More fishskin

[Piatu]

Last week i putted one picture at here and i got few question about my lures, so here is few more.

I have more pic's in gallery, but is quite had work to make these sizes smaller....

Lightened spoons, plugs and ice jigs. From 50mm to ~100mm.

Skin are from perch, roach and ruffe.

[Big Bass Man]

Very Nice !!

  How long do you let the skin dry out before glueing on ?

[Fishwhittler]

Those look great! 8-)

[MMan16]

Awesome looking baits. Do the skins hold up better than painted baits? or about the same?

[.dsaavedra.]

those look awesome. so that's real fish skin on those baits?

[Steven Ladner]

Nice work. Seems like a technique that would take some patience.

[Piatu]

All of these are real fishskin and with scales

I make lures fulltimes nowdays  and that is my speciality in scandinavia.

Big_bass-man: only few hours. i take skin from fish and let it dry over night between newspaper and under little weight.

[Piatu]

Awesome looking baits. Do the skins hold up better than painted baits? or about the same?

I myself like lures with skin that they catch better than painted ones, when they has been bited couple of times by fish...they start to smell thru varnish and everyone know how much better is lure with taste .

And all lures are started to imagine real catch, is there better looking bait  to fish than real skin

Hard to make, but fishes will like these.

[DBatey]

beautiful work there!

[Jim45498]

Scared me there for a minute..I first read it as "foreskins" :-/

you did a great job

[Grey Wolf]

One of the big companies here (I don't recall who they are.)had the real skin baits for sale ,I don't think it ever took off but anyway you did an excellent job on making them.

[Piatu]

I have seen few bigger producers from eelskin and few luremaker from japan.

And ofcource some artists from your country who make lures from frogs and  snakes.

[Piatu]

And several painted, icejigs, plugs, etched brassbacks/-bibs....

[jr1945]

do you clearcoat with varnish or epoxy or some other clearcoat material?

really nice by the way

[Piatu]

At bases i use probionate (small plastic pellets with acethone) or Finnish lure varnish (english prochure can found by google: Lakkavalmiste and there cab-products)   and only varnish to top sealing.

It makes hard and clear sealing and works well with my paints (Same producer with all)...ofcourse easier to use than epoxy.

I tried to put staraght link to there, but my postcount isnt  enough.

[Big Bass Man]

Big_bass-man: only few hours. i take skin from fish and let it dry over night between newspaper and under little weight.

Thanks Piatu !

   I will have to give this a try in the near future

[Piatu]

Smallest ones from this morning. Lenght ~50mm and weight 7-8g.

[Piatu]

Couple of pukes...

75mm/20g

[Piatu]

Hello-Kitty jerkbait for one customer:

[SkilletSizeBass.]

Piatu, nice work, they all look cool

[Piatu]

Some from newest set. Lenghts from 55mm to 110mm.