Do-it-yourself folding baby doll
On the topic pages, the operations of making folding do-it-yourself dolls for fishing are discussed in detail.
In the first way, anyone can make a hatchling with a folding frame, however, suitable for fishing only in the summer.
Do-it-yourself folding baits made using the second and third methods are, to one degree or another, suitable for catching small fish, both in winter and during summer fishing.
All three designs of homemade little ones are easy to make with your own hands. At home, they can be made from waste or non-scarce materials.
The assembly of the largest doll in area and quite simple to manufacture consists of a wire folding frame, the components of which can be bent with your own hands, with a minimum of tools. The unfolded frame is shown in the photograph.
Somehow it happened in life that the frames of my homemade little fishes first ended up, and then firmly established themselves in the category of consumable fishing devices, which they lost, drowned, and gave “for a while” to other fishermen to use.
Over the more than forty years of my fishing practice, some hand-made fishing devices and tackles, including folding fishnets, have been sold out and no one knows where they are now warming up.
The same words can fully be applied to my homemade folding landing nets, one of which was healed by a fisherman I knew well. True, he later paid with liquid currency.
For this reason, I have acquired considerable experience in making various fishing devices (and not only small fish) with my own hands, which I want to share with other fishermen to the point of tears.
For those who want to make a folding hatchet with their own hands in a more civilized way, below are explanatory drawings, drawings and a photograph of the frame of my latest homemade folding hatchet, which lingered in my fishing farm for a suspiciously long time.
For this reason, the steel beams of the folding device, often used for summer fishing, even had time to noticeably rust.
If you are reading this page in the winter, you can right now start making a simple folding baby doll from a transparent bottle with your own hands.
Folding doll frame
An image of a folding frame of a small fish for summer fishing when folded is included in the photo. Above, one of the beams of a homemade device is shown separately.
We will need to bend four of these identical metal rods with our own hands on both sides. But in the future, for a weekend fishing trip, you won’t have to beg such homemade or purchased devices from friends.
Select the thickness of the wire for making the frame yourself according to the capabilities of your plumbing tools. Or you can use the dimensions of my homemade folding squirrels, tested on many fishing trips.
To make the frames of my homemade dolls, I use “soft” wire made of carbon steel grade St40 or St45 with a diameter of 3.5 mm, a decent-length coil of which is built in the basement.
If something goes wrong with the bending of homemade wire rings of the frame, then anneal the ends of the rods over the burner of a gas stove.
Next, using the photo, we get acquainted with the dimensions of the frame of my latest homemade folding dabble, one of the rods of which is shown in the photo. The thickness of the wire from which it is bent is 3.5 mm.
The size of 74-76 cm is the distance between the longitudinal axis of the fastening bolt and the center of the bend of the loop (end) of each beam of the frame, designed for tying one of the four corners of a mesh with a fine mesh measuring 1x1 meter.
You can set the length of the frame beams, on which the size and weight of our folding baby doll will depend. But it will be better if all 4 rays of the “skeleton” of a homemade fishing device are approximately the same size when finished.
It is better to cut rod blanks with a small margin in length. First, bend four rings at the ends of all the arms of the doll’s frame, put them on the bolt and align the rods of the homemade folding hinge device along the length.
If you have become familiar with the dimensions of the beams of my fishing device, then to help you, a drawing has been drawn with the sequence of operations for bending a ring with your own hands at the end of one of the rods of the folding dummy.
Assembling a fishing rod
The entire assembly of a small fish for catching whitebait on summer fishing consists of four beams and their fastening articulation using an M5 bolt and a wing nut with the same thread.
The assembly sequence is as follows.
First, the rings of all four beams of the folding frame of the homemade dabble are put on the bolt. Then a simple and spring washer is thrown on. Then this economy is tightened with a wing nut.
In the center of the bolt on my little fish there is a ring soldered, which serves to tighten the frame assembly and to tie the device to some kind of cord or twine during summer fishing. As far as I remember, I sawed off the ring for this assembly of the malyavochnik from the “gander” of the water mixer.
All frame rods in the same place (near the curved rings in the assembly area) should be bent at the same small (5-7 degrees) angle.
Thanks to this simple operation, our homemade little fish will lift it 12-15 centimeters above the net in summer fishing conditions. Although you can bend the rods on the malyavochnik in a small arc along their entire length.
The assembly assembly of the frame of the folding dabble is shown in the photo, but for use in fishing conditions there is not enough one beam.
I think this information will be quite enough for you to make with your own hands a folding frame of a small fish, convenient for catching small fish from the shore or boat during summer fishing.
When unfolded (unfolded), the folding frame of a homemade fishing dabble is covered with a mesh of standard sizes, which you can either knit with your own hands or buy in a store.
If you have never made any folding fishing devices due to your supposed inability, then I advise you to start with this homemade little fish.
