JBlaze

This is the blade from LPO charged with one flash from my cell phone camera. then pic taken without flash. It is really not that dark in the garage It is daylight and I just turned off the garage lights and took the pic. Don't know how long it will glow but I am sure it will be much longer that my. cast is

A Modified Tail Spinner. Something different, reading other posts prompted me to make this one, I had already modified this mold to be able to put in the top blade arm.Mark Poulson was talking about painting his spinner blades with glow paint. I ordered these Glo Blades from LPO. They really shine! Another recent post was talking about chatter blades on a spinner bait. This lure is similiar to a spinnerbait with its swept back arm so I put a blade on it. Instead of using two split rings to attach the blade, I made a twisted figure 8 out of .051 wire with the loops formed at opposing 90º angles to each other. The hook is a 5/0 Gami which can swing up and down or side to side, I also made a bait keeper at the bend of the hook (made out of a strand off of a weed guard not sure where I saw this at but it was easy to do), hopefully this will keep the trailer where it belongs. The skirt is hand tied around an aluminum rivet which is pushed down into a insulin needle cover which has a big flaired end then glued. It really gives the skirt that unbrella look. I wrapped thread and super glue aroud the shaft until I had a nice tight fit for the rivet then more thread and glue to keep it from sliding down the shaft toward the hook. It is painted with Janns Netcraft Powder paint in transparent colors. I have had this paint for several years and had forgotten about it. Hope you like it. John

A few spinner baits I have made. It has been a long time since I have made a multi bladed spinner bait and I like the looks of this one This is the first tandem bladed bait I have made in years. I have always thought that I got better and stronger vibrations from a single bladed bait and that has worked well for me however, something that smalljaw said about vibrations and blade spacing in a post a few days ago caught my eye. He also mentioned this same thing some time ago and I was going to tinker with it then but had forgotten about it. I gave this one a lake test yesterday and think I need to remove another bead maybe two. It looked good in the water and ran true and straight and would not lay over on its side with a fast retrieve. John

A little over a week ago, our little bass club held its first tournament of the year. It was a tough one with high winds and big waves. My grand-son and I hooked two fish on crank baits both of them came unglued, his was a big one. Only ten bass were brought to the scales. Five of those 10 were out of one boat. The team that had the limt told me that two of those fish were caught on a five inch soft swim bait. I have never fished a swimbait soft or hard version and wouldn't really know how to fish it if I did. Well, a couple of days later I got to thinking about this and woke up that same night with this on my mind. The smaller version from line tie to hook bend is about 9 inches. The longer one is about 13 inches. It has a half ounce ultra minnow head, .051 wire frame, size 4.5 willow blade with titanium blade arm. What do you think? Will it trigger a strike? Is it something that is already out there? Thanks in advance for any thoughts or comments. John