i have started making a flat faced popper today.  i didn't take a picture of the beginning wood because it was piece of scrap wood that was free from tw perry (a wood shop) and i thought this project would be a complete failure , so far i'm wrong .   now the carved  bait looks like it was carved with a lathe its amazing and all i used was a dull pocket knife and the rotating part of a drill for some very light sanding. i will post pictures soon.  this bait is going to be for my dad because i just got him to give in and go night fishing (the earliest he let me wake him up was 3:25 but it was pitch black for about two hours and the lake is rather close.)  he litterally had a blast.  about 9 times with eleven landed on a jitterbug with a treble hand feathered by me.  i used a strike king midnight special and caught seven.  this happened in three and a half hours. we caght tons and one went about 6 or seven pounds (for some reason the scale didn't work.)  anyways i plan on painting the bait black.

sweet! glad the bait is working out. cant wait to see pics of it and some pics of bass you catch with it