jointed lures

That's a lot of joints! Nice work!

Dean

Boy guys in Cali love JOINTS!!! Put that up your pipe and smoke it.. or is it smoke that up your butt and pipe it.. SORRY IM HIGH AGAIN!!!!

Rookie, How long have you been paintin this stretch, 14 straight hours or some such? You need to take some oxygen breaks--you're going to be the first know case of Createx Brain...or did you and T-Hog just clearcoat 400 baits with that new fancy automotive clear?? Oxygen!!

Sorry Mark, but I'm his "Lure Advisor". What kind of weight does that monster have? Have you fished it yet? The bait has really nice symmetre to it, doesn't look chopped-up like you'd think maybe a 5 piece bait might. Good chunk of work!

Dean

I see someone's been busy. Swimbaits galore. Nice.

Thanks guys.

Rookie, I just got home from sharing a bottle of Merlot with a friend over a great Italian dinner, and it warmed my err.... heart to read your comments. We were just talking about great trips we'd taken in the past with the aid of, shall we say, pharmaceuticals. Must be a SoCal thing.

Dean,

The lure is actually 11 1/2" nose to tail (9 1/2" of wood). It's a floater, and weighs 178 grams with 1/0 Owner hooks. I have another swimbait, a 9 1/2" plastic from Tru Tungsten, the Matt Newman trout, that weighs about the same, but, somehow, mine seems easier to throw. I do not throw it all day! Even our Governor, Arnold, would be whipped after a day of throwing a swim bait that weighs 6 oz.

But it swims like a snake, better than the TT Trout, and I'll throw it when it's blowing and overcast before I'll throw the TT. Don't tell Matt Newman! He loves his bait, and I see him throw it all the time.

I made it out of poplar.

May a big trout-fed to the max California Mama Bass be yours! Keep that bait wet & it should happen! (...I thought that tail looked familiar:wink:)

Dean

Dean,

The tail on that lure is actually a Scott Witmer triple trout large replacement tail.

Captnsully has poured some of the med. and small tails that I actually think are better. The plastic is a little stronger, so they stay on the spring better, and hold up to a day's fishing without getting as torn up.