My lures

[Tom]

OK guys, just uploaded a video of my first lures onto youtube, check them out, i will be selling very shortly!!! (The lures shown will be kept for my own personal use )

[Tom]

ok, there has been a problem with the upload, it froze half way through, my file is corrupt. I will try and get the video up and working again, and post the new link.

[Tom]

Now works, enjoy

[Tom]

OK, i tested these out today, both lures work superb, especially the cheeky chugga (which i nearly lost). The cheeky chugga is 100% hand-on-heart the best popper i have ever seen, and in fact, the best surface lure i have ever seen. The top prop works great too, nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't work quite as nice as the cheeky chugga. The CC makes huge, deep bass popping sounds, along with a subtle walk-the-dog action. The top prop makes higher pitched sounds, along with loads of splashing. It can also be wound straight in, although the prop is a bit stop and start at slow speeds. The top prop also comes in on its side when reeling straight in, although i have put a huge Eddie turner split ring, and size 2 owner hook on, which should weigh the belly down a bit more.

Anyway, about nearly losing the cheeky chugga...
Basically, on a cast out to an island, the lure just nipped the leaves on an overhanging tree, no problem thought I, 50lb power pro will rip that off in no time. Anyway, i tightened down to the lure ready to pull, and my trace snapped! It is supposed to be 30lb, i put no more than, i would say, 2lb of strain on my line!!! There must have been something wrong with it, it was a Fox trace, which are usually great and tough as nails, it was one i have had a while though. Anyway, i moved to another spot and came back later to see if i could see my lure. There was nothing up the tree, but instead my lure was floating on the water, and eventually, it came close enough into the bank to net it, with half a trace still clipped on. Just shows, the wind shaking the tree did more than my '30lb' trace could...

[Tom]

made another cheeky chugga in red tiger, it came out brilliant (well, i think so), apart from a small smudge on the eye which kinda looks like a flame anyway, so if anyone asks, i did it on purpose
The two lures in the video are on there too.

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[Tom]

OK, i need names for a couple of lures i have made:
firstly for a pencil popper,
and secondly, for a colour that is completely black, with a very light spray of red on the sides, a lightish spray of green along the back, and a lightish spray of silver along the belly.
Sorry i can't post the pictures, im afraid i have just given up, nothing i do will get them down to size and i figured it would just be easier to give a description.

[hot0n0tot]

The pencil popper im still workin on

For the second one how about midnight spectrum? Sounds pretty cool to me and if they were mass produced i would have to buy one because of the name.

Hopes this help some and i will be thinking about your popper

Keenan

[Tom]

OK, i have built another glider, this time in a roach pattern, again, this one is my best lure so far (getting better at this ). Im gonna try and upload some pictures of my gliders, both the firetiger and the roach, later on this evening. You will see in a previous post, after i used the first lures i made, that i didn't rate the top prop as high as the cheeky chugga. Well, i have slightly altered the design, and i believe that it is now even better than the CC.

P.S-Thanks for the idea Keenan, i will call it midnight spectrum
don't worry about the pencil popper, i scrapped the idea, in testing it didn't pop or splash, and its surprisingly hard to make a design of pencil popper that works, they are all too streamlined and don't trap enough air or water, meaning there is no resistance when you jerk the lure, they just move along the surface.

[bulldog21]

Try using photobucket.com to upload your pictures. Then copy and paste the "image code" directly into your text here on rapalanation.

I used to used imageshack but they were always too big for the threads here.

Just a thought...

-Ryan

[Tom]

yep, Thanks for the help, i will try and get em to upload now

[Tom]

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Doesn't do them justice though
They look much better in real life.