Lure Picture Compilation

[diemai]

Hi , folks ,

I was bored last night , as the missus won't let me watch the TV on Saturday night due to that certain weekly crappy talent show , that I hate too much , ...........so I've thought to put the following video together ,......... through the years I have so many pictures gathered in my computer files

Most lures are commercial ones , but also some homemades of mine and a few from small Australian manufacturers , ....a few vintage DAM's as well , ........all these lures are or were in my possession , ....just a few I've sold or swapped away .

I have to apologize for the breaks inbetween the soundtrack , ......somehow my video editor does not correspondent well with the realtime of an upload , dunno ?

Any possible questions about the displayed lures will be answered !

cheers , diemai

Edited March 25, 2012 by diemai

[Griffond]

well I watched this right after you uploaded it... since I am subscribed to your youtube page... great video as always...all sorts of cool looking lures... I was wondering what you made your lazy ike type lures out of? I was thinking about making some monster size ones for musky just haven't gotten that far yet... I would have to use a jigsaw to cut them out as I don't have a band saw.

[diemai]

Thanks for your interest in my humble videos , glad that you like those banana lures .

I've been building these kinda lures for a few years now , .......took me quite a while to get behind their secrets , .......wrote about them in this thread almost four years ago :

http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/topic/13043-new-banana-lure/page__hl__%20banana%20%20lures

Guess , that you'd find some further info in there , .......the biggest banana lures of mine were 132 mm in length , so about 5 1/4" , but one could go bigger as well , I guess .

For smaller and medium sized lures I'm using abachewood(hard to obtain in the US) , .........but as you can see in that thread , also different timbers are optional , ...one should only match the material's buoancy to the lure size , ....the smaller the lure , the more buoyant the timber .

During recent times I've also made a few "Bananas" out of PVC hardfoam , ...smallest possible is about 2 1/4 " , .....anything smaller gets too finacky or is not too reliable due to very short-shanked eyescrews .

To cut out the blanks you can use an electric scroll saw or even a narrow bladed padsaw , ......though this involves some elbow grease , ..........a jigsaw might even get worse .

Good luck , diemai

[YoungForge]

Awesome video as always deimai keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!

[diemai]

Awesome video as always deimai keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot , mate !

tight lines , diemai

[littleriver]

Enjoyed the vid Dieter!

The first spinner in the video with a squid head. Is it a factory bait? Really liked the hammered spinner on this bait.

Also looked like some of the first spinners in the spinner section had shell casing bodies 22 calibur maybe? Are the homemades?

Also enjoyed the bana thread. Really surprised by how little weight was used and it is at the nose of the bait. The photo with them in the water in the outdoors shows the tail portion setting really low in water for this weight position. I guess the oil soak really took alot of buoyancy out?

Thank you for sharing some great information!

Vic

[diemai]

@ littleriver

Thanks for your interest in my video , Vic , ........in fact all of the spinners shown are homemade ones , except the ones at 1:06 and the two "ABU's" at 1:21 , ...........the ones shown at 1:06 are my favourite commercial spinners back from the time , that I've started to fish back during the late 1980's and early 90's , ......named "Balzer Colonel" .

This German brand used to be a bit cheaper than my other favourites "Mepps" and "Blue Fox" and the "Colonels" did perform and used to catch pretty well , too .

The lower ABU weight-forward spinner at 1:21 is the famous "Abu Mörrum"(named after a famous Swedish salmon river) , originally designed for strong river currents it also made it's way into the tackleboxes of stillwater anglers to be fished real deep and jigged along drop-offs or underwater structures , ......IMO it's the best weight-forward ever made ,......... despite the kinda small blade it's said to be able to catch even bigger fish .

That squid spinner at 0:37 is a homemade one , ....also shown later in the video with some lookalikes . These kinda spinners are quite easy to make , just put a matching olive or teardrop inline sinker in the squid's head , you'd also need two small metal beads and a piece of cable insulation tube as a spacer towards the hook eye .

The blades are homemade of 0,5mm stainless steel , ........there is another picture compilation on my YouTube channel displaying how to shape such blades .

At 6:11 there are two special versions of squid spinners shown ,....... these rather have a bigger plastic bead and a very light sinker in the squid's head(only somewhat around 1/10 ounce) and an integrated anti-twist leader , rigged with commercial colorado blades in this case , .........these lures were first designed by Belgian or Dutch anglers to be fished in the shallow drains and ditches of the Netherlands , ....but naturally they work over here in local drainage ditches of the north German marsh lands as well , .......due to a lot of air resistance and lack of weight very poor to cast(ditches and drains are only a few yards wide and just up to 5 feet deep , often even less) ,...... spinning gear essential , ......but run very shallow even on slowest retrieve paces , just perfect for the job .

As far as I'm concerned , there are no spinners with ammo casing bodies shown in this video , .......the ones , you must be refering to , have bodies of metal tubing cast out with molten lead .

But I've made ammo casing spinners before :

http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/gallery/image/5429-early-career-inline-spinners/

These large ones turned out a bit too heavy ,........ I've also made smaller ones out of special blank pistol casings ("8 mm knall") available over here , ........matched with blades size 3 these made up for perfectly balanced spinners .

Concerning the banana lures , ........it was not easy to get these to work properly in the end , but finally I got behind their dynamics after having produced quite a few rejects .

The linseed oil method really takes away some buoyancy off the timber material , but this strongly depends on the kind of wood as well , ......I'm only using this sealing method for abache wood exclusively nowadays , ...made bad experiences with other timbers , either it turned out too heavy afterwards or the oil reacted with containing raisins in the wood affecting the later paintjobs .

In future I will definately prime linseedoil-treated blanks with epoxy topcoat prior to painting , ..seems to be the only reliable way to prevent the oil from "sweating out" some day to yellow or even spoil the paint jobs as it happened to some , ....though not all , .....of my baits made this way !

But these lures in the pictures also have very heavy hardware assembled("figure 8" wire forms epoxied into bores and crosswise pinned , ...no screw eyes) , but all in all abache wood works well for such baits , especially around the 3" to 3 1/2" sizes , ....only requires a little belly ballast somewhere between tow eye position and belly hook hanger , .......rather more to stabilize it's swimming action .

I'm just busy these days making a few different banana baits out of PVC , .....these have to be overloaded with ballast , as the material is so buoyant , ...but first blank bath tub tests looked promising .

greetz , Dieter