View Poll Results: What lure to design next
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Plopper bait
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Wake bait
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Glider
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39.13% |
Other
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03-26-2020, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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What lure to build next
Since I am getting all caught up with the extra spare time I want to try and develop one more new design before open water season starts. I have a good range in crankbaits so focusing in a different direction. I am completing a sinking spy bait design and a surface paddling top water design over this week. I can’t really decide what to go for next because I was not expecting to have the extra time. I will be sticking to a hard bait design
So the ideas running through my head is a plopper style top water, a wake bait, or glider but open to ideas just not crankbaits. The bait will be geared towards pike
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03-26-2020, 04:03 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Ok if you go with other let’s here what you are thinking
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03-26-2020, 09:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: central Alberta
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Maybe not what you are looking for. In the past I have made a couple flatfish style bodies from deer antler. Great material to work with and nicely weighted. The flatfish action is good for pike and other fish.
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03-27-2020, 06:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Bullets
Maybe not what you are looking for. In the past I have made a couple flatfish style bodies from deer antler. Great material to work with and nicely weighted. The flatfish action is good for pike and other fish.
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Making a deer antler flatfish is definitely different. I have built a few different smaller banana style baits out of wood for trout in the past but never antler. I don’t think I have used used a flatfish for pike either its always been a trout lure for me
An antler banana bait would definitely be a one off lure do to the material. I will keep it in mind as a fun project for sure because hey free time is common these days. Also don’t know if I have an antler to sacrifice
Likely do a different design first but this might be something to do after. If I take on a glider like most are voting for so far I might be able to do both if I have an antler to sacrifice. Gliders are not very difficult outside of getting the sink rate you are going for. Banana baits are not hard either but I have not worked with antler so might not go smooth
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03-27-2020, 07:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
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Jig this amongst the weeds...hold on.
Can you mimick something like this in a build?
Just a thought.
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03-27-2020, 08:04 AM
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I have been threatening myself with a full carving like Solarbaits with scales and all. But I keep chickening out.
mind you, I have 10 gallons of plastic and 7lbs + of glitter on the way
But I did vote plopper very effective for pike , if they are looking up that day
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03-27-2020, 08:18 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Edmonton
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Never even heard of a whopper plopper before, and wow its pretty neat. Def have to try it on some pike. I think that would be crazy hard to build though.
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03-27-2020, 08:26 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 58thecat
Attachment 162152
Jig this amongst the weeds...hold on.
Can you mimick something like this in a build?
Just a thought.
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Honestly if I want to I can knock off majority of the lures out there through molding and dissecting the original. Personally I won’t because it feels like cheating so I will build within a lure style but my own design.
I actually made a 5inch jig similar style to that in the past for ice fishing lake trout. I recycled the mold and no longer have the master so I would have to start from scratch. Building one of these involves building a non functioning master and molding it.
Not hard to build but a little low on mold material and would prefer to go with a casting lure over a jig going into open water season. Might be an idea for the start of next ice fishing season
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03-27-2020, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Originally Posted by Fishwhere
Never even heard of a whopper plopper before, and wow its pretty neat. Def have to try it on some pike. I think that would be crazy hard to build though.
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I have been doing this for sometime I am more than capable of building a plopper style lure
You want to see another interesting top water google surface paddler for Murray cod and look at a clip of the action. It’s a top water common to Australia. I just finished molding my prototype for a one piece surface paddler to test on pike
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03-27-2020, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by aulrich
I have been threatening myself with a full carving like Solarbaits with scales and all. But I keep chickening out.
mind you, I have 10 gallons of plastic and 7lbs + of glitter on the way
But I did vote plopper very effective for pike , if they are looking up that day
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Solarbaits and some of the other lure makers out there make true art work. I have never tried carving to their level of detail and would definitely need to switch carving materials before I attempt it.
I am still really tempted to get into the soft plastics but I feel I am stretching my self too thin at times. But I have 2 really cool hybrid designs in my head I want to bring to life
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03-27-2020, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
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Originally Posted by Smoky buck
Honestly if I want to I can knock off majority of the lures out there through molding and dissecting the original. Personally I won’t because it feels like cheating so I will build within a lure style but my own design.
I actually made a 5inch jig similar style to that in the past for ice fishing lake trout. I recycled the mold and no longer have the master so I would have to start from scratch. Building one of these involves building a non functioning master and molding it.
Not hard to build but a little low on mold material and would prefer to go with a casting lure over a jig going into open water season. Might be an idea for the start of next ice fishing season
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awesome...one of these with your own twist to it...keep'em coming!
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03-27-2020, 06:32 PM
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Seems to be a real love for gliders
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03-29-2020, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Edmonton
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A large sized (true 7"-8"), slow sink glider - that's the ticket for pike !!!!!
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03-29-2020, 06:26 PM
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The way it’s looking the public wants a glider so likely what I wish build unless things dramatically change in a few days lol
I was thinking 6-7inch. I have two styles in my head so might just build both to decide which action I like best.
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03-30-2020, 10:14 AM
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Thinking I will cut out the body for 2 gliders today. Because this body shape may have stabilization issues I will do one with a lexan tail for stability and another without. Common technique for stabilizing a glider but I hope to get the one without the lexan tail working. The one with the best action will be the keeper
Morning scribble of what I have in mind
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03-30-2020, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Parkland County, AB
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If you want to try one of these just PM me[IMG]www.baitrix.com[/IMG]
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03-30-2020, 10:35 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Salavee
If you want to try one of these just PM me[IMG]www.baitrix.com[/IMG]
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04-13-2020, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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I have not forgotten this project just picking at it amongst others. This will give people a little idea about the pain in the butt weighting a glider is. They are one of those lures that appears really simple but there is some tricks hidden inside that make them work
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04-13-2020, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2018
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I vote : Plopper bait
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04-13-2020, 12:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bertha
I vote : Plopper bait
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Maybe next on glider is started
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