For those who like to fish for whitebait from a boat, a small fish from an umbrella is more suitable, which can be useful both in summer and winter fishing.
If someone doesn’t quite understand some aspects of the process of making and assembling a homemade doll with your own hands, then you can find additional information on the next page.
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Increasing the strength of a homemade dwarf
In order to reduce the likelihood of reverse bending of the umbrella spokes when the fry is quickly raised, we need to strengthen them with braces, giving the umbrella spokes additional rigidity.
The figure shows the following components of a homemade doll, which you need to select or make with your own hands.
If you do everything as shown in the drawing, you will significantly increase the rigidity of the do-it-yourself doll.
In order to increase the strength of a homemade folding umbrella, giving it sufficient rigidity, you can proceed as follows:
Select a pair of a nut and a short bolt (not a screw) with an M5-6 thread. Embed the nut (with a soldering iron or drill and file it) into the hole in the middle of the end plane of the plastic umbrella handle.
If the connection between the nut and the umbrella handle is unreliable or it protrudes too much above the plane, then glue a paper cup (formwork) along the outer perimeter of the handle and fill it flush with the surface of the nut with epoxy resin.
After the resin has set, clean and polish the handle of the folding umbrella, check the fit of the bolt into the nut.
Then, in the middle of the bolt head, use a hacksaw blade for metal, make a cut into which insert a coin ground off the edge, which is firmly soldered into the cut of the bolt, drill a hole in it for tying the lifting cord of the doll.
Thus, our homemade little bugger from a discarded umbrella has already begun to cost exactly more than a hundred rubles and, in addition, we will be able to tighten the bolt into the nut without resorting to a wrench or pliers.
Well, since a bolt and nut appeared in the design of the folding doll, then let's cut out or cut out a round washer from sheet metal 2.5-3 mm thick and drill a hole in the middle for the passage of the bolt.
Although you can cut the washer out of durable plastic. This device will serve as a support for the stretch marks tied to the spokes of the baby doll.
The diameter of the washer (“B”) should be such that it protrudes beyond the handle of the folding umbrella. In addition, we drill holes with a diameter of 2.5-3 mm in the rim of the washer protruding beyond the diameter of the handle.
Then we put the washer on the nut, tighten it with a wing screw, unfold the little umbrella from the umbrella into the working position and tie each knitting needle to the holes in the washer with a stretcher made of thick nylon threads. You can tie several guy wires in each hole of the washer.
The rigid structure of the folding umbrella can be lifted out of the water much faster.
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How to make a baby doll from an umbrella
On the third page of the topic there are tips, using which interested fishermen can make a hatchling from an umbrella.
A homemade folding doll of a round shape has a relatively small size and a low rise when unfolded. This means that live bait can enter it from the very bottom.
True, for the manufacture of fishing gear, an umbrella is suitable only with working knitting needles.
In addition, in order for the umbrella baby to properly perform its functions, you will need to make stretchers for it.
Then our fishing device with the fry can be lifted quickly without the threat of turning the fry net inside out.
If you are reading this text in the winter season, then perhaps you will be interested in the contents of the last page of this topic. It talks about how you can make a small fish from a bottle to catch small fish from the ice.
And for stationary fishing for fry from the shore, a more durable, also home-made folding fry with a frame covered with mesh is more suitable.
Catching fry with a wren
To catch fry with a small fish, we place the wire guides of the frame at angles of 90 degrees, and insert loops into the large bends of the ends of the rods, tied at the corners of the mesh.
In the middle of the net, before lowering the deployed fry to the bottom of the reservoir, we tie a load and bait for the fry.
The time of each session of catching a fry with a fry depends on the “infestation” of the reservoir with small fish and on what the caught fry can be used for in the future.
Let's say, if we needed a caught small fish only to load up the gear for catching perch in the same reservoir, then why tightly hammer the eland with fry? Moreover, in the summer, without frequent changes of water, the fry quickly dies.
It’s easier to once again dip the little fish in shallow water for a few minutes. Then raise the fishing device and select the desired size of fish. The rest of the fry should be allowed to leave the net in order to catch them, say, in a month.
If you decide to catch fry or live bait, such as medium-sized crucian carp, before the freeze-up for winter traps for long-term storage, then there will be a completely different selection and conditions for storing fish at home.
Moreover, quite a few easy-to-manufacture designs of home-made fry baits have been invented, adapted for catching fry in the winter season.
About my little fish used for catching small fish during winter fishing, read the materials on the other two pages of the topic.
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How does an umbrella bastard work?
For the folding parasol maker to work correctly, we will need to remove all the excess inside the cavity of the tube, which is better to replace with another solid one. Then the strength of the homemade dwarf will increase significantly.
As a result, all that should remain from the umbrella on the baby doll is a sleeve sliding along the tube with knitting needles hinged to it by a wire ring and a handle.
