Mouse Spoon
By diemai
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Here are some of my latest spoons , made for a lure swap .
Made my first ones of this kind about one year ago , redesigned after an old spoon model , I suppose , of German origin:? .
That one had a single tail of leather or also cord to resemble a swimming mouse , hence it's name , "mouse spoon" .
My own versions are not as curved and also larger , approx. 3 1/5" without tail(I also made 4" versions) , cut and shaped out of 1 millimetre thick stainless steel sheet .
Top lure was heated to glow to achieve its dark color(not clear to be seen on pic) , bottom spoon ist plain polished .
Center lure is painted in "glow-in-the-dark" color , all spoons have beads attached and double tails of nylon cord in contrasting colors , fixed onto the hooks with a shrink tube .
Obviously these spoons don't cast too distant and also don't run too deep compared to more compact models .
They are real "Slo-Mo" lures , need to be retrieved quite slow , then they would "edge" from one site to the other , causing quite a bit of vibration in the rod tip , swimming and tracking their tail in a snake-like manner:yes: .
A faster retrieve would cause the spoons to to swim with their cupping upward and flutter like a dolphin's tail , so a slow presentation with occasional drop-downs would be far more attractive .
greetz 
, diemai
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