Baitmaker Posted June 5, 2024 Posted June 5, 2024 23 hours ago, IcatchDinks said: @Baitmaker, that looks very nice! Awesome work! And even with one hand it looks like it's got great action. Thank you!!! I couldn't reel and hold the phone at the same time so was just pulling it around with the rod tip too high to swim it right, but I am happy with the action. Quote
Weekend_Angler Posted June 8, 2024 Posted June 8, 2024 On 5/26/2024 at 7:53 PM, PaulVE64 said: I'm sold on matte black Ok @PaulVE64, let's see how matte black works with a marabou jig...tried palmering the first time. Took me a while to make this one 😅 4 1 Quote
Bdnoble84 Posted June 9, 2024 Posted June 9, 2024 On 6/7/2024 at 11:17 PM, Weekend_Angler said: Ok @PaulVE64, let's see how matte black works with a marabou jig...tried palmering the first time. Took me a while to make this one 😅 Once you do it a few times it will go faster. Me personally, i like to use hackle pliers for palmering 2 Quote
ButchA Posted June 19, 2024 Posted June 19, 2024 Edit.... Sorry, let me try again. There. My fault... What do you think of these two dual inline spinners? One (left) is plain, the other (right) is a jig head with a rubber swirl tail grub on a weedless hook. I can tweak these, mess around these, change them around... What do you think? 2 Quote
Super User Munkin Posted June 21, 2024 Author Super User Posted June 21, 2024 On 6/8/2024 at 12:17 AM, Weekend_Angler said: Ok @PaulVE64, let's see how matte black works with a marabou jig...tried palmering the first time. Took me a while to make this one 😅 I would end up with marabou glued on my fingers if I tried this. Allen 1 Quote
Bdnoble84 Posted June 23, 2024 Posted June 23, 2024 On 6/19/2024 at 2:30 PM, ButchA said: Edit.... Sorry, let me try again. There. My fault... What do you think of these two dual inline spinners? One (left) is plain, the other (right) is a jig head with a rubber swirl tail grub on a weedless hook. I can tweak these, mess around these, change them around... What do you think? Have you teatwd them? Do the blades spin easily? Quote
ButchA Posted June 23, 2024 Posted June 23, 2024 36 minutes ago, Bdnoble84 said: Have you tested them? Do the blades spin easily? Yes, they were great! Very lightweight, meant for a light action rod, 4-6# line, etc... Would catch Crappie and smaller Bass. Quote
spartyon8 Posted June 23, 2024 Posted June 23, 2024 Here are a few of my latest. I have been wanting to get into the swimbait game for a while so I painted me up some from Alternative Lures. 8 Quote
Weekend_Angler Posted June 27, 2024 Posted June 27, 2024 On 6/21/2024 at 6:41 PM, Munkin said: I would end up with marabou glued on my fingers if I tried this. Allen This is the exact reason why I used glue only at the final tie off! 😄 Quote
ButchA Posted July 2, 2024 Posted July 2, 2024 I just made these two this morning (well... the jerkbait was "assembled"). All parts/pieces came straight from that old company Jann's Netcraft. 4" (Rapala clone) jerkbait in a Sexy Shad color pattern. #4 treble hook (rear) and #6 treble hook (middle), and size 2 splitrings. The spinnerbait is a white/chartreuse coloring, 3/0 hook, a mossy craw colored skirt, and an Indiana spinner on a clevis with 2 beads, and a brass French spinner blade on a black swivel. 5 Quote
ButchA Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 Happy -- day after 4th of July! 😎 I had a spark of creativity, and decided to make this from various parts & pieces. I guess this would be a Swimbait Jig Spinner combo. What do you think? 4" "Real Shad" colored swimbait. Size 3/0 weighted keeper swimbait hook. ...and I added a Jig spinner w/ Colorado blade. 5 Quote
Super User Swamp Girl Posted July 6, 2024 Super User Posted July 6, 2024 @ButchA: I think you'd get a lot of hits on your latest lure, but I think your hookup percentage might be low. I visualize a bass inhaling your lure and that spinner collapsing on your hook. A semi-buried hook will guarantee a lower hooking percentage, but that percentage might drop even more with a spinner blade acting like a hook guard. It's an underspin that's an overspin. 1 Quote
Baitmaker Posted July 16, 2024 Posted July 16, 2024 Here is a new 6" hardwood swimbait painted to resemble the rare and elusive firetiger crappie shad😁 9 Quote
Super User Munkin Posted July 23, 2024 Author Super User Posted July 23, 2024 Bluegill colored bait I am working on. Allen 9 Quote
Super User fishballer06 Posted July 23, 2024 Super User Posted July 23, 2024 Those hidden weight design heads are my favorite. 2 Quote
basscatcher8 Posted August 22, 2024 Posted August 22, 2024 Haven't checked in here in awhile. Figured I'd drop some of the latest off my drying rack. Balsa squarebills. Copper Gill Pattern. 7 Quote
looking45 Posted August 22, 2024 Posted August 22, 2024 I painted this glide bait this week. It’s 12” long and weighs 20 ounces. Yes,it’s not for everyone but the big fish hunters I know will want one. 7 Quote
detroit1 Posted August 24, 2024 Posted August 24, 2024 On 7/6/2024 at 8:14 AM, ol'crickety said: @ButchA: I think you'd get a lot of hits on your latest lure, but I think your hookup percentage might be low. I visualize a bass inhaling your lure and that spinner collapsing on your hook. A semi-buried hook will guarantee a lower hooking percentage, but that percentage might drop even more with a spinner blade acting like a hook guard. It's an underspin that's an overspin. I think you will have no problem hooking fish with that lure. No problems with regular spinnerbaits, even with long arm. Quote
Super User Swamp Girl Posted August 24, 2024 Super User Posted August 24, 2024 1 minute ago, detroit1 said: I think you will have no problem hooking fish with that lure. No problems with regular spinnerbaits, even with long arm. My problem isn't hooking them. It's that the lures break after ten or twenty bass. Quote
detroit1 Posted August 24, 2024 Posted August 24, 2024 Well, don't catch so many and they will last for years. 😎 2 Quote
paulmandude Posted September 3, 2024 Posted September 3, 2024 I posted in a fb group asking for color ideas. One guy said pb jelly and green pumpkin/pink. I got the idea to swirl gp/pink in this speed worm mold. Kinda looks like a rainbow trout to me One of my favs I did a while ago 8 Quote
Super User fishballer06 Posted September 3, 2024 Super User Posted September 3, 2024 I like it! Quote
Bdnoble84 Posted September 23, 2024 Posted September 23, 2024 This might be my favorite paint job so far. Its an old rapala that was foiled in silver minnow. It was all beat up so i gave it a redo. Black and gold with a red belly. It pops more in person. 5 Quote
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