Piscivorous Pike Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 (edited) It looks like an OK friendly site and sure is full of good ideas and experience. I was looking for an obsolete or lost pattern of a jerk bait made by a company, Creek Town Pro Series, and I stumbled onto this site. I have made and copied soft plastics before using Pop, pretty much by my own trial and error! I am going to have to do this again with this pattern, it looks like a bass assassin with a very long flimsy tail shank and a flat splayed fluke for a tail! I need goofy colors too. I have always made tackle and fishing things to suit my needs. This is just another arm of the creature. Gee, I have been fishing all my life, my ancient mother still brags she had me in the boat at 6 months of age. I grew up living on a lake in the UP Michigan and now live in a darn dry place in SW. USA. I cannot fish as much as I should or want to so to vent some of this energy I again am building lures. I love sport fishng so much I went to college and got one of them useless degrees in wildlife managment but fortunately never ruined a prfectly good hobby by actually getting a job in that field. I have worked in the sporting goods industry and held a government job pretty much most of my life. I started making DWP molds today! I will post how I adopted all the good stuff you all have already taught me when I finish with this 2-piece mold. MOD EDIT - From one Pike to another, we welcome the photos, but please keep them to 600 x 400. Thanks Edited August 7, 2008 by Spike-A-Pike SITE RULE 13. You may display your own images here but the size will be limited to 400 x 600 pixels to help keep the site fas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kajan Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Welcome, is this the lure you were lookin for?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piscivorous Pike Posted August 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) No, It definately has the body of a 5" bass assisn. At 80 mm from the nose it begins to differ. At that point the tail shaft is more vertically eliptical and it ends in a horizontal flat tail that is molded to look like a splayed fluke, almost like the classical mermaid tail. The bait has some scales, eyes and the tail holds details. It is 35 mm longer than the 5 inch bass assisin. I ruined 3 bodies of my last four, making molds. I remade models by cutting the tail off and gluing it to bass assisn bodies at the 80 mm mark. When I post the mold I will also post photos. Also, I apologize for uploading the wrong image, new forum to me, but I should know better and just got the wrong image, together these two should be about the max size limit. Here is to cold water species, these two on soft plastics as well as many of my pikes: Edited August 7, 2008 by Piscivorous Pike proper picture sizes and spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike-A-Pike Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Is the bottom photo a picture of a "Rainbow Pike?" Welcome to Tackleunderground, the home of tackle junkies World Wide. Good luck with your pursuit of making the perfect jerkbait, hopefully somebody might have the "Magic Nugget" that brings you success. Being from North Central Wisconsin, I miss the big cold water pike and muskies in the fall. Tight lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piscivorous Pike Posted August 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Ah, I should identify these things. Lake Superior White Fish (Coregonus clupeaformis ) from a transplanted population in the Flathead River, Mont. We fish them on green creatures, 1" crawfish, curly tails on 1/8-1/4 jigs on the spawn run. Has to be green, scent helps. You can catch 50+ a day this size right in town where this picture was take on the run. They are often fished here commercially but only by hook an line, that is a $2.00 fish. West Slope Cutthroat, native, (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi) Swan watershed, Montana. Record is 6.x pounds, this one was 5.zip pounds, took a 4" Storm swimbait in perch pattern on a heavy steel leader. I was fishing for Pike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piscivorous Pike Posted August 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 This is what I am looking for and now am going to mold. It is a Creek Town Pro Series Jerk Bait. Can't fing them maybe they are history. I destroyed three of the 4 bodies making a hook slot, but repaired the model by splicing in a bass assassin. The pink guy is 35mm longer than a 5 inch bass assassin. There is a slight deprssion on the ventral surface at the splice which can be ground to the correct contour in the finished mold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kajan Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) Never saw dat one, but easy lure to make I use U.S. Survey Measure not familiar with Metric Edited August 8, 2008 by Kajan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
