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This. Is. Awesome. I bet it's about the right size for great white sharks and orcas.

There is a rattle can rainbow trout clipped at the bottom this pic. It is also in pic 2 at the top. What I do is: 1. paint+primer flat white base coat on whole bait 2. pearl mist on belly with belly directly facing nozzle. Sometimes I skip this and keep the white bottom for stained water. 3. You can use a fine mesh here for scales if you want. Metallic silver or Shimmer Metallic silver (Krylon) with back(top) of the lure facing nozzle at slight angle so the paint hits the shoulder and fades down the sides. Give a good dry time here. 4. Use low adhesion masking tape to mark a stripe area down each side of the bait. Spray a few light passes in pink. I found a can of ‘English rose’ color that makes a good rainbow trout stripe. Here you can also do something like paint the stripe purple, keep tape on and let dry, apply mesh, and hit same are with pink so you get purple and pink in the stripe. 5. Spray the back of the bait with a green with the center of the back directly facing the nozzle. The top will get hit and fade onto the shoulder. I have used army green, camo green, dark olive, forest green. 6. Dot with black or purple Sharpie. Or hand dot with small brush. I have used small cans of Rustoleum here because I have a bunch of them. 7. Optional- you can do another light pass of the green on the back here to blend in the shoulder dots a touch. 8. Optional- hit the sides with a quick light pass of Krylon Glitter blast in gold or silver. Keep the nozzle a bit further away from the bait. Only looking for a light dusting here. I do a practice spray away from the bait to gauge the spray flow so I don’t cover the paint job in glitter. I have done a bunch of rainbow trout baits. I sometimes change the colors a bit depending on what I have and what is on sale. It is easy but there is some drying time in between steps. You can use a hair dryer to speed this up if you keep the coats light.

swim video?

Work. Of. Art. I think I need it lol. just to umm... Yaknow, to do some prototype testing...

Does that blade chatter well with that big lure body on it? Excellent catch!

Got munched!

Thanks...this is my first attempt at a big thread fin

Looks good man!

This bait was made for the lure contest but I thought it was open through the end of April rather then closing on the 29th. so I hope you enjoy this bait here instead. It is a sunfish glide bait bade from colored pencils.

Thanks gentlemen!

Still a cool looking swimbait and would be interested in see some of your other work. But if I remember you won with this same lure last year

Wayyy better than what I was making at 15 haha…nicely done!

Exceptional work Ryan. Your stuff is so clean and well done.

Awesome Sauger Pattern!

Thanks both! Fishin Big: it's cunningly designed to scare off the smaller fish and only catch the big, tough ones.

Wow... Your spoon/spoonplug type baits never cease to amaze me!

The sheer depth of this paint job is really nice...love it!

Not perfect, but the bait looks great! It's amazing how much information is on this site. So many people have so much experience. I've learned a bunch over the last couple years. My next jump is going to be into using an airbrush, as the finish is just so much higher quality looking. Did you airbrush this?

Thanks, yea totally use the idea. I'm definitely not the first one to do this! Honestly, I don't exactly make lures just to sell, but I made a few of these as gifts last year, and they were super popular. So I made more this year, and sold more than I could make before Christmas. You end up reaching a MASSIVE demographic of people who would never buy a lure, but know someone in their life who loves hunting/fishing. It makes a great gift for any "man cave".

More pumpkinseed cranks, this time with the turquoise applied with an airbrush over mesh. The fat one on the left has already caught a bunch of fish.

Almost didn't see the spider haha...looks sick!

I like it! Reminds me of a baby porcupine too

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

That's excellent!

Looks great!

Nice!

Looks great!

Very Nice

Looks good man!

Hahahaha

Thanks! The eye is airbrushed using a different stencil for each colour.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

Nice attention to detail. The frog hooks are a great idea.

Nice, is the whole bait 3D printed?

Absolutely incredible. Such scrolling talent!!!

Very cool concept...I commend you for all that hard work

i call this the kahuna tuna. 16 inches long, and 2lbs. and 3 oz. it has never been in the water. this is what a covid lockdown can drive a man to!

Nice work with the detail on the gills!

I learned it from SolarBaits

I'm right there with you Just got my airbrush set up and It's a blast! So many possibilities.

very nice is it handmade

Very nice work, almost too pretty to throw in the Lake.

Congrats to 1st place!

Pretty good copy of the Rapala rip-stop.

Way too many joints I would have lost at least two if I attempted that build lol

Yes I put the under scale effects down first then used a vinyl transfer to cover the area up.. thanks I real happy with it...

No fair! You clearly know how to paint!!! Beautiful, like all of your paint jobs.

Wow! That is legit!

Those are beautiful, you wouldn't want to share that pumpkin seed recipe would you

great looking bait but what on earth is a Carolina chicken ?