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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Here's a few new ones I made up for a customer. The lighting leaves a lot to be desired,
but the one on the left has two black nickel blades and a white top blade with a barred clear black skirt. The one next to it has silver blades, and the one next to the Pike bait has copper blades with a black and copper skirt. This is my second attempt working with the a three bladed bait this size.
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Location: Waconia,MN | I really like that pike, nice work. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Thanks Musky tamer.
Here's another batch
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Location: SE, WI. | Great job Gerry!!! Like the pike and green machine:) get to run those puppies yet? Any problems with the blades spinning on water contact? JD |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Thanks JD! No, I don't anticipate a problem. These are modeled much the same as the $50 Dadson Discotheque. The physics principal being that the small blade in front creates a path in the water column enabling the revolving dbl. 10s behind it to pass through it with less resistance and thereby making it easier to retrieve.
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Location: Madison, WI | These look great. What size is the front blade? Have you tried different sized blades too? Thanks for sharing these photos. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Thank you Mitch. No, I haven't tried different front blades other then the #8 Colorado. I might try a #9 or magnum #8 blade just to see what if any difference there might be. I do think that switching to a larger blade might increase the drag on the bait, but there is only one way to know for sure and that's to try it. |
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Location: Waconia,MN | Love the one on the left of the second pic. |
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Location: North of Sweden! | Total beautys!!!
Real nice looking!!!
I myself was thinking about doing some kind of experiment with triple blades but have not yet found any satisfactory way so far... but, this was very smart!!!
All I have been thinking so far has been a way of home-buildin a triple-clevis in some way, but, then again I have only been thinking about having three same size blades, this idea looks really neat!!!
Also, looks really well built!!!
I am just waiting on getting some more bucktail again so I can get in to tying some more nice tubes for myself.
I have always been an avid fly tyer back when I used to flyfish a lot, so, was only natural I'd get in to spinner-building somewhere along the way, now I've had a long break from building anything like a spinner and a few years since I tied the last fly, but, have made a few spinners from the scrap I had left from before, felt real nice!!! Almost as addicting as fishing for pike!!! :D
Kind regards and tight lines from the north of sweden!
/peter
EDIT: by the way? The Pike one in the first pick? have you yourself painted the blades???
Either way, a total beaut!!!
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Thank you Peter. Yeah, they were rigged for tough angling. I used #8 easy spin clevises on .062 wire. All the hooks were shrink wrapped down to the crotch of the hook to prevent the flashabou from fouling in the hooks.
I have seen a rig called (I believe) the "Apache" that had a triple clevis set up for three #10 blades. I don't think you'd be able to buy the clevis device separately as it is probably a proprietary item. I'm not sure I'd want to use something like that for any length of time due to the resistance in retrieving it. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Glad you like it Muskytamer. Those are black nickel blades combined with holographic red & black salt water flashabou. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Very nice as always Gerry
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