Mattlure Ultimate Blind Bluegill

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A fortnight or so back, a turtle decided to chew on a brand new ultimate BG.

This is how the bluegill looked after getting a bite taken off it.

I shaved off some green plastic from a Berkely Chigger Craw, and superglued and mend-it-ed the strips bit by bit and reconstructed the mouth and redid the eyes.

I got the profile more or less correct, and the lure sits nose down like it's supposed to, and swims more or less okay, at least in my bath-tub

The problem I have is the mouth portion is now translucent, and of a very different color than adjacent areas. Any ideas how I could fix that? Any other ideas?

Thanks.

[KYntucky Warmouth]

I wouldn't worry about it...You could have used a green pumpkin to match closer to the bait but I don't think it will have a negative effect.

[.dsaavedra.]

hahaha nice job dude

[Bluebasser86]

Looks good to me. I've seen bluegills with black spots on them just like bass get sometimes that would make them look a lot like your bait. Might just give them something else to hone in on before they eat your bait?

[GrundleLove]

I'd hit it.

If I were a fish I mean...

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Update:

I just didn't dig the translucent green, especially on the right side of the mouth, so I dabbed some red spots on either side, and sealed it in with mend-it.

I took it out to my local lake to see how well it swims. I was pleased with the action at low speeds, but anything faster than a agonizingly slow bottom-bouncing retrieve would cause it to swim slightly sideways. I threw it along with a new ultimate BG to confirm that. That turtle and my subsequent repairs definitely killed some of the swimming action.

It sits on its nose perfectly though; even when I jerked it off the bottom, it came down and settled like it should. I think I'll use it more for a jigging sort of retrieve, which is more or less the idea with the ultimate BGs anyway.