Looking to Custom Paint some baits

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I have a few old Bomber Balsa B’s that I want to have custom painted. I want a few painted in a natural bluegill pattern, and a few in a foil bluegill pattern. 

 

Im looking for recommendations on who to hire for this task. I’m looking for names, but If you think you yourself can do it, I’d like to see some baits you’ve done before. They don’t make these baits anymore and they’re very hard to come by. 

 

Thanks!

[Angry John]

pizz customs will do you right 

[clayton86]

Robert weiker at line out custom tackle does a awesome job. 

 

Www.lineoutcustomtackle.com if you use them just tell him clayton sent ya 

[smalljaw67]

I never knew Bomber to make a Balsa B, Bagley always had the Balsa B series. I have both the old Balsa B2 and the new version that Bagley started making again and they are good, they use different hardware but the action and floatation is the same.

[Dave A]

Check out Richard Praeger or Travis Crosman on FB

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On 11/26/2017 at 6:19 AM, smalljaw67 said:

I never knew Bomber to make a Balsa B

I have heard of them but never seen one . I'm a Bomber user and wanted to try one .

[BASS302]

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Released in 2006, discontinued 2010ish. They are big Baits, but bulldozers coming through cover. If anyone has any for sale, let me know!

[Scarborough817]

get bit custom baits takes care of all my custom work, phil is an amazing painter he has done a bull shad as well as my 2 newest which are 2 lunker punkers 

[fish'n Jim]

I don't mean to suggest not to custom paint, but want to make a point.   If you look back at the early era baits, they were very simply colored, like red or black head with white body, all black or green, or frog, etc and they still would catch fish.  Still do.   Some of the look good enough to eat are more for the artist fishermen than the fish.   4-5 decades ago, I had a lazy ike, that the bass wore the paint off, and I sanded and painted it with red primer, and it still caught fish.   So go figure?   I still have that one somewhere.

FYI: www.bagleybaits.com   Bagley is producing baits again but not the full line.   I've purchased some B's, I was out of, which are really simple, chartreuse with a black back, but at certain times...   Especially on tidal but good anywhere.   I know of no fresh water fish that color.

I don't recall them ever making a foil bluegill pattern.  Foil was more a Rapala invention. Bagley's were fairly simple color schemes as well.   One of the first to use chartreuse and blue, if I recall correctly.   I have some original DB3 and 2 that are plain "ghost" silver, that I'd fight over, if it ever came to that.   So they don't have to be fancy to catch fish.  I have some other that were factory painted to look like a fish and never caught much on them.   They did dabble with real photo finish shad and they were good looking baits, especially in the large striper sizes.   I still have one or two, but lost the best tail spinner ones.   I asked and there were no plans to make any.   Jim Bagley was a crankbait innovator par excellence.