Big Loud Eye Knocker In a SwimBait 

The scales you put on this bait are hands down my favorite of all the ones you've done. Awesome bait dude, love how you're venturing into rattles and weight chambers, can't wait to see what's next

Hey Nate, heres a suggestion for making prying the two pieces of wood apart a lot easier. Put a single layer of blue painters tape on the sides of the wood, and then glue the painter tape to painter tape. it will still hold really well for working on it, and you only have to fight the sticking power of the tape when prying them apart. Hope it helps!

Happy Father’s Day! You have a beautiful family and that’s definitely something you should be proud of. Enjoy your special day and keep up the amazing videos.

When I make my baits. I have to sit outside. Lately the humidity has been SO HIGH here In Arkansas and all over. I haven’t made a bait since March. Today tho I may because this is inspiring to me and it’s actually not that hot today! Love your work Nate!

The long “s” on “super glue and baking soda” made me laugh WAY to hard hahahaha great video!

Happy father's day enjoy your day great video like always

A little tip -> use white glue to glue a sheet of newsprint between your two blocks. Separating becomes much easier...any residual paper left in the seam can be sanded off afterward. I enjoy your videos very much...thank you for making them.

Man i just wanted to say as i'm watching this its coming out 10/10 looks amazing and love the colours

Happy Father’s Day, Nate!

Woo! Glass microspheres! My favorite!

Thank you for your content Nate! I wouldn’t be a full time baitmaker without your videos to get me started

Your swim bait videos are my favorite. I grew up in Santa Rosa CA and fished 150-200 days out of the year. Double digit largemouths were common and they smashed big swim baits. Look up Paul Duclos 24.1 lb largemouth. Happy Father’s Day!

To avoid the pieces sticking together too hard, stick a length of painter tape to each surface you want to glue. Then to the non-sticky side, put 2 or 3 drops of super glue along the length of the tape and stick the two pieces of tape together. It holds until you don't want it to anymore. Knife maker trick.

No Chip? We need more Chip-Chip in the videos. Great bait. I love that you are not too proud to learn from your own mistakes. You are a great teacher.

I'm digging the scales on this one 👌

Hey, I know I’ve asked a million times, but please do a goldfish lure with big ol’ googly eyes. There are few things bass love more than goldfish, and it’s illegal to use real ones. It’s something I haven’t seen before, and I know that you would crush it.

IDEA FOR A LURE: Nothing is allowed to be smooth or gradient. Only straight surfaces and hard angles. Kind of like the the airplane F-117 Nighthawk. Thank you for the awesome videos!

I know it would probably take quite a bit of time,but it'd be awesome to see you make a wooden spider lure or a snake lure.

Happy Father’s Day, Brother!

Happy feathers day Nate! Keep up the great builds and possibly the one day van

your lures are getting pretty intricate , i like that you keep challeging yourself with new designs and features ... kudos

My favorite scales you've painted man. You need to do those scales with a bit of gold for a carp paint job! I've often wondered if that whole spray at an angle thing would work with a thinner mesh screen too for smaller scales

Happy fathers day Nate!

Happy Father’s Day! Soon my daughter will be old enough to go on her first fishing trip with me. We’d love to see you and your son fishing together

Really love the random cuts to animals

Hi Nate, greetings from England, UK. Here's a bit of a challenge, instead of making one of these from wood, maybe you could source some extra thick Plexi-glass and make a smaller one so the internal 'workings can be seen from the outside? It should make more noise than steel on wood does and if you can spray the steel balls red, then this may give an added attractant to the predators seeing a 'jumping, pumping' bloody mass moving about (as gross as it sounds!!)

Love yourlures, keep trucking.

You could try gluing a piece of newspaper between the blocks of wood. I’ve had good luck with that. Just lay it on a corner and give it a firm wack with a mallet or hammer. There will be some clean up afterward though.

it's the Sammy Davis Junior of hand-made lures

Idk why but I feel the "angel the brush" was a shot at the guy on Instagram who was talking trash 😂

Too bad the eye broke. I like the idea. It was a beautiful lure too!

FOLKS WEVE MADE IT! Day 30 of asking Marling Baits to make an ultralight trout spinner!! 🎣🎣 Nate plz end this! Make the spinner!

I think your lures that don’t catch fish have the fish to blame, they see the amazing beauty of your baits and know that they are yours so they don’t want to damage them with their teeth

Don’t lie…..you pulled that scale material out of your swim trunks. ….don’t lie…..I know a bathing suit when I see one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yay…. Happy Father’s Day dude!

Use painters tape on the wood before you glue them together. Makes life a whole lot easier. Amazing job keep it up!

Name this the ThunderScreech. *named after worlds most loudest plane*

Well, i cant contribute much to creating the lures, but i can give random ideas. So what about a reverse lure. Upside-down paint job where the belly is upright and a bill at the tail of the bait. Call it the bass ackwards lure. Also making my suggestion of a rattle trap like always lol Keep up the nice lure making sir

Beautiful bait Nate. 👍👍

this bait looks really noice! i always feel so bad when you fish with these gorgeous lures that end up not catching fish because their big and youre trying to catch the .1% of monsters. id love to see a video where you just catch fish for a fish fry!

F YEAHHH. Happy Father’s Day.

Easyest way to glue the part's together is to put a layer of masking tape furst and a few drops of supper glue between them. Or buy some nice double sided tape. Much love my man

A tip to hold the wood together is to use carpet tape, it's nice and strong but also easy to remove

Hey I have a suggestion, down in Florida we’ve been having tons of invasive cichlids and stuff showing up in the waterways, they’re obviously not a typical baitfish but I’m sure bass have been eating them, so anyways I think a maybe 5-6 inch African cichlid swimbait would be cool, and you could go crazy with the colors.

