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When making a spin bug with a pointed or rounded tail, wait until the lure is finished with feathers or hair. Then get some of the lead wire and wind it around the hook shank next to the cork body, or wind the lead wire around the cork body itself. See Fig. 33. In any of these operations, always make sure you do not add too much lead weight. Otherwise, the cork body will sit too low in the water or will be cocked at the wrong angle. Figure 30. Long shank double-hump hook. Figure 31. Cork bug bodies prepared for the hook. Figure 32. Adding a lead weight to a cork bug. Figure 33. Cork bugs weighted with lead wire. To finish off the cork spin bugs, add hackle feathers at the tail and wings on the body, as described for the wood type spin bugs above. In painting any of the wood or cork body spin bugs use enamels or lacquers. If you want to, dip the body three or four times in the color. Or, if you have an airbrush, spray the bugs. A quick way to paint them is to use the fast-drying "dope" used by model airplane builders. This comes in many colors and you can add one coat after another in a short time. Wood will require only two or three coats, but cork is more porous and rougher and may take more coats.
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