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Beauties John!!

Well said Ben. A PVC bait can be built to suspend, just like any balsa or basswood bait. I've made a few and regretted it because if you get them hung up on the bottom or a tree branch and you are without your lure retriever, your bait is history. Suspending baits do just that suspend, and don't return to the top. Jerry

Sweet looking crankbaits Ben! Jerry

Don't use your Mom's pans, that itself is a bad idea. Make the molds in the garage or outside somewhere. The resin stinks and again trouble with Mom, don't even want to go there. Good luck with your baits.

Love the firetigers Marty. The smallies out here would eatem' up.

Beauties, everyone Marc.

I just thought I'd welcome you here with a little of your native tongue. - Ek het net gedink ek jy wil welkom hier met 'n bietjie van jou moedertaal. I have some friends from Cape Town. I don't speak Afrikaans, just a little Dutch, and Google translate helps too!

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Beauty John, I would love to catch smallies that big....but you have to go fishin' to do that! Jerry

Some seriously beautiful baits my friend! Everyone looks like a fish catcher.

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I like our local beer. RedTail brewed in Mendocino county here in CA. Will be having one with dinner shortly!

Nice prop baits. I love the wood chopper style. I need to figure out the deep diving aspect of the baits too!

The first is a pattern I like from Lure Jensen, my answer to the Delta Craw This one is another try at a gill pattern, gettin' close. These baits were painted 5-4-12, not quite "new", but new to bassresource.

I use the brush and hang method for my baits. Just brush enough on to make sure the entire bait is covered and then hang. The minor excess ends up on the rear hook hanger and then I just take the dremel wire brush to it and ta da. Done deal.

Do they have rattles? Why not just repaint them? Lure manufacturers go through a lot of R&D to get a bait to do what they want, dive like they want and sound like they want. As far as "mods" as you call it, I'd keep them as they are and just paint them the way you want, but if you don't care much about them then you could shave the diving bills and see what happens. You may tighten up the wobble on some and not on the others. Just my .02.

The last bait in the top row, is very reminiscent of the "Tennessee Shad". Very nice Marty!

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Sweet baits. Serious skills.

Nice baits. Custom, means just that, thinking outside the box.

I was talking to a friend of mine about a blue gill pattern. He had mentioned something I haven't thought about but a really young blue gill basically a light color and light greens and yellows.

Those are sweet Ben!!

I don't have a picture of the one I made for my friend but I do have a picture of the one in the fishes mouth I'm holding.

Love those splatter backs. Those would definitely take care of some smallies out here. NICE!

A friend of mine and I went out to a local pond to give some new baits some water time. I (in the pontoon type tube) hooked up with the first one, a nice 4lb 13oz largie and my friend picked up one a nice 4lb 6oz. on a bait I built for him last summer.