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  1. Sorry , I do not have any scales , ...I'd estimate them at maybe 25 grams for the larger one and 17 grams for the smaller lure , ....but it really depends on which sheet thicknesses one would use .

     

    Thanks a lot for chiming in , .......greetings , Dieter

  2. Yeah , ...someone on a German forum watching my own lure vids pointed out the trick to me a while ago , ..he said , that the 25% slo-mo would be really useful to observe a displayed lure action perfectly , ....and he's darn right !

     

    Greetz , Dieter

  3. Thanks , Ben , can't wait to try them on our pike, perch , zander and trout  , ...local lure fishing closing time would be finally through May 1st , ...but weather is most crappy , coldest springtime in years !

     

    Greetz , Dieter

  4. I really like the action of your lure , the slow-mo shows it all , .......but no need to take the effort of making slow-mo lure action videos , as with utilizing the YouTube settings(click the on small gear wheel bottom right below video screen)one can slow down any YouTube video down to 25% of it's original frames .

     

    Greetings , Dieter

  5. Hi , Gino ,

     

    Sorry for belated reply , .....just dropped by at work last night , so now I'm typing on my computer at home .

     

    Thanks a lot for further info on spoonplugs and spoonplugging , ....I really wonder , why this type of lure had never made it's way across the Great Pond back in the day and remained absolutely unknown in Germany , if not in entire Europe ?

     

    Anyway ,....I intend to try these lures for casting only ,  I have access to some fairly deep swims , where I can reach depths of 20 to 45 feet even when casting from the bank .

     

    Also I wonder , whether the spoonplugs would be suitable to be thrown into the strong tidal currents of Germany's second largest river , the "Elbe" around the city of Hamburg .

     

    Hard to tell, how deep the river is , I suppose , upstream of Hamburg it would be around 15 to 20 feet on average , .....currently I'm working on two prototype spoonplugs sporting riveted single hooks with their points protruding upward over the rear of the lure , just to avoid too much snagging .

     

    Since I'm aware , that this might chance the balance of the spoonplug to my disadvantage , I still kept the belly hook hanger , just to be able to attach just a little sinker there , just in case .

     

    Can't wait for the start of the lure fishing season at May 1st over here to finally try my spoonplug creations in the outdoors , ....thanks a lot for chiming in ,...best greetings , Dieter

  6. Mark , at least the integrated fin obviously helps the lure to stay upright(please check my comment in your upload of the finished lure) , ......so now you've gotta catch some fish ,.......some day the weather will get better !

     

    Greetz , Dieter 

  7. You just gave me a little "Heureka" moment , Mark , .....many years ago I've built a few similar lures , yet with a deeper belly to be able to place the ballast lower to counterwork what you've called leaning .

     

    But since the fin of my own lure was made of 0,5mm stainless steel sheet, the belly weight did not prevent the lure from leaning at about 45° at higher paces , ....and I've put as much weight as possible still retaining sufficient buoyancy !

     

    Now I'm sure , that it has to do with the centrifugal forces generated by my heavier metal fin compared to the lighter integrated fin of your lure ,...and the belly is not even as deep !

     

    I reckon , that your buoyant fin material is also the reason , that your lure even performs better than the original lure in that matter .

     

    Well done , Mark , ........Greetz , Dieter

  8. Hi , David ,

     

    The top lure is a typical darter , you could find plenty of pics in the internet , if you search vintage lure sites .

    I was not that satisfied with the action doing a first blank test in the tub , so I've moved the tow eye about 2,5mm or 3,0mm further rearward , closing the old hole with an epoxied toothpick .

     

    Naturally the lure  is a bit tail heavy , but the diving planes  still do shoulder into the water sufficiently , ...also tested a little taped-on ballast underneath the chin , but as espected , it slowed down the anyway subtle wiggle even more , .....the lure's main action is to swim in a wave pattern , when constantly retrieved and to dart sideard/downward , when jerked and flicked with rod tip manipulaton .

     

    Earlier in my luremaking carreer I've also made smaller ones like 3 1/4" in length, but yet about keeping the relation of body diameter and length , as the lure requires a certain guidance in the water not to flip over , ...but as said , tow eye location is critical .

     

    The lower lure is a "Sick Sucker" , named this way by author Charles K. Fox and his buddies back during the 1940's , ...he introduced this lure in his "The Book Of Lures" issued during the 1970's .

     

    As far , as I remember , these guys ran a very short-lived luremanufactury back in the day , which had commercialized the "Sick Sucker" as well , but still it should be very hard to find in the internet .

     

    This lure is also unweighted , but yet swims about level , under rod tip manipulation it kinda "Walks-The-Dog" on the surface(yet not as pronounced compared to a stickbait like the old "Heddon Zara Spook") , .....under constant reeling it would submerge to about 1 to 1 1/2 feet and come back in rather straight without a wiggle, so should be used as a diving glidebait at that stage .

