Inspired by spoopa

About one week ago TU club member spoopa had uploaded some of his dad's homemade "Trout Killer" spoons , and I really liked their design with the wider rear portion in terms of a good casting performance:yes: .

After my memory I made an initial sketch at work and afterwards an aluminium template to mark the blank's outline on the stainless steel sheet material ,..... but I still wanted them to be just a little wider than spoopa's examples .

So well , I have cut out and shaped four stainless and two copper spoons for the start , only this two shown are done so far , since I'm gonna decorate the other ones with paint , foil and glitter flakes , which does take a longer working process than only polishing and annealing like I did these .

At first I have made the cupping a little less prounounced , but after a first bath tub test of the first blank I have found the spoon not to be working too well , at slow and medium retrieve speed it tended to spin too much , it simply did not run stable and would not wobble sufficiently .

So I have curved and cupped the rear end a little more and hammered all the other blanks into the same shape as well ,.... at a second test they turned out to wiggle a lot better .

Only at very slow retrieve pace they would still spin , at a very fast speed they would turn over to swim like an airfoil and flutter up'n'down like a dolfin's tail fin ,...... but that is alright for me , since the medium speeds do cover my fishing demands for pike perfectly .

Probably tomorrow I'm gonna give them the first swim outdoors , if the weather won't get too bad .

Anyway , ...thanks a lot for your input , Jacob ,..... guess , that this one could become a successful addition to my lure armory .

greetz , diemai:yay: