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A change of colour

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Now and again when a do get the time I enjoy painting lures, whether it be giving old lures a new look or changing new lures to something a bit different. One of my favourite lures at the moment is the Spro 4″ BBZ Shad it has been producing plenty of fish for me since we got hold of them back in February, even though they have been very productive I fancied a different pattern. So last week the day before I was due to go fishing I made the last minute decision to spray up a BBZ Shad in a Perch pattern. It didn’t take to long to spray up, let the paint dry and I had time to quickly add one coat of epoxy ready for next day’s fishing. I would prefer a thicker coating of epoxy but like I say it was a last minute decision.

I’m up fishing in the Lakes at the weekend so I look forward to giving the Perch pattern BBZ a good testing :)

A 'Golden Rudd' and the new 'Perch' pattern BBZ

An older 'Golden Rudd' and the new 'Perch' pattern BBZ

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Homemade Lures

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

I was sent up three homemade lures from Mart of the LAS (Lure Anglers Society) for spraying up, apparently painting lures isn’t his strong point (I’m no expert either!) so figured he send them up for me to have a go at. For the trouble he said I could keep one of the Perch pattern lures :) Mart has already taken a few double figure Pike on his Perch pattern lure so I knew my lure would do the biz. Well I managed to get a morning’s lure fishing in yesterday, naturally the first lure to be clipped on would be Mart’s homemade lure. I made my first cast of the day, two turns of the reel handle and bang! Straight away I was into a fish, ok it was a small 3lb jack Pike but very welcome all the same.

The slow sinking lure has a fantastic action, will dart/roll side to side when jerking the rod tip but has a lovely wide side to side movement on a straight retrieve. I landed four Pike in total on the lure with a few missed takes as well, Mart obviously knows what he is doing when it comes to making lures. Keep up the good work :)

Examples of Mart's lure building skills.

Examples of Mart's lure building skills.

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