Making a devil jig with your own hands is possible at home. There are various ways. Let's figure it out , how to make a devil for winter fishing using various methods. Store-bought devils often do not meet the requirements of fishermen - either the hooks are incorrect or the body shape is wrong. In principle, there is nothing difficult about making these baits yourself. To make this bait correctly, you need to clearly understand the result that should be obtained. What a devil should be like for winter fishing is described in a special article.
Homemade devils
Globally, all methods of making devils for winter fishing with your own hands can be divided into two large groups:
- No soldering or molding;
- Soldering;
- Filling.
The simplest options can be done literally “on your knees” using a minimum number of tools and technical skills. Other methods are more difficult, you need to get better at them, but the baits made are in no way inferior, and often even superior in catchability to products from fishing stores.
Collecting tackle
Balalaika is the most popular fishing rod when fishing with reelless jigs. It is light, fits well in the hand and is very sensitive. It is these qualities that allow you to perform various animations throughout the day comfortably and efficiently.
The fishing rod must have a reel and be light in weight—that’s exactly what the balalaika is about.
Balalaika fishing rod
The whip must be as sensitive as possible in order to successfully work with the smallest weights of mothless fish. Carbon is the preferred material.
The nod must match the tackle. It must be conical, tapering towards the tip and of sufficient length up to 15-22 cm. This length allows you to work as tightly as possible with the smallest imps. Materials: lavsan, spring.
Varieties of nods that work with devils:
Nod to bream
Cone nods
A nod to the reelless devil “Spring”:
The fishing line is selected depending on the depth at the fishing spot, the expected trophies and the weight of the devil. The standard is 0.1-0.14 mm, no thicker. Otherwise, you won’t be able to play well and feel the small jigs.
How to tie a reelless jig: devil, goat, carnation and others
The simplest and most standard option for tying a devil to a fishing line:
Detailed guide on tying jigs:
As some experienced people advise, one of the good options for tying a devil to a fishing line is a figure eight knot, but with a nuance. Until the knot is completely tightened, wet it and use a toothpick to form a small loop near the eyelet of the devil. This gives additional freedom when playing and supposedly increases catchability.
Two devils on one line
With the right gear, the right fishing location and animation method, fishing with the devil allows you to get away from zero in the most difficult conditions on pressed-in reservoirs.
Simple ways
The simplest way is to put a sinker on the tee, fasten it and finish it with painting. To do this you will need:
- Set of “Drop” sinkers on silicone;
- Tee (small, with a long shank and thin hooks, No. 20 or smaller);
- Bead (beads);
- Pliers;
- Super glue;
- Needle file, file;
- Waterproof black varnish;
- Drill with a thin drill bit (may not be needed).
Sinker on a cambric
From the sinkers, select one of the required weight (it is indicated on each one), remove it from the tube. Carefully squeeze the tee ring (so as not to burst) with pliers so that it can fit into the sinker hole. You cannot completely compress the loop, because the fishing line will then be tied to it. If the tee still does not fit, then the hole in the sinker can be carefully flared or drilled out with a drill, after securing it in a vice. We put a bead on the tee and a sinker on top, crimp the lead and seal it at the bottom with superglue. Next, you need to process the workpiece with a file to the required shape, paint it, and place beads or other decorations on the hooks.
The main feature of making such a feature with your own hands is its simplicity and speed. In the absence of a tee, you can solder it yourself from ordinary hooks of the same size, more on that later. This way you can make other nozzle-free jigs.
What attracts the “devil”
As already mentioned, the most successful and frequently used “devils” have an elongated cigar-shaped shape. The stability of the game vertically would seem to be a plus of such a jig, but it does not deviate from the axis of the hole and does not swim to the side. What is so attractive about this bait, which turns out to have a primitive game? Like some spinners, reelless jigs create high-frequency vibrations that attract fish. Additional frequencies and sounds are provided by moving cambrics, chains and beads on hooks. The top hooks also work, if you remember the “devils in reverse”. But another phase of the game can be added by a suspended tee at the bottom of the jig, where a permanently soldered tee is usually located.
