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Banana Baits


diemai
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One of my most prefered types of crankbait , made my first one about 10 years ago after a book picture and since I'm stuck on them , for that first model produced two pike around 35" at the first trials of that lure those days:) !

Lateron I did a lot of tinkering about "bananas" , and there was a lot of frustation and disappointment involved into it as well , before I finally found out about the essential features , such lures must have to perform their distinctive strong wobbling action .

Pictured lures are approx. 3" to 3 1/2" in length , my biggest "bananas" so far were approx. 5 1/2".

Lures are carved from abachewood , the hook hangers are ordinary screweyes , whereas for the linetie I use a piece of stainless wire , roughly "M-shaped", that is set into a groove and holes in the narrow lip section with 2-component glue .

Pictured lures dive down to 2 to 5 feet , most of these have already produced perch and few average pike .


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i love these lures alot.

i never grew up reading or seing these lures but they are common to my step dads tackle box now. Very common on native species in Australia a while back

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@ onelastcast

Thanks a lot , ........don't know , if you've already seen it , but there is an old thread dating back a couple of months titled "new Banana lure" , ........there are a few pictures there showing working processes and initial sketches dealing on this type of lures .

Probably might be useful to you , if intending to make your own ?

Just type the title into the "search" bar top right and you'll get there .

greetz , diemaiyay.gif

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