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Lapala, You need bigger hooks or more slim flat side baits. If you look at my Ty-Jack lure?s that is the main reason I made my tail so thin is if a fish hits the bait, it is hooked. What size hooks are you using? -Corey

Lapala, If you would like it tuff as you can get. Yes sand the acrylic and use 2-ton epoxy. Use an epoxy as sealer, paint and then top it off with an epoxy. -Corey

out2llunge is right, dremel also has an attachment that you can make a flat bottom like a router. I use a router on my musky lures that are 7? long. It works nice but when the bit gets dull it starts to jump and chip the wood. So if you do use a router keep your bit sharp, and yes a sharp bit will cut fingers faster. So your better option is have your bonehead friend router your lures and tell him you will finish sand your and his lures in trade. -Corey Drumel part numbers. Dremel 565 Multi Purpose Cutting Kit 565D And Dremel 692D 6 Pc Router Bit Set

I use laundry bags sold at Wal-Mart in the cleaning supplies. I need bigger scales for my musky lures. They are about 2.00 per bag. -Corey

Sorry, the links work now. Thanks -Corey

Wes, that touched home. That was how my grandpa was with my dad my dad was with me. Now it is my turn, please look at the photo. That was my best day musky fishing. Yes I have caught much bigger fish but that is my 4-year-old firs musky. I made an 8x10 for his room, but he had to put it next to dad big fish in the living room. That is the first thing he will do is show it off when some one comes over. That is how I came up with my name for my muskie lures, my two boys Tyler and Jackson. (Ty-Jack) www.candtsupply.com/Pictures/Ty1.jpg www.candtsupply.com/Pictures/ty2.jpg Sorry, the links work now. Thanks -Corey

I have a couple of ideas of things we can do with the auction proceeds. (#1) We can have kids form selected groups. Like big brothers big sisters, make a wish, and any group that will permit us. Have the kids submit a little letter telling us why they would like to go fishing. Post all the letters on our web page up for a vote. The winners get a guide for a day fishing trip for them and 3 family members. (#2) Do the same thing but take it a little further. See if we could get a TV outdoors host to step-up to the plate. I know of two that more than likely would help us out. They have done shows in the past like this. We would likely just have to get them there and back home. (#3) Buy fishing gear and tackle for a place like big brothers big sisters, so that they have it and can take the kids out. One incentive we can have is the person that has the top sale $$ total from the auction get the chance to chose from the approved charity. And/Or the charities form his hometown. Or maybe the wheelchairs lift on the public dock of his choice. That would be great at a dock that I launch at. I have seen and helped an older man that is in a wheelchair. Help his two girls get him out of the boat and on the dock in the wheelchair. This is not easy, and would be impossible if it was a bigger boat. Jed, I love what you are doing. Let me know if you need any help, I love doing this! The last four years I helped and the past two years I ran our Duluth, MN Muskie Inc. chapter youth fishing outing. I will tell you this, that is the coolest thing you can do. This year I had a kid that had Muscular Dystrophy in my boat. (I sorry I just got a tear in my eye thinking about it, and the things he said to me. ) Fist off I had two kids in my boat and we caught 7 walleye that night. This kid caught the biggest fish from the group of 10 kids a nice 26? fish. After he caught that fish he turned and said, ?you are probable not having fun you have not caught a fish.? I asked him if he is having fun he told me, ?yes.? Than I told him, ?I beet you he is not having as much fun as I? am.? I would give up any fishing trip if I could take a kid like this out. I get so much more thrill in watching someone like this catch a fish. I would have to put it up there with catching your personal best. Thanks all of you -Corey PS. Jed, count me in.

Out2llunge is correct, the wire diameter is (.092). This is the size I use in all my muskie lures. I looked at there eyehooks once, and they have the same as Moore?s Lures. That number is the inside diameter of the eye. (.154) This is biggest I have seen form suppliers in Stainless Steel. -Corey

Tally, I love your red eyes. How are you doing them? Those thing stands out. That is what I look for when I put on eyes. Thanks -Corey

Sorry I did not think it posted when I had to read the new TU policy and rules. ?Sorry? "Delete" -Corey

Here is another thing that I will add, it is proven the color you paint your lure is generally not the color the fish in seeing underwater. Here is a book that I recommend reading. ?What Fish See.? Understanding optics and color shifts for designing lures and flies By: Colin J. Kageyama. This is an excellent book and a must for lure builders. You can get it at http://www.thornebros.com/muskie/books_videos/books.html . Someone brought up that looking through an aqua-vu the key thing he seen was the eye. This is light gathering from your infrared LED?s and reflecting like when you drive at night and see deer or raccoon eyes. Their eyes are deferent from humans their eye will gather more light so that the fish can see in the dark. The under water camera is just catching that reflection. Also someone brought up slower baits have to look more real. In my opinion I don?t think so. I think when you slowdown your presentation, the key is making the fish think it is live and real. How many people have seen bass or bigger fish in an aquarium with baitfish swimming around? That baitfish will swim as far away and as fast as it can when a bigger fish comes close. So say we are fishing for bass and you are running a crank bait real slow and a bass comes up to your bait that fish will pickup that it is not natural for it not to try to getaway before the color will give it away. If anything I believe that the non-natural color will help! Saying that is might think it is some thing that it has not seen before. You know what killed the cat. I also believe if you get the fishes attention like that you have a real good chance you can get that fish to eat. Just keep changing direction of your bait and speeding up your lure every once in awhile. Also I have never see one lonely baitfish also swim in a straight-line. Just like it you?re fishing a plastic worm on a dead stick that is not going to out perform one that is moving natural. I have never seen a night crawler yellow or some of the colors we have today and we work them slow. I hope this helps somebody. I know it is not 100% accurate if I were I would have gills. Thanks -Corey

cheesehead I will try to get some up on Monday I use this lure for Lake Trout, Salmon and Walleye. I have not used it on my lures yet. Like I said if you see the pattern, you would think it would not catch fish. So I have not had any one ask for it. All it is purple with a bright yellow tail, yellow eye with black dot. -Corey

