.......been working on some more spoons !

Dieter,

How do you fish your "DinnerBell" spoons? Do you do a cast and retrieve, or more of a vertical jigging action?

And where did you find the holographic tape in that shape, or did you make a die to cut it yourself?

@ mark poulson

Just cast and retrieve , Mark , ocassional pauses to let the spoon drop to bottom again and variations of retrieve speed , little twitches , etc .....!

Just try it out in clear water at boatside to see , how it would act ,.... everything works , from a slow , moderate wiggle to a short speed dash to break out sideward .

It has one drawback , which is that sometimes(approx. every 10th cast) the hook tangles into the wire form(the small "D" shaped limiter surrounding the closure tubing) .

This obviously does not happen whilst casting , but as letting the lure drop back to bottom the hook drops into the spoons cupping with its points pointing to the rear , so sometimes they tangle this way .

But I also see this as the reason , that this lure model never did snag up as often as other spoon models , .....I have only lost one of these so far , and I frequently do tie them on !

The foil cut-outs I have marked with a cardboard template on the backing of the foil and cut out with scissors .

That cardboard template I have made after the production marker template of aluminium sheet ,...... I just made another marker line a bit to the inside of that aluminium's template outline to achieve the smaller template for the foil .

greetz , Dieter;)

I have used the cast and retrieve, letting it fall to the level of the bait fish. I did have the hook/wire tangle once in a while, but it's not bad at all. The lake I fish have really rocky, snaggy bottoms, so I don't let it fall all the way down. Too precious to take a chance like that.

The threadfin shad have moved back into the coves, and are starting to come up to the upper part of the water column, so now's the time the DinnerBell should shine.

I'll use the aluminum template like you said to make a template for the prism tape.

Thanks for the advice.