Image Above: Phox Minnow with internal magnetic weight shift tube.
Some bits and bobs of pipe finally turned up with this afternoon’s
post and I got to mess around trying to put together a weight shifting tube for
the Phox Minnow. Like most lightweight balsa lures the Phox suffers from a bit
of tumble on the cast, so I decided a while ago to design a magnetic weight
shift. At the first opportunity after dinner I quickly bent up a new wire configuration
to incorporate the tube and then carved out a balsa body. Externally the lure
will look exactly the same it is only internally that things have changed. There
are four balls, one external to the tube then a magnet, plastic spacer and
another three balls which will hopefully pull away from the magnet with the force
of the cast and then roll back when the lure dives to be held in place until
the next cast.
This is all untried as far as this lure goes but fingers
crossed I should get to try it out in water
in a couple of days.
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