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2 days after the new moon went to the local lake and caught this blimp on the hinkle

Hey SU, remastered the soft bait crappie and made it a hardbait. I molded a 3 piece and a 4 piece, also made a 1-off billed 2 piece wake. Threw some paint last night to try and match a local crappie. Love the swim on these. IMG_2831.MOV

Klash 9 crappie 15.5”

Gan Crafts got a very wide smooth glide. You can work the JC hard but the I-slides do the job way better. Super erratic and unpredictable movements . Great warm water swimbait! Work the I-slides like jerkbaits using your rod and reel to jerk and twitch them. The floater is also great for dead sticking with erratic action in the mix.

Hit local place this morning for 4 hours. Thunderstorms with cold rain rolled thru last night and had em tight lipped. Had a good one bose my OD rat and another swipe at my Pizz crankin carp. Saw some action back in the bushes so tied on my bullwake and finally got one to eat. Tight lines

Some New builds. 3 pc shad swimmer. Jr wake n crank in baby bass with a coffin lip. Plus a custom pink gill for @grumbler

Here is the sequel to my Swimbait Fishing In The Wild West that I made a few years ago. In this video, some of our best catches are captured and filmed and presented to you guys!

Hey dudes just dropping by again to share a new swimbait model i finally got to a point where i feel like its good enough to be releases. This bait is basically an evolution from a shad glide bait that i made 3 years ago, i always liked the action of that bait but i always felt the details could have been done little better, so here we are with a new and improved shad 2.0 The shad is 10" and weighs 8.6oz

Cracked the bill off my UFO wake gill the other day, was going to send it in to get replaced but figured I would see how it swam. No issues at all twitched like a perfect bill-less floater when i swam it in the pool. After about an hour or so I was able to pull a decent fish out from under a foam line next to some rocks. I was worried about the sharp edge on the busted bill snapping my line so I switched over to the 5.8 keitech and got a smaller size fish. Tied on a Jackall Gantarel next cast and ended up sticking another one. Hard to switch it up once you get a bite on something but always nice to try something different.

https://japantackle.com/tuning-parts/handles-casting-reels/daiwa-abu/tug0000203.html 8mm whichever hand crank you need. Drt doesnt have them listed on the site

Went out for a night mission this weekend with a friend to one of our local ponds, wanted to stay dedicated to throwing the rat most the night which was pretty easy after sticking one within 5 minutes of getting to the spot. Ended up going 5 for 7 on the Spro BBZ1 Rat size 50, then stuck two more on the yunique and Matt lures gill baits. After a 6 hour skunk session the night before this definitely made up for it, nothing crazy size wise but just fun night with some top water bites.

Yup

Thanks ! She looked like she was about to pop

1st batch incubating in quarantine

thanks

I mix mine the same as i do with regular resin. The slow set just allows me to mix longer and more thoroughly before i get it into the molds. The regular stuff i have used (amazing white and RC-3) has a pot life of 2 minutes where as the slow set is 7 minutes. By the time i'm done mixing and pouring the micro balloons really don't have much time to rise in the resin before it starts curing (a couple minutes at most). I was worried about the same thing at first. But after 2 pours, i don't think i'll ever use the faster stuff again unless i'm in a pinch.

I agree how much

Klash 9!

It is amazing what that designation does. It closes them from all fall and winter ice fishing leading to interesting results like the creation of a sustaining pike fishery. Big bass too.

Amazing work as always!

But if you’re down there I would much rather fish CJ strike

that was another part of it. Lake gets an unhealthy amount of trout. Was almost wondering if the bass are full lol

@Andrew209

Very cool! Nice fish!

Rat bites are crazy! Good catches.

Holy crap....ey. Nice catch!

You where on that rat bite

if you are fishing from the bank.... Hide behind a tree/bush when you are casting. Move slowly, and stay in the shadows. Also standing back from the water a good distance for the 1st few casts is always a good idea!

That’s rad

Typically, I'll fish it however it comes from the maker / manufacturer to start with.

nice one.

Depends on what is a big rat for you... the XL Naz rat is a solid rat, so is the CL8 baby possum but both them rats bodies are 6 1/2 inches if your looking for a big body the CL8 adult possum is a big bait and so is the Rago Alpha Mink both them are 8 inch bodies and 8-9oz here are some pics of different size rats I have... you are going to see pics of the Rago Alpha Mink beside my mother it’s a big rat, I have a brown one and my fishing partner has a Grey one as you see together in the picture... Also you will see a brown one with no tail and a thicker body profile that is a Rago XXL mink it’s 12oz ( good luck finding one lol ) but both the XL mink and adult possum will be a big player for me this summer also the Adult possum is in the muskrat color and the baby possum in the white along with my nez rat... I don’t have a XXL nez rat yet but will soon.. my biggest rat fish to date is on the XL nez rat.. they all have there own swim to them! Possum is a head up real tight wobble and the Rago XL mink has big hip wobble almost like it’s fling to roll over throw off a huge wake... the XL naz rat is a tight wobble has some knocking two to it also... Hope this post helps you with the size and what fits you! I got into rat fishing late last season and me and my fishing partner have bought a lot of different rats over the fall and winter... good luck this season man... 1st pic Adult possum , baby possum , naz rat 2nd pic spro rat 50, baby possum , Xl naz rat , Rago Aphla Mink , Adult possum 3rd pic baby and adult possum 4th pic Rago alpha mink with mother 5th pic Rago alpha mink ( grey ) with XXL mink 6th pic again Rago alpha mink with Rago XXL mink 7th pic back of Rago alpha mink vs Rago XXL mink you can see how much tighter the XXL mink is across the back like I said the XL mink is about 9oz and the XXL is 12oz both have a 8 inch body with tail your looking at 17-18inches.. 8th pic is both of the Rago XL minks together...

5.5 on the rat

Use tungsten nails and just stick them in the bait at a desired area and angle. Here is a video by Mike Gilbert on it.

Stuck a couple striper in memory of Michel @surfk9 GO FISH!!!

Jeez thats a chunky fish

Anything mentioned above will work. But you dont need to take every drop of paint off. You need to said it down so get good adhesion, how fine of grit you get into depends on how nice you want the finish. I'de strip it like mentioned, then light sand and primer, and your good to go. Paint adhesion and quality is in the prep work. Try and keep your greasy fingerprints off it along the way.

best handles around man, awesome CS and if you want its possible to swap the knobs to the drt style (theres a thread in the main area about it) i swapped mine to drt but in a different way, ill post some pics of my sets ups later today