MR KNOW IT ALL KIND OF

MORE POWER TO YOU BROTHER!!! I remember Dad building a Barn out of Oak!!! Try hammerin a nail in that stuff!!! Your right its TUFF!! The Rookie

Heck if you really like that bait.. you can mold it.. just dont sell it.. you will get yourself in trouble for that.. but K.C.K... is leading you down the right path!! Good luck..

3 guys die and go to heaven... St. Peter asks them why are you guys here.. I dont have you on the list.. how did you die.. First guy says... "well St. Peter it's kinda like this." I was washing window's on the is 14th story Apartment building when my rope broke.. as luck would have it! I saw a open window and held on with all 10 fingers... The some SOB comes over and shuts the window down on my fingers so I let go.. but I got lucky again and fell right on top of a tarp over hangin the 2nd floor... Next thing I know a refridgerator comes flying out of the 14th floor and smashes me to my death!!" Wow..that's sum story.. St. Peter says.. So he asked the next guy.. How did you die.. "well St. Peter he says its kinda like this.... I was putting the key in my apartment on the 14th floor when I heard someone in the bedroom with my wife.." I was awful mad at the time and I started lookin for this man.. Next thing I know I see 10 fingers holdin on to my apartment window.. So I shut the window on his hands and I thought he was going to fall to his death.. but the sucker got lucky and landed on a tarp at the bottom of the 2nd Floor.. So I grab the fridge and threw it out the window.. my belt got caught on the handle and I fell with the fridge to my death!!" wow now that some story... Ok Ok St. Peter says.. I know how you 2 died.. as he looks at the last guy.. How did you die (GUY #3) well St. Peter.. it's kinda like this.. I was sitting a refridgerator minding my own business!!!!!! Sorry I cant answer that question at the moment Im sitting in a refridgerator mindin my own business!!!! But thanks for admiring my work!! The Rookie

TIM IS A GUY I LIKE ALREADY!!!! JUST WING IT!!! YOU DA MAN TIM!!! I been wingin it for 37 years!!! And will be wingin it until I die!! which at the rate im going now.. will be soon!!! Good luck TIM!! You really only need 4 colors.. Red Yellow Blue and Green!!! oh yeah sorry... 6 colors.. white and black... that helps too!! Then your on your way!!!

Happy Birthday Sucker!!!

Welcome To Tu!!! Stop Now While You Have A Life!!!

YOU HATE US!! LOL Well as my 8 year old daughter tells me all the time when I cant find a bait I just laid on the table..!! and im yelling at the kids to help me find it!!! She say "BUILD A BRIDGE and GET OVER IT"!!!! Dad!!! The Rookie

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Couple of repaints I did for a FRIEND IN CAL!!! Black Dog Lunker Punker!! and a Triple Trout!!! The luker punker had a cool paint job!! He just wanted a AYU!! Dean told me a long time back he like the effects you get from laying different colors over different colors.. He didnt show me how to do it.. just said it one time.... He is going to crack up when he reads this and figures out I actually listened to something the OLD MAN had to say!!! HIGH PSI!! QUICK!! I MEAN QUICK SWIPES!!! if you watched me paint you better get out of the way.. or you will get a elbow in the face!! That is how fast my arm is moving... I throw paint everywhere!! Good Luck hope this helps!!

I dont have a art degree.. But I do have a BS DEGREE in Marketing (BS) from Ball State University... BSU!!! So basically Im full of BS!! dont listen to me anyway.. I just like to have fun.. But I dont mix my paint.. I just paint it.. NO THEY DONT SINK LaPala.. but if they did.. I would just spin it and call it a CUSTOM Countdown lure.. "No mistakes in painting.. just happy accidents".. "BOB ROSS"!!! 1. swipe of Forrest Pearl Green. CREATEX 1. swipe of Dark Brown Trans. CREATEX 1. Swipe of Pearl Gold CREATEX 1. Swipe of Green again 1. Swipe of brown again 1. Finish it off with gold... Your good to go!! That is how I paint my AYU!!! All very light coats.. if the bait sinks you didnt swipe your hand across the back as fast as I do.. I shioot my paint at 60 psi!! So that makes you move your hand FAST!!!! Good Luck...

Pretty good work.. Keep at it!!

I use American Tradition!! Flat Latex paint!! you can buy it by the gallon at HOME DEPOT!!!

Paint some green if that is too dark.. paint some white over the green.. if that is too light green... paint some brown and gold over that..if that is wrong put some green back on it.. my point is you dont have to mix the paint.. use your paint to get the color you want!!! just how I do it.. others might have a better way of doing your AYU!!

You can also use epoxy to seal your wood.. that works too.

OH CRAP!! DEAN IS BACK!!! Guess the fun I was having this weekend it over!!

LOL!!! I have done that a million times.. and will do it again.. next week sometime.

Dean McClain does.. he only charges 25 bucks per month for advice.. well that is what I pay.. Well worth the investment. The Rookie

Check out how bad my FIRST LURE WAS!! If I can do it anybody can!! The Rookie

Do you want a COMPUTER FROM 1972 or one from 2008!!! TIMES ARE A CHANGIN!!! GIVE ME NEW VS OLD ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!!