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| Now that it's winter and your favorite lake is froze or freezing shut it's time to go down in the basement to modify lures this winter. How about the worst thing that you ever did to a bait to try to help the action only to find out that it ruined the bait?
For me it's a jointed Suick! Please don't try this at home. It doesn't work!
How about it jlong, I know you must have a few! |
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| Grinding the lip off a Rapala shad and putting a metal deep diving lip on it... did not work so well.
Wait I will go down in my workshop..I should find many more mistakes down there..[;)] |
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| I have to say that I have some mixed feelings with Envirotex. I put a couple good coats on a couple of my reef hawgs, and it looked great until the hooks wore off some of the Envirotex. Well water was absorbed into the exposed wood and caused the bait to start splitting. Like major splitting...to the point of looking like it was going to split in half. LOL who needs a wood splitter when you can do this. Also when the Envirotex started peeling it started to take the paint with it. I only saw this with my Hawgs that I coated, but I think I'll just "live with" the smilies and paint chips that occur. At least I won't totally destroy the paint job, nor split a brand new bait. Some baits you can get away with coating with Envirotex, but some baits are better left alone. Especially when a huge layer of Envirotex may impede the action or structure of the bait.
I realize that some guys like to carry some epoxy to patch up peeling Envirotex. But I rather not fart around with my baits when I'm on water. Plus, nothing is worse than taking a bait out of commission because it's starting to have a bad case of Envirotex burn.(sorta like sun burn with malignant cancer...just doesn't look good)
catch ya later,
Krappie |
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| I take a lot of s**t for the narly paint jobs I put on Slamr Custom Paint Jobs, but rarely do I do bait mods....but for the ones I have done, all failures.
Putting rattles into a 12" Dawg....was fun to use my crack pipe torch, but the little baby rattles don't make an audible sound, and it looks deformed being all melted and f***ed with. Not that a Dawg can ever look normal.
8" Jake that I tried to bend the lip up to decrease the dive and increase the wobble.....still dove deep and went from not wobbling much, to not wobbling at all.
I have learned that EVERY time I f**k with the action or design of a bait, I will fail miserably. The only way for me to modify them is to bang them into rocks, trees, docks, and the side of my boat....it ages them, gives them character, and they end up working better and better. My next thought though is to increase the aging process: drag a few baits behind the Catfish Cadillac on the pavement!!!
Slamr |
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| I tried taking the hooks off some crankbaits. The action of the baits were awesome but for some reason I couldn't get any fish into the boat! I'm going to have to go to our "all knowing" resource, Mr. Sponge! He always has an outlook and solution which nobody had ever come up with before! |
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| Bill, thanks for letting us know! I was considering sawing my 9" weighted suick in half to get a jointed diver. glad I read this thread first.
My worst mod was adding lead to a supershadrap. I went from little wiggle to a dud. Now I have to get a new one! |
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| Actually Bill it was one of your baits, I grinded down the lip to square it off simular to a Crane bait lip, and it never worked the same again, Problem with that was, there wasn't anything wrong with the bait to begin with, I just wanted to see if I could give it a different action. Now I follow the old saying "If it's not broke don't FIX IT" (great line of baits by the way, especially when you twitch them)[:bigsmile:] |
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| Adding a jb weight to the nose of a wood tick killed the baits action. I also added one to a top-line surface glider to no avail.
I added ALOT of rattles to a sledge to see if it would dive more than 3" but that did not work either.
Made a shortened squirley burt which works well but hangs the grub up on the rear treble frequently. Small bass and pike like this 10" lure so far.
Putting a deep lip on a jointed pig ruins the action.
I have done some mods that work well. |
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| FLASHBACK FRIDAY! |
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| Slamr,
For rattling Bull Dawgs, try this - go to a hardware store or hobby shop and buy some rigid brass tubing. Then get some ball bearings, a handful which fit inside the tube, and two which don't quite fit. Cut the tube so it's as long as the body of the Dawg is wide. Tap one of the larger bearings into the end of the tube so it jams tight, drop the smaller bearings in the other end, then tap in the last big bearing to seal the tube. Shove the tube through the body of the bait: rattling bulldawg. Probably won't be real loud but will make some noise.
Same technique works on jerkbaits if you drill a hole through the bait and epoxy the tube in place.
Credit where credit is due - Mike Ruff from Rad Dog tackle showed me this trick. Kind of a nifty one if you are into messing with rattles.
RK |
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| 1 I added some weight to a piglet.Still has trouble with wanting to stay in the water.
2 I epoxy a couple of DB 06s,now there heavy and not in to floating,But they still catch pike so there might be hope yet,next time I try that gunstock sealer.
3 filled a couple jakes and a ernie with expanding foam,I learned quickly to add a vent hole,My poor erine over expanded,but with alittle TLC it's whole again.Blummer
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| I cut all of the lips off of my Slammers to get them to stop wobbling so much.[;)]
Beav |
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| I had half a burmek and cut a whole in the top and filled it with pebbles then put the cutout back on and duct taped it. I put a mogambo grub on...hoping it would be some kind of jig, I don't know what happened to it since then, maybe I threw it away? One thing I did that kinda worked is putting a magnum grub (squirrley burt) inside a 6" tiger tube...it made the tiger tube actually have some action (very little) But, then I only had one single hook and no weight. |
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Worst bait mod?