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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!

Looks great!

Thanks it’s 6 1/2 inches long but once the tail is added it will be over 8inches. Gets down fairly deep(water was to dark to see) with a slow rise I have a trip to northern Saskatchewan to chase pike so trying to knock out a few new jerk baits to test out. 2 other styles in the works but maybe biting off more than I can chew time wise

Spoon & Fork pike/musky lure Salad serving size.

Pretty bait!

I hate taking photos of baits painted with pearls because I loose part of the details lure was painted with a white base. Next a cream color with faint dark bronze pearl bars and a copper pearl back. Small silver scales over the sides and back. White spots freckled over the back and sides. Then a white belly slightly faded into the sides. The face I faded in some white and add black gill detail. The first layer of clear coat has fine gold glitter and then 4 more coats of KBS

Simply gorgeous! My metaphorical pet bass just reaction struck my monitor...

id love to see that in the water. very cool!

I have fished the bait at the top right. It is a wake bait. It will go under a bit if I hold the rod tip low. The blade flaps. The back section tapers to a flat end. A small eye screw is at he top of the flat surface. A split ring connects a #5 Colorado blade. The blade flops around randomly and strikes the back of the bait. It sound like a few forks falling down a set of stairs, a lot of random pings. I also tried it with a swivel instead of a split ring. The blade would spin with some intermittent pauses but made less noise. I liked it with the split ring better. I also made a one piece flat tail. It makes less noise. The jointed swimming action really gets the blade bouncing around.

Testing weight placement and action. All about 3" with aluminum lips. Top one has 1 size 7 split shot, middle has 1 size 5, and bottom has 2 size 7.

Looks great! I like the extra section for the tail. It looks like it'll add a bit more action.

Great job man! Excellent carving! That thing is awesome.

This is actually my favorite color pattern for fishing in Canada. There's a lake I used to fish a lot with this pattern, I used to catch quite a few smallmouth, walleye, and the odd pike with this in about a 2 1/2" crank.

Looks great Rich! Thanks for posting

They look awesome Mark. This Covid isolation has got you stepping up your game! Get on 'em!!!

Good idea with CD lip it'll be interesting to see how that turns out I have stacks of old CD,s ,I guess you could leave them silver also ...bait looks great

Wow, well done! This looks great!

Superb!

Very cool paint scheme

Very cool ! Great job !

Versatile looking paint scheme! Seems like it resembles a good variety of forage species.

Musta been at least 50 inches... Probably weighed 40 pounds... Great re-build work though, the finished lure looks brand new! What's your personal best muskie?

LOL! I made a Greenbay one too. Waiting on lips from the muskyshop. I will post it as soon as they come. Figured it would be fun to troll them side by side.

Great looking baits as usual!!! Looking good man!!

Well done!

Before I looked at the title or comments I thought, "Now there is a proper bluegill... er no pumpkin seed pattern."

Thanks Rookie. Not sure about the "pro" stuff though. Even a blind hog picks up an acorn every now and then.