Breeze

Thanks guys, so after the reading your comments i went to check the lip and the lead holes (luckily i didn't paint them yet). The lip was a few degrees off, and so were the lead holes. I'll have to fix the bandsaw as I had a feeling the blade wasn't perfectly 90 degrees. I'll check it out later. As for the lead holes probably the best way i can come up with to fix that is drill holes before i start whittling/carving the lures so that i have edges to find the center. I've always left centering things till the last step and eyeballing it, guess that was a newbie mistake. PS: Quick question, Do you guys have other methods that make a super clean cut for the lip slot? (incase my bandsaw fix doesn't work out)

First off, I'd like to say that I'm new to lure-making, less than a week new, so forgive me if my problem seems stupid or trivial. I've made 3 pinewood crankbaits with a 60-ish degree lip on each of them. The shapes of the cranks would be under the 'minnow' category, so their lips are on the smaller side. All of the have lead poured into their bellies (and tail area for one of them to balance it out) and float perfectly upright while stationary. The problem I'm facing at the moment is when i start to move them, the lures would have a decent wiggle action but at an angle with its belly slightly going to the side. In other words, it's swimming straight and the head is perpendicular to the direction its being pulled, but it's back isn't perpendicular to the surface of the water (while its moving). It tilts to the right a bit, about 45-60 degrees. Kind of looks like a dying fish and when looking down on it, i see more of the side of the than I'd like. What would cause it to do this?