Get up get up get down with the thickness

Great vid! Time for a swim tank!

Another great vid Nate, the detail you put into your lures and the ways in which you do it is fantastic, and as for old man hands more like old super glue hands hahaha! Keep up the great work, Cheers.

"I know a lot of guys that would murder for this thing." Yeah, me. Give it here, bucko

If you ever run into this prob and you just need a little more weight the sell this led wire. You can wrap as much as you need around the long parts of your hooks. And it makes it heavier. But on this lure it looked like you needed a whole lot more weight.

As always, dope content! Addition, i watch a LOT of content from Australia, this bait looks just like an aussie mullet. I feel like this would murder in aussie waters. Btw still putting together a set of vibrax style spinners for you, just need color preference for your target species.

What angle are your swim bait joints at, I’m looking to make myself a jig for my first swim bait and I just can’t find anything on what angle swimbait/glide bait joints should be at.

Just recently started making soft plastics thanks to your videos and its been a blast. Can't wait to snag whatever the new mold is from Epic Bait Molds. Hoping its the aggressively ribbed swimbait you made a while back. Was just talking to a buddy about how good I think a bait like that would do where I'm at.

I love your videos. Very talented. Nate proved the old saying, "its fishing, not catching!" The scales you did on this bait were awesome! Love that technique. Can't wait for the next episode!

For the memes: A lure made entirely out of superglue and baking soda.

I think this bait would catch mad fish in the ocean, looks just like a mullet 🤣

A thought: I haven't worked out the specific mechanics of this, but I wonder if you could get some really interesting erratic, wounded fish action by having moving neodymium magnets inside a bait. Maybe two north-facing magnets that are free to move so they are affected by gravity or the inertia when you pull the line, but they repel one another so they end up moving apart and creating a shiver or a jerk. Just a musing.

I caught a catfish on a wake bait one time. I had gotten a backlash and he ate it off the top. It was at the river so it was definitely moving in some way, but I was still pretty surprised.

The angled brush technique. 100%

Have you contacted doing a bait with recovered wood like from L.A that would be interesting. also love your video

do a frog wake bait but make legs that have joints in them so it's got legs floating behind it

Hey from the UK. Long time watcher. The hole just looks like an anal gland! Don't panic. Love what u do, very clever shooting colour at the angle on the thick scale material! Gives good depth. Hey to the family, good luck wi ur bigger garden!

Your truly a master of your craft i love watching you work and enjoying the baits when your fishing with them.

That was a good lure with a few improvements it could be great man!!.. like I love the glass eye, but you would have to always never hit bank when you cast.. wouldnt matter if it had a plastic bead in the eye. So how about lexan eye with plastic bead or beads.. colored beads maybe. And for the lip keep it tough as nails.. use metal.. stainless steal.. or aluminum.. keep the lip small/classy so they sit tighter to the body to allow easier hook ups and less chance to bend or break. Love your vids man seen em all. One day I will own a Marlin bait!! I hope

Coolest bait you have ever made!!! Can you please make a Muskie/Pike bait in a future video? Like a big glidebait with a huge, long curly tail! Super detailed paint job! That could be cool

Happy Father's Day, Nate! We've sent you some goodies from our new experiment. Be on the lookout for a teal bag from The Wapiti Project! We appreciate you!

Awesome video man, great stuff. I feel lucky to get to learn along with you.Yeah I'm Is patiently waiting on that mold lol.

I feel like the opening statement might have been directed at me or a lot of other people said the same thing lol.

Buenos días, que resistencia tiene los amarre de metal que une las tres piezas porque un jurel de 9 kilos hace una presión muy fuerte este sistema que usted utiliza aguantará mil gracias

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day! What a sweet bait! Now it's time to make a floppy pink human swimbait in 2022! Let's make it O-FISH-AL!

Summers almost here! You should think about a soft plastic top water walker/popper 🤔

Try using double stick tape or use painters tape then use a drop or two of crazy glue on the tape (not on the wood at all,) then place both pieces together then cut. it will come apart a lot easier.

awesome job

Maybe the air in the rattle chamber was responsible for the unexpected flippy floppy lean

Fly tieing l person here, you should try tieing flys, it’s so fun!!! If you do try then tie the elk hair caddies fly. (It’s pretty easy) What do ya think??

Awesome video as usual. Just curious - what made you start using black super glue?

That is my favorite paint job you've ever done. And I've watched EVERY video haha. Well done and man you make me want to start making baits every time

Double sided carpet tape is your friend. Holds two pieces together well, yet comes apart easily enough. Very common in wood working.

What PSI do you run your airbrush at? I struggle to get mine to shoot unless I run it at like 60 PSI, but I feel like its to opaque if I thin it out to shoot at lower pressure. Thanks!

Hey love your vid’s I have a suggestion what if you make a salt water sand crab lure with soft plastic legs and a wood slow sink body I feel you could make that really 😎

Yeah as a someone who fishes muskies I can confirm that 99.9% of the time you catch nothing when using big lures.

I seem to remember using a sheet of newspaper in between the 2 wood pieces being glued together using regular Elmer's white glue. Perhaps you might try that.

If i had 1/10 of your skills, my baitbox would be full of handmades... stunning lure. With them eyes you do now, you need to make a walleye/zander lure. I know you done it befor, but not with rattle eyes. Hope you and the family is good.

Would love to see something like a furry bumblebee.... lightweight surface skimmer/floater.

Use a sheet of paper in between your baits you glue together. It will hold but will come apart easier too, as long as you don’t care to sand off a fraction of a mm to clean it