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I would try Lepage's marine epoxy for the Plano lip, hardest epoxy I've ever used. I've banged aluminium bills on rocks and it hasn't cracked yet.

Funny, just tonight I was working on some lures and glanced over at one of my inline spinners, and I thought boy, that colorado blade would make a nice lip.

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[diemai]

@ mark poulson

Mark , off course you are right about sealing the lip slot with glue before , didn't think of it(the forest and the trees , lol !) .
Almost is achieved automatically , when glueing in the lip , maybe only some more little care neccessary !


I think , that those dividers DO warp , but not under this given condition as a diving bill .

I always tend to stuff up my stowaways with too many lures , especially metal spoons and leadhead jigs .
When stored sideward in my tackle pouches over a longer period of time , the weight of these metal lures slightly bends those dividers , and they don't flip back , when reliefed .
Maybe they would , also after a long period of time , I can't tell , because I hardly have my stowaways empty .

When utilizing such dividers as diving bills , such conditions are not given , nobody would store his homemade crankbaits in a way , that pressure would be applied to them for a longer period of time(not even myself , lol) , so no warping of the bill would occur .

Greetz , Dieter

[mark poulson]

Dave,
Thanks for the kind words.
Here's a riddle I bet you can answer.
I've found that gliders, for me, work best when they are more round on the bottom, and not too tall, almost cylindrical, but my swimbaits seem to swim better if they are more "rectangular" in cross section.
I've kind of figured out that the round bottom on my surface gliders helps them to change direction with less effort, skidding over the water instead of plowing through it, but I still don't have a clue why the rectangular shape, tall and thin, works for swimbaits, while the more round section doesn't work as well.
So what is it about the two body cross sections that makes such a difference?

[Vodkaman]

Mark, would be happy to discuss the subject. But first, I am confused about terminology. Please explain the difference between glider and swimbait. I know what a swimbait is (well I think I do!), but on LKN's recent vid, he referred to his bait as a glider.

This discussion possibly belongs in a new thread.

[mark poulson]

Dave,
I think of a surface glider as an oversized Sammy. The Pupfish, a knockoff of the Mega Bass Dog, is the gold standard, and the Lunker Punker is the current reigning champ.
It is walked side to side, and the amount it moves is determined by the cadence and length of pause.
A hard swimbait, to me, is a baitfish replica that is larger than the big deep diving cranks. It can be one piece, but generally is jointed to give it a swimming action. The earliest hard swimbaits had bills to initiate their actions, like a crank, and lots of the current crop of jointed swimbaits have bills, too.
As they say, size matters. I think of swimbaits as being at least 4" in length. But the actual definition of a swimbait is a mystery to me.