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To add lead weight to a cork spin bug, use a cork body shaped like a bottle stopper. In other words, don't round off the tail part but leave it flat like a cork bottle stopper. Then cut a round piece from a sheet of lead to fit neatly at the tail end of the cork body. If you are using a single hook on your spin bug, cut a small slot in the lead so that the weight can be slipped over the hook. Then drill a hole in the center of the round lead weight to accommodate a small screw. Now coat both the tail end of the cork body and the lead weight with cement and screw the lead piece in place on the cork. See Fig. 32. If you are making a spin bug with a treble hook instead of a single hook, you go through the same steps. Of course, you do not need a slot in the lead weight now only a small hole in the center of the round lead. You slip this lead onto the wire used in the "through-the-body" construction of this type of spin bug, then form a wire eye at the tail to take the hook. You can also cement or glue the lead weight onto the cork body, but the wire eye will keep it in position.
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