Re-skirting your lures.
There are 2 ways of doing this, the conventional way and with the skirts rolled. I find the conventional way is still best but a rolled skirt can tame a lures action by adding drag to the back of the lure. The advantage of rolling it is that it seems to create a bigger bubble trail.
Anyway, you decide which works for you!
Firstly the conventional method.
This is the way I assemble just about all my lures. This particular lure has had the Wahoo trimming it and although the lure will still work fine, it gives me more confidence if the lure is in perfect condition.
The first step is to simply tear off the old skirt and use a hobby knife to scrape away most of the glue residue and bits of skirt that may have stayed behind.
Then get 2 skirts and mark them where you want them to sit on the head. I do this so that once assembled the skirts are about the same length.
Outer skirt:
Inner skirt:
Then simply cut them as straight as possible with a decent pair of scissors.
Start with the outer skirt. Fit it on the lure head as you want the end product. Then roll it back on its self to expose some of the shoulder it rides on. A little furnature polish on the skirt will allow it to slip a bit better over it’s self.
Simply put some glue on the shoulder as well as on the rear shoulder that supports the under skirt and slip the under skirt on.
Then pull the over skirt back down over the under skirt.
Trim them to your preferred length.
Refit rigging and you are ready to go.
The next method is also quite popular..
The first step is to cut the skirts. Cut it away from the narrow neck of the skirt about the same length as the skirt shoulder on the lure.
Then turn it inside out.
Now spray furniture polish on the lure head or on the skirt and pull the skirt over the head till the neck sit up against the shoulder.
Using some heavy braid or similar, make a loop and hold it over the neck then start wrapping around the head working your way tightly up against the shoulder.
Hold the line and loop with your thumb and cut the line leaving about 5cm.
Then feed the tag through the loop and pull the loop tag end back through/under the binding.
Trim the tags leaving them about 2cm long.
Follow these steps for the under skirt.
In the future to change them, simply just pull one of the tags and the binding will come undone with no mess of fuss.
Then just pull the skirts down and trim the ends.
Final product:
