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This 8.75" trout glide has been a long time in the making, but I'm finally getting it to where I want it to be after years of testing and weeding through iterations that I wasn't 100% satisfied with. I actually started working on this particular model about a year and a half ago and only now have enough time on the water with it to feel comfortable pushing it into the final phases of prototyping. The master was carved completely by hand out of a block of basswood using only a utility knife, wood chisel, and sandpaper. I made a two-piece silicone mold of the bait so that I could pour duplicates out of resin. The tail was also carved out of wood and molded with silicone. The casting material is a flexible urethane with black glitter to replicate the trout dots on the body. The bait in the photograph is the first fishable prototype out of my new mold. It was painted with an airbrush and clear coated with KBS Diamond Clear. I did a semi sloppy job with the hand-tied Owner ST-36 feather trebles. Not sure how they will effect the swim, but they add a nice touch. Overall I am very pleased with how this bait came out. I'd love to fish the paint off this thing but will be donating it this week to support the Swimbaits for Autism fundraiser event hosted by Swimbait Culture. Check it out and thanks for looking! Dan

This is a 2" mouse . I carved this out of PVC , used Badger hair for body and feathers for head . The tail is a t-stop for pegging weights

1 1/2 ounce vibrating jig , Magnum blade ( Barlow's ? )hand tied skirt and 5/0 owner spinnerbait hook

Custom airbrush painted Sauger (or Walleye)

Hcsb Guadalupe Glide

Epic boss hand pour in electric trout

A floating spinnerbait with a 3D Printed floating, spinning EllipZoid body. Dual hooks on a .051 stainless wire with hand poured lead body.

This is a 6" crappie swimbait made entirely of natural wood. There is zero painting on this bait. Every detail was inlaid with a scroll saw. It is made from five different kinds of wood: maple for the belly, pine for the yellow of the upper back, green poplar for the back, walnut for the head and tail, and ebony for the black spots. I had to do everything twice to make two sides, and I joined the two sides with a center core of maple and poplar.

New soft tail dive and rise jerk bait I am working on with a new pattern. It should really pop after it’s clear coated and assembled

Carved PVC deck board arowana wakebait/swimbait. I did the scales with gauges, outlined them with a sharpie, and then used createx pearl colors. Clear coat is Devcon 2 Ton.

Chatterbait made by me, a very fishy lure with which I have my personal bass record.

Musky Bucktail

Build by Kevin Aderhold

Someone asked me to try and copy a Luhr Jenson speed trap, and here's my version, along with an original in a redish craw for comparison. I've included a schematic (at least, my version of a schematic) and I built mine out of Azek PVC trim. They swim really well, even when burned back on a fast retrieve. I built one out of the med weight balsa that Rayburn Ben gave me, and it's so lively I had to increase the belly hanger weight to 3.7 grams, with not rattles. I'm going to try and make a balsa bait with rattles tomorrow.

7" 3.75 oz Fast sink gill. Rattle can paint

made this for a fellow in Rhode Island. 7", swims on it's side. hooks are 7/0 Owners that i embedded and wired thriugh the body.