flaswimbaiter Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 One of the first Baits I made was a three-piece deep diver. It was very basic and only got down about 5 feet. Once I got better at carving and design, I decided to remake it, add some scales, streamline the body a little, change the angle, but still only got about 5 feet on a cast. Still not happy, I did some research of other diving baits and decided to reduce a lot of the mass, change the angle of the lip again, change the tail to silicone, and also streamline it a little more. Because it’s a lighter bait with a large lip it was really hard to tune. Unfortunately, I’m only getting about one more foot of depth than I did from the last version. It’s not exactly what I wanted but considering our lakes are not deep here I’m gonna stop right here and move onto something else. One bonus is that one of the first I poured was too heavy, so I converted it into a three-piece twitch bait, which has some amazing action. It sinks very slowly and can be waked, ripped and twitched, or dead sticked. danthefisherman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthefisherman Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Nice! You could try making a lipped countdown maybe… that way you can essentially sink it and maintain whatever depth you want. flaswimbaiter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Process77 Posted January 8 Report Share Posted January 8 I think you have to move your tie eye placement down the bill a bit, to get it running deeper. Something about the pivot point, I think the engineered angler did a video explaining it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socalswimbait Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 I would agree with above statement. Line tie lower and closer to lip might help with depth and stability. I made a 3 and 2 piece shad deep diver a few years back. Got it down to 10-12 on reg cast. I long lined it on the regular and could get it down to 15-17. Jdubb, flaswimbaiter and azsouth 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flaswimbaiter Posted January 14 Author Report Share Posted January 14 (edited) I line tie is as close as I can get it to the lip. tried putting it on the lip but it killed the action. I took the bait to a deeper clear lake to test it and it gets down more than I expected, prob 8’ on a long cast. One real positive is that this thing vibrates like a MF. Will try to make a vid. Edited January 14 by flaswimbaiter Socalswimbait and Big Epp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socalswimbait Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 They sure do kick like crazy once you get em dialed for sure!! I had custom lips made for mine with a little tongue on em to get em deeper into head than they look. I think it made a big diff in its stability and and action. flaswimbaiter and Big Epp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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