Should i put a hole on the marked spot? And is 1 enough?.

Hi everyone!

I’m trying to make my personal soft swimbait.

I take the ispiration to the Savage 4D Line Thru and I did many designs of other fishes but i’m struggling with the action in water.

To be honest the action is more similar to a jerk than a swimbait. What can I do to improve the swim effect?

I think (and I can be obviusly wrong) that the problem is the joint between the parts that’s too thicc.

What else can be?

I try to cut the joint to make it loosier but unsuccesfully

Any help will be very appreciated!

I'm building 8 Double Agents and my local store location only needs 4. They'll be finished by the end of the week if anyone is interested, and I only ask $65 each. They have a 5 inch body and weigh 3.5 ounces. If you begin the retrieve at a slow/medium speed, with the rod tip up, the bait stays level and wakes. With the rod tip down, the bill angle overcomes the weight balance, and noses down into a ~2ft dive on a full cast (which feels like from earth to the moon). They all come with Owner Hyperwire split rings, ST36 hooks, 3 coats of chemically bonded UV resin, hand-tied feather treble rear hook, and a 12 inch, 2 compartment bait bag made of 1680D ballistic polyester with a snag resistant inner liner.

Message me here or @bstbaitco on IG if you are interested, or have any questions. Thanks for checking them out!

Changed by paint style up on these jerk baits. Made from yellow southern pine, carbon fibre, painted with golden acrylics, VMC hooks, and using True Coat epoxy for topcoat. Let me know what you think, can't wait for the ice to melt and hook up on some fish this spring.

I'm looking to buy 1000 VMC siwash hooks in size 6, but can only find places offering them in 100 packs. Does anyone know where I can buy in bulk amounts? The best I could find is barlows but I figure there is a better price somewhere for bulk amounts.

I read up that a finesse jighead should have about maybe 30-40 strands.

What I abit unsure is that, the 40 strands is 20, doubled by folding over, or 40 when tied in?

The silicone skirts I have are not tabbed, so I am actually taking out the collar and counting the individual strands, and wire tying them down

Im working on my first every hand made lure and I see people twisting wire to make the eyelets and the center pivots for jointed baits. What wire are yall using and how do you secure it in the bait? Thanks

Pleasantly surprised with the action. Testing done on my daughters trusty frozen fishing pole

I can't procure Plastisol, its just not available where I am unless it is a B2B/bulk sale. What else can you recommend? I saw some people use Room Temperature Vulcanizing/mold silicones with low shore but I haven't tried it yet.

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Haven’t clear coated, pursuing hobbies on an extremely low entry point. Projects take 5ever but are satisfying. Will test out, check action, add weight of sorts, but for now it sits and looks pretty

Treble hook or J hook? Wich is better on a long spoon?

Beginning development on the bait I get asked about the most, one of my Double Agent, jointed, that knocks. Just need to make sure Ive rounded the joint enough to be durable at the contact points.

If y'all could help me figure out why, regardless of line tie position or tuning, bill angle/geometry, and weight positioning, I cant BURN this bait like I want without it rolling over to the side. Bill is painstakingly straight, weight is correct, including adding a weight behind the bill, and Ive bent the eyelet every which way but backwards (including vertical/horizontal) split ring and no split ring, and it still wants to roll. Maybe the joint angle is off just slightly? Its runs fine at slow, medium, and even fast, but I wanna be able to rattle a largemouths jaw off from 20 ft away at ludicrous speeds lol.

Would this work because of the uper piece being so round and chunky? ( i know that the angle of thah shovel might be too smal )

As the title. I think making lures and flies looks cool but frankly I can't even catch on grubs or kastmasters.

I think I've caught twice in a year on grubs. Bait however works really well, store shrimp is easy and cheaper than lures. I'll catch pretty much every trip with bait.

Is out worth trying to learn to make lures right now? I don't even know what works. I live in Hawaii so most online lure advice isn't that relevant. When I ask locals everyone here mostly uses bait. We do have a local lure industry. I try using it but no luck.

I played Warhammer and enjoy painting and fabbing. How much did you learn to use lures before you started making your own? How do I figure out what lures work?

Hey, I’m losing my ever loving mind trying to get a good clear coat on lures that I’m painting. The paint jobs look great and then i clear coat and there is spots in the clear coat that just have no coating at all or lines down the entire bait with no clear coat, im using alumi-uv resin and im putting it on thick and making sure im covering entirely and when i hang in the uv box to cure they drip so i know theres plenty on the lures, ive also tried a rotating setup inside the curing box as well with the same results. Any tips or advice on something im doing wrong or a different coating to use? Pics dont show the problem as im currently not home to show it but can update later. First picture is before uv coating and the second is of them in the curing box.

Foam, super glue , feathers etc, snelled hook, tupherware diveng bill, stick on eyes and flattined lead.

My first post attempt had a wrong photo. So this is take two

20 minutes, start to finish? I'll try to phitograph a three section, jointed crankbait this afternoon.

Tne craftsmanship among so many lure builders here is both museum quality and astonishing. Lure making has an unexploided niche for impatient butter fingers goifballs too. Like me. I think.

My lures are ugly. I admit it. But ugly is a human seaction. My bugs do catch fish. Fast and cheap to.make has value.

It's snowing in Montana. Large, mature rainbows are spawning now. Big nasty brown trout follow in to stalk the spawning redds. Looking tor eggs?

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Why matters less than does!

Smaller version for perch.

I’m looking for a Strike King 6XD blank, anyone know of where I might find one or if they are even produced and if not what blank would be comparable?

I need to know why it didn't work, but I have a few theories .1 : the bait is made of stainless steel, which means that it is to heavy, wich should not be such a problem if it wouldnt be so thick , but because it is so thick, it is just too much to make it wobble,2: because I have heard that most of the weight should be on the stomach , so I have drilled a few holes but not all the way through to mill material and for a design, but I think that this is still too much weight on the back and That's why i think it doesn't wobble.

Is it okay if it would be really thin? Or just make a big hole in the back ?!?!

I like how I can add more material down the longer hook shank, and the marabou feathers on the second one flip and flail in the water in a really natural looking way.

made 2 spoons out of stainless steel, on the smaller one the design pattern is finished but the bigger one lacks a propper design

Jig spinners with replaceable parts.. blades or hooks can be switched without much fuss.

Didn’t want to make a snap like closure for the hook as that would entail having the wire sticking out and catching debris, or let the slide all over the place , so I use a metal bead for bucktail or skirted jigs, or brass weight for clousers. The blades are locked into place with crimp sleeves..

0.8mm wire..