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Location: Northwest Wisconsin | Wondering what/how I would go about getting these tuned. I tried turning the eye some but that didn't seem to help any. I just can't seem to get them to walk/slide both ways. |
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| There are directions on tuning with the packaging. Get out the pocket knife and start "shaving" the cupped face. Little bits at a time. |
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| Ditto! |
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| You have stumbled across one of the greatest challenges known to man. All kidding aside, I love these lures, but they can be real tricky to tune. You get them tuned and change the tail, and have to do it all over again. I like to run these lures deep, so I have found that a big hook - extra heavy VMC 5/0 works real well at weighing the bait down a bit and making tuning a bit less critical and easier, plus I have found some great hooking percentages with that hook in the front.
Good Luck,
Conservation Guy |
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| I have the same strugle with that bait. It's a very critical bait. Not one is the same and tuning them can be a nightmare on some.
But when the run correct they are gold!!
By the way, i want mine just to go up and down. No sideway movement!
Anyone with burt that does not swing but only dives and rises in a strait line, please sell them to me!!!
Mark (European pike angler) |
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Location: Northwest Wisconsin | Mark my walleye/unweighted one did that and was killer on pike , but after so many of hits I had to put a new tail on and well now it does the right/right/right move. Still catches fish and I'm going to leave this one. I picked up a cheap dremel and going to try some things with them the next time I head out. |
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| Still i don'd understand how it is possible that each one can be so different. Do they fill them with rattles randomly?
Does anyone have a picture of the chambers insite and how the weighting should be? (or nice modification tips) |
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Location: Northwest Wisconsin | I haven't found much for pictures yet but did read one article that said each one does/could have different weights in them. I'm still trying to find better info/pictures on mod tips for them myself. Only thing I found besides the shaving of the nose is to turn the eye.
http://www.thenextbite.com/node/325
http://www.dlst.co.uk/Writings/burts.html -- found this here doing a search for burts |
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| I already found those...
Anyone ever tried adding a grub to a suick for creating a squirlysuick? |
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| Mark - 6/15/2010 2:11 PM
I have the same strugle with that bait. It's a very critical bait. Not one is the same and tuning them can be a nightmare on some.
But when the run correct they are gold!!
By the way, i want mine just to go up and down. No sideway movement!
Anyone with burt that does not swing but only dives and rises in a strait line, please sell them to me!!!
Mark (European pike angler)
Mark,
we call those Bobby Baits, and Suicks. |
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Squirrely Burt