9" Predator Pattern Twitchers

look good, how deep do they run?

Nice Pike and Muskie! Looking good man.

Nice looking baits. Great stencil work with the rattle cans. Interesting strategy on the territory theory, I think that it could be very effective. Those style crank baits are catchers for sure, my favorite.

Thanks for the nice words guys. I'll be honest willie525, I have no idea how deep they run because I have yet to cast one. I've tested the bouyancy in a bucket of water and that's about it. I plan to pitch them in a friend's pool this weekend so I'm pretty excited about that. My guess is 5 - 7 feet casting and about 10' trolling.

Pete and StoneCoal, thanks for your support. You 2 have a lot of great baits in your galleries, which give me great ideas and pushes me to try harder.

-Don

Great looking lures. Something like it might work really well in the marsh down here. I might try to copy your pattern.

Excellent looking baits Don, very crisp, clean stencil work.

Pike patterns are pretty popular here in the UK and personally I have found them very effective. No idea whether it's a territorial thing but they will definately catch fish.

Thanks Esoteric,

I hope this bodes well for me here in the states, too. Are you catching mainly pike and pickeral on the pike patterns there?

Northern pike and zander (walleye) are the only big freshwater predators we have over here. Along with a few smaller predators such as perch, chub, trout etc. No zander near me so I mainly catch pike on the pike patterns. If a lure is available to buy in pike pattern then that is usually the colour I will get.