MattDean
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Thanks for all the replies, I have made a 5inch copy of the 'Cobbs Crazy shad' and for the first time on a glider I got the action I was looking for. I rounded of the edges more than i did before and tapered in towards the nose and weighted it to sink slowly and I got myself a lure I am more than happy with, When scaling up a lure like this to say 7" do you increase all the dimensions accordingly or do you just add the length and keep the belly depth similar to the 5" one? Or is it just a suck it and see situation?
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Yes Diemai, I have made some lures from Lurebuilding site . The reason I put up this post in the first place is that I have bought a few gliders that have a very sexy action and I cant seem to get the same action in my own. But reading through this post has made me realise a few things that i wasn't considering so much. Like body shape and roundness of the edges. I shall keep at it. I have caught on my own lures but I am not as confident yet on the jerkbait side of things as some of the commercially bought ones. This has to change
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Thanks for the replies, some interesting points of view. But Uptown has just come up with a radical statement and it has got me curious. Can you give me some of examples of the shapes you find that glide well please as I am keen to see the difference it makes. I am really enjoying learning this side of luremaking. So thanks again for all you help
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I have been reading through some of the posts on weighting lures and I have been building a few different types of glider jerkbaits recently and I have tried various weightings and placements on the same type of lure to see if I could get something that glides well, I can get them with a tight zig zag, walk the dog type of motion but I cant get them to do a wider sweep, can someone give me some pointers as to what I should do to achieve this motion.
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Thats a fantastic looking paint job and bait...well made Sir -
My biggest pike on Stampe Manson Jerkbait
MattDean commented on Stampe's gallery image in Trophy Room
Congratulations on your notable catch! when I saw it I thought it would go 30lbs but I bet you were well chuffed with it anyway. -
Thanks for the welcome lads @ Diemai This lure was my invention and how I designed it in my head to what I actually got was 2 very different things! This is a big lure and has a 'Kalin Big N' tail and is in between the standard and the mag dawg as a size guide for you. I actually wanted the body to wiggle and the curly tail to work its stuff to give me something a bit different. What I actually got was lure body that is almost completely damped by the tail. It has a very subtle body movement which is regular. The one thing I liked about the lure was its ability to dive on a short line and with it working in the tail wash when I am trolling has given me some memorable days. I realised that I needed to have the body seperated by a split ring to get the action I was trying to achieve in the first place but the pike seem to like it so what odds! I used a bit of galvanised 20swg mild steel for the lip which I have plenty of access too, I have used it on a number of crankbaits now and it also doesn't put the fish off. Matt -
Hi there everyone, My name is Matt and I fish for pike in Ireland, I love to lure fish and here is one of my latest hybrids, I had a 22lb fish on one of these a few years back and I decided to make a black and orange in it as they are such good colours for the peat stained waters I fish. This is an excellent site, I have been reading posts for the last week or so and I have really learned a lot from it as regards to lure making
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Swap you a weeks fishing in Ireland for that one Vince.....I know some big pike that would like to bite that! Excellent -
Thats a lovely bait, how do you get such fine scale pattern on the green upper?