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| Very cool Mike. Would like to see your Double Flaptail run. Looks fun!
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Run with this bait Lee! All your baits have been great producers in the past. |
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Location: SE, WI. | MIKE; THE KEY ON THOSE DOUBLES ARE THE BRACKETS. Great job on those. I made a couple back in the early 90's. I'd show them, but embarrassing compared to yours. The noise is unexplainable...sounds like a bunch of blades inside a garbage can. Caught several ski's on them...44" was the biggest, amazing what these things will eat. Next winter, I'll work on those doubles a bit more. JD |
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Location: Elroy, Wisconsin | When making flaptails the Snoddy short wire is the way to go. Dave and I tested a variety of woods, cedar, basswood were the best. We took the raw turned bait before painting and spun them in a pail of water, where they stopped spinning was determined to be the heavy point , or the belly of the lure. It was amazing the variation in specific gravity of different woods,
In order to get the sincapated tail flap Snoddy liked, the ratio of flotation vs. hardware was key. Archemedes Principal of objects buoyancy equal to the amout of water displaced was used to determine overall size. Dave did not want too much buoyancy as it spoiled the flaptail action.
When making these lures these considerations result in flaptails that catch monster fish. We always wondered why certain lures were fish catchers and certain lures were fish catchers and others were not. The aboved answered some of the questions.
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| jdsplasher - 4/30/2013 10:21 AM MIKE; THE KEY ON THOSE DOUBLES ARE THE BRACKETS. Great job on those. I made a couple back in the early 90's. I'd show them, but embarrassing compared to yours. The noise is unexplainable...sounds like a bunch of blades inside a garbage can. Caught several ski's on them...44" was the biggest, amazing what these things will eat. Next winter, I'll work on those doubles a bit more. JD Oh com’on - not embarrassing, fish don’t care about a pretty paint job, that’s just for fun…
Flaptail’s are pretty neat baits, for a simple as they are there are many intricacies to them.
I just saw Ty Sennett’s flaptail on the Drifter site, I like the way he did it with the creeper wing bracket.
Lee – thanks man, I’d like to see/hear your flaptail run too. Funny thing is I built a flaptail and I haven’t even owned one until now. I have no baseline. I do have a hunch on what sounds good though. I do have a buddy with some Snoddy’s he’s going to let me throw – probably not in musky waters though - lol
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| I got an old Hi-Fin flaptail new in the package at an estate sale and have been thinking of breaking it out. How do you modify the hooks on it? Thanks |
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Location: SE, WI. | trolling eyes...you have a PM. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Take a look, from 2005. My original Turd from about 1979/1980 is pictured here. That lure caught a bunch of fish. Still have it somewhere.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=21... |
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| Thanks, I'll give it a try! |
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| Mike Richardson/Woodbridge Tackle and i threw a bunch of different flaptails today at a small pond. We threw modern day brands as well as old timers, was a good time. Gotta say he had some great looking protos of his own, but his double flaptail waS AAAAWESOME !I'm in line for one of them bad boys when available! |
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| Thanks Steve, I was quite impressed with your flaptail collection. If that’s how many of just flaptails you have I can imagine a trip to your entire lure library would be overwhelming. It was cool to cast my new flaptail with what’s considered the benchmark of the lure style. I observed many interesting things, some still a mystery lol. I have to admit my confidence will struggle throwing a flaptail except on those super calm nights when everything else in my box sounds like inagodadavida coming through the water. But that double flaptail I’m really liking and it will see a lot of time in the water. I put a video up of it on my facebook page. I’m not savvy enough to get it on here? Thanks again. |
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