Tally, I have a stick bait that is a custom paint job that I use on Lake Superior. This lure has a kill spot a little deferent than a shad dot. It is an all purple lure with a yellow tail. I don?t care how many poles we set, it is always on one of the lines. We only have two lures that we will never take off and this is one. Some days we run two or more. If you look at the lure you would say it wouldn?t catch fish. But put it in the water and run it beside the boat and you will see why they can?t resist it. This is my option what is happening. (One) The brake in the contrast caches the fish?s eye. I would suggest trying deferent colors, like white or yellow some thing that stands out. I have a walleye pattern that is probably my best lure I have. It is a dark bait that has a white tail. When you run it you can see that white tail coming from a mile a way. (Two) If you go and buy some minnows, just look at them many of them will have a defect, a lump, a bump, or a color dot. When game fish are growing up the find out they cant swim in a school of bait fish and expect to catch one. They find out that they have to hone in on just one. It may be one that is all alone or one that has that sort of mark that it can hone in on. I have given many seminars where I tell people that I love it when baitfishes are following my lure. You know what, I almost always get someone that will say, ?if you have all that baitfish following your lure how do you get the fish to eat your lure instead of one of the baitfish.? That is very easy when the game fish shows up all the baitfish take off and what is the fish going to hone in on, that is it your bait that is all alone and did not fallow all the other baitfish. That is why I always say the nice good-looking natural baits are for one thing, hooking fisherman. The ones that will catch fish have to catch the fish?s eye not yours. If you look at a fish the way fish do, they are that color for one reason camouflage. So instead of trying to reproduce a fish?s camouflage, take the key factors and work around that. Take a baby bass it has that horizontal doted line. If your fishing a clear lake paint it natural, but put the doted bass line white or yellow some thing that stands out in your lake. The line will make it mach the hatch but with a deferent twist, it will bring in fish from a farther distance and they will now see your lure. Here is another thing that I have done is paint a lure upside down. This is nothing new, what is happing is you are turning the camouflage agents the bait. If you look at a fish it is light on the bottom and dark on top. It is this way for a reason and that is if you look up the sky is light and down at the bottom of the lake it is dark. This is for camouflage from fish and birds. So to sum your question Tally, I guess I could put in two words, (internal instinct or natural reaction). ?Sorry for the book? -Corey Karren Ty-Jack www.tyjack.com

I would like to see the gold one up close. That is a very nice bait, what am I saying they all are nice baits. A lot better than my first bait. You could not pay me enough to post my first lure I made. Keep at it. -Corey

Skeeter When you start with a new bait, how do you establish how much lead to use as a starting point? Thanks -Corey

Tally Are you using any sealer under it or just the plasti-kote primer? Thanks -Corey

That is what I need for my sander!! Add two holes and attach two gloves so the whole thing is enclosed. Thanks AlamOso -Corey

Richoc is right! In some lakes I can?t catch the eyes unless I drift using a crawler harness. You might have to use a drift sock. Drifting is a very good way you can catch the bigger walleyes. -Corey

Thanks Will and Red. Will how big is the lures that you are doing for the striped bass. I am trying to make a muskie lure that is about 8? with out the tail and about 2? wide this is a big lure. Red now that you brought it up I think, no I know you?re correct. I think the wood is sucking in my entire release agent and the plaster is sticking to the lure. Like I said thanks for all the help! I bet I have gone through about 5 or 6 boxes of plaster without a good mold. Thanks -Corey

Thanks Red I don?t think it is preventing the plaster from curing properly around the master. When I try to remove the master it don?t wont to come out. Then I force it out and the mold will crack come a part and crumble. I have not coated the wood with any thing other then what I said. Thanks -Corey

I have used KY jelly, Vaseline, Pam cooking spray and vegetable oil I was going to try gear lube. The master is made of, wood. I make the master copy lube it up and put it in the bottom of a Rubbermaid container. Spray Pam spray allover everything. Mix the plaster I start with a spoon so everything is getting a coat. When the master is hidden under the plaster I will pore the rest of the mixed plaster. Thanks for your help. -Corey

I would love to know what I am doing wrong when I make plaster molds. I made one this weekend that did not turn out. Everyone that I have made I can?t get the template out off the mold. I have tried every thing to lube it up. I even tried taking it out when it has not setup all the way and it will take some of the plaster with it. Thanks -Corey

What if you put in a bigger valve and reduce it to a smaller size tip??? Just a thought Corey

When you use plaster what do you use for a release agent? I have tried every lube and oil you can think of and I still cant get the mold off the lure with out breaking the mold. Thanks -Corey

Nice work Conley!!! I don?t think it would standup with a 50? musky hitting it trolling at 4 MPH. That is what I am looking at in my baits. I think I might have to go one step and make it a through wire bait. Very informative pieces of work, clever move on gluing the template on the Lexan.