trick trout Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 1. Tools that you will need: bait blank x-acto knife file or sand paper pencil 2. First you will want to get your bait blank and take you pencil and draw the details (gills, mouth, fins, etc,) that you would like to carve into you bait. (In this tutorial I am only showing how to gills and the mouth details, but you can use the same instructions to make fins or anything else) 3.Now you will make your first cut. The first cut will start at the farthest back part of the gill or as I like to say the main gill. Now take the x-acto knife and just stick in the bait along the line and then follow the line around to the other side. 4. Now that you have the first cut in the bait you will take the x-acto knife blade and put it almost flat on the bait and carve out the gill. You DON'T want to go to much at an angle with the carving because if you do then you will have a huge chunk taken out of you bait and it will be impossible to get it out. here are 2 pictures that will help you make the cuts and chip off the wood. (Once you carve out the first side you will want to follow step 3 and 4 for the opposite side) 5.Now that you have carved out the gills at the angle you want pull off all of the excess wood that has been carved off. this is how the fist gill should look after you finish taking off the carved wood. 6.For this step you will follow steps 3 and 4 with the gill that is next of the forward or if you have a gill that is higher than the other like the one in the picture you will want to do the process on this gill now. 7. You will take a file and file behing the furthest back gill and get it nice and smooth. This step can be done when you finish the gills but I like to do it now and make the bait cleaner for a better working surface. 8. In step 8 you will just follow steps 3 and 4 for any gills that you have left on your bait. If there are no gills left to carve out then don't pay attention to anything I just said in step 8.... 9. This is just a picture of what you bait should look like when you are completed carving out the gills. 10. Now to start with the mouth. The mouth can be tricky because if you do not have the drawing allined dead on or close on both sides it will look much worse once you have made all the cuts. So you will take the x-acto knife and follow the both part of the mouth all the way to the other side. 11. Ok almost done !!!! now take the x-acto knife and carve the bottum of the mouth off. For the time being your bait will look like it has an over bite. 12. Now you will take the x-acto knife and cut the sides and top of the mouth off. If you don't get what i mean by this take a look at the picture above and it shows that i drew a piece of a jaw which i call the side and top of the mouth. I know i know i'm a little confusing. 13.Now that we are basically done we will fix the over bite that the fish has by taking cutting away a little of the upper lip with the x-acto knife and filling it off to make it nice and smooth. Also to make the rest of the mouth smooth take the file and file the bottum and sides of the mouth to make it pretty. 14. FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! . ok this is what you bait should look like or be similar too once you are finished. Isn't she puurrty. Tutorial & photos by TrickTrout gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf gills1.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trisomy21 Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 That looks great, gonna give this a whirl today. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RayburnGuy Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 says images not available i cant see nothing maybe cause im new here !!! A lot of the photos, and old message threads, were lost during the latest website update. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
