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hahahaha the popper... well....i wanted an aggressive looking popper. i also wanted it to cause a disturbance. hence the ribbed belly and dimpled sides. and you can't really tell from the pic but the "eyes" are holes drilled through the popping face and out the top of the lure, for more bubbles.

4" baby bass swimbait for Sam: and an ugly little popper that i made for myself, it has a great walking/spitting action.

i can't believe nobody's heard of Cake...... you guys are missing out...

same. i almost always sit when fishing plastics, unless i'm pitching into cover.

fish cake :-? ;D

anybody else a fan of this band? i really like them a lot; definitley in my top 10 (not quite in my top 5) and one of my "desert island" bands ;D

thanks guys. i'll let you know how my friend does with this.

yep good point. just use whatever knot you would normally use when you're tuning it.

yeah, i have never read a bassmaster's in my life lol. i don't think Homer Circle was who i saw on youtube... :-/ anyway, with swimbaits, its kinda just carve and hope ;D there are some things that will increase your chances at getting a good swimmer, but they just seem to well....swim on their own! some things that i have found will make a swimbait swim are using the least amount of weight as you can get away with, keeping the weight concentrated in the head/middle, and keeping the weight close to joints. if you put weight in your tail sections then it just makes it that much harder for these to start swinging around underwater. also, with swimbaits, perfect symmetry seems to make them just come straight through the water.... as for wood, i like basswood a lot. its easy to carve, easy to sand, very forgiving (compared to the also popular balsa wood). basswood is also easily available locally.

nope but you got me interested now ;D

well jeez, you're not gonna enlighten me?? i think i may have heard of him. i think i may have seen his crankbait making videos on youtube, unless its someone else i'm thinking of....

new baby bass:

i dunno who Unc Holmer is, but if you're making your bait out of a solid piece of wood, then it would make sense to drill your holes into the grain, not with it. but with the wood i use, the grain alternates, and it doesn't really make a difference at all ;D

congrats on the first bass. that looks like some real good water. down there by those weeds would be great (it doesn't look too accessible, but if you can get down there, definitley give it a shot)

top notch!

im not sure about your comment about the grain of the wood...i just use pieces of basswood plywood (which has fine grain, but the plywood is layered with the grains facing alternate directions) and it works just fine for me. its perfectly fine to drill holes in the bottom of the bait and insert weights (splitshot) that way, i think that is the way most people do it. then just fill over the hole with some filler (i've found sawdust mixed with elmers carpenters glue works great as wood filler) and sand it flush with the bottom of the bait. as for simple paintjobs, shad is real easy to do. just go to the hardware store, pick up matte white and matte black (or gloss, your choice, i prefer matte). paint the bait (mainly belly and sides) white. then take the black and spray it down the back, and experiment with angle and distance to get the balck to fade down the sides of the bait. once you're satisfied with the white-black transition, put the spray paint down and pick up a paintbrush and the paint of your choice (make sure its compatible with the spray paint you used, i just use acrylic craft paint) and paint on the details, eyes, gills, shad spot, fins, whatever. that will give you a satisfactory shad paintjob and you will keep improving the more you do it. have fun.

those dark blue ones look GREAT!

lol yeah i told my friend "look, there's no need to use two hooks on this thing, i'm only putting one on". still had to use hook eyes as the hook hangers though ;D

why were the girls charged with second degree murder?

thats great they found him. as to why he ran away; (to make light of the situation) maybe he just really wanted some LEGO's ;D

saw an episode for the first time last night. i just don't see how its legal? i mean, how do they get away with doing all these shenanigans to the whalers? also, are the whalers operating illegally? if not, what gives the idiots the right to interfere with them? i don't know much background on the show.....but from one episode, i could tell the crew was a bunch of retards....

yeah i don't like nu-metal at all. just not my style.

they look pretty good from the outside at least lol. i would never have the patience to do all those upgrades to a reel. they must perform great!

i use the BPS brand duo-lock style clip for my crankbaits (with braid) and haven't had issues.

DD22, lipless crank, and spro 4" can all be fished on a medium or medium heavy rod. for the two larger swimbaits you'll want a heavy rod. 50lb braid for all of the above