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Vman, your point is valid but for me personally I would not want to be modifying the molds very often. You could figure out all of the variables on a couple of prototypes and save time and cost on building molds.

Nate, Have you built any prototypes of the baits?

I can find a dumb fish to eat one every now and then. It's been a long time since I've seen you around.

I would suggest you look into PVC board as a material for your baits. It will save you the extra work of sealing the baits. You will be able to test your baits faster and without worry water getting to the wood. I personally do not have much experience with this material but several guys on this board do.

I like the way that you and Vman use your skills to create baits. I look forward to seeing the finished bait. Vman, that's going to be cool little swim bait.

Nate, The lipless baits are easy to build. Put most of your ballast weight in the front 1/3 and place the line tie at the very back edge of the flat spot on the baits head. You may have to fine tune the line tie but you want that bait to have a nose down attitude when swimming. That's the basic formula I've used for my lipless baits and it works. You guys are starting to scare me with the computer models. Vman what is the 2nd pic suppose to be, this red neck can't figure that one out.

Very nice work.

All those baits are sweet. Could somebody paint just a normal color pattern, I'm starting to feel inadequate again.

All of those baits are fabulous and it doesn't matter if you catch fish with them. The paint patterns are still perfect, sometimes fish are too stupid to recognize talented work.

The top 3 baits are Petey style. The first bait is a big one at 3 inches long.

Here is a small batch I just finished.

The colors I use the most are flo yellow, pearl white, yellow, and black, mostly for base coats. I buy those in 32oz bottles. Detail colors I buy in 1oz bottles and I have some colors that have lasted for several yrs. With a gravity feed brush you can shoot 1 drop of paint.

This batch of baits are all 2 inches long and weigh in at a hefty 1/4oz. All are shallow running baits and should produce well as the water starts to cool down.

Post that thing in the lure building forum, we understand this sort of stuff over there. Very cool idea by the way.

Thanks Jbass but I'm still not on the level with Dwain, CCP, CrankinCracker, or Fishwhittler.

Here are a few baits I've finished recently.

All those baits look very good, don't think the lay off hurt your skills.

You got those bagley clones looking good and the little flat sides look pretty good also.

Barlow's, Jann's netcraft, and Lure parts online are three sources.

Yes to everything RW said but man are they fun to catch. Usually willing to hit just about any bait and in general they are always ticked off.

I love throwing cranks to a wind blown bank.

A few flat sides and a couple of round baits.

This batch are semi round baits and little bigger at 2.5 inches long.

Thanks guys, need to figure out how to take decent pics. This batch of baits looks so much better in hand.

Here are a few fat baits I just finished.