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have you fished the bait up in the top right corner? ive been thinking about making something similar. What does the spinner on back do, flap like a flap tail? Does it make noise?

Is that a golden shiner pattern on the bottom, because It looks like it. How did you get the scales that clean? Did you just mist it a lot from a long way from the lure?

 

Braden

It looks like my local common carp. Just a shade darker than golden shiner. I painted the bait flat black on the back and sides. The belly is flat white. I hit the nose with a red. I wrapped the bait with a piece cut from a Walmart lingerie laundry bag with binder clips on the belly. Those bags have a thicker material which works well with rattle cans. The bag cost 1.88. Gives enough material for a dozen baits or so. I misted the sides with Rustoleum metallic copper from just over a foot away. A couple of light passes. Tail fin is cut with scissors from a brown silicone place mat. The brown is actually more of a brownish red but it was labeled brown.

I have fished the bait at the top right. It is a wake bait. It will go under a bit if I hold the rod tip low. The blade flaps. The back section tapers to a flat end. A small eye screw is at he top of the flat surface. A split ring connects a #5 Colorado blade. The blade flops around randomly and strikes the back of the bait. It sound like a few forks falling down a set of stairs, a lot of random pings. I also tried it with a swivel instead of a split ring. The blade would spin with some intermittent pauses but made less noise. I liked it with the split ring better.

I also made a one piece flat tail. It makes less noise. The jointed swimming action really gets the blade bouncing around.

I just noticed your signature toward the back of that firetiger jointed wake! Well done there!