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This. Is. Awesome. I bet it's about the right size for great white sharks and orcas.

There is a rattle can rainbow trout clipped at the bottom this pic. It is also in pic 2 at the top. What I do is: 1. paint+primer flat white base coat on whole bait 2. pearl mist on belly with belly directly facing nozzle. Sometimes I skip this and keep the white bottom for stained water. 3. You can use a fine mesh here for scales if you want. Metallic silver or Shimmer Metallic silver (Krylon) with back(top) of the lure facing nozzle at slight angle so the paint hits the shoulder and fades down the sides. Give a good dry time here. 4. Use low adhesion masking tape to mark a stripe area down each side of the bait. Spray a few light passes in pink. I found a can of ‘English rose’ color that makes a good rainbow trout stripe. Here you can also do something like paint the stripe purple, keep tape on and let dry, apply mesh, and hit same are with pink so you get purple and pink in the stripe. 5. Spray the back of the bait with a green with the center of the back directly facing the nozzle. The top will get hit and fade onto the shoulder. I have used army green, camo green, dark olive, forest green. 6. Dot with black or purple Sharpie. Or hand dot with small brush. I have used small cans of Rustoleum here because I have a bunch of them. 7. Optional- you can do another light pass of the green on the back here to blend in the shoulder dots a touch. 8. Optional- hit the sides with a quick light pass of Krylon Glitter blast in gold or silver. Keep the nozzle a bit further away from the bait. Only looking for a light dusting here. I do a practice spray away from the bait to gauge the spray flow so I don’t cover the paint job in glitter. I have done a bunch of rainbow trout baits. I sometimes change the colors a bit depending on what I have and what is on sale. It is easy but there is some drying time in between steps. You can use a hair dryer to speed this up if you keep the coats light.

swim video?

Work. Of. Art. I think I need it lol. just to umm... Yaknow, to do some prototype testing...

Does that blade chatter well with that big lure body on it? Excellent catch!

Got munched!

Thanks...this is my first attempt at a big thread fin

Looks good man!

This bait was made for the lure contest but I thought it was open through the end of April rather then closing on the 29th. so I hope you enjoy this bait here instead. It is a sunfish glide bait bade from colored pencils.

Thanks gentlemen!

Still a cool looking swimbait and would be interested in see some of your other work. But if I remember you won with this same lure last year

Wayyy better than what I was making at 15 haha…nicely done!

Exceptional work Ryan. Your stuff is so clean and well done.

Awesome Sauger Pattern!

Thanks both! Fishin Big: it's cunningly designed to scare off the smaller fish and only catch the big, tough ones.

Wow... Your spoon/spoonplug type baits never cease to amaze me!

The sheer depth of this paint job is really nice...love it!

Not perfect, but the bait looks great! It's amazing how much information is on this site. So many people have so much experience. I've learned a bunch over the last couple years. My next jump is going to be into using an airbrush, as the finish is just so much higher quality looking. Did you airbrush this?

Thanks, yea totally use the idea. I'm definitely not the first one to do this! Honestly, I don't exactly make lures just to sell, but I made a few of these as gifts last year, and they were super popular. So I made more this year, and sold more than I could make before Christmas. You end up reaching a MASSIVE demographic of people who would never buy a lure, but know someone in their life who loves hunting/fishing. It makes a great gift for any "man cave".

More pumpkinseed cranks, this time with the turquoise applied with an airbrush over mesh. The fat one on the left has already caught a bunch of fish.

Almost didn't see the spider haha...looks sick!

I like it! Reminds me of a baby porcupine too

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

Don`t know what you did but the finished product looks good to me.

Cool!

oh my goodness! You're killing me!

Looks great!

Thank you! The scales are done with this little metal tube that I cut a section out of as shown. It doesn't require much pressure to make a good impression in the foil.

Looks great man!

Definitely. Thanks again man.

There it is! Bass beware the manatee bait!

Dude... The Megabass S-Crank isn't a very pretty crankbait, but that baby largemouth color is incredible and it really fits the shape of the bait, the gills, and the eye. Phenomenal! Do you clear with an epoxy like Etex, D2T, BSI, LureCoat, or TrueCoat? Or is it a KBS type clear?

Thanks...This is what the thread fin shad look like here. We call them "yellow tails".

Yes they are Lexan , Much appreciated and keep up the good work you are doing .

Love it...a piece of art

Clean!

Through wire, Lathed bodies, 1/8" hole . Leverage free swivel through body to front treble. Stainless.035 blade tooled to bend. Inserted in head, glued, then clear coat!

Really cool concept with the painted, realistic wings!

That's a killer bait! Very natural looking subtle fades. Well done!

Thanks! And yes, I can't look at the produce section without thinking about scale material. LOL! Some of the larger stuff for oranges etc. make great scales for musky lures.

Those all look great Mark! Barry

Oh that's gonna get eaten , well done sir

Looks great!

This is badass. Nice work on that blade.

This is awesome!!

I think it's so awesome that you're taking your passion for Christ and putting it with your love of fishing. I just respect that so much and think that's it's pretty awesome.

Really nice, good work

Bait looks good!

Looks awesome!

Thanks!! I changed the tail from wood to a medium soft tail.