I built this one for a musky fisherman in Canada. These pics are after the first coat of envirotex. Ill post finished pics in a couple days after I get all 6 coats on. Im at 4 coats now. This is the toughest lure we build featuring a 4000 series Titanium diving lip which is water cad cut. The lip is secured in the bait with oak dowels epoxied in and the nose is reinforced to make it stand up to banging rock.
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Posted 3/7/2013 10:23 PM (#624063 - in reply to #623808) Subject: Re: Newest Titan
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Location: Muskegon Michigan
Like Will says Deepthreats are very buoyant however this model is much heavier due to the extra reinforcement in the nose and the lip which is a lot heavier then the Lexan models. They float almost straight down with the tail hook in the air. This makes them run more nose down as well and that helps them to bounce over rocks instead of wedging into them. The Parrywinkle did the same thing. These are built for rack banging.
I have never tried floating one out of a snag. I use a 12 inch steel circle lure retriever that has chain welded to the ring. They barely float with just the tail sticking out of the water. We have all the lips(for the 12 inch deep threats) even the Poly carbonate cut on a water jet as that is really the only way to cut the Titanium clean. We do the 10, 15 and 21 by hand as they are all poly. I had to cough up some cash for the program for those 12's. The Titanium cost 300 bucks for just enough material to make 10 lips. 2 bucks a cut so the lips alone were 32 bucks each. I have a couple left.
They are capable of 30 feet on Braid lines or wire. I think Johnny Dadson got his down to 28 if I remember right. Johnny was my first time tester back when I designed it. I built and sold 7 of them so far. Its an expensive lure for sure. Takes about two weeks to build one working it in around my production baits. I spend about a half hour to an hour a day for two weeks. The last 6 days are spent turning on the spit while adding top coats. I have run one of these up to 7 mph without blowing it out. I think though they run best around 3.8 mph to 4.
Newest Titan
