sinking wiggler

Made this little dude(less than 5") after an old lure design by the D.A.M. , though it did not turn out to be an exact knock-off .

It has two belly weights in the first section to have it sink nose-down at almost 2 feet per second .

I intended from right from the start to fish it close to bottom in fall season , so that is perfect for me to get it down pretty fast to up to 45 feet !

It has a tight wiggle , wheras the first section only wiggles and rolls just a bit , but down the tail the sideward moves get more pronounced , even on slower speed .

Guess , that it could have quite an appeal on zander and perch jigged along the bottom ?

To paint the color pattern with my rattle cans I have utilized some pierced aliminium sheet , that I had found on the scrabyard of my work ,......normally such sheet is used to cover the ventilation inlets of electric circuit machinery parts .

These sheets are only 1 millimetre thick , I had cut stripes reasonably larger than the lure , clamped them in a vise , hung the lure on it and sprayed through .

These sheets can be bent for a perfect snug fit against the outer contoures of the lures .

Guess , that after some time of use the holes would become smaller getting covered with paint , but some sandblasting or steel-brushing would surely clean them up again .

The painting and especially topcoating of this one was quite a PITA , since after each and every painting I had to scrape off the paint from the tiny interconnecting wire eyes not to have them stuck entirely at the end !

greetz , diemai:yay: