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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Thanks for the kind words guys. I know they are way over done and fish don't care how fancy the paint jobs are.  Still fun to play around with. Sava........ I am glad you caught a nice pike on the lure. That was neat sending one to Moscow, Russia. I hope you are doing well. I am so crazy about walleye fishing. I can troll and cast for hours waiting for a bite with not a even a thought of wasted time. I hope some day to apply that to musky fishing but those darn walleyes have a hold of me now. Well the night bite is starting up here in Cleveland, Ohio. Here are a couple new ones I made for this Fall's night fishing. Starting to have some success with them! Lots of foil sided baits. Attachments ----------------  lures 179.jpg (17KB - 367 downloads) lures 180.jpg (32KB - 348 downloads) lures 250.jpg (32KB - 332 downloads) lures 178.jpg (31KB - 344 downloads) lures 254.jpg (33KB - 347 downloads) lures 253.jpg (60KB - 348 downloads) lures 214.jpg (17KB - 342 downloads) lures 256.jpg (35KB - 348 downloads) lures 257.jpg (32KB - 336 downloads) lures 173.jpg (12KB - 352 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Hey everyone, I hope everyone had a great winter and the start of a good Spring. I have been watching the crazy weather you guys are having up North! That jet stream is mess up for sure. Well as a kid I have always been fascinated with taxidermy. It just looked like alot of work doing the fleshing / skinning part of the process. I go to the musky shows and I am AMAZED at the replica work I see. I think I spend half the show looking at all the beautiful replica's hanging in the booths. My most favorite part of the luremaking is making the molds for the lures. One day I was cruising the web and decided to type in "making fish replica's" I found some videos and next thing I know I was ordering the stuff to try it. Most of you know I am a die hard walleye guy. I am blessed with having fantastic fishing in Lake Erie. My best friend Frank and I chase monster walleyes after dark spending countless hrs on the water after dark. A well known sports writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer wanted to do an article on Cleveland walleye fishing and asked us to be in the article. We took him out on a windy night with tough conditions. The first walleye we landed was a hair over ten pounds and caught a couple others before the conditions got too tough. Kinda cool doing the story. Here is a link to my minute to our minute of fame! LOL http://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2013/05/murphy_snow_hav... Any how getting back to the point of this post. Frank and I have always thought that our biggest walleye would come after dark one fall night. We have caught 12 pound fish but always had on our bucket list a fish in the 13 to 14 pound range. In march we decided to go fish the Lake Erie Islands. It was a beautiful day and we caught some nice fish. Frank was setting out a line on his side when a monster hit. He got it to the boat I netted an incredible fish. The fish was 30" long and had a 26" girth. The weighed in at 15.25 pounds!!!! So much for the 13 - 14 pound range. LOL Seeing I had been playing with making fish replica's and had not completed one up that point I decided to give it a try on his fish. I took a bed of sand and prepped the fish to make a casting. Here are some pics of the process. Attachments ---------------- DSC02888fifteen2.jpg (44KB - 309 downloads) DSC02895fifteen6.jpg (68KB - 309 downloads) DSC02894fifteen5.jpg (17KB - 299 downloads) DSC02916franksmold1.jpg (50KB - 318 downloads) DSC02927franksfishgelcoat.jpg (52KB - 327 downloads) DSC02963clamp.jpg (57KB - 299 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | I completed the mold and cast a body out of fiderglass resin and fiberglass clothe from wally world. I next started the body prep and paint process. Demold and cut the mouth out fill the body with expandable foam. Two part taxidermy putty to remove the mold seam. After primer coat a light coat of black paint with steel wool to show scale head details. Then the process of the layering of paint. Attachments ---------------- DSC02938pair.jpg (29KB - 314 downloads) DSC02936putty.jpg (31KB - 337 downloads) DSC02948bellyseam.jpg (21KB - 327 downloads) DSC02950tailseam.jpg (27KB - 316 downloads) DSC02944mouth2.jpg (20KB - 333 downloads) DSC02965blackscales.jpg (53KB - 289 downloads) DSC02966blackscales2.jpg (44KB - 366 downloads) DSC02971blackhead.jpg (52KB - 319 downloads) DSC02975firstpaint1.jpg (47KB - 335 downloads) DSC02988secondpaint2.jpg (53KB - 341 downloads) DSC03003secondpaint4.jpg (39KB - 336 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Towards the end the finer details and teeth. I am happy how it came out for my first one. I gave it to him before we went out fishing one night a couple of weeks ago. We ended up catching an 11.9 pounder that night that is leading the Spring Brawl derby. LOL Attachments ---------------- DSC03014teeth1.jpg (39KB - 317 downloads) DSC03027head.jpg (42KB - 340 downloads) DSC03040finsfray.jpg (39KB - 322 downloads) DSC03093mount3.jpg (45KB - 323 downloads) DSC03099mount2.jpg (48KB - 333 downloads) DSC03103mount1.jpg (57KB - 324 downloads) DSC03110frankmount.jpg (45KB - 333 downloads) DSC03112franksderbyfish.jpg (34KB - 312 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Hey everyone, I hope you had a great summer! Man did it fly by. I am excited about the football season starting today, my Browns may have a chance to have a winning season. Here are some spinner baits I did this season. Attachments ---------------- DSC01346red10.jpg (34KB - 248 downloads) DSC01468red3.jpg (37KB - 237 downloads) DSC01400gill3.jpg (33KB - 247 downloads) DSC01417gill1.jpg (40KB - 239 downloads) DSC01423shad8.jpg (32KB - 243 downloads) DSC01434shad4.jpg (32KB - 244 downloads) DSC01508gill8.jpg (30KB - 245 downloads) DSC01502gill5.jpg (26KB - 251 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Here a couple of mahogany ones I finished this week. Attachments ---------------- DSC03733per8.jpg (30KB - 266 downloads) DSC03736per7.jpg (26KB - 238 downloads) DSC03761min8.jpg (27KB - 249 downloads) DSC03770min5.jpg (34KB - 261 downloads) DSC03790pur8.jpg (25KB - 254 downloads) DSC03792pur7.jpg (34KB - 220 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Most of you know I am super crazy about walleye fishing. I love this time of year when the migrating walleyes start to put the feed bags on and hit larger baits. A nice change from dragging worms all summer! Here are some baits baits I made for my tackle box for the Fall season. I got to run some of them last weekend. Attachments ---------------- DSC03664pinkwalleye1.jpg (46KB - 263 downloads) DSC03667crystalsmelt2.jpg (35KB - 258 downloads) DSC03669hogcrystalsmelt1.jpg (44KB - 242 downloads) DSC03679antiwalleye.jpg (54KB - 279 downloads) DSC01571inlinesmelt1.jpg (25KB - 251 downloads) DSC03676wiresmelt2.jpg (60KB - 226 downloads) DSC03673wirebodyfish1.jpg (54KB - 255 downloads) DSC03684twinhogs.jpg (49KB - 247 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Walleye baits Attachments ---------------- DSC03639orangespot.jpg (14KB - 233 downloads) DSC03642pinkcheck.jpg (14KB - 268 downloads) DSC03645pinkblack.jpg (15KB - 214 downloads) DSC03648orangecheck.jpg (16KB - 230 downloads) DSC03649spot1.jpg (15KB - 223 downloads) DSC03653group2.jpg (38KB - 256 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Here are a couple others from a couple weeks ago. The black and green one has caught some very nice fish already, two over ten pounds. I am excited about running that this Fall. Attachments ---------------- DSC03579smelt2.jpg (25KB - 235 downloads) DSC03589wonder1.jpg (15KB - 237 downloads) DSC03592anti1.jpg (16KB - 243 downloads) DSC03602purp1.jpg (17KB - 238 downloads) DSC03607bug1.jpg (15KB - 233 downloads) DSC03612lime1.jpg (16KB - 234 downloads) DSC03620wiregroup.jpg (41KB - 218 downloads) DSC03177tomsbigwalleyelure1.jpg (27KB - 260 downloads) DSC03626greenspottanker3.jpg (53KB - 231 downloads) DSC03631greenspottanker2.jpg (55KB - 255 downloads) DSC03635greenspottanker1.jpg (52KB - 262 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | ||||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Sorry about the attachments