Soldering a tee and a few more ways to make devils with your own hands
The basis of the bait when making a homemade devil for winter fishing is a tee. For smaller devils, the correct treble (small thin hooks, long shank) is difficult to find in the store. More often than not you have to solder it yourself. This preparation is the first step for various methods of making a devil in the future. It can be poured into a mold with lead, or solder can be manually soldered on top.
Materials:
- Hooks;
- Copper wire;
- Soldering iron, solder;
- Cork or drill (to hold hooks);
- Bead (if desired).
We bite off the rings of two hooks, leaving the third. You can bite off all three at the ring, and the fourth, on the contrary, at the bend, and then insert it into the middle between the first three (to get a devil ring. The hooks need to be tinned and secured in the correct position (in the drill head or in the cork (using pre-made cuts) Then we wrap the workpiece with tinned wire and solder it. The workpiece can be processed with a needle file.
Devil's body
All further manipulations depend on variations in the attachment of the devil’s body to the workpiece. You can do this in several ways:
- Solder by hand.
- Pour through the mold (more about pouring below).
- Solder a copper or brass crown on one side (more on this later).
- Prepare blanks from a lead plate and solder them on both sides.
When manually soldered (filled) with tin, lighter and more voluminous devils are obtained; they are intended for fishing at depths of up to 5 meters with weak or no current. For greater depth or flow, it is better to use lead. By using copper or tungsten wire and adjusting its quantity, the correct weight is selected. This can also be done by winding tin-lead solder. The workpiece is wound and soldered until the required shape, weight and size are obtained, and then processed with a file.
The tee can be soldered into a lead sinker (olive or pellet). If you do this with two pellets, you will get a devil ant (snowman). Then the devil is processed with a file and painted.
Wiring technique and nuances associated with fishing for devils
Depending on the type of fish being hunted, unique tactics are used when fishing for devils. The frequency of oscillations, the height of the wiring, and the frequency of control cutting change.
Important! Retrieving the devil, regardless of the type of fish that the fishing is aimed at, should begin by lowering the bait to the bottom.
When fishing for devils, two main types of fishing rod grip are used, this is the upper grip, which allows you to hook a distance of more than a meter, and the lower grip with a hook of no more than 10 - 15 cm. For ease of fishing in windy weather, the method of fishing from the knee is used, while you need to cover your back hole from the wind.
Photo 3. Homemade devils.
Perch
If fishing is aimed at perch, then the most commonly used are round types of devils or witches with various elastic bands or beads on the hook. Perch is readily caught with the devil, since the game of the bait is interesting to him, and perch is a curious fish. At the beginning of the retrieve, you must place the bait on the bottom, then tap it three or four times, and then make small vibrations, while simultaneously raising the devil higher. At the end of the drive, you need to stop the oscillations for a second, and then sharply strike. It is at the moment of a second pause that the fish very often makes an attack, and accordingly, hooking very often gives positive results when fishing for perch.
To achieve the maximum catch, fishermen can install a devil on top of the fishing line, several small beads that additionally interest the fish. If such beads are installed, it is necessary to carry out control hooking from time to time. These actions are explained by the following behavior of the fish. When a bait is detected, the fish may not be interested in it, but will switch to the beads that are located directly above the devil, respectively, when hooking, you can hook the fish while it is looking at the beads. In some cases, mainly when the bite is weak, hooking significantly increases the final results of perch fishing.
Bream
Catching bream with a devil in winter is the most popular use of a miracle bait. Bream can be quite large and, accordingly, are a desired trophy for every self-respecting fisherman, and catching bream with a devil is an interesting activity full of positive impressions.
The devil on bream has an elongated black body. Retrieving for bream and bream is distinguished by its smoothness and raising of the bait from the bottom to a distance of more than one meter. From the experience of fishermen it is known that if there is bream in the fishing area, the bite on the devil occurs in the first three to four trips, so if after these the fish does not show itself, it is worth looking for another place.
In winter they look for bream in deep holes. The fishing depth can reach 6 - 10 meters, which is why you can install an additional sinker on the nozzle, which will slightly speed up its dive to greater depths. You can do the same when using the devil tackle in the current.
Roach
Roach, like most white fish, is caught by retrieving from the bottom. Catching roach with a devil requires fishing similar to fishing for bream, which consists of tapping and lifting a certain distance, but the speed of lifting and the amplitude of vibrations, while fishing for roach can be a little more than for bream.
