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Green/Yellow Mini


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Another mini crankbait I was messing with. Basswood, lightly ballasted, and moves pretty good. Again, not the funnest thing to paint, but pretty cool.


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This lure is not working so well. It did with some testing, but I think I messed up the line tie placement for some reason. I think the line ties need to be closer to the lip. Will do this one over.

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What does it do , ........not wiggle sufficiently ?

At a glance I would think so , as the lip is pretty short to force the lure off its straight course ,....... therefore kick to wobble .

And even being that short , a big part of its plane is "rounded off" with topcoat , also a drawback on it's efficiency .

Just try taping a temporary lip onto the short one somehow , the lure won't run perfect like this , but you could find out about any new tendencies !

Make it approx. three times longer as the present one , ...... also not wider than the lures width ,...... you could always shorten it , anyway:wink::yes: .

Or leave the lip at first , bend a temporary line tie of wire and tape below the nose tip for testing , this way you'd also get a first impression about the altered action without any permanent operations on the lure .

Would be too bad to have this little beauty wasted:yes: !

good luck , diemai:yay:

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Some good points. What it does in the water is more of an S pattern, meaning it sways to one side or another.There is no tight wobble.I guess I could try a different lip and line tie. It would not be to much dmg to cut out the lip, I dont think I will get the line tie to change though. That thing is epoxied in pretty good.

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This sounds to me like the lip is really too small to "engage" into the water , since many lipless sinking gliders with a very similar body shape and line tie location act like that as well on a steady retrieve !

You don't neccessarely have to pull out the present line tie(I suppose , its made of twisted wire?????) , you can also carefully snip it off and file/grind its remainders back to body outline leve , .....a drop of paint and you're done !

But probably this little dude really is too small to have sufficient space for even glueing in a new twisted wire eye , also weight and balance could be a greater issue !

good luck , diemai:yay:

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