mark poulson

I use Brite Bak foil, and the adhesive on the foil itself lets me do a tool-handle scale after it's in place. I dip three times in AC1315 for a top coat. It hides the seams really well.

Thanks guys. I sure hope they sell in the U.S. That looks like some great paint!

In politics, the parties are two cheeks on the same butt, the money party. Politicians of all stripes will do whatever the person who pays them the most wants, liberal or conservative. "Follow the money".

Pickadoll, I googled CAB paints, but didn't find anything. Can you give me the brand name, or something I can use to find it?

You can use acetone. You just have to be quick and careful, like how you kiss a chicken's butt without getting feathers in your mouth.

On the other hand, the reason we have these kind of laws in the first place is that there are companies out there who will sell poison and death, if they think it will make money. The US outlawed lead in residential paints in 1978, but the whole world knew it was dangerous long before that. Here's what I found online: Childhood lead poisoning was linked to lead-based paints in 1904. Several European countries banned the use of interior lead-based paints in 1909. At one time baby cribs were painted with lead-based paint, which resulted in infant illness and death. In 1922, the League of Nations banned lead-based paint but the United States declined to adopt this rule. In 1943, a report concluded that children eating lead paint chips could suffer from neurological disorders including behavior, learning, and intelligence problems. Finally, in 1971, lead-based house paint was phased out in the United States with the passage of the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act. So there are kids with brain damage from lead poisoning alive today because we dragged our feet in outlawing lead. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the parents who decided it was okay to keep using it for so long. Lead pellets from shot guns are much more likely to be eaten by water fowl, who eat gravel to line their gullets to act as food grinders, than lead weights. I'm pretty sure a lead jig with a hook in it will never make it past their mouths.

CrankyMike, That is a great write up! Thanks for taking the time to share your foiling process, and your thought process, too.

It seems to dry on contact. He can handle his baits as he's painting them. I'd love to be able to do that, without leaving fingerprints.

What kind of paint does he use?

Make yourself a test bait, or use an older jointed lure, and try it on that. I always do a dry run and a test run, if possible, before I try something new.

It looks to me like he is just very good with an air brush and transparent paint.

I wouldn't use an epoxy on a rattle bait. I would be afraid that the thick coating would dampen both the rattle and the action. I'd use a urethane, or a concrete sealer.

Too many lawyers looking to make work. One phrase they don't learn in law school is, "Are you F'ing kidding me?" That is what they should say when people come to them with stupid stuff like getting stuck by a sharp hook they bought to be sharp. But, because most lawyers think they're the smartest person alive, they game the system.

I had a boss who told me, "You're gonna hafta work real hard to come up with a mistake that hasn't already been made".

John, I liked that bait so much I made one.

"Last but not least, the box will float even the heaviest of baits." But it would take a really big fish to fit the box in it's mouth, and you'd need an old 3 man tuna pole to get the hooks through that insulation and into it's jaw. Hahaha Seriously, that's a neat idea.

I made a ferris wheel turner with plywood discs and a BBQ rotisserie motor to coat my jointed swimbaits, when I used Etex. I found that it was much easier if I coated the insides of the joints first with http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/gallery/image/3592-my-paint-shop/

This is the first spybait I made: http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/gallery/image/13886-20141217-070125-resized/

JSC, That has been my experience here in CA, too. I've interacted with our DFG/DFW now for almost ten years, and everyone of those folks I've met care about our fisheries. They are all wildlife biologists. In fact, most have been fishermen and hunters. The politicians, who pander to special interest groups for money, are the ones who talk out of their a$$'s, and propose all this idiot regulation. We have the worst deer management plan in the country. To protect Bambi's mom, management has not allowed doe hunting, and so they have created a huge imbalance in the buck/doe population, and our deer herds are dying of starvation. If our DFW were allowed to do their jobs without political interference, we fishermen and hunters would be a lot better off, and so would the wildlife in CA.

Those look really good. Since they are listed as saltwater, are they soft? My experience with saltwater plastics is they are med+ to hard.

That is a really slick setup!

Hahaha. You guys are funny! My luck, the lure will sneak right past the bass, unseen and uneaten!