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| Shane Mason |
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| RiverMan |
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| This is one that I do. jed Bikini Bait Co. Attachments ----------------  bb6ribfoilshad1.jpg (33KB - 134 downloads) | |||
| divani |
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 Posts: 2059 Location: Belgium | this is one that I do Attachments ---------------- Picture 002.jpg (37KB - 148 downloads) | ||
| divani |
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Posts: 2059 Location: Belgium | these are two that my buddy kjelle paints. They look amazing!  Attachments ---------------- divani EP + divani wiley.jpg (92KB - 151 downloads) | ||
| esox50 |
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| Beaver |
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Posts: 4266 | Attachments ---------------- Cisco-Castor.jpg (13KB - 133 downloads) Emerald-Shad.jpg (12KB - 147 downloads) | ||
| 2Rodknocker |
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| Here's some of my shad arsenal. Rod Attachments ---------------- IMGP0045.JPG (146KB - 128 downloads) | |||
| Keith Eldrup |
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| Here is one I call Sunburst Shad this is the Shad Cain Pattern with a Chart spot. I think most white based and some sort of blue,green on top silver scales will do fine. My best producing shad style color is a simple white base with a green back and light silver scales very simple but it works. Photos are realy tough on Paint Jobs some you just have to see. Keith Edited by Keith Eldrup 6/7/2005 7:30 AM Attachments ---------------- Sun Burst Shad-2.jpg (24KB - 147 downloads) | |||
| Beaver |
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Posts: 4266 | Nice looking stuff. You are dead on when it comes to the picture or scan not doing justice to a paint job. You can't judge a paint job until the lure is in your hands in the light of day. That's what brings the colors to life. When you can turn it and see scale patterns that don't show up through a lens, or watch it change colors when the angle of the light hitting it changes......... but you can catch them on all black anyway  Beav | ||
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| Beaver |
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Posts: 4266 | 6 of one, a half dozen of the other. Same thing for Cisco patterns. Everydody thinks blue is part of the Cisco pattern though I have never seen a cisco with any blue in it. The are silver with a flash of gold near the top and sometimes some flash of green. Doesn't matter if they are shad or cisco, you could paint the lure white, pearl or metalic silver and white and add some scales that are just a shade darker and you'd have it. But what fun would that be? I believe that you have to add some color to it so there is some contrast for the fish to key in on as the lure moves. I've got lures that are all white, 90% white and all sorts of tints near the top. Bottom line, the fish doesn't see the top of the lure anyway. Painting it dark makes it hard for you to see when you bring it in, so I always add a patch of silver or gold to the top so I can see the top, not the fish. I don't know about the rest of the lure makers out there, but I have never laid a shad or a cisco on the table and tried to copy it. God made it, I'm not going to be able to copy it. Give me 100 colors and some lure bodies and let me amuse myself. Shad, cisco, perch ............ gotta give them a name, or nobody would know what to call it. Like walleye lures that are brown and yellow....ever see a yellow and brown walleye? Not me. Paint what you want, and call it what you want. Beav Attachments ---------------- Golden-Shiner.jpg (11KB - 124 downloads) | ||
| RiverMan |
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| I would agree Firstsixfeet that most immitations of baits are not as close as some would like them to be. I haven't seen the resident forms of shad that inhabitat many musky lakes, here in Oregon we have an anadromous form. On Sunday I caught a whole bunch of these and from a distance they look silver/#*#*e. When you catch one tho and turn it in the light you will see silver, blues, and greens, they are a beautiful fish. This is another pattern that I make that probably does a better job of "matching the hatch". The foil on this bait is "irridescent" and changes colors depending on the angle and guys report to me that they do quite well on it. A simple white with a black back would argueably work as well as any pattern out there. Jed Attachments ---------------- bb6martinishad1.jpg (36KB - 141 downloads) | |||
| firstsixfeet |
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Beaver - 6/7/2005 4:25 PM 6 of one, a half dozen of the other. Same thing for Cisco patterns. Everydody thinks blue is part of the Cisco pattern though I have never seen a cisco with any blue in it. The are silver with a flash of gold near the top and sometimes some flash of green. Doesn't matter if they are shad or cisco, you could paint the lure white, pearl or metalic silver and white and add some scales that are just a shade darker and you'd have it. But what fun would that be? I believe that you have to add some color to it so there is some contrast for the fish to key in on as the lure moves. I've got lures that are all white, 90% white and all sorts of tints near the top. Bottom line, the fish doesn't see the top of the lure anyway. Painting it dark makes it hard for you to see when you bring it in, so I always add a patch of silver or gold to the top so I can see the top, not the fish. I don't know about the rest of the lure makers out there, but I have never laid a shad or a cisco on the table and tried to copy it. God made it, I'm not going to be able to copy it. Give me 100 colors and some lure bodies and let me amuse myself. Shad, cisco, perch ............ gotta give them a name, or nobody would know what to call it. Like walleye lures that are brown and yellow....ever see a yellow and brown walleye? Not me. Paint what you want, and call it what you want. Beav Most of the lures I actually use, tip enough so the fish DO see the top a little when retrieving. I don't want them to see blue or green in certain hues. I really don't agree that it is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. I believe color matters and there is a "best" color. As for what you want to paint and what you want to call your lures Beaver, paint what you like and call them what you like. As for copying the life like colors of a fish, I believe it can be done to a remarkable degree, but that an exact duplicate is not neccessarily the key, it is more a case of presenting fish with the main ingredient of either the key color(even if it is white), detectability or maybe the flash of contrast that tells the fish, that yes, this is my favorite meal! As for cisco patterns, you are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay off on those, but I didn't want to tell you that because it seems you get a little defensive! I have seen lots of fresh cisco, and they are definitely the color of either batter or crumbs that have been dipped in a pot of hot grease. Have eaten a tubful and every one of them looked just like that. do you want me to describe the exact shade of brown I look for? | |||
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Posts: 207 Location: Mpls, MN | You mean my fire tiger stuff doesn't really look like a tiger on fire? SOB. | ||
| Beaver |
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| mikie |
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| Red Man |
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| ESOX Maniac |
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Posts: 2753 Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Guy's some very cool paint jobs. LOL " Beaver's House of Bait Stir-Fry". Mikie- Check out the MF Research Forum arhives. -> http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=13... Have fun! Al | ||
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