JRammit
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Its a toss up between the floater and the trusty texas rigged worm, not sure which ive caught more fish on, but the two combined account for the vast majority of bass in my fishing life
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Im completely satisfied with the action, and it didnt take any tuning to get it that way surprisingly ....... it has a tight subtle vibration, enough to clearly feel down the rod, but not as heavy a vibration as a real rat-l-trap, likely because i did not flatten the leading edge of the nose
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Not sure, never used wake baits before, just decided i wanted one... the jointed tail definitely gives it a lively/wide action, and i figure if fish are active enough to hit top water then theres no reason to go for subtle action
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Thanks.. it wasnt as difficult as i thought it would be.. the key is getting the line tie location right.. i made 4 indentions to try different line tie locations, but the first one i tried worked great, so i didnt even have to drill any holes to fill later
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Ive always had a hard time with these long, strait slender body type cranks... think ill go with a little more curvature on the back with the next one... and think ill start doing test swims with the body i intend to finish instead of always making two... should save alot of time and eliminate unintended variables
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Thanks!... i like simple.... its createx pearlized copper
Turned out to be a dud tho.. i carved a test model first and transfered all the measurements to the finished product, but somehow i messed up and put the line tie too far forward on this one.. test piece swims fine, this one just does the porpoise..... oh well, itll look good on the wall, and ill put this same paint job on the next one
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Thanks man!
Fish kinda liked it too
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Those look solid Bob!
Prefect mesh of a fat profile and slim tail for action
Scale pattern is sharp too!
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Man those are clean!
No flashing.. Good shaping.. And nice details!
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Now that's sexy right there!
Nice work!... Clever joint design, form and function together in harmony
And nice touch with the marabou too!
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Man I like the grain pattern on this one!... Makes a cool lookin spotted nose too!
Superb carving as always!
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Thanks!.... Never seen the pro trap.. And I been fishin rattle traps since I was a kid
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Yea, had trouble getting to it... So I went through Google... There was an ICast video from May 2013 featuring it..... I built my first prototypes in May 2015
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1 hour ago, shlock said:
Well I'll be damned!... Google let me down.... I must have searched every word and phrase EXCEPT "float back"
However, I did find a patent on this concept, over 20 years old and expired.... So I'm not sure what aspect they hold a patent for??
Only issue I see with theirs is the breaking off... If you've ever seen a crankbait back away from a limb on a pause, you know it doesn't float strait up..... There's no telling where the bait will surface, you could still lose it, especially on a windy day..... I like how mine is free to float up the line, I know right where it's headed
But I do like the "through belly hook".. Genius!..... And it looks like they beat my by exactly 2 years
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Yes... I've caught a few
It's give and take with the catch rate... Having one treble instead of two is obviously a handicap.... But on the other hand, once they're hooked, it's hard to lose em!
And yea, there's plenty of separation between the hook and lure during a fight... Since fish don't tend to swim in a strait line once a hook pokes em in the mouth, the water actually pulls the bait away from the fish when it changes direction
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Oh, and one of the biggest questions in the beginning was weather or not I could get a decent swimming crank bait without the mechanical freedom of a split ring or snap ring connected to the line tie.. Like a traditional crank bait
You can be the judge.. Here's a test swim of this bait in our pool.... Apologies, not the best camera work
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Thanks!
Such a simple idea, I couldn't believe it hadn't been done before..... And when I google it, I come up
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look at Ace Hardware.. They're the only place I know of that carry it in store (Lowes and Home Depot don't have it)..... It will say "2 ton" on the package
i use it so much that Santa stuffed my stocking with half a dozen tubes of it
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Devcon 30 minute.. I put that sh** on everything, just like Frank's Red Hot Sauce
i tried the microbaloons in a solid frog body before I decided to go hollow... Didn't like them!.. My baits aren't the prettiest in the world, but those microbaloons made em flat out ugly!
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Yes, pine sealed with epoxy... I only shot maybe 10 frogs, no issues with the insert
I also use a poplar dowel rod sealed in epoxy as my injector... They'll last several months and well over 100 shoots before re-sealing or cutting a new one
Man that's quite a load!.. Mine would float a 4/0 worm hook, don't know if they could hold up a double hook though
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Yes, I went thru a thousand ways in my brain, in the end this was the most simplistic
The hollow shooting method works great, no failures there... Every bait was hollow, and they all pulled off the insert with ease (insert was sprayed with PAM before each shoot)....... Everything was fine except field testing
and the legs only kicked when the bait sank.. They did nothing on the surface
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You nailed it... I did it just how you said..... But they turned out to be failures..... Some of the plugs Just fell off, and after enough use the weedless hook tears thru the nose and let's water in
i did manage to get one to float long enough to catch one fish.. So not a complete failure
I used soft formula, maybe a harder plastic will do the trick..... I might try shooting some more when the weather warms up
Nova (member here) makes some really nice hollow frogs, I got the idea from an old pic of his here in the gallery, I just changed mine up a bit
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Love the flash fins!
Wicked paint too... Like an illusion of light penetration in the water..... Nice piece!
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looks pretty sharp man!
a handy property ive found with PVC is, it melts... i use a soldering iron to start my balast holes... you could probably do something similar with your ballast slot, without melting all the way thru.... save time filling the outside of the slots
Foiled Floaters
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I also tested with one 1/32 oz weight in front of the hook hanger, it swam with a more x action, looked ok but not what i wanted... you get more flash from the foil with a y action
Finally got to real world test today at the lake... perfect day for it!... cloudy, dead calm, 60 degrees outside, water temp in the low 50's... caught 3 largies and 1 abnormally large spotted bass (batteries died in my scale, id estimate about 3 lbs on the spot)