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| I have seen that some bait makers such as Lucky Craft are starting to use actual fish skins to cover their lures. I believe the story was an executive for Lucky Craft was at a sushi parlor and got the idea to use the skin off his dinner to cover one of their pointer models.
When are we going to see some of you starting to experiment with this method?!?!?!? I would love to see a 7" glider with a perch skin covering it! |
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Location: WI | My wife would have me hung on the highest tree if I started to bring fish skins in the basement. I guess I could try to hide them and play dumb when she asks, "do you smell that, have you been at a strip bar?" |
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Location: Warrenville,IL | I kinda have the next best thing.
My company prints actual fish and applies them to the lure. I also am dabbling in skaeskin prints as well.
I'll put up a picture tomorrow of the snakeskin. The other fish skin pics are on a previous post from today.
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Location: Wisconsin | http://www.tackletour.com/reviewlcpointerrealskin.html
Very cool.......Will have to pick one up. I usually don't drop 20 bucks on Bass lures however. |
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| The review was good. It showed that fishing two indentical models...one with the skin and one without showed that they caught almost the same amount of fish. No advantage for the skin covered lure. |
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| Fishermen will do anything to catch more.....ummmm...FISHERMEN!!! |
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | It's not impossible, you have just rasp all flesh and grease away inside of the skin and let it dry a while on the paper towel in fridge, maybe to the next day.
Then you sweep the skin by aceton and glue it to the jerkbait. After that normal covering by lacque.
Edited by Jio 3/7/2008 2:42 AM
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| Kind of interesting but they state that as the clear cracks and breaks down and the skin gets wet it will put out scent. Great but wont it also rot and stink up your tackle box? Just my fitst thought....Doug Bradley |
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| LOL Good pont! |
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | Doug Bradley - 3/7/2008 9:01 PM
Kind of interesting but they state that as the clear cracks and breaks down and the skin gets wet it will put out scent. Great but wont it also rot and stink up your tackle box? Just my fitst thought....Doug Bradley
-It stinks if you don't get flesh and grease away. Dry skin, covered by scale, don't stink. |
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| Jio , will the skin still degrade? I understand the scales wont but it would seem the skin would. I am as curious as the next guy............Doug Bradley |
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | In here Finland builders has covered their cranks different kind of skins, roach, pearch, pike, etc. many years.
Never heard any "stinking problems". |
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | Here's one example of skin covered lure:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Jio/62731.jpg
Edited by Jio 3/8/2008 4:14 AM
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| That looks pretty nice! Any pics of a perch covered bait? |
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| Jio that does look pretty good! |
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | That lure in pic is not mine but I own one, same kind, with pearch skin. I'll try take picture of it later.
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | Here's two pic's of my lure, it's also called "KH", as the lure in the first pic.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Jio/SS850245.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Jio/SS850242.jpg
Edited by Jio 3/8/2008 2:43 PM
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Location: Rhinelander. | I saw one time in a native american display at a museum a piece of wood with a fish skin covering it. It was used by them back then to catch fish. It got me thinkinking about it also. I actually tried a few things but never really had success with it. Its interersting to hear the others talk about how they have tried it.
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| I think ukko lures tried that once. If the skin gets wet it will become soft and break down.I dont think it will smell ,but I can see alot of problems once the clear gets some teeth in it.
Brian. |
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| Teeth causing a problem on a lure? Sounds like a good problem!  |
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| Here´s a link to a Ukko dressed with real fish skin http://cgi.ebay.com/MUSKIE-MUSKY-FISHING-LURE-UKKO-COLLECTIBLE-VERY... |
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Location: Burton, Ohio | What an interesting concept. It has me thinking also. I clean buckets of Lake Erie perch in the summer. I put the remains in a pile out by the garden. I am amazed that by the end of the summer how good they still look after all the weathering. The skins get bleached a bit but still strong as leather. My laps like then as fish jerky! LOL
Speaking of perch I may go thaw a bag for dinner tonight!
John
Does burbott have any special characterists about their skin? |
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Location: Malaysia | Here's one even more extreme:
http://www.geocities.jp/hakuseimannma/index.html
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Location: east central mn | As a taxidermist, I must say it would be a long process to make such a lure, but the results would be unique. I also have to paint the fish after it is mounted so I don't think you would really gain much to the lure but some long hours. |
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Location: Warrenville,IL | Here ya go. My latest "skins" creations.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/customfish/snakebait1.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/customfish/snakebait2.jpg
It's gonna take one mean fish to bite a rattlesnake and a boa constrictor!
Edited by jamie 3/13/2008 8:18 AM
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | Here's some stuff covered by fish skin:
http://www.kalaparkki.fi/eshop/?lang=en |
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| LaPala those are crazy. They look like live bait rigs. Wonder what the process is and how durable they are. Looks like they ran the wire through the fish and coated it in epoxy and that was it.
Jamie.......if the fish are anything like me they would be going the other way as fast as they possibly could  Hate Snakes!!!!!!
Edited by muskydeceiver 3/13/2008 10:09 AM
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Location: Rhinelander. | I agree those are crazy. the process must be off the wall expensive.
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Location: mpls | Oh Crap!!!!
I know what we are all doing this summer!!
Joe
Trueglide.com
Meet you behind the fish cleaning shack. lol |
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