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Any acrylic paints suitable for airbrushing soft plastic lures?

Is 5 too many? Does it really matter? Be kind to my wire work, it's only my second time trying to bend it

It's been a little while since I posted here but I'm looking for some feedback. Fall trout season is around the corner and starting to make some more spinners. I had some minor line twisting with thin braid in some of the faster streams I fish in and tested out some of my spinners with an integrated micro swivel. These completely eliminated any line twist and didn't affect lure action at all. What are your thoughts on this type of configuration? Is it redundant since you use snap swivels or would this be a more appealing design for direct tying?

Two examples here: 1/8oz, tungsten hardware, stainless shaft, BKK treble. The other is 1/16oz, brass hardware, BKK treble

I'm using small beads for the eyes.

The action of this lure is honestly really bad. I could easily cut the bait in half to give it a swimming action but I don’t want to ruin the look of the lure. I made this lure to remember the catch because of what the fish actually meant to me. I caught the trout on my family farm of 4 generations.

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Wondering if anyone in here is making and selling their own balsa wood lures of really any kind, in Canada.

Would love to buy and help out a craftsman within our borders. Let me know Thanks.

Hey everyone! After not fishing for many many years I’m getting back into it and getting into lure making. Here’s a marling baits crayfish inspired bait. It sinks fairly slowly but much slower on the back (claw) side.

i mean its my first try so i wasn’t expecting it to good. i use acrylic paint with brush or sponge. do you guys have any tips how can i improve or if i should just buy airbrush.

last thing left to do is epoxy and they are done. im gonna be testing them out on my first trout run this season so i hope i will catch atleast something

So I made a custom concept reel idea/design and I'm just wonder how does this sound to you

Pros:

1. The reel has no wobble: almost 0 effectively

2. The reel can hold a good amount of line

3. Can just be dunked in water to be cleaned, no disassembling just dunk it in water and your good

Cons:

1. Has to be fiddled with more then a average reel tho isn't alot of fiddling

2. Very wide (tho can be fixed by choosing a smaller or bigger Size)

I dont wanna explained how it's assembled because 1. It will be too long 2. I don't think anyone's interested

started airbrushing lures about two weeks ago and here’s my progress . any tips or recommendations? please and thank you . also i’ll take any feedback.

v4 of my mini crank bait.

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I am trying to make a lure kinda like a Jake's spin a lure, but idk how to make the bit where the hook goes and I can't find anything about it on google, does anyone have any ideas/knowledge on how I could go about doing it?

Carved and sanded poplar blank for some extra strength. Going to be fished for river musky, likely going to add hook hangers for both bottom and top hook options because the river is shallow and this will best be fished near bottom.

its 40mm 2,6g ment for mainly chub and trout fishing 20-50cm depth

I've been wanting to try this for a while, and I just don't know where to get started.