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@ Pallet Sorry , I can't help you in details , but you can find a lot of different suppliers links under Lure Fishing UK , on the startpage there just click on "links"(yellow lure) . Probably you need to look for musky spinnerbaits , since these are stronger made . good luck:yay: , diemai

@ 76gator As far , as I can see by your pics , the silver , well performing lure has a different shape of lip , looking like somehow its corners are 45° cut off ? The other troubling lure has a fully rounded lip , as far as I can recognize . Also it seems to me , that the lip points slighly more forward(angle more pointed) and is also a tad longer . Very pointing forward lips and nose attachement do'nt match , it seems , that the lip sits at less than 45° to the center length axis ! With a lip like this I would have placed the linetie further downward the chin to reduce the leverage around the towpoint . Also a lip placed further towards the nose of a lure produces a higher frequency of wiggle as a same shaped and angled lip placed more to the rear , whereas the action pattern does not have to be neccessarely the same . At least this is stated in my literature ! The easiest way to cure your problem is to reduce the plane at the tip of the lip , thus shave it a bit and try for action again , it can't be that much material to be removed ! Maybe just grind the halfround shape to a triangle at first by making two equal straight edges on either side without even already shortening the overall length of lip ? You could also try to wrap some solder wire around the belly hook shank , if the lure is still buoyant enough and the looks won't disturb you ! I know by own experience , that it might just be possible , that two or more almost equal looking lures perform different or some not well at all , there are certain designs like that , only functioning within limited boundaries ! Whereas there are other "good-natured" designs , that forgive any possible mistake or altering without losing their fish-attracting appeal ! good luck:yay:, diemai

@ LooksLikeSinbad Years ago I have made a few knock-offs of a small commercial topwater , that is supposed to attract the fish simply by rocking it on the surface to get the skirt pulsating . Since the lurebody was turned on a lathe , I simply shaped a small round extension on the rear to push on the skirt and it worked pretty well . If my memory serves me right , the old "Hula Popper" , that 21xdc mentioned , has such an extension on its tail as well . When using screweyes(longest ones possible) to attach the rear hook , you might as well assemble a pop rivet head(eventually extend bore for the screweye to pass , when using smaller rivet) with the sreweye passing through , I have thought about that before , but never put it to practice . After the lure is completely done , you can just push on your skirt onto that rivet head before hook assembly. Make sure , that the potruding portion of the rivet head is long enough for your skirt to fit on . You may cut the rivet shank to approbiate length or either countersink it a bit into the lurebody , glue in screweye and rivet with epoxy glue thoroughly ! The skirt won't fit over the wide rim of the rivet head , to minor its diameter just firmly chuck the rivets shank(before eventually shortening it !) into a drillpress and take a smaller file to remove a good portion of the outer diameter of that rim , just leaving it sufficiently small to prevent the skirt from sliding down . File against turning direction , smoothen with a fine file and sandpaper . good luck:yay: , diemai

I have once swapped a "Swimwhizz" style plastic lure , that has been filled with BB's by someone . That guy obviously simply used a fitting brass wood screw(roundhead) , cut off most of the shank and epoxied it into the small hole , where he had inserted the BB's before . greetz , diemai

@ heinzc Welcome to Moore's Lures sells such a scale foil as well , in copper , gold and silver , I think 1 1/2" or 2" wide and you pay per foot ! greetz , diemai

@ MuskyGary They used to sell such ready-made holoform tape cut-outs for certain biggger saltwater pirk models at the German supplier HAKUMA ihr Spezialist f

@ 21xdc I can imagine that , since making willowleaf blades at home gave me the biggest poblems , these are tricky , many a times they won't spin nicely . Try using so called "swing blades" , these are also elongated , but with rounded-off ends , these always kick to spin on a breeze . greetz , diemai

@ The_Rookie What a great kinda poetry:lol:! Merry Xmas , diemai