NateFollmer

I'm sure we have gangs here with all the drug traffic and the chicken plant only 15 minutes away (that place is hit weekly by immigration). The only "tag" I have seen around here is juice... Never heard of them though. I keep the 9 pretty close to me when I'm at home

Ha ha good show. I remember that shot now...

Here: http://tinyurl.com/32ggf4p No seriously, use jannsnetcraft, bustinbassbaits, lurecraft or lurepartsonline. They all seem to have similar bodies.

The jig is a whole other animal The bite is so much different than everything else. Use small jigs like "bitsy bugs" for smallies, they love them!

It's been a bad season this year for me too. I haven't really lost stuff like you have, but the bites been weak. I usually have twice the fish I do now. I've be en experimenting a lot this year so that may be some of the problem, but the weather has been crazy this year. I am predicting a decent fall and early winter bite though so hopefully I can turn my luck around and nail some decent numbers!

Thanks Dave! You have seen my other work too I hope the master turns out as good this model ha ha

Nice job on freezing those wings. New go get a hummingbird

Stupid title I know, but I wanted to share with everyone my whole process of getting into hardbait... fabrication we'll call it. I already know I can't carve to save my life, so I'm going about this the only way I know how - using the computer I'm going to warn you up front, this is going to be drawn out over a pretty long period of time, so bare with me Anyway, here is my first body design I modeled for a crankbait design I had in my head. I used 3DS Max to model the body, then I took the mesh into Zbrush and did the details (eye holes, gill and lateral line markings). I'm going to cut a 'master' body for each design and then use a replicator to make all the wooden blanks. I didn't want to go overboard with the details though, I don't know exactly how small I can cut with the replicator... This one is going to be a wake style (or a shallow runner). Going to make a deep diver, a lipless crank and some pencil style jerkbaits (I spend way too much money on these, so I may as well make my own). Let me know what you think or if you have any ideas/suggestions!

I have been getting random emails at work from people sending me resumes. I would have fallen for it if I didn't look at the file type. The file name was resumedoc.exe... The email is actually written very well too.

X raps work great for smallies. The key is matching the color with the other types of minnows or shad in the pond. I can use a bright white x rap all day without a bite, but if I switch to my x rap that is white and olive... Bam! They kill it.

Two words: suspending jerkbaits The closer it gets to winter, the slower they go!

good stuff ben. Thanks for the info. I found a lumber store that carries Azek. I'm going to see if they have any scrap first, if not, I'll just buy a board. I got some mahogany from my paps shop. I figured I can make the testing crankbaits out of pvc, then replicate them and use the mahogany for some too. I've never been a good drawer/painter (unless is on the computer ha) so I'm thinking I'll have nice looking bodies with terrible paint jobs

I thought about that. Any suggestions on where to get PVC board cheap? The CNC guy was holding out on me. He told me today he has a replicator that he hasn't used since he got the cnc and is letting me borrow it

Looks pretty toxic from what I have heard. Although some guys use a microwave to heat their plastics so it can't be that bad? I wouldn't be pouring in a house without a direct vent to the outside

I don't know much they owe yet after all their other loans, but even with working a full time job and going to school part time, I was basically working just to get to school. I had no money left for bills. Flechero - I know slone didn't mean it like it sounded. He meant he didn't want to screw up his son's loans by signing for his step daughter.

When you run into this kind of situation, throw something completely crazy. Find a crank or soft plastic in a really odd color (like a hot pink or very bright color). You want to give the fish a target to see and try and make it something they haven't seen before.

Confidence is key, but watch out... There are some pretty talented youngsters out there! Also, you can't fish with nightcrawlers in tournaments (most anyway) so start trying some new techniques

I never removed any hooks and left them off, but I do usually remove the 'default' hooks and replace them with ones that are 1 size bigger. I'll even go 1 size bigger on the back and up too 2 or 3 sizes bigger on the belly (depends on the crank). I don't really think removing either hook is going to keep grass off your crank. Switch to a soft swimbait and rig it weedless. It will slide right through the grass.

Nice. I think I got this pretty well under control now. I just need to decide on what wood I want to try. I was thinking basswood, but I think I want something a little harder since I don't have to worry about carving... I think I need to take a trip to my pap's shop and steal some wood

Very nice! I need to get up to some Erie tribs. once they hit those. I want to fly fish for them like you wouldn't believe Maybe next run... Too busy this season.

Another question I just thought of Can you mix colors? Like say I wanted a green, could I mix yellow and blue or doesn't that normally turn out very good?

Sounds like a good place to start. If you get the stuff and you hate it (you won't), people are selling molds all the time and they seem to go quick! Edit: What completely blew me away is that it only takes 1 oz. of plastic to make 4, 5" senkos... I still don't see how that's right haha

Oh they would still find him... They are pretty hardcore about their pizza I must say though, New York style pizza is amazing with a whole bottle of hot sauce on top

Oh good, I actually have some flower shots: Flowers 1 by nate.follmer, on Flickr

I'm surprised that guy doesn't get death threats from the 'Yorkers... They love their cardboard pizza!