My latest work at the Rod building bench

I have been thinking about shad patterns lately  and stated looking real close at the colorization of different shad species.  Then in looking at some Hickory shad pics I was a bit surprised at just how the distinctive the purples and blues are on these fish and thought that this will make a great color pattern for crankbait.  So, I pulled out a rather larger Rat L Trap buried deep in one of …

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I received some unpainted crankbait bodies a couple of weeks ago and we have been in the process of building lure dryers and preparing everything to get ready to paint. So, with a few hours of cool tempetures in the mornings, I decided to pratice on a few lures.

The lures came from Jann's Netcraft and the first step is to remove the sharp edges of the joints with some fine sandpaper. My airbrush …

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