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| This is my Rocket Shad profile painted in an Alewife pattern. I'm going to be building a handful of these for sale later this winter. I've started them, but I won't be building much during whitetail archery season (my other passion). The paint utilized for the alewife was 100% pearls except for the white on the tip of the fin and gill plate and the black dot. The eyes are hand made. The high-end pearl paints just don't photograph easily; its hard to capture what they look like in ordinary daylight. You can see toward the tail of the bait a bit of how the colors shift and change. Hope you like it:  | |||
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Posts: 615 Location: Madison, WI | |||
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Posts: 4266 | I love looking at your lures. You are very talented. Now, what would I have to do to get a couple of those in my boat? You can PM me so it's our secret  Beav | ||
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| Muskerboy |
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Posts: 727 | These lures are wayyyyy to pretty to fish with. | ||
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Posts: 4266 | I didn't get a PM  sniff | ||
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| Thanks, Chadster. Here's another...a Rocket Shad in a similar pattern, gizzard shad:  | |||
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Posts: 32930 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | |||
| Roughneck1860 |
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Posts: 295 Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | |||
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| MuskyGary |
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| The Rocket Shads are about 5/8 inch thick. That they are not terribly prone to blow out is a function of the body shape and size, lip style, weighting, and balance built into the bait (or any bait for that matter). It can also be a matter of physics to a degree. Sometimes a bait is so small, it does no present enough mass to remain submerged and balanced when torqued by the line at speeds above a certain level. At other times, the mass of a larger bait creates so much resistance that it wants to escape the torque at certain speeds and be prone to blow out. Trying to achieve that balance while still maintaining speed is a matter of balancing a number of variables and a shot of luck can help too.  It seems like there is a continuum over which linear changes to the variables work for a while, but along that continuum, there are places where the numbers seem to warp and changing the size of the bait, the lip, etc can no longer be done on a linear basis. | |||
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