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haha ok ok ok baits of choice: green pumpkin chart. lam. trick stick, rapala DT-03 twitching the trick sticks along the bottom and slowly pulling the DT's back. caught fish toward the middle of the pond, and in a feeder creek. the rain and clouds cleared up, but it was still pretty cool and it was in the evenign so low light. better?

i have a bunch of DT's that came with sure sets on them, but what i like to do is remove the front sureset and swap it with the back hook of a different bait. that way i have a sureset on the back and a regular trebel on the front of almost all of my DT's. sure set hooks are great, but two on one bait isnt necessary.

there was once i was flipping a ripper worm under a bridge around the pilings and i was watching some kids running around and playing on the other side of the lake and then i just felt my rod being pulled down toward the water so i set the hook super hard and it felt very solid with a lot of resistance. the reason i felt such a solid hookset is probably because i dragged the poor bass 3 feet thru the water on the hook set! only turned out to be about 9 inches but it felt very good when i set that hook ;D

yes that is a custom painted lucky craft but no its not mine i did not paint it. i just grabbed it off google images cuz i like it. here is what i came up with. i know its sloppy because i was experimenting with colors. im gonna use this piantjob but it will be much neater when its on the lure:

the shape reminds me of a strike king king shad and the color reminds me of a MS slammer. nice job. are the fins carved right into the bait?

the fishing rocked

shad like this one:

this one is for personal use. im gonna get some balsa wood from the store tomorrow and then that will greatly speed up the process because it is very quick and easy to shape. once i can speed up the process i might sell them. it takes a lot of work to make them though so i dont know what the price would be. anyway, thanks for all the great compliments guys. im epoxying the halves together right now

its not the head shape that causes the action, its the fact that the body is interrupted by joints. because there are these interruptions, it creates vorticies in the space where the joint is and it pushes it to one side, and then the flow of the water pushes it back to the other side and starts another vortex which pushes it to the other side and then it continues. at least that is my interpretation of everything i have read about what makes lipless baits swim.

well the bath tub tests came back positive...IT SWIMS! it hung vertical in the water and swam. i think it will swim better when i take it out and cast it because as you can see from the video, it doesnt begin its S motion till the end of the pull, once it has gained some momentum. it also does a 180 when twitched. i tried to show this in the video but it was very difficult holding the camera in one hand and pulling the bait with the other. so sorry for the crappy, shaky video, but here it is:

ok i doubt it was a cold front because now its sunny and 80°. i'll keep what you said in mind and report back later.

re-configured the weights:

it has been cool, overcast, and light rain on and off all day here. i was planning on going to the farm pond this evening. any ideas as to whether or not this weather will affect the behaviors of the fish?

the chain i have is stainless steel so are the wires and once i get it swimming i will make a video of it

well the bathtub tests were not very good but they weren't terrible either. there is a problem, but i know what i need to do to fix it. i could see the lure trying its hardest to wiggle, but there wasnt enough ballast weight to keep it upright. the head was upright, the body was cocked at about a 70° angle and the unweighted tail was about 45°. so tomorrow i am going to add a few weights to the body and tail and then give it another run!

max, the chains are very strong. i gave it a pull test by putting one end in the vise and the other in a pair of vise grips, and i couldnt break it by pulling, i had to push my body weight on the chain before it broke. and i have found a new love in dremel tool bits its called a tungsten carbide high speed cutter. this thing takes off wood so fast its not even funny. its great for rough shaping baits. it cost me 18 bucks though. :-/ i completed the chain slots, and added weights. i also made the grooves for the chains a little bit longer. i then soaked them in polyurethane and hung them up to dry: i might give it a run in the bath tub tonight and possibly in a swimming pool tomorrow.

well i changed my plans a little bit to make it easier for me. here is what i ended up with (i havent put the weights in yet): with the other side of the head attached:

thanks here is my plan for the inside of the bait. the two lines are where the chain will run, the blocky thingies at the front and back are gonna be where the wires for hook hangers will go. and the weights will be placed where they are. they are steel bearings by the way.

it looks good for a sketch. i have only one problem with it, fins dont grow out of gills

well after i figured out how to change the blade on my new coping saw (that made me feel like a retard) i cut the joints on the bait. to my suprise it worked out EXTREMELY well. i really couldnt ask for better considering this was my first time with a coping saw (besides a few practice cuts on scrap wood). i found it was VERY easy to cut in a straight, vertical line, and if i did get off track i would notice it quick and just get back in line. anyway, here is the butchered bait after that i ran into problem numero uno. the way i planned on shaping the joints was two V', like this << so that the point of one end fits in the open part of the other end, making the "recieving" side wider than the other end. the reason this didnt work out is beacause i made the fins and gills too close to where i was going to cut the bait to make joints. if i continued with what i had in mind, i would have cut into the fins and gills. so i made a very quick change of plans, and left the inside of the joints flat and made the edges very round. this wasnt a big problem. all it means is that now i have to make my joints spaced out just a little bit more. anyway, here are the sanded, rounded joints: its starting to look like a swimbait now

haha! duplicate post from tackleunderground!

ok i got it. it just took a lot of pressure to bend the frame so the blade would fit.

but the blade is shorter than the length of the frame.

just bought a coping saw and i cant figure out how to put a new blade on it!

got some fins put on: