I was just playing around awhile back while I was doing some painting and I wondered what a flame paint job would look like on a bait. I also wanted to see if I had the ability to paint flames and make them look halfway decent. I'm not sure if the fish will be impressed with these or not but I thought they looked pretty cool......or should I say "hot" . Here's how they came out. The first attempt was on a Hellhound and then I flamed a couple of my shallow paddletail swimbaits.
Here's a photo of a new model that I came up with awhile back. It's a curly tail version of of my 5" paddletail swimbait. These were created at the request of my Norwegian friends, they wanted to use them for their Perch and Zander. The 2 in the photo is a couple I sent to them for testing purposes and as you can see by the other pic that they were a success.
Here's a photo of a very nice Pike taken in the United Kingdom on one of my Ribbontail swimbaits.
Here's a few more photos of some nice fish that were taken during our Canada trip last week. These guys are my cousins and they also work as field testers for me. This trip they were using some of my long tail jointed swimbaits and were rewarded with these 4 fish, all taken on those swimbaits.
Photos of the 6 Muskies my partner and I boated last week on our annual Canada trip.
This years "Musky Week" seen a lot of weather changes from hot and sunny to overcast and rain, flat calm with little wind to 35 mph winds. No two days were the same which made putting together a consistent pattern very difficult. At the beginning of the week twitch/minnow baits were the baits of choice and produced a fat 49" fish for one of the competitors which became the mark to beat and held the top spot until the last day of competition. As the week worn on swimbaits began to produce some fish, Suicks were the hot bait on a couple days and rubber had their times too. On one day prop style topwater lures were what the fish seemed to want best. Bucktails, which is normally the most consistent bait to use there, would only produce a few lazy follows until the final day when big double bladed tails produced 3 fish a 46", a 49" and my 49-1/2" fish which earned me top honors.
Here's a few new and unique colors on my Big Paddletail Swimbait. Some are just a different variation in the color or pattern of ones I've done before and some are totally new, as least to me. They all were done at a customers request.
