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IB�s Joker Bait

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One of my all-time childhood favorite superheroes is Batman, and so I thought I'd make a crankbait with Batman colors.  However, I realized that Batman's colors were a bit dull. I figured his archenemy's colors (green hair, purple attire, red lips and black eyes, etc.) might make for an interesting choice.

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I had a little assistance from the Bush and Obama jokers.

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I have no fish catching expectations with this one, but you never know.  Don't know when I'll get the chance to fish with it.

Painting Techniques:

What techniques??  I still don't have the skills yet.  Both an airbrush and hand brushes were used.  The airbrush was used for the green and the purple areas. The eyes and lips were done by hand brush.  The crankbait was intentionally painted roughly but unfortunately, the camera didn't capture those details.

Other:

The bait was carved and shaped from balsa and it has a through wire inside.  The top coat is Dev Con 2-Ton epoxy.

This crankbait was enjoyable to make.

-ib

Very cool man! 'You watch too much TV' lol. Nice to see some off the wall stuff every now and then. Fish might eat it just to get it out of the area....

Looks cool, I bet fish will eat that bait.   A little advice on the lip slot, cut it about another 1/16 deeper.   Give your lip a little more bite in the wood.   You can also make a totally different bait from that same body style buy cutting the lip slot at 20 degrees.     I look forward to seeing more of your baits.

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