Replacing DCG Skirt Help

[Dkoy]

Looking for some help and tips on replacing DCG skirts. I have a few DCG that have been beat up from this season, basically missing the bottom skirt. Whats the best method of replacing these? Thinking about going out to TB and picking up some flashboo or something and tying it on.

Anyone done this that can relay a method that won't give me a headache?

[JRedig]

Thorne has premade skirts on the shelf, they come two to a pack and have a decent color selection.

[Whisker Warrior]

Have you looked into Glittertail musky lures??? They are very similar to DCG's but have a slick interchangeable blade and skirt unit...check them out....

[50inchpig]

if you use premade skirts you'll have to reshaft - good skill to have when you're on the boat or if you want to add your own magic to some bucktails.

if you want to retie the tinsel, pick up some red rod-building thread and head cement, wrap the thread around the coil a few times to hold it, dab of head cement, and wrap the tinsel on the coil. finish with more head cement.

you might get a headache if you leave the head cement open too long and are too close to it. observe. duplicate.

[ande]

dido on the glittertails. On glittertails blades can be quickly changed out or the skirting. One year on LOTW they wanted nickel blades. I switched from orange blades to nickel and boated 7 fish up to 50. But I guess the gurus say color don't matter?????

[Shawn Kellett]

Color matters, that's why I keep somewhere between 300-500 baits in the boat LOL!

[JRedig]

Color matters, that's why I keep somewhere between 300-500 baits in the boat LOL!

Amen.

[bonefish]

But I guess the gurus say color don't matter?????

That's got to be a terrible rumor started by someones non-fishing spouse, who has also been heard saying "why do you need more than one fishing rod? Do you really need that big of a tackle box? Didn't you buy everything you needed at the musky show?" And other well recognized comments

[Dkoy]

Thanks for the tips guys. Gonna try this tonight. I'll check out the premade skirts also. Gonna have to learn how to do this, prob would save me quite a bit from buying new dcg's for a while.