New big pike baits

I have an upcoming fishing derby through work, so I thought I would make a few bigger 'grandma' lures to troll for some pike. I also made one slider to hopefully catch some pike on a top water. These ones have to be done by next weekend so I'll keep you guys updated

It's been a while

Hey guys, haven't posted in a while because I've been busy with fishing, golfing and work and haven't had a whole lot of time to work on lures. Here are a few pictures of my progress on the bigger batch of lures I had started at the beginning of May.

The jerk baits are all sealed and ready to paint and the walleye trolling lure and a couple square bills are all glued and sanded, just waiting to be sealed. Once everything is sealed then I will start to paint.

Updated Tutorials

I have added to the tutorial section of the blog. Now you should be able to mock up an entire lure if you follow along.

http://geclures.blogspot.ca/p/tutorials.html

More tutorials to come including gluing, sealing, painting and finishing!

Trout round two

Got out for some more trout this past weekend. Ended up catching a few nice brown and rainbow trout over the two days. Here are a few pics of the trout. 

I also got to water test my new crankbaits. They all work well! They are heavier than the plastic store bought lures but their action is still very similar. I'm excited to try out my next batch of more different lures. 

Pile Of Lures

I cut out a bunch of lures today. Made four different lure designs including the same shad I have made before, a different minnow design, a short and fat square bill and a minnow jerk bait. I will post my progress on all the new lures. I decided to make larger batches of lures because it will make painting easier. Constantly having to change colours while painting sucks so i might as well make more lures and paint them all at the same time. Let me know what kind of lures you guys want to see me try and make and I'll see what I can do!

Finished!

I finished off my first set of lures today. They look better than I expected. Going to try them out this weekend to see how they work!

Some new and some old

I worked on some of the other lures today. I sealed them up so that they will be ready for paint in a day and I also tested out sealing one lure after painting. To improve the dryer, I added a switch, so now it makes it a whole lot easier to add and remove lures.

First try at painting some lures

Tried out painting some lures with the airbrush today. It was pretty frustrating because the fluorescent yellow and green paints that I bought seem to be really gritty, even after shaking. This caused the airbrush to clog up numerous times and made painting a lot more difficult. I ended up with some decent results. I used a piece of window screen to make the scale effect in some of the lures. I'm wondering if I should have sealed the foul lure before painting? I'm worried that the paint will just come off when I go to seal the lure with a final coat of epoxy. We will soon see!