....latest model "Creature Spoon"

Very interesting! I love the deep cupping. Let us know how it swims.

How about a yellow perch paint job?

Hey Dieter,

Those spoons look very interesting indeed. I would love to see how them guys swim in the lake, the bathtub works but not near as well as the lake or river does. Since I have been looking at this I am thinking what would happen if you put the line tie in the middle of the head of the spoon, like in between the eyes. I bet you could a more erratic action and have a diving spoon then:?, not for sure but im gonna go make one out of copper and see what happens. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks, Jacob

Hello Dieter, beautiful spoons!

I was thinking the same thing as Spoopa should keep it diving like the bib on a crankbait. Will be interesting to see how his turns out.

John

Thanks for your kind words and input , guys:yes: !

@ spoopa , @ JBlaze

I fact that plane head portion leaves some chances for experiments by altering its angle or line tie location .

Right now it is set in a way , that if laid on a plane surface it would sit flush with the tip of the tail on that surface.

When trying out the initial blank in my bath tub I had bent the head plane a bit to change its angle , and even a little change of angle altered the swimming behaviour visibly .

If the head plane would sit more into the direction on the cupping curve , the spoon would tend to wiggle more to a certain grade before overturning , .......if bent vice versa , creating an increasing kink between rear cupping and head plane , it rises to the surface much faster , the wiggle on slow retrieve decreases and probably the darting action on a jerk might increase .

Same think would probably happen , if the line tie was located about between the eyes:? .

You cannot utilize the principle of a crankbaits lip for spoons , it would not work the same way ,........simply because the spoon lacks one important feature ,.... which is buoancy .

You cannot make a spoon to run deeper with any kind of a lip , only simply the shape and weight of certain models make'em go deeper than others .

What you can do with a kinda a lip and/or head plane , is to let them rise up fast off the bottom or let them swim just below the surface(even if of higher weight) .

A line tie located a bit to the rear of the forward tip on any spoon(behind the "usual place") , lets the spoon rise up faster as well , thus it creates a kind of upward "diving bill"(or better said "rising bill")in front of it .

Such spoons might require a pronounced cupping and body curve to still achieve a sufficient wiggle , because such line tie configuration causes the lure to swim more or less tail down , the water pressure in this swimming position counterworks an easy wiggle generated by the curvature and cupping this way as if it would , if the spoon swam in an about parallel level to retrieve direction(line tie at nose tip) .

There are very few spoons of yesteryear around , employing such principle ,..... the only ones that I know , are the "Cohokie Spoon"(made some knock-offs years ago) and the famous "Helin's Swimmer Spoon" , the latter even has an interchangeable buoyant top part , you might say , that it is a blend of a spoon and a crankbait .

Also made two other weird spoon designs of my own having their line tie behind their nose tips , but I'm not too satisfied with these , .......one rises too fast and the other one casts in to unpredictable directions , .....thus haven't fished them much , though I once had a big zander(walleye) follow the latter one:huh: !

@ mark poulson

Mark , in fact I've never thought about , which kinda designs I'd paint on , only that I intend for one in "glow-in-the-dark" as well , but thanks for the advice , anyway !

Thanks again , . ....greetz , Dieter