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Posts: 4266 | Gotta send out a big thank-you to the guy who makes my blanks. I told him that I wanted to do a 10" lure, but I would like to keep some charachteristics of the 8" Perka body. Well he came up with a beauty, and after a day of playing in the aquarium, I weighted, balanced and primed one blank and went to the yacht club dock this morning. I was using a 6'9" St Croix, so I really couldn't twitch it to make it move, but a bit of a "tug" would be more appropriate, and it took off about 2' to the side and slowly sank and shimmied as I watched and then another tug sent it moving in the other direction with an awesome roll, then it stabalized and began to glide until I let it pause and shimmy on down again. Then I tossed it out and gave it a faster retrieve, and it came in just under the surface until I hit the brakes for a second, and would keep on going and then sink until I started it moving again. Going to be busy over the winter, but it'll be worth it when you guys get the urge to throw some big stuff. Pardon the lack of paint job, I am just excited to finally have a 10"er that looks like part of the family. I'll post some finished products when I get around to painting. Right now I'm heading back in the basement to weight the rest of the prototype bodies. Beav Attachments ----------------  Regular and extra large.JPG (23KB - 141 downloads) | ||
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Posts: 4266 | Sexy? Now I'm confused....I mean more confused.  | ||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Looks good beav. thumbs up! You had to prime the dang thing! I wanted to see where you weighted it! LOL  | ||
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Posts: 4266 | Thanks guys. They move a long way, and move a lot of water. Lots of belly flash when they change direction, and if you want a certain color, just e-mail me and I'll do one for you. Usually if I get a request for one color, I'll do 5 of them. I'll be doing Ciscos, as well as some of the others that were at Presque Isle. Definitely a big fish lure. They are 10"x7/8'', and I weight them in a very super secret way using ridioactive isotopes and other chemicals known to cause cancer in California liberals, or lead if I can't get uranium. Tigger, I'll make you a deal.....I'll send you some blanks if you do some foil magic on one in exchange. Then you can x-ray them or do what ever you want to do. You can request colors for any of the lures that I do. But since I don't know how many of what style I'm doing from year to year, the sooner the better. Or at least give me some kind of heads up. Beav | ||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Thanks beav! We are still trying to have more kids. If I try to cut one apart I may get tainted! It may come out looking like a 28" perka!  I'll have you foiling in no time my friend! I have a direct link now! Take care everyone John The company I work for does alot of leadlined x-ray rooms. That my be a thought! | ||
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Posts: 4266 | The hooks are just basic Eagleclaw Lazersharp 774 5/0's. They look weird because of the way the light escaped from the scanner bed. Don't know what colors yet, I've got some other lures in production, and haven't even got the blanks, other than the 10 prototypes for me to play with. Trying several different weighting options. You never know what might come out of the garage, but at last count I had 47 color pattern skecthes on the pad, and get more ideas when I least expect it...like right now. Maybe a Black Chrome Matrix? Beav | ||
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