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Broken Crankbait Lip Repair!

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While shore fishing the other day, i came across this poor lure with no lip or hooks or anything on it but a really clean body. So i brought it home and look at it on how im going to repair it and saw that one of my rapala's had a very soft plasticky lip and thought i can use something similar! I had some clear styrene plastic from car model building and used that as a lip. I didnt get any before photos as i didnt think about it. Started off dremeling the excess off the old lip that was still there to give me a nice base to work with. After that, i simply drew a lip on the styrene and cut it and glue it on with cement. here is how it look with no shaping or sanding.

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While waiting for the lip to dry, i went ahead and added some feathers to the rear treble.

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once the cement dried, i used the dremel to shape the lip more evenly and eventually sand it off. heres the full shot.

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closer shot of the lip.

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now just waiting to go try it out and see how it swims!

  • Global Moderator

Looks very nice! If that works I have a LC 1.5 and a couple others I'm going to send you lol (no really). :D

  • Author

it actually swims really really nice. just have to shave it slightly as it swims to the left when reeled in fast. which isnt a problem with me as i use this as a jerk bait.

i have tried searching everywhere and can anyone identify this lure?

  • Global Moderator

Looks like a cheap Renegade minnowbait to me. Wal-Mart usually has them in a dump bin for a couple bucks but I've seen a bunch of fish get caught on those cheap baits.

  • Author

it ended up being a cotton cordell lure. the lip looked very similar to mine!

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