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Location: WI | Here's some of my custom grandmas made for the local musky shop here in appleton
I call them Twisted Grannies. It's a classic grandma that I cut the tail off and fill then epoxy a wire for a tail. This years colors are my takes on classic color patterns. Mr bluegill, glitter perch, hot whitefish, and sucker.
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Location: WI | A few more pics. Trying to decide black or orange tails on perch color?
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Location: new berlin | I like the bluegill one the most, but sure is a neat idea you got here |
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| Very cool, i would think a twister tail that big would take away from the action though? |
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| look cool- do they still twitch ok or to the rubber tails stop them from swinging? |
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| I have done this same thing on a few crankbaits--but the rubber tail definitely does have an effect on the action of the bait. You have to play with them on tail size and where you cut the bait----but you can get them to run with some work----they never work like they did originally---but , that's not always bad as something different could be just the thing. Nice job on those Grandma's. |
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Location: WI | Because of the weighting the tail doesn't kill the action. It is a great jerk bait that caught us two 4footers last year. And I have done this with depth raiders also that have awesome action also. |
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| I agree, I've done this as well with depthraiders too and those have an awesome action with the right tail. |
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Location: WI | What do you guys think ? Orange or black tail on the perch or some of each. |
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Location: MN | Both are a good options, but orange would be my first choice. |
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| Hey Trophyseeker, when will these be made available at the Sportsman's? I gotta get my hands on the bluegill -- I think you might have done some cranes for them a while back as I have the same pattern on one and it produced me my first (and only) 50 -- see avatar for the pig it got me! Let me know when you plan on making them available in Appleton, PLEASE!
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Location: WI | Yeah there for the sportsman. Aswell as 8 colors of custom crane baits. Pics for those soon. I think Rodger used to do the cranes back in the day. Dropped the grandmas off today.
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Location: E. Tenn | I try to replace orange tails with olive, or motor oil for a more natural look. Of course I'm fishing pretty clear water.
BTW... nice work!
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Location: WI | Few pic with tails on. Did perch with orange and smoke tails. Really like the sucker pattern. Wish I could get the pics to turn out decent
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Location: Appleton, WI | I just picked some ofthese up at the sportsman this week. I can't wait to throw them this summer. |
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Location: WI | 24 karat perch. Pics don't do justice to the flash that this has. This ones a personal one for me.
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