Just some knockoff paints and yet another swimbait (been doing a lot of those lately ).

On the carp and bluegill baits in this batch, I did a few modifications. I rounded the bills on both of them, and I removed two weights from the bluegill and one from the carp. I'm going to see how they stack up to the standard knockoffs.

With the bluegill, I used b75nweav's bluegill pattern from "The custom bait paint thread" as my starting point, and then I messed with different colors until I got what I wanted.

My sister helped me with the catfish RC 2.5 knockoff and the swimbait. I had her draw a fish and then I turned it into the swimbait you see below. It's 3" long, weighs 1/2 oz, and sinks slowly. I think it's going to be a very good fish-catcher.

Let me know what you think.

Ben

very nice

that bluegill and golden shiner look very awesome!!

My favorites the bluegill. But I really like how you put a touch of white on the carp 

The frog and blue gill are killer!  the rest are cool too!  Great job

Ben that's a great looking batch of baits.

That frog pattern would be killer on a 1-minus type bait.

Thanks all you guys!

@ MarcDavid, I got the idea for the white gill plate from Tigger over on TU.  For those of you that haven't seen his work, let me tell you he is one of the best I've seen, period.  Unfortunately he hasn't been posting any more baits lately, but there are still a bunch of his baits in the gallery.  Here's a link to his gallery page: Tigger

Thanks for that link. That guy makes some HUGE baits. Awesome patterns too.