     

    If the body is made a bit shorter compared to the outer diameter , it would therefore gain less guidance in the water to come up with a little more action , both on the surface and also underwater .

     

    I haven't made a lot of these , also did not fish them as much , as I find Charles K. Fox's "Whirligig" to be a lot superior and more appealing actionwise , yet more difficult to make .

     

    The "Sick Sucker" has a fully rounded nose of which the lower half(chin) has been planed down rearward , then transisting into an apex about the same length of the cut out plane in front .

     

    Here you should find a better view of that lure  , just scroll down to find it :

     

    http://www.lurebuilding.nl/enggallery1.html

     

    You see, that one is a bit shorter compared to its outer diameter , .....you do not neccessarely have extend the corners of the apex upward , it's just for the looks .

     

    Good Luck , Dieter

  9. Thanks a lot , folks , ......actually I had messed up that yellow crankbait before , the base paint was yellow with orange spots at first and I wanted to crackle it in black .

     

    But due to lack of experience I did not let the cracklelure varnish dry sufficiently prior to applying the black paint , so it worked to an extend , that not much of the black paint was visible anymore , LOL , ..it looked so ugly .

     

    So after drying I had buffed the lure and gave it a black basecoat to be crackled with that yellow as shown !

     

    Still new to this crackle technique , ...live and learn !

     

    Thanks for commenting , ..best greetings , Dieter

  10. Now I see , which plugs you've meant ,...never did such , I guess , ....my plugs with sucha "dish face" were tapered down the tail like salmon plugs , ....don't wiggle much but come back in some kinda "wave" pattern" ,..these fatter versions of yours would wiggle a lot more , I suppose !

     

    Great job.......greetz , Dieter

  11. Very nicely detailed lure , Mark , ........I'm just wondering ,  what your intention was to make that "V"-joint that tight  , ....obviously to limit too much swing of the rear part ?

     

    Don't have that much experience with such wakebaits , though I had also made similar one-piece ones before , ....would any issues occur , if the play between the two sections was too much ?

     

    Please make me smarter , my friend , ....greetz , Dieter

  12. Yes , ..off course ,...I do not consider such rejects like a waste of time and effort as well, ......we only learn to do better next time .

     

    Through the years I had  made some prototypes with a dropping belly and a straight back as well , but I remember to have always had problems with these .

     

    A slightly downward tail end on deep divers won't generate too much of tail wagging , provided it is kept slender and narrow,....with increasing width it would rather work like the depth rudder of a submarine , in conjunction with the lip it would lead into a much more lively swimming pattern .

     

    At the beginning of my carreer well over 20 years ago  I've once made such a lure with a wider , downward curved tail end AND a downward pointing shallow diving lip , .......the best way to proceed , if you want a sure blow-out lure , LOL , ........but I've learned from it !

     

    Greetz , Dieter

  13. I guess , that lure had just been on a very narrow edge between performance and fail , .....the 2nd topcoat just pushed it over !

     

    Happened to me as well sometimes , ....a sealed lureblank with hardware and ballast temporary assembled would perform well at the intial bathtub test prior to final assembly and painting , ....but later in the outdoors it would show the middle finger !

     

    Just have a lure like this down the shop , ..a 7 1/2" slender deep diving minnow bait , that came to swim on it's side on first outdoor text , but did well before painting and topcoating .

     

    Shaved the lip a bit narrower and pointy , but never tested it again since , gonna do that together with my actual bunch , that I'm working on .

     

    Greetz , Dieter

  14. There will be more handbrush paintjobs to discover and to master them , too , ....don't worry about that !

     

    The other day I went to a hobby craft store in Hamburg(don't have one in my hometown) , looking for some new paints there and found something called "cracklelure varnish" , ......tried it on a few lures so far  , ....some turned out nice , some did not ,........quite a bit of luck involved to achieve a good looking crackled paint pattern , ....I'm still learning .

     

    There is also someone in here doing perfect marbled paintjobs on his lures , ....dunno , whether you had seen them here in the gallery , ......in a nutshell marbling is just dipping the object ito water with marbling paint swimming on top .

     

    And TU member "littleriver" (sadly he is not that active anymore) even used pastel chalks to paint his lures ,.......you see, .....there are quite a few options apart from airbrushing ,.......and each of them displaying some kinda personal style , too .

     

    Yep , ....it really is a PITA about those banned videos ,.........your particular soundtrack is said to be subject of an argument between the German YouTube branch and the local owning company of the tune's copyrights , so YouTube rather backs up , since they've lost lawsuits started by the local music industry and don't want to be fined .

     

    Nowadays downloading music , videos , pictures or texts to use them for own purposes  has become a real snake pit over here .

     

    There are free computer programs available to bypass these restrictions of German YouTube , though , .....taking detours through internet servers in other countries , I guess , but I haven't bothered to take care about it so far , the issue is not that relevant to me .

     

    Greetings , Dieter

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