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| Started making my own plastic baits. What do you think. Be gentle!!
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Location: Ogden, UTAH 10 minutes from pineview reservoir | dude those are pretty cool! if you need a guinea pig I will test em out for ya |
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| What are the specs on those Length/weight? Very nice looking lures. |
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Origional!
I'm making two sizes one that is the same length as a Mag Dawg but just a little lighter but has good drop. The other is just a tad longer than a pounder, but lighter. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | are you using pre-made harnesses? or building them yourself?? |
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Location: MN | Chris
They look good. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Those will get bit for sure! |
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Bending up my own out of .051 and .064 bucktail wire. Fish seem to agree with them.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | they look really good Chris ... |
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| What are you making them out of? Do you have a round figure of what it costs to produce a finished product? |
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By what am I making them out of? Do you mean the type of plastic or the mold? Regarding the plastic, it is a special mix I made up from Lurecraft and the mold, well I'll just keep that to my self. Regarding costs, I have determined how much they cost me to make and where my raw material volumes need to be to get the best pricing. As far as selling them, I guess everything has a price. PM me and we can discuss it.
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| I was referring to the type of plastic. I've been thinking about making my own but was trying to determine whether or not it is cost-effective versus purchasing a new Bull Dawg, for example. I guess my bottom line question is can a Bull-Dawg-type lure be made cheaper than what a real one can be purchased for when you just look at the cost of purchasing/shipping the raw materials? |
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| Let me put it this way I could part with my pounder sized ones for $17.00 and be happy. |
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| I believe that answers my question. Thank you |
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Location: Missouri | Those look pretty good to me... Now go catch some big fish on them |
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I think you have done a great job with these. I have a related question and sent you a pm.
Don
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| Couple of new colors messed with today. Sorry for the pictures on the truck, trying to get the colors to pop.
Chris
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Location: Sussex, NJ | Those look great. Whats the smallest size you make? |
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| The smaller one is around 14" and the big one is around 21". |
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Location: Minnesota | so are you going to be selling any in you pounder size??? have you played with adding glitter to the molds ?? just a thought |
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Location: Minnesota | or how abought 2 tails |
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| Tried glitter, still trial and error. I think it catches more fisherman. Double tail still in R&D. I would be willing to part with some of the big ones. |
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| I threw one of these on LSC and they look awesome. They run nice and straight and look great in the water. I ordered four and will be throwing them this week. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Very nice Chris! Those look like they will really push some water and trigger strikes!
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| What are you calling it? The BlockHead? How about Flat Top?  Seriously though, nice looking baits. With that flat top and bottom on the head it will definitely push some water and give off a different vibration. Different is good and simpler is often better. I don't think the glitter or paint matters much to the fish either. Nice work, go catch a monster on one. |
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Location: Verona, WI | Chris,
I gave the two I got from you a shot yesterday. No fish but they look really good in the water. They seem more erratic than a dawg which may be because of the squared sides (my 0.02 cents). They also hang on the pause more than I thought.
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| Thanks Shane, glad you like them. The smaller one put a hurtin on the fish this weekend in Onieda.
Guest a friend called them U-boats and that is the name that stuck. |
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| What is the weight difference between the smaller version and the larger version? Do you have any video of them in the water? |
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| Smaller one is 4.5 oz. and the larger one is 12oz. I don't have and video. |
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Location: Sussex, NJ | Got two of the larger size on the way. Can't wait to throw these bad boys. They will get eaten for sure!! |
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