10" Foil Base Sucker

Hello

Maybe you need some weight under the belly. One weight in front of the front hookhanger and one in front of the second hookhanger. Just to get a low centre of gravity.

Try larger belly hooks before you butcher it.

You can often correct many performance problems without cosmetic damage. You can reshape the lip somewhat while it's still on the bait with a Dremel sanding drum to make it more symetrical. Adding ballast at the horizontal point where the bait balances might also help if you're under-ballasted. It may be just me, but I like the line tie to be larger in diameter and set down right on the lip's surface. That usually gets the most action out of a given bait configuration. Nice looking plug; hope you can get it working the way you want! Bad thing = it won't swim right. Good thing = now you get to do mods to see what makes a difference.

Pete, hope you get the bugs worked out of this thing but either way it is one nice looking sucker. I'm betting it would hang just fine in my contemproary lure collection!

I am happy to say that this bait now swims!!! Details are in the thread that is posted on the hard bait forum.

http://www.tackleunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9119

Thanks for the info and encouragement!!!