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Location: Milwaukee,Wi | Here's another one, perch ,straight foil no scales.
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Location: Burton, Ohio | Man there are some baits on this thread!
I finished a smallmouth bass this weekend. I had to use 6 different browns to get the effect. I am really pleased with it. The glass eyes are more work than I thought. I save 2 bucks a set to get them unpainted. Not sure if it is worth it  It only takes me 1/2 hour to do if everything goes well  It usually doesn't!
Happy New Year
John
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Location: Wisconsin | That is an awesome looking bait...!! Great job! |
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Location: WI | Tigger,
Unbelievable work!!
Happy New Year to all of you!
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| Tigger, you must have incredible eyes, brains and hands to do this detailed work, is the rest of body just normal? Keep up the great wotk. |
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| Tigger, you must have incredible eyes, brains and hands to do this detailed work, is the rest of body just normal? Keep up the great work. |
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Location: Burton, Ohio | Thanks for the kind words everybody.
People like Snax , Novak, Fatfingers, and all the other baitmakers have inspired me. They can pic up an airbrush and flat out paint! I need lots of layers of epoxy and many shade techniques with templates to get my effect. The foil base doesn't hurt also. Simply way to much time to put into something but it keeps me off the couch! The scary part is they have nice actions to go with them. Not sure I can get up the nerve to cast them into the mouth of a musky! They might get scratched!!!!!!!!!!
One last one. I finished a up a largemouth also.
I love to ice fish but here in Ohio we are just not getting the cold weather. I guess I can still go out to a pond and play with the actions of the baits.
Take care
John
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Keep 'em coming Tigger! I love that you use the foil technique. It really gives your baits their own identity.
Your growth as an artist never ceases to inspire ME! |
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Location: big cove tannery pa | Tigger, i can throw them into the mouth of a musky for you if you want!
Gorgeous work on them,looks so realistic. |
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| Tigger thats some really nice work, (the cats Meow).
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Location: Milwaukee,Wi | Tigger,
BEAUTIFUL WORK!!! You've come such a long way from the Purple Musky Eater, Brown Sucker and the Halloween Special in such a short time it's unreal!!! Whatever methods you are using to achieve this high level finished product are justified. Keep up the good work,can't wait to see the next one's!
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Location: Oregon | It's interesting how the paint on gliders has evolved over the last couple of years. I think Snax and Novak have been the biggest inspiration. Two years ago you couldn't hardly find a bait that had the mouth, gill lines, and pectoral fin painted on them and now lots of builders are including them.
The internet is a powerful tool and has greatly accelerated the learning process for lure builders. Today you can learn in a day what would have taken you a decade to discover on your own. It used to be that building musky baits was a very tightly held secret and this is why you see so many of the old builders (pre-internet) coming from specific areas....Cobb, HR, WydeGlyde, Smuttley for example all within a few miles of one another. But now with all the info exchange available online, guys from all over the world are building baits. I think it's good for most hobbyists but probably not-so-good for the old-timers that used to have a corner on the custom market.
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| RiverMan - 1/3/2007 5:10 PM
It's interesting how the paint on gliders has evolved over the last couple of years. I think Snax and Novak have been the biggest inspiration. Two years ago you couldn't hardly find a bait that had the mouth, gill lines, and pectoral fin painted on them and now lots of builders are including them.
The internet is a powerful tool and has greatly accelerated the learning process for lure builders. Today you can learn in a day what would have taken you a decade to discover on your own. It used to be that building musky baits was a very tightly held secret and this is why you see so many of the old builders (pre-internet) coming from specific areas....Cobb, HR, WydeGlyde, Smuttley for example all within a few miles of one another. But now with all the info exchange available online, guys from all over the world are building baits. I think it's good for most hobbyists but probably not-so-good for the old-timers that used to have a corner on the custom market.
jed v.
Amen....you nailed it completely Jed!!!
Do keep up the good work tho all you lurebuilders....cause I love to see those works of art!
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Very well Jed and thanks for the compliment.
What can make or break a custom bait maker is more than just having a great product. It's the total package of customer service, public relations skills, networking and then the builders personality itself.
Many times customers will invest in a certain makers products simply because they believe he or she is a decent human being and deserves the business over someone else who they may not respect as a person as much. Respect goes a lot further than you might think.
I wasn't without my own influences of course and without guys like Jim Wilson and Jed making excellent products there wouldn't be a Snax. |
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| a good action over the paint job!do you know wath i mean? |
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| Good paint helps but most important is the action of a bait |
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | No one is disputing that fact.
however, try selling a lure with just white primer on it and tell me how that works out for you.
Paint jobs sell baits whether or not the fish care. The lures that catch fish are the ones that spend time in the water...and those will be the ones that the angler has confidence in. Often it's because he or she has faith in the particular colour pattern and therefore throws it the most. |
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| Snax is right on.
Proper action is a requirement, but the colors available in mass produced baits are limited. So is size to a degree.
I wish I had known of all the great homebrew baits made by the guys I've encountered (on this type of site) back when I was buying commercial over-the-counter type baits. I would have spent my hard-earned money on much better quality baits in sizes, colors and patterns that are not quite as commonplace.
The main reason I started building baits for myself was to be able to make baits bigger, smaller, heavier, lighter, and in different colors and patterns than what I could buy. I fish for muskies a LOT, and I try to pay a great deal of attention to the details as to which bait works and which only gets follows, etc.
As a result, I can take a successful color pattern from one bait configuration and apply it to another...and score more often when I'm out there. I can also try relatively new styles and body shapes. Additionally if a bait fails to produce, I can alter any one of a number of variables and try again.......and have a ball in the process. |
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Location: WI | I would love if a guy could sell baits with just white primer!! lol That would cut down on the paint cost!!
Edited by dzklrz 1/6/2007 4:01 PM
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| I casted a couple of TIGGER's gliders about a week ago. Holding them in my hand and seeing the detail was one thing, casting them and seeing them go into a rythmic side to side 3 foot swash, just reeling them in , amazed me. I gave up on gliders and jerk baits years ago because of a left shoulder chewed up by arthritis, Tigger has given me a new venue to pursue!!  |
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| Tigger's baits are very nice...well done |
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Location: michigan | Heres a 6" Bennybait squirrly tail in a fakebait finish.
Jim
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Location: mpls | Here are a couple that I did for fun. They 10" topwaters that have hand carved details. I did some swimbaits for a customer similar to this,and wanted to make something a little different........
Joe
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| Joe those are an excellent addition to your already amazing line of baits!! |
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Those are really sweet Joe! |
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Location: Michigan | Great looking lures Joe |
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Location: WI | NICE Joe!
I really like the smallmouth pattern. Here are a few I recently completed.
Chad
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Location: The desert | I'll take one of each from all the bait makers out there! |
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| One of each for me also, AAWWSSOOMMEE. Those are amazing baits you guys, I may try and post some of the bucktails I make but they don't hold a candle to what has been displayed thus far on this thread.
You guys looking to make some money? I have to admit though I wouldn't want to part with the kind of baits I'm seeing so far myself! |
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