Rework and repaint

Great looking work Mark,I especially like the brown one.It looks like a factory made,kinda reminds me of a Sebile Majic Swimmer that I painted for a guy except for the dots.Maybe you should think about selling some.I have yet to try a swimbait but you keep this up and I am going to have to..Rob

Slick looking bait!

Rob and StoneCoal,

Thanks for the kind words.

Once again, I was just happy to be able to save a lure that didn't work. In this case, it started out as a big punker that was really hard to work because it was so heavy.

My first attempt at jointing it failed, because I made the joints too tight. After staring at it hanging over my bench for a year, I finally took it down, took it apart, reworked the hinge joint to make them more free, and repainted it with larger eyes.

It swims well now, and is a great slow retrieve, wounded trout lure.

I really don't want to sell the lures I make. I don't want the warranty headaches and deadline hassles, and, since I've copied some of the most popular lures (lunker punker and triple trout), I wouldn't feel comfortable passing their designs off as my own for profit.

But this design, coming, as it has, through a long, painful process of trial and error, is mine. It's just too much work to do as a production deal.

I still have one more of them hanging there, waiting for me to get up the courage to attack it.

I think I'll cut it up and make a 5" wood spook out of it. At almost 2ozs, it would throw a mile.

With all the wide S type wobblers out there, the more subtle action will certainly have its day, especially when the lake is flat.

Dean

Dean,

I'm hoping you're right. A friend of mine won a big tournament with a kicker 10lb. bass on a twitch bait trout. It can be deadly in late winter, early spring, when the bass are on deep shad, but the big girls are coming up to sun, and shop for trout.