Fishing for roach on the devil intersects with fishing for bream, because if it is present in the fishing spot, it will definitely take advantage of the situation and grab the bait, so fishing with the devil for a specific type of fish is quite difficult.
In conclusion, I would like to note that fishing for devils is a very interesting activity, allowing everyone to develop their own original wiring and, through skill, increase their catch and their authority among colleagues.
Fill
Pouring a devil with molten lead requires a mold for casting jigs. You can make such a device from scrap materials. Molds for casting jigs are made of pure aluminum without impurities or gypsum. This shape can be made at home by squeezing it out with a punch. It is also necessary to make grooves for the hook on both halves.
The easiest way is a paper tube wound on an object of the required diameter. Likewise, a foil cone. A tee is inserted into one end of the tube, and lead is poured into the other. Before pouring, the entire structure must be placed in sand or bread crumb, rolled out to the state of plasticine. Read more about this in the materials on casting jigs.
"The Red Devil" by Klose
We continue to bring you the football hopes of the new century. Next up is the forward of the German Kaiserslautern and the German national team Miroslav Klose.
Until this season, the name Miroslav Klose was familiar only to residents of Rhineland-Palatinate, which is located in western Germany. Just two years ago, a forward with a short stature for an attack line player played in the T-shirt of the unknown club of the district league Blaubach-Diedelkopf. However, over the past two years, the success curve has brought him through Homburg to the amateur team Kaiserslautern, in which Klose scored 16 goals in 15 games this season, and then to the main club.
The ball is better than the horizontal bar
Klose was born in Poland in the city of Oppeln; at the age of nine he and his parents moved to Germany. He had all the prerequisites to become a great athlete. Miroslav grew up in a sports family. His father Josef Klose played for the French Auxerre from 1978 to 1980. Sports traditions were also supported by Miro Klose's mother Barbara, who at one time made a name for herself in sports, having played 82 matches for the Polish handball team.
Having discovered that the boy had athletic inclinations, his mother sent him to the gymnastics section. However, young Mirek, as he was called in Poland, soon realized that he could not live without football, and exchanged classes in the gymnasium for training at the local Blaubach-Diedelkopf club.
The beginning of the fairy tale called “Miroslav Klose” dates back to April 5, 1999, when Klose scored his first goal in the amateur Oberliga “South-West” in a match against “Wuppertal”, won by his team “Homburg” with a score of 2:1, which attracted the first attention of football specialists.
Since then, Klose has been climbing the ladder of success at a rapid pace. In the blink of an eye, the young resident of Rhineland-Palatinate became the main hope of German football. The last European championship just showed that the German national team is in dire need of rejuvenating its roster; young German talents could be counted on one hand. Only Deisler's prospects from Berlin's Hertha emerged more or less clearly. Everyone else just showed hope. Therefore, Klose's star has risen at the perfect time for German football. “Calm in everyday life, not offended by the fact that he sometimes starts matches on the bench, and fast on the field - that’s Miroslav,” concludes Kaiserslautern president Jürgen Friedrich
.
Although the beginning of Klose's career was not so cloudless. In January 2000, when Kaiserslautern wanted to sign a contract with another German football player, Miroslav personally asked to be released from the main team to the reserve team in order to have playing practice.
Impressed by this action and Klose’s outstanding scoring performance in the third league, the management of Kaiserslautern three months later offered him to enter into an agreement, according to which the salary was 220 thousand dollars a year. Having signed a full-fledged contract, Miroslav Klose had no idea how crazy the days of the 2000/2001 season would be. Being an absolute nobody at the beginning of the championship, Klose does not have time to enjoy one pleasant event in his career before another success follows.
As soon as he celebrated his first goal in the championship, three days later he was destined to celebrate success in a European Cup match. Before the joy of being called up to the national team had passed, Klose’s teammates were already thanking Klose for the winning goal against Albania. The second game for the national team against the Greeks was just around the corner. And again the young “red devil” scored the decisive ball into the opponent’s goal.
