Tweet
Down by my local Walmart in Tomball and they had a box full of Storm baits in assorted colors and regular and fat boy styles including a jointed version. I picked up ~ 15 to try at a price that I could afford as baits were a dollar apiece.
They looked fairly close to the corky but for me some tended to sink a little faster that the corky.
Fat boys worked about the same.
Jointed Fatboy was interesting in that the plastic on the back jointed section moved around front to back and and rolled around the wire. Can be glued or pulled up forward to make it a larger single stage bait.
Regular baits are somewhat similar to the regular corky but contained no rattles and were a little thinner and more flexable from side to side and not just up and down like the regular corky.
Treble hooks were #4's and just as sharp as the regular corky's hooks the problem that I saw was the #3 split rings Were really light weight and appeared to be the weakest part of the set up. Recommend that you put bigger rings on the baits.
While back I had talked with Jake about how to get some paint to paint some old corkys and he did not know but recommended the jig head paint but that did not work. Be nice to find some more dip or paint to fix up these baits and corkys too. Anyone got any ideas where to get some paint for these baits?
I like the white eyes that you see on a corky or devil. There is an easy fix for this by stopping by the hobby shop and get some white and black enamel paint. The storm baits have the hard red eyes that pin together thru the bait. Paint the plastic eye with the white paint. If you get paint on the corky it will not dry or stick.
After the painted eye has dried take a swab or q-tip and after some practice dip the tip in the black and dab an eye in the center of the white.
Let one side dry then do the other side to keep the black from running or smearing.
Jim
They looked fairly close to the corky but for me some tended to sink a little faster that the corky.
Fat boys worked about the same.
Jointed Fatboy was interesting in that the plastic on the back jointed section moved around front to back and and rolled around the wire. Can be glued or pulled up forward to make it a larger single stage bait.
Regular baits are somewhat similar to the regular corky but contained no rattles and were a little thinner and more flexable from side to side and not just up and down like the regular corky.
Treble hooks were #4's and just as sharp as the regular corky's hooks the problem that I saw was the #3 split rings Were really light weight and appeared to be the weakest part of the set up. Recommend that you put bigger rings on the baits.
While back I had talked with Jake about how to get some paint to paint some old corkys and he did not know but recommended the jig head paint but that did not work. Be nice to find some more dip or paint to fix up these baits and corkys too. Anyone got any ideas where to get some paint for these baits?
I like the white eyes that you see on a corky or devil. There is an easy fix for this by stopping by the hobby shop and get some white and black enamel paint. The storm baits have the hard red eyes that pin together thru the bait. Paint the plastic eye with the white paint. If you get paint on the corky it will not dry or stick.
After the painted eye has dried take a swab or q-tip and after some practice dip the tip in the black and dab an eye in the center of the white.
Let one side dry then do the other side to keep the black from running or smearing.
Jim
Comment