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I am honored to have taken 3rd in the custom paint category, especially considering the high caliber of work submitted by all. This makes me want to perfect my craft and come up with something innovative for next year. I was impressed, humbled and inspired by the submissions in all the categories. Thank to TU for hosting this fun competition

Go to clear bags,you can order as little or as many,cheaper the more you order,I get mine from there ,you will have the up front fee for color plates,I get mine for a round 10 cents each for 5000

Awesome job on all the lures everyone, I will surprise you all next year..now let's get out there and do some fishing with theses great lures.

I have to admit, this was a good read.. Ive been making molds for a couple weeks now and will be making my first pour this weekend.. I like learning from other, lol

Practice, only practice.

Special Thanks to everyone who participated with some beautiful and awesome submissions. I enjoyed seeing each and every one. There is a lot of great talent out there and I would like to congratulate all the winners. You are all winners, Good Luck Fishing.

Congrats. to everyone...The talent here is amazing!!!..Nathan

Great job all!

Great job all!

Great contest everyone! I am excited for the winners and can't wait for next years contest! Back to the paint brush for me!

Thanks guys I am honored to take 1st place in the homemade hard bait category...especially with the plethora of wonderful baits entered. Thanks to the staff for all of their hard work and I can't wait to come up with another entry for next year. Thanks again. Brandon Nelson

WOW!!! With all of the beautifully tied flies that were entered in TU's contest I can't , WOW, 1st place, I don't know what to say !!! Considering the amount of talent displayed by the other tiers I feel honored, thank you very much! WOW, I still can't believe it! Congratulations to all the winners, of the various categories, you deserve it! Wow, this is so cool, thanks!!! john

I do not like to hang jigs in the toaster oven to cure the powder paint. I tried to make a holder out of 3/4 inch aluminum angle, but the jigs would slip around as I was trying to tighten the two thumb screws to hold them in place. Today I had an idea to add magnetic strips to the aluminum angle. It worked really well with the 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 jig heads ( I have not tried it with the bigger heads yet). I used magnetic strips that are used to hold up posters on display boards. They are peel and strip, but I used high temperature RTV (from Lowes in the grill section) to hold the magnetics on the aluminum. In the picture the jig heads are being held in place by the magnetics and the thumb screws have not been tightened. Thought some others may be interested

I'm pretty sure the bottom one is a ruler.