When the little fish is lowered into the water, the bushing should slide down freely under the weight of the wet mesh sewn to the ends of the spokes. If this does not happen, then the little bugger is not working.
In this case, we increase the weight of the bushing in any way. You can glue a thick-walled heavy metal tube onto the sleeve on top. To do this, we will have to find a tube with the appropriate internal diameter.
After such a simple modification, a homemade little bugger made from an old umbrella will begin to work according to our rules.
Umbrella for folding toy
Let's first look at the designs of folding umbrellas that are most suitable for making a do-it-yourself baby doll.
Firstly: if you try, you can find a folding umbrella with damaged covering material at home or at your neighbors’ without much difficulty.
Naturally, the spokes of the umbrella should also be foldable and it would be better if they are made of stainless steel with chrome-plated bronze.
It is also desirable that the awning of a folding umbrella rest on a base made of a fan of numerous spokes. Then the perimeter of the mesh between the spokes will not sag when the wren is lifted from the bottom (photo 1). And there will be less load on each knitting needle when the fish catcher quickly lifts the fish from the bottom of the reservoir.
Here I deliberately introduced strict requirements for the umbrella, converting which into a folding little one will not require much time. In fact, the umbrella can be anything; its end handle can also be remade.
Choosing a net for a dwarf from an umbrella
If we have found an umbrella that is suitable for its design, then let’s choose a mesh for making a do-it-yourself umbrella. Here we may encounter such a problem.
If you choose a net with a small mesh, say 6x6 mm, for the hatchling, and knitted from relatively thick threads, then when the umbrella is quickly lifted, the knitting needles will bend in the opposite direction and all the fry from the hatchling will break free.
The high density of water for a homemade dabble with a fine mesh knitted from thick nylon or nylon threads has a very high windage.
Remember how the spokes of an umbrella fold in the opposite direction in a strong wind, when its gust hits the inside of the awning stretched on the spokes.
Therefore, the choice of the size of the cell and the fishing line or thread from which the mesh is knitted on our homemade fry will largely depend on the speed of the fry’s rise to the surface of the water.
Baby net
Malyavochnitsa is the simplest trap design. This is a frame made of metal wire with a diameter of up to two millimeters with a stretched fine mesh. The structure is tied with a cord to a massive stick. Operating such a trap will not be difficult. To do this, bait (bread, porridge) is placed at the bottom of the trap, and the structure smoothly sinks to the bottom in the places where the fry live. When there is a sufficient accumulation of small fish above the trap, the structure is raised. The caught fry is transferred to a bait storage container and the process is repeated.
Homemade nets for fowl
Once upon a time, nets made of fishing line about 0.2 mm thick were knitted to their homemade parasols. The choice of cell size is determined by the size of the fry we need.
Therefore, when lifting a small fish with a thin net, the water did not provide such significant resistance to the cells of the fishing line passing through its horizons.
For those who don’t have such a fishing line mesh, choose an industrially made mesh for the dwarf. In the process of manufacturing the fishing device, we will strengthen the structure of the homemade little fish with additional braces.
The photo under the title of the article shows one of my most popular shuttles. It is made with your own hands from hardened duralumin 1.5 mm thick. Under the shuttle there are three templates that allow you to knit meshes for screens, landing nets or hatchling nets with cell widths of 15x15, 20x20 and 25x25 mm.
Although, using the same shuttle, provided that it is not filled too much with thread or fishing line, it is quite possible to knit a net for a fowl from an umbrella with a mesh side size of 8-10 mm. Although, if you look, somewhere in the trash you will find shuttles both narrower and wider.
Bait in a hatchery for fry
The bait is used to speed up the process of catching fry with a folding dwarf. But first you need to correctly select or find a place in the reservoir where small fish are concentrated.
In summer, more fry live in the shallows, where the water is warmer, there is no strong current and food of animal or plant origin is not eaten away along the coastal edge. These are the best summer places for catching small fry with a bait that can be attached in any way in the middle of the net.
Therefore, the bait is lowered together with the dwarf, in the middle of the net of which a small load is placed. I usually tie a steel pancake weighing 200 grams, which is quite enough for the little fish and the bait to quickly sink to the bottom.
The weight gives the mesh a more concave shape. This means that fewer fry that have approached the bait will be able to go over the sides of the net when the fry is lifted.
A fragrant piece of rye bread is suitable as bait for fry, which is enough for the whole fishing day (if the birds don’t peck). To avoid constantly tying the bait to the fowl net, you can make a simple and “eternal” fastening device.
To do this, carve a sharpened peg from a thin pine rod on one side and tie it with a thick nylon thread about 7-8 centimeters long in the middle of the doll's net.
Pierce the edge of the bread (or a piece of other bait) through with a peg and bring it out on the other side of the crust. Now the bait will not swim away from the little fish. A piece of bread will last a long time to catch a fry.
In the same way, you can fix the bait in the middle of the crayfish.
