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28 minutes ago, BlakeMolone said:

Yup, turned out to be a great little underspin too! Sprue removal on that mold has been a nightmare for me for some reason though.

Yeah, i find gate shears only cut half the sprue and twisting off to be the best. 
and i added an underspin wire to mine too. Are you bending your own wire or did you get prebent? 

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On 12/29/2024 at 12:13 AM, Bdnoble84 said:

Yes its the walleye head. In a way yes just because its already coming to a point so if i just cut it with side cutters it will create a wedge. I prefer working them off with pliers then i hit em with a file.

 

 

Try turning the side cutter upside down as it will have a flatter edge instead of the wedge. 

 

Allen

Posted
12 hours ago, Bdnoble84 said:

Yeah, i find gate shears only cut half the sprue and twisting off to be the best. 
and i added an underspin wire to mine too. Are you bending your own wire or did you get prebent? 

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Very nice man!  Yes I use the do-it wire forms, the smallest size, I believe the number is 375? 

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7 hours ago, BlakeMolone said:

Very nice man!  Yes I use the do-it wire forms, the smallest size, I believe the number is 375? 

Oh cool. I’ve just been rolling my own from .031 or .029 

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Started making some Black/Blue creature baits.

 

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It's been a while since I posted any new stuff, but I'm still making baits when time allows. Here is my latest swimbait and a first for me using poplar wood. It's a 7" foiled golden shiner that has a slow/medium sink rate. 

 

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A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

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A-Jay

 

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Posted
20 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

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A-Jay

 

Those remind me of an episode of In Fishermen where Doug Stange removed the dressed treble hooks from a Terminator in line spinner bait and added a weighted swim bait hook. I’ve yet to try it out but I keep thinking one day I will. Yours however look homemade and very well done at that 👍🏻

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57 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

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A-Jay

 

I use those all the time to catch steelhead.  Well, the original anyways.

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38 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

Those remind me of an episode of In Fishermen where Doug Stange removed the dressed treble hooks from a Terminator in line spinner bait and added a weighted swim bait hook. I’ve yet to try it out but I keep thinking one day I will. Yours however look homemade and very well done at that 👍🏻

You Sir are CORRECT.

That is exactly where I first saw this rig.

These are #5 Blue Fox spinners.

Initially tried them with a Sebile Magic swimmer with mixed results.  

Expect the paddle tail to be better.

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A-Jay

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Just now, A-Jay said:

You Sir are CORRECT.

That is exactly where I first saw this rig.

These are #5 Blue Fox spinners.

Initially tried the with a Sebile Magic swimmer with mixed results.  

Expect the paddle tail to be better.

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A-Jay

What depth are you planned on targeting with the weighted hook?  I think I am really going to try this.  I have so many of those in size 5.  Most are chartreuse though.

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1 hour ago, Rockhopper said:

What depth are you planned on targeting with the weighted hook?  I think I am really going to try this.  I have so many of those in size 5.  Most are chartreuse though.

The only time I'm really able to effectively target the bigger pike

is when them come shallow(er) early & late season.

Seems they follow the food (carp in this case) into the same water's I'm fishing for brown bass.

So 10-12 ft less with surface water temps @65-ish.

Fishing over submerged weeds and especially in & around the bare spots (sand) on a large weed flat

is almost always part of the deal. 

Be real interesting if a big brown bass takes a poke at this thing. 

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A-Jay

 

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28 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Be real interesting if a big brown bass takes a poke at this thing. 

I wouldn't put it past them.  Downsized a bit might actually do pretty well against the smallies.  I have a bunch of tiger musky near me.  I think I will make up a size 5 and a size 6.  I have a gut feeling this might work really well.

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18 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:

I wouldn't put it past them.  Downsized a bit might actually do pretty well against the smallies.  I have a bunch of tiger musky near me.  I think I will make up a size 5 and a size 6.  I have a gut feeling this might work really well.

Good Luck.

Not Tigers, but there's a few musky lurking around the same 

areas of Lake Menderchuck as well.

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Posted
4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

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A-Jay

 

 

One of the guys in the local musky groups does something similar.  He's using a big mepps and 5-7" keitechs with a weighted swimbait hook replacement like that.  The big ones are a mepps giant killer plus a 6.8 on a 3/8 10/0 hook.  That will come in close to 3 oz total in the end.  It's a 9-10" bait in the end.

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11 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

One of the guys in the local musky groups does something similar.  He's using a big mepps and 5-7" keitechs with a weighted swimbait hook replacement like that.  The big ones are a mepps giant killer plus a 6.8 on a 3/8 10/0 hook.  That will come in close to 3 oz total in the end.  It's a 9-10" bait in the end.

This unit is less than that in length & weight.

While I am looking forward to throwing this one around.

It will be more of a 'let's see what happens' deal than anything else.

Who knows, I might get surprised.

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A-Jay

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36 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

This unit is less than that in length & weight.

While I am looking forward to throwing this one around.

It will be more of a 'let's see what happens' deal than anything else.

Who knows, I might get surprised.

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A-Jay

 

good luck!  The smaller ones he throws (we also have a lot of smaller tiger muskies) are probably closer to that.  With a 4.8 keitech and a musky killer I think he's coming in around 6 1/2" and around 1 1/2 oz. 

 

I bet with a big spunk shad on the back you could really burn it back.  That feels very bassy for covering big flats.

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