Sanchez somersault
But, as in any life situation, there will definitely be a fly in the ointment. Just at the moment when Rudi Veller called Klose into the national team, he had to experience the first failure of his career. Playing away against Bundesliga debutant Energi, Miroslav for the first time in his life could not control his nerves, responding with a blow to a flagrant foul by Faruk Hojdorovic, for which he immediately received a red card. “I still can’t understand why I was attacked by a fit of rage. “I shouldn’t have allowed myself to do this, even though because of Hojdorowicz I had to spend more time lying on the lawn than standing,” Klose
. “After the match, I apologized to my partners and promised not to respond to rudeness again.”
Klose's repentance touched Feller, and the three-match disqualification did not prevent the head coach of the German national team from betting on him and making the right decision.
Meanwhile, fans, among whom Miroslav was still two years ago wearing the jersey of his idol Marshall, on December 7 awarded Klose the status of a football god. After the Red Devils' superb performance against Scotland's Rangers in the UEFA Cup, in which Miro opened the scoring and literally led the team to a 3-0 victory, fans began chanting his name in the stands for the first time. Klose thanked the fans by performing a forward somersault a la Mexican Hugo Sanchez.
The first time he dared to attempt such a dangerous trick was on October 20 in a match against Werder Bremen. Having successfully shot into the far corner with his right foot, the “golden boy” jumped and somersaulted forward in the air around his axis. A signature trick that was subsequently not performed only once.
Miroslav Klose seemed born to score goals, he has a natural sense of goal. However, now not everyone remembers that the young goalscorer started out playing in the center of the field. Only after Andreas Brehme replaced Otto Rehhagel as Kaiserslautern head coach did Klose move to the forefront of the attack. The first to feel the “rebirth” of Miroslav was Stranzl from 1860 Munich, who was forced to take care of the newly minted forward. Having run a half behind him, mostly seeing only the back of the striker’s head, having safely knocked down Klose in his own penalty area and earning him a warning, Stranzl decided to stop this bullying of himself and immediately after the break he “asked for” to be sent off.
Sorry for Poland
Klose's career could have turned out completely differently if he had agreed in January to the offer of the head coach of the Polish national team, Jerzy Engel, to play for the national team of this country. However, Miroslav rejected it, preferring to keep his hopes of playing for the German national team. Fate favored the forward, and a month later Rudi Feller called him to a training camp before a friendly match with the French national team. “I was at my parents’ house when the good news arrived,” recalls Klose
. “We were all excited.” I didn’t expect that I would have the chance to gain a foothold in the German national team so quickly.”
Kaiserslautern assistant coach Reinhard Stumpf sees the only drawback of the player in the fact that Miroslav must become more selfish. At the same time, he in no way hints at the fact that the young football genius for some time voluntarily sent the money he earned in Germany to his hometown of Oppeln, to the clubs where he played in his early childhood.
Team head coach Andreas Brehme
Sometimes it’s simply amazing to watch how Klose works in training: “Even in his young years, he is a role model and an example for older partners. He constantly asks me to stay after training to practice his cross moves. And, I must admit, it pays off. His coordination is becoming phenomenal."
Miroslav Klose
Kaiserslautern (Germany). Attack. Born June 9, 1978. Height 182 cm, weight 74 kg. First match in the Bundesliga:
04/15/2000.
Kaiserslautern - Eintracht Frankfurt - 1:0 (2 min.). First full match in the Bundesliga:
09/24/2000.
Hansa - Kaiserslautern - 1:0. First goal in the Bundesliga:
10/20/2000. Kaiserslautern - Werder Bremen - 2:0 (85th min.).
First match in European competition:
09/13/2000.
Bohemians (Ireland) - Kaiserslautern - 1:3 (45 minutes). First goal in European competition:
10/23/2000.
Iraklis (Greece) - Kaiserslautern - 1:3 (6th min.). First match for the German national team:
03/24/2001. Germany - Albania - 2:1 (17 minutes).
First goal for the German national team:
03/24/2001.
Germany - Albania - 2:1 (88th min.). First warning:
09/15/2000.
Kaiserslautern - Cologne - 3:1. Total:
36 matches, 12 goals, 6 warnings, 1 deletion.
