Sonny.Barile

Look at this video it may help you out a little. Pay particular attention to the white Popper that is spinning around the 29 second mark. This isnt my video but it is the water I fish in..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS--gLS6q8k Happy New Year.

Catch shares.....Carbon credits......whats next? Air tax?????? Oops...I better not say that too loud, it may give them ideas.

Tail or upfront depends on what your fishing for. If you are building your popper for the salt surf you want it tail weighted. You pump the rod then reel in the slack. What you described above is exactly "it". It usually gets hit on the pump. In fresh water I weight it so it sits level when at rest. For that scenario I normally twitch that bait (with a little rod wiggle) then let it sit a second or two and twitch again. I get most of the strikes on the rest between twitches. Hope this helps Happy New Year

Im with you on that BobP I tried using a 3/4 hp. router/table for rounding over some big lures. I tried white pine and had the blank grab and explode into my face. I then tried an oak blank and found out it just hurts more when you get hit with it. Had a few get sucked in to.....I like my fingers to much to continue down that path. IMO the best thing I have ever purchased to build lures was a 1" X 30" Belt/5" Disk combo. Cost me about $60. I dont even precut my blanks anymore. I use the disk to shape them and then tilt the table to 45 degrees and run it on the edges. If I have any compound shapes I use the belt. I do the final rounding with a rotary tool (B and D) with a little sanding wheel. Final cleanup with fine sandpaper by hand. Takes about 20 minutes from start to finish and it is ready to seal. I lose alot of lures so I have gotten pretty fast at making them...LOL

Im glad this post got so much action. We anglers tend to be complacent by nature because we arent anti-everything protestor types. We need to keep the chatter up to let DC, our state officials, and large businesses, know that we are watching them. Sonny

The changing one tiny little thing doesnt work anymore. The patent people are clamping down on the folks that screw with OPP's (other peoples products). If a change could be considered "obvious" they wont be able to do it. Also, if your invention is "obvious" they wont let you patent it. They have been getting held responsible for patents that were granted to easily and without thorough "prior art" investigations. Sorry if this is off topic as it is not really important info for most us but it is good to know. Sonny

What about silicone? You can mix acrylic paint into it then spread it on the bait real thin. There is a big discussion here on TU somewhere showing a method of mixing in paint and water to silicone caulking that makes it set in minutes. I think it was Husky that started it.

On the US east coast , the people who run these organizations always have "PETA" somewhere on their resume.

If you open source a product idea that doesnt stop a big company from mass producing it. In fact, it gives them a license to do it. Lets face it, if Berkley or some other big company makes the same thing we do, they will out produce us on every plane. (Quality, price point, speed to market, etc. etc. etc.) If you hold a patent and need to go after someone, the negligent company would eventually have to give you all profits made on the item and cease production. However, they could play the game of tying you up in court until your money ran out. If it were me, I would only apply if I planned to mass produce it myself. If your plan is only to sell your design to them, then just make them sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. That allows you to show it to them and they wont be able to steal it. Save your bucks and shop around for a buyer. I am named as an inventor on a few US patents. I also have a few applications pending. (These are employer sponsored) Great idea btw Sonny

Mark I have been a designer for 25 years and worked in a quite a few industries. That book travels with me. Cant live with-out it!!!!! Sonny

We are going to need protection soon. We are a dying breed!

Jerry By "Windows free" do you mean MAC? I am using a Mac Book Pro and TU runs really smooth on it. I havent noticed any of the reported issues. Sonny

Dont be fooled, I may seem like I have a smart guys job, but Im really just another fool with a fishing rod.

I frequent 4 other lure building sites and this one is the best working site of them all. The others are plagued with "wares" and spam. Also, they go down frequently.

To lay out a 6 inch popper would probably be 1.5 hours at $150/hour. Plus set-up...........

There is alot more to this that would take to long to explain. I have been reading up on fishing polotics in NJ for years. Some of the people behind this "political movement" (and it is a political movement) are key members of anti-fishing and hunting groups such as PITA. They have closed some coastal areas in NJ (my state) for no apparent reason. Thay have expanded some of the existing ones without so much as a peep to the public. These same people were against the artificial reef program here and are dead set against all forms of hunting. ....and like Rayburn said, they dont put their money where there mouth is.

Dieter You never cease to amaze. Your knives look great. Sonny

Cory I am a Sr. Mechanical Designer. I spent most of my career working on medical devices and hold 2 US Patents. (I currently have 3 more applications in). From what I gather, most home builders use an iterative prototyping process to arrive at a given design. Mechanical engineering when applied to design, even if in a new technollogy, is going to have it's roots in a predicate technology that has established standards. You will not find any ASTM standards for lures. Mostly because the data that has been developed at various manufactures is considered proprietary as the market is over saturated and highly competitive. To write a standard would be to give up your competitive design features. Good luck Sonny

Allergic to d2t? Thats funny, cause I think it was causing me to sleep walk. Im not kidding. Last year this was happening once in a while. I even walked in to a wall and cut my nose. I was getting up in the middle of the night and doing strange things like eating a frozen waffle right from the freezer. I also mangled a plastic handled magnifying glass and left all the peices on the kitchen floor. I was going to bed in my bed, then waking up on the couch, and once in the bathtub. I figured out that it was happening on nights that I was mixing up some Devcon. I stopped using epoxy and it stopped happening. This is not humor, Im serious..... Sonny

I have 3 different types in work. I was even trained to use one. The powder printer type you see in the vid uses a polycarbonate material but it is really brittle and will shatter upon impact. I used it (Objet by Connex) to make a solid prototype of a popper I modeled in ProEngineer 3d cad. I then used that prototype as the master for a silicone mold and casted a few in 2 part urethene. One of the other machines is a little better for this as the material is boyant. It is an ABS plastic and is laid out in layers by a giant cnc glue gun.The melting point is at about 170 f. Not good to sit in your tacklebox in the car on an August day. The machines are about $100k and the material cost for one lure is about $25. Not ready for prime time........

If your using an adjustable table on the sanding disk I wouldnt think you can get much faster than that. JMO I have never really made a swim bait.

Here are a few of the things I read... http://bassjunkiesfi...on-to-anti.html http://nlpc.org/stor...dom-don’t-mix http://njsaltwaterfi...02755;topicseen http://www.lake-link...hing-OrgBoycott! http://forums.florid...-Fishing-Groups Just do a google on Walmart Antifishing You will get a load of stuff. I am done with them.

Should I wear a sack protector (aka "cup") because I have two rods on my boat? LOL

When the hook hangs down straight, which side faces the front? The single side or the double? Which ever it is, remove it from the split ring and reinstall turned araound. This will make it opposite of what it was. It shouldnt harm the action and is probably the easiest thing you could try. If it doesnt help you could put it back without any harm.

The Harbor Freight 5 minute epoxy is in small enough tubes to keep in your tackle box and is on sale alot for .99 cents. I use it to glue in my hook hangers and eye screws. It is not the best stuff but it will do the job.