Underspins I am working on. 

 

Allen 

Painted this ride up Monday. Just ordered a big order with Alternative. Many new glides, swimbaits and crankbaits headed my way now. I am feeling a little more confident in my painting now. I have a new airbrush (gaahleri mobius 0.3) and it shoots great, so I’m enjoying painting a little more too!

 

This is a gill pattern (minus ear flap) on a carp glide. I was really just trying out new paints, airbrush and techniques. This was a clear blank that I didn’t put a basecoat on.

On 11/5/2025 at 10:47 AM, Smirak said:

Painted this ride up Monday. Just ordered a big order with Alternative. Many new glides, swimbaits and crankbaits headed my way now. I am feeling a little more confident in my painting now. I have a new airbrush (gaahleri mobius 0.3) and it shoots great, so I’m enjoying painting a little more too!

 

This is a gill pattern (minus ear flap) on a carp glide. I was really just trying out new paints, airbrush and techniques. This was a clear blank that I didn’t put a basecoat on.

That came out incredible! Loved that one  

On 10/25/2025 at 12:16 AM, Munkin said:

Underspins I am working on. 

 

Allen 

Is that a jig mold you modified to get the underspin wire to fit into? 

 

Underspins are such an underused lure for me. I really need to use them more. Looks great man  

Allen is into spin casting.  He probably can do a dozen of those under spins at a time.

7 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

That came out incredible! Loved that one  

Is that a jig mold you modified to get the underspin wire to fit into? 

 

Underspins are such an underused lure for me. I really need to use them more. Looks great man  

 

Spincast molds are left/right silicone molds so all I have to do is lay a wire in there. Only issue is if the head is not dead center of the mold the wire will not be in the center.

 

Allen

15 hours ago, Munkin said:

Spincast molds are left/right silicone molds so all I have to do is lay a wire in there. Only issue is if the head is not dead center of the mold the wire will not be in the center.

 

Allen

Totally forgot you did spincast molds. How long do the silicone molds last? They sound like they provide easy modification such as your underspins.

17 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Totally forgot you did spincast molds. How long do the silicone molds last? They sound like they provide easy modification such as your underspins.

 

Usually depends on the size of the baits. Smaller heads like 10k pours and the bigger ones  maybe half.

 

Allen 

Working out some final details on my new bluegill pattern. This is on a family of S-Cranks. Minus eyes. 

Looking good.

I don’t make my own lures, but here’s ‘my work’.

 

 

I’m kneeling. My station is half a block away. The building was under construction. A cabbie rang the station’s door bell and let us know the building behind us was on fire.

 

It went from one to five alarms in 10-15 minutes.

 

That was the third fire in that building. The second during my career. The picture below is before my time, somewhere in the ‘80’s.

 

On 11/19/2025 at 6:41 PM, Smirak said:

Working out some final details on my new bluegill pattern. This is on a family of S-Cranks. Minus eyes. 

 

Man, that's gorgeous work. Seriously, some of the best I've seen.

13 hours ago, Rucksack said:

 

Man, that's gorgeous work. Seriously, some of the best I've seen.

Thank you. I painted the little guy last night a little differently. I think I like the paint on the little guy better than the other three…

Some of the jigs I’ve been tying lately.

Top to bottom:

Sunfish ( to match a trailer I had).

Golden shiner

Redbug

Junebug Blue

Black Chartreuse 

Redshad

 

Another one.

Old school color Black Grape

 

Lov’n that old school grape @SC53!

@Jigfishn10 I know right. 
It was the go to color back in the day. 
can’t wait to throw it. 

1 minute ago, SC53 said:

@Jigfishn10 I know right. 
It was the go to color back in the day. 
can’t wait to throw it. 

Bomb.com right there!

 

Actually, love’em all TBH

Delete

7 hours ago, Rockhopper said:

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Huh🤷🏻‍♂️

Another one.

Mimics my most productive crankbait. 
Copper Green Shad. 

This is pre-eye and pre-clearcoat. 

Looks good!

First bait I've ever painted in my life. Used an old cheap lure I had to practice. I should order some blanks. 

 

 

And this was number two. Same deal. Old crap lure just practicing on. 

 

On 11/26/2025 at 10:08 AM, SC53 said:

Another one.

Mimics my most productive crankbait. 
Copper Green Shad. 

 

Never did very well on that color for some reason? Only color worse for me is chartreuse blue back. 

 

Allen 

5 hours ago, Munkin said:

 

Never did very well on that color for some reason? Only color worse for me is chartreuse blue back. 

 

Allen 

Could just be a Florida thing Allen.