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Originally Posted by DSV
well i put the epoxy on and everything was going fine until about halfway through the tail piece and then i dropped the bait on my arm! now i have a bunch of epoxy on my arm that won't come off, and the finish is kind of rough on one side of the bait. i did my best to smooth it out, but it is still a little bit rough.
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Been there, done that.
Let the epoxy set and cure on both the lure and your arm.
Then lightly sand the rough epoxy, to smooth it, but not enough to go through into the paint, and recoat.
The stuff on your arm will come off by itself due to the oils and sweat in your skin. Or you can peel it, and all the hair under it off. Ouch!
Weighting a two piece lure so it swims is tricky.
I weight the rear of the front section, which I make longer than the rear section, in a 3/2 ratio. The rear weighting makes the head unstable, because the back of the head wants to keep moving straight while the front moves to one side or the other as water passes over it. I only weight the front of the rear section, or not at all if it's a floater.
I haven't had good success with two piece lures except as twitch baits.
The Giron doesn't have a radical swimming action. It just kind of sways from side to side.
And the Shell Cracker, a two piece surface lure by Black Dog, the same guy who invented the Lunker Punker, also swims with a very gentle action, and is more of a twitch bait.
I toyed with the idea of reversing the angle on the joints, so the V of the rear section would catch the water and start the rear wiggling, but I moved on into three and four piece lures instead.
They are much easier get to swim.
If you like the lure, but want more action, you might try adding a bill.
A wake bait bill might give it more action. The water trapped by the shallow bill takes turns dumping off one side and then the other, causing the head to shake, and wiggling the tail.
But if you like the action as it is, recoat it and go fishing!
