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CM_IA

Posted 7/11/2008 10:06 AM (#326019)
Subject: 1st lure

Posts: 59

I asked before about lips and smaller details in lure making, since I ws making one for a school project. I decided to forego the lip and make a lipless jerkbait. After having several problems with paint drying (part of the primer coat wasn't dry in 3 days and I didn't realize it until part of the orange was done, and most of it lifted and shifted). The black also never set. I refinished a super shad rap I found floating in Eagle Lake so my teacher would be less mad, and never got around to finishing my jerkbait, but decided to try it out the last night off the dock at AML. On the 6th cast with it I got a follow from a 43 inch muskie, and caught it 2 casts later.

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RiverMan

Posted 7/11/2008 10:26 AM (#326022 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 1504

Location: Oregon

That's great! Good for you.

Jed V.

Live2Fish

Posted 7/11/2008 10:31 AM (#326025 - in reply to #326022)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 170

Location: Chicagoland

any pics? great job though.

CM_IA

Posted 7/11/2008 10:45 AM (#326029 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 59

just figured out how to resize pics properly

Live2Fish

Posted 7/11/2008 11:05 AM (#326036 - in reply to #326029)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 170

Location: Chicagoland

wow that's a beauty. congrats. You do know that catching a muskie on your first home made bait is a very good accomplishment. just keep at it and you'll be more hooked on making baits than catching fish with them

AFChief

Posted 7/11/2008 12:09 PM (#326045 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 550

Location: So. Illinois

CM, Cool story concerning your first bait. Congratulations....

J

firstsixfeet

Posted 7/16/2008 9:40 AM (#326687 - in reply to #326045)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 2361

That is exactly the type of lure we are trying to outlaw! Don't make another one.

tmag

Posted 7/16/2008 11:32 AM (#326721 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 513

That is a cool story.

Maybe you should turn in this lure to your teacher too and demand extra credit

Tackle Industries

Posted 7/16/2008 5:19 PM (#326786 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 4053

Location: Land of the Musky

A new lure company is born!

Congrats on that fish!!! Feels great to catch one with a lure you made with your own hands.
Good job!
James

Tonka Boy

Posted 7/16/2008 7:50 PM (#326807 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 96

Very cool! I'm willing to bet that won't be the only one...

Beaver

Posted 7/16/2008 9:38 PM (#326829 - in reply to #326807)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 4266

Now you are hooked just like the fish.
Nothing like catching a fish on a lure that you made, is there?
Congrats, and welcome to the club.
Beaver

woodieb8

Posted 7/17/2008 5:57 AM (#326862 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 1530

awesome. school project. and a nice muskie. i hope he gave you a passing grade. maybe he,s a musky fisherman.

Dr. D

Posted 7/17/2008 7:10 AM (#326869 - in reply to #326829)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Very nice catch. My fishing brothers would be jealous.

You demonstrated great process and analysis in your descriptions. Very cool and successful project. I'm sure Mr. N is very proud too.

castmaster

Posted 7/17/2008 8:52 AM (#326906 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 910

Location: Hastings, mn, 55033

"That is exactly the type of lure we are trying to outlaw! Don't make another one."

I'm a bit confused by this post, care to explain further?

musky-skunk

Posted 7/21/2008 2:53 PM (#327503 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 785

Cool story and fish

firstsixfeet

Posted 7/29/2008 8:49 PM (#328836 - in reply to #326906)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 2361

castmaster - 7/17/2008 8:52 AM

"That is exactly the type of lure we are trying to outlaw! Don't make another one."

I'm a bit confused by this post, care to explain further?

Sure.

Kingfisher

Posted 8/2/2008 3:56 PM (#329456 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: RE: 1st lure

Posts: 1106

Location: Muskegon Michigan

applause !!!! I am 50 years old ands I still remember the first one I caught on my old tan perch Little Claw. You have entered a new world ,soon it will include a wood shop ,tools and paint booth,well I might be getting ahead of things but you will see what I am saying in a few years. In 2006 my wife caught a 34 pounder (52 inches) on one of my Talonz Slashers. I felt like a proud papa. Congratulations and now try to figure out why it worked. That is the next step to becoming a successfull lure builder whether you make them for yourself or choose to sell them. Good Luck, Kingfisher

sworrall

Posted 8/4/2008 10:50 PM (#329817 - in reply to #326019)
Subject: Re: 1st lure

Posts: 32892

Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Absolutely nothing better than catching a fish on a lure you made. I was in the business for a few years...and miss it.

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