28 minutes ago, BlakeMolone said:

Yup, turned out to be a great little underspin too! Sprue removal on that mold has been a nightmare for me for some reason though.

Yeah, i find gate shears only cut half the sprue and twisting off to be the best. 
and i added an underspin wire to mine too. Are you bending your own wire or did you get prebent? 

On 12/29/2024 at 12:13 AM, Bdnoble84 said:

Yes its the walleye head. In a way yes just because its already coming to a point so if i just cut it with side cutters it will create a wedge. I prefer working them off with pliers then i hit em with a file.

 

 

Try turning the side cutter upside down as it will have a flatter edge instead of the wedge. 

 

Allen

12 hours ago, Bdnoble84 said:

Yeah, i find gate shears only cut half the sprue and twisting off to be the best. 
and i added an underspin wire to mine too. Are you bending your own wire or did you get prebent? 

Very nice man!  Yes I use the do-it wire forms, the smallest size, I believe the number is 375? 

7 hours ago, BlakeMolone said:

Very nice man!  Yes I use the do-it wire forms, the smallest size, I believe the number is 375? 

Oh cool. I’ve just been rolling my own from .031 or .029 

Started making some Black/Blue creature baits.

 

 

Little winter project. Learning how to paint and foil baits.
 

 

It's been a while since I posted any new stuff, but I'm still making baits when time allows. Here is my latest swimbait and a first for me using poplar wood. It's a 7" foiled golden shiner that has a slow/medium sink rate. 

 

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

A-Jay

 

20 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

A-Jay

 

Those remind me of an episode of In Fishermen where Doug Stange removed the dressed treble hooks from a Terminator in line spinner bait and added a weighted swim bait hook. I’ve yet to try it out but I keep thinking one day I will. Yours however look homemade and very well done at that 👍🏻

57 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

A-Jay

 

I use those all the time to catch steelhead.  Well, the original anyways.

38 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

Those remind me of an episode of In Fishermen where Doug Stange removed the dressed treble hooks from a Terminator in line spinner bait and added a weighted swim bait hook. I’ve yet to try it out but I keep thinking one day I will. Yours however look homemade and very well done at that 👍🏻

You Sir are CORRECT.

That is exactly where I first saw this rig.

These are #5 Blue Fox spinners.

Initially tried them with a Sebile Magic swimmer with mixed results.  

Expect the paddle tail to be better.

A-Jay

Just now, A-Jay said:

You Sir are CORRECT.

That is exactly where I first saw this rig.

These are #5 Blue Fox spinners.

Initially tried the with a Sebile Magic swimmer with mixed results.  

Expect the paddle tail to be better.

A-Jay

What depth are you planned on targeting with the weighted hook?  I think I am really going to try this.  I have so many of those in size 5.  Most are chartreuse though.

1 hour ago, Rockhopper said:

What depth are you planned on targeting with the weighted hook?  I think I am really going to try this.  I have so many of those in size 5.  Most are chartreuse though.

The only time I'm really able to effectively target the bigger pike

is when them come shallow(er) early & late season.

Seems they follow the food (carp in this case) into the same water's I'm fishing for brown bass.

So 10-12 ft less with surface water temps @65-ish.

Fishing over submerged weeds and especially in & around the bare spots (sand) on a large weed flat

is almost always part of the deal. 

Be real interesting if a big brown bass takes a poke at this thing. 

A-Jay

 

28 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Be real interesting if a big brown bass takes a poke at this thing. 

I wouldn't put it past them.  Downsized a bit might actually do pretty well against the smallies.  I have a bunch of tiger musky near me.  I think I will make up a size 5 and a size 6.  I have a gut feeling this might work really well.

18 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:

I wouldn't put it past them.  Downsized a bit might actually do pretty well against the smallies.  I have a bunch of tiger musky near me.  I think I will make up a size 5 and a size 6.  I have a gut feeling this might work really well.

Good Luck.

Not Tigers, but there's a few musky lurking around the same 

areas of Lake Menderchuck as well.

A-Jay

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

A plus size take on an old favorite. 

I'm calling it the Pike Beater.

A-Jay

 

 

One of the guys in the local musky groups does something similar.  He's using a big mepps and 5-7" keitechs with a weighted swimbait hook replacement like that.  The big ones are a mepps giant killer plus a 6.8 on a 3/8 10/0 hook.  That will come in close to 3 oz total in the end.  It's a 9-10" bait in the end.

11 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

One of the guys in the local musky groups does something similar.  He's using a big mepps and 5-7" keitechs with a weighted swimbait hook replacement like that.  The big ones are a mepps giant killer plus a 6.8 on a 3/8 10/0 hook.  That will come in close to 3 oz total in the end.  It's a 9-10" bait in the end.

This unit is less than that in length & weight.

While I am looking forward to throwing this one around.

It will be more of a 'let's see what happens' deal than anything else.

Who knows, I might get surprised.

A-Jay

36 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

This unit is less than that in length & weight.

While I am looking forward to throwing this one around.

It will be more of a 'let's see what happens' deal than anything else.

Who knows, I might get surprised.

A-Jay

 

good luck!  The smaller ones he throws (we also have a lot of smaller tiger muskies) are probably closer to that.  With a 4.8 keitech and a musky killer I think he's coming in around 6 1/2" and around 1 1/2 oz. 

 

I bet with a big spunk shad on the back you could really burn it back.  That feels very bassy for covering big flats.

A-jay got the creative juices flowing for me so I made some inlines. In the past, i really struggled to get blades going on the smaller sizes. I deconstructed an old mepps #3 and weighed out the brass weights. I realized i’ve been overweighting them and they werent balanced properly to get the blade to spin easily. Reduced the weight and everyone of these start pretty easy.

Third foil job done. By third I mean third completed. Lots of failed trial and error in between.

On 2/20/2019 at 5:13 PM, Munkin said:

Over 100 views and nobody has anything to share? I know there are more than 4 people on this forum that make baits. 

 

Allen

I received a warning simply for responding to a forum where i saw people asking why i paused my company for a while. All i did was respond that i was deployed. Didnt even advertise or anything smh🤷‍♂️ 
Id share some things, but i dont wanna get banned lol

Some wire baits

Gonna resurrect this thread with a couple baits. The first one was a super sick suspending jerk bait I made. The action was super cool, I really liked the color scheme, and then I casted it into a rock and broke it in half. (My fault for using a piece of wood with the grain running the wrong way.) It was cool while it lasted. 

 

 

 

And crankbait I just finished this morning. Gonna take it to the pond and see if I can catch something on it. I have mixed feelings about the paint scheme. I was going for a bluegill type paint job, but I was limited with color, and I'm doing everything by hand with paintbrushes. But I've seen bass eat worse color patterns than this. 

 

I made this earlier before lunch...  I had an idea about the famous Mepps Aglia in a Size 2 paired with a Size 6 dressed treble hook.  I got creative with my own unique design, and took some red prism tape and made a simple chevron pattern on the french spinner blade.  Looks pretty cool in the water, testing it out in the 86° summer sun at a public fishing pier.  🥵

Another touch of fishing lure creativity, since we have a 102° heat index outside!

I was probably thinking about famous Walleye down deep in Lake Erie, or massive Lake Trout up in the Adirondacks, I don't know... But I came up with this design.  Hopefully the local Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass will hit it too! 😎

Recipe:
4" wire shaft.
1/4" glass bead
9/32" red glass bead
#3 clevis and Size 3 brass French spinner blade
9/32" red glass bead
two 11/32" red glass beads
and one last 9/32" red glass bead.
Finish with a Size 6 treble hook with red plastic covering.