My 1st Finished Lure

For this Lure I ran a .9mm wire through the whole thing. I made a seperate clip to sit in the bib, this makes it quite weak so the remake will improve this by having an eyelet out of the top of the actual lure not the bib. For placing the bib I cut out a fairly big bib and super-glued it into place and then drilled a hole through the top and placed a .11mm wire in it. This means no fish can pull the bib out without destroying the bib or even the lure.

I will need to purchase better glue for my next lure

Have you tried whether your lure does swim well ?

I may be wrong and I surely don't mean to make bad critics on your work:nuhuh: , just trying to help a bit:yes: .

It's hard to tell on a distance , but I guess , that this lure would not work .

In my opinion it seems to be quite flat-sided and thus probably does not have sufficient sideward stability to encounter the pressure on the big lip causing the lure to break out sideward too much .

Every crankbait has to break out sideward , but the force of the retrieved line also has to cause it to track back every time , thus the lure wiggles .

I assume , that your lure would just flip over on it's back and come back on the surface belly up .

Also the pointing downward tail adds to this tendency.

You may try to put some weight into the deepest part of it's belly to balance it , but I am afraid , that you cannot put enough weight and still keep the bait afloat .

I've been there , done that , a bigger deep diving lip and a curved downward tail on a flat lurebody don't match easily , they cause problems .

As you have stated , at first try making baits with their line tie on the body and with smaller shallow diving lips pointing more downward , these are easier to get to perform well .

To answer your questions about topcoating your lures , just do a search through the forums in here , utilizing the search option on top right side of page , there are tons of info around .

Just type in terms like "top coat" , "clear gloss" , "etex" , etc ........., for infos about beginner's luremaking type in "beginner" , "newbie" , "new to luremaking" ,etc..... , you will definetly find some discussions on those topics .

good luck , diemai

Being new here does not mean you cannot come up with new ideas. In fact, I love the shape of your lure, I have not seen yet something like this yet. I would say this is something between a fish and a frog.

Yes, it seems you have to learn alot about crankbait making. Buy yourself tons of pacience, if you do not have it, and read as much as you can on this forum. If you read half of the information you find here, you will become a master of crankbait making.

Diemai is right, the bigger the lip is compared to the body, the more difficult it is to tune the lure. So start making lures with relatively smaller lips.

Wellcome:)

They other guys are correct in the posts to your lure. I did the same and probably everyone who ever built a crankbait has too.

I do like your design. Very unique and looks like a big 'ol hawg would eat it up if it ran correct. Try to smaller bill and maybe even square it a bit. this will give a much tighter wobble and still dive nicely. If you are patterning a frog, they only dive around 2~4' anyways and tend to dart straight forward in the water with not much side to side action.

Keep it Up! You'll get there before you know it.

go4bas <}}}><

I know next to nothing about making lipped cranks, just what I've read here, but I would suggest you test the lure and see how it swims. Then post the results here.

The guys who commented above really do know their stuff, so I'd follow their advice on future lures.

But I'd try and use this lure for experimenting, like shortening the bill, and adding a screw eye for the line attachment in the nose of the lure.

Thomas Edison said, after he'd finally found a metal to work as a filament in his light bulb, "I did not fail a thousand times. I merely eliminated a thousand possibilities." Or words to that effect.

We all learn the most from our mistakes. Read up on lipped cranks here, and you'll shorten your learning curve.

Good luck.

Thanks guys for all you information. I now have a new lure uploaded where it is improved alot.

No I have tested this lure and it swims deep and has a wide action. It swims really well at high speeds aswell. I wanted a fairly big bib for diving deep where we tend to fish. We hit around the 6-8m mark when fishing. This lure does not swims sideways but perfectly straight.

Great tips and i will take them all in thank you guys, but this lure is of poor quality before I bought all of my gear like air brush, epoxy, polycarbonate/lexan and clear gloss.

If I was to redo this lure I would put a smaller bib to create a tighter action and not use it to troll the deeps of 6-8m but maybe for casting at banks where frogs would tend to be.