don't get me wrong, I know the Mississippi, the great lakes, CB, and most other places are just as bad. I've just never been to them.

do they hunt on the bar? if not, the all of the pics of the bar are irrelevant non-sense

we have one of the most dangerous inlets on the east coast but we don't have bar pilots because we don't have ships.



btw, that was a jab at all the "professioinals"(most who hunt from a glorified john boat) that hunt the "big C", not you or anyone in particular.

[duckkillerclyde]

youngs bay they hunt.


The boats like what olly has and 3legged have would not take the waves in the river where I hunt. QH's boat is a bit on the small side too. The blind I have on my boat helps keep a lot of water out.

Sometimes when the weather turns, every wave/swell will bring the engine out of the water. That makes for slow going when your motor is only in the water half of the time. Those hulls that they put surface drive engines on wouldn't stand a chance. They would be swamped and capsized in a matter of a few minutes.

[Bufflehead]

Sometimes when the weather turns, every wave/swell will bring the engine out of the water. That makes for slow going when your motor is only in the water half of the time.

that's why my jetdrive lower unit is in my barn and not bolted on my motor

[duckkillerclyde]

Sometimes when the weather turns, every wave/swell will bring the engine out of the water. That makes for slow going when your motor is only in the water half of the time.

that's why my jetdrive lower unit is in my barn and not bolted on my motor

You don't get 10' of tide changes either.

[Bufflehead]

Sometimes when the weather turns, every wave/swell will bring the engine out of the water. That makes for slow going when your motor is only in the water half of the time.

that's why my jetdrive lower unit is in my barn and not bolted on my motor

You don't get 10' of tide changes either.

last time i got aground with a jet, it took a week for tide to come back enough to float the boat.

[3legged_lab]

UPDATE

When I took the kids out for a boat ride last weekend I took one of these newly rigged dekes along, just to see how easy its going to be to toss them out. I rigged them for five feet of water, about the deepest spot I ever hunt, and I think they would be a lot easier to throw with a four foot line. They are still plenty easy to throw, but you have to be up on the front deck of the boat to no bang them on the gunnel when you go to swing them out. Other than that, I think I'm gonna love em rigged this way.

My advice: rig them as short as you can get away with in your deepest honey hole.

[assateague]

Can't you just grab the line a foot or so down? You don't HAVE to grab it and throw it from the crimp.

[3legged_lab]

Can't you just grab the line a foot or so down? You don't HAVE to grab it and throw it from the crimp.

ya, but you dont get the same momentum that you were talking about being able to launch it all the way across the pond. I think it'll still be way faster using these over the old way.

[assateague]

That's a blessing you don't have all that momentum. Mine are only 30", and I'm pretty sure i could kill Goliath with one.