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7" minnow crank

diemai

By diemai

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I have had this one laying around unpainted in my shop for almost two years now , so finally I got done with it !

Made of halfround pinewood dowels , glued together with waterproof wood glue with an internal harness inbetween the two halves .

For flush and steady positioning of the halves during shaping the lure I had temporary tacked them together with some toothpicks acting as pins through crosswise bores ,.....these pins I also utilized when finally bonding the two parts .

The harness I had lead through the upper portion of the lure , so that I would gain space for weight holes at the belly to balance the lure blank after its final assembly .

Now it has two weights fore and aft the rear belly hook hanger , this might enhance its casting performance , which is usually quite problematic on this type of lure due to the big metal lip .

Could not check for diving depth at my pond-tests yesterday ,since that pond is quite shallow , but being quite buoyant , I assume the lure to dive only 8 to maximum 11 feet .

It has a pronounced body roll and wiggle , that obviously causes quite a stirrup in the water .

I hand-painted the lure with "Revell" modelmaking enamels , trying to achieve a "zander"(walleye) pattern , topcoated with two of each layers of acrylic clear , epoxy and finally modelling dope clear .

greetz , diemai:yay:

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JBlaze

Diemai, That is a good looking lure. That is pretty impressive, to get that much depth from a high floater. I like the curved lip also. Did you make it from Aluminum or Stainless. The paint scheme looks good too.

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diemai

@ JBlaze

Thanks a lot , John :yes:, but the diving depth is only estimated so far , but 8 feet on a long cast is certainly realistic , trolled a bit more , off course .

I do not utilize homemade stainless steel lips , they seem to be way too heavy , also the shaping takes considerably longer than aluminium ones .

Most likely for medium and larger lures I take 1,5 millimetres aluminium sheet(gathered heaps of scrap pieces at my work) , these lips seem to hold up against bigger fish well , even if the line tie is placed through the lip only(a friend of a friend once caught a 5 feet 4" silure on one of my baits in Spain , without having the lip/line tie deformed) .

Only on smaller lures I'd go down to 1,0 millimetres for weight reasons , but won't trust these with a tow eye attached straight to them .

greetz, diemai:yay:

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