Attachments ---------------- 046 (360x270).jpg (64KB - 242 downloads) swimbait1 (800x438) (360x197).jpg (57KB - 223 downloads) 044 (800x600) (360x270).jpg (54KB - 230 downloads) 007 (500x375).jpg (99KB - 238 downloads) 009 (800x600) (640x480) (500x375).jpg (90KB - 238 downloads) 016 (1024x768) (500x375).jpg (90KB - 224 downloads) 025 (800x600) (500x375) (500x375) (460x345).jpg (92KB - 217 downloads) 032 (1024x768) (500x375) (500x375) (460x345).jpg (91KB - 247 downloads) 048 (600x800) (375x500) (375x500) (345x460).jpg (87KB - 229 downloads) 014 (800x600) (500x375).jpg (88KB - 216 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | We released her at ramp 12. 8 pounds . We thought she may hit 13 on stable ground. Attachments ---------------- release.jpg (84KB - 229 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | We released her after checking her on solid ground. We thought she may hit the 13 pound mark but fell short at 12.8 pounds. Attachments ---------------- release.jpg (84KB - 249 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | Here are a couple recent ones in cedar bodies. Attachments ---------------- 068 (500x375).jpg (90KB - 209 downloads) 071 (500x184).jpg (63KB - 235 downloads) 096 (500x300).jpg (74KB - 207 downloads) 115 (500x283).jpg (80KB - 238 downloads) 100 (500x203).jpg (62KB - 207 downloads) 240 (500x375).jpg (81KB - 216 downloads) 237 (500x230).jpg (67KB - 227 downloads) 279 (500x193).jpg (64KB - 219 downloads) 284 (500x238).jpg (74KB - 206 downloads) 199 (500x319).jpg (86KB - 246 downloads) 211 (500x243).jpg (69KB - 247 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | I have been always interested in the fish spearing decoy's. The skilled carvers that out there is just amazing. After watching every video out there on swimming actions , construction, and how they are used I finally gave them a try. The first one I made was a tiger musky out of cedar. Attachments ---------------- 004 (500x375).jpg (98KB - 247 downloads) 010 (500x375).jpg (91KB - 223 downloads) 018 (500x311).jpg (81KB - 210 downloads) 019 (500x375).jpg (94KB - 220 downloads) 025 (500x300).jpg (79KB - 214 downloads) 045 (500x309).jpg (94KB - 210 downloads) 063 (500x296) (2).jpg (83KB - 269 downloads) 057 (500x213).jpg (67KB - 225 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | #2 was a perch that took forever. LOL I have never really chisel carved fine details before and made it thru without a trip to the hospital. I had the chisel slip a couple of times and just missed the wrist. Here is a video I did of it swimming underwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pb8XKN-29Q . Attachments ---------------- 050 (500x375).jpg (97KB - 248 downloads) 041 (500x232).jpg (82KB - 234 downloads) 029 (500x286).jpg (74KB - 232 downloads) 016 (420x315).jpg (86KB - 216 downloads) 013 (420x315).jpg (83KB - 208 downloads) 037 (420x315).jpg (90KB - 235 downloads) | |||||
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Posts: 399 Location: Burton, Ohio | A black crappie carved out of cedar. Experimented with wood burning some scales and carving combined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxyZiwLK58M .. Attachments ---------------- 011 (500x436) (300x262).jpg (74KB - 220 downloads) 015 (500x375) (300x225).jpg (70KB - 232 downloads) 018 (500x277) (300x166).jpg (63KB - 244 downloads) 032 (500x313) (420x263).jpg (67KB - 208 downloads) 041 (500x375) (300x225).jpg (64KB - 233 downloads) | |||||
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