Devils with a crown made of non-ferrous metal
To make a bimetallic spinner, you need to make a crown from brass or copper. The crown is made by knocking out a shape on a sheet of metal with a special punch. Punches are turned from metal rods on turning fixtures. The crown is installed in the bread crumb, a tee is fixed on top, and then solder is soldered. When pouring, accordingly, the crown is installed in the mold. Naturally, it must match it in size and configuration.
Devil Kalacheva
Many fishermen claim that the most catchy ones are the devils made by Andrei Kalachev. Their peculiarity is that they are suspended from a fishing line through a hole that runs vertically through the entire body of the jig. The fishing line is passed through it and tied to the hook. In the store, devils with such a connection are practically never found. We present the manufacturing instructions:
- Make a mold from fluoroplastic, squeezing it out manually with a punch or knife (one half, production is done by soldering).
- Secure three hooks and a pin (for the hole) into the slotted cork (or eraser).
- Bring the cork with hooks to the form secured in a vice, apply solder with a soldering iron, and let it cool slightly.
- Remove the workpiece from the mold and remove the pin.
- Process the devil with a file, paint it with waterproof paint, and equip it with beads.
What the hell?
One of the varieties of winter fishing is devil fishing. The devil is a popular tackle for fishing almost any type of fish, without the use of animal or vegetable baits. The first mentions of this original gear appeared in the Primorye region. Sailors used devils to catch sea fish, using a special technique of playing with bait.
Externally, the nozzle looks like this: a small tee comes out of a body resembling a drop. Everything is important in the characteristics of a bait: color, size and shape of the body, size of the tee. To increase the attractiveness of the bait, fans of this type of fishing additionally equip it with colored rubber bands, cambrics and wrap it with multi-colored threads. Fishermen claim that fishing for devils with the use and correct adjustment of these small details allows you to increase the result many times over. Catchy devils have yellow cambrics or rubber bands on their hooks, which arouse additional interest of the fish.
Also responsible for the attractiveness of the bait is its action, without which it is impossible to catch fish. Successful fishing with devilfish requires the fisherman to master the bait.
Nod for the devil
You can also make the devil's nod with your own hands from lavsan or a clock spring. The nod is made double-conical, that is, it should evenly taper in width and thickness from beginning to end. It is this design that allows the bait to play correctly and the angler to notice the bite in time. The fine-tuning of the rod is done for a specific weight of the devil, so the angler needs to have several already tuned fishing rods. The correct nod body kit for a devil is just below the horizon with a load, 15-20 degrees up without it. The reverse convexity of the lavsan nod is made by passing it between the finger and the nail.
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Tactics and technique
The tactics of fishing with reelless baits, including devils, is to constantly search for fish . Most species of fish that are prey when fishing for devils lead a schooling lifestyle. Therefore, it is important to find a school, then the fisherman’s task is simplified - all that remains is to choose the optimal bait and the correct way to animate it. When fishing for devils, bait is not used; moreover, it can even cause harm.
The fishing technique involves exploring different layers of water with bait in order to find out where the fish are currently holding.
Postings
Basic fishing for devils is as follows:
- The bait is lowered to the bottom and hit it several times, creating a cloud of turbidity.
- They begin to play with the jig and lift it a few centimeters from the bottom.
- They pause.
- Raise the bait a few more centimeters.
- They gradually examine the layer of water, raising their hand with a fishing rod, sometimes even a meter.
- Lower the devil to the bottom, making periodic pauses.
The game of the devil when catching different types of fish varies.
Perch
When fishing for perch, they use the highest frequency possible and raise the jig quite quickly. The pauses are short.
Bream
When fishing for bream, the game with the devil should be smooth, and the pauses should be quite long. When fishing for bream, use the longest nods. To catch bream, devils with floating hooks are sometimes used (photo 9). This kind of equipment is also called a “mace”.
Roach
The guiding of the devil when fishing for roach is something between the perch and bream games.
Expert opinion
Knipovich Nikolai Mikhailovich
Zoologist, hydrobiologist. I am interested in fishing at a professional level.
Interesting! Some anglers catch devils without using a nod at all. At the same time, they point the fishing rod almost vertically downwards, and feel the bite “in the hand”, as when fishing with a winter lure.
