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Dang. This place has changed over the years. Managed to reawaken the old itch to both fish and build lures recently, and figured I'd see if TU was still kicking. It is, but...man, ten years is a long time. This place is much, much quieter, though I'm glad to see a number of names I do recognize still floating around. Time unfortunately has not been kind to internet forums in general, particularly specialized ones like TU. Too much commitment to long-term conversations...heh. A few of the long-standing members may remember me. Been about ten years since I was active on here to any real extent, and it's been just as long since I did any lure building (or fishing, for that matter). A bit of water under the bridge since then. Quick synopsis: Got married, had two kids, changed jobs several times until finally finding a good one I can stick with for the foreseeable future; bought a house for the first time almost a year ago to the day, and now my son is old enough that he wants to go fishing. One thing led to another with that, and I've actually started carving and painting again. Just collected most of my old lure-making stuff from storage and with a considerable amount of shock discovered how much crap I actually have. (Side note: unmixed Envirotex Lite has a shelf life less than ten years. Don't know how long, but less than ten years. Can confirm.) Now my son is in love with my old lures and stuff, so that's some fairly strong motivation to get back to it. He found an old swimbait I never finished that he's begging me to paint, and to make it blue, so that's going to be a project. Beyond that, not really much point to this except to say hi. So...Hi. Tight lines all!

Weight play a bigger role than people think for rat baits. I just made a Mickey Mouse bait and spent hours trying to tune it get it to run strait and the whole problem was not enough weight.

Carmens soft plastic supplies will have bait plastics in a month or so, Browndog's custom tackle also has BP which is of industry standard. why waste your money on no name rubbish from TS? Unless you wish to fund his meth addiction. All you guys have talked about no chemical company in Australia that makes lure grade plastisol which is correct. Yet TS claims his "pretty good" plastisol is wholly Australian made ? Makes one wonder

Hi, Move your line tie down just in front of the lip. You'll get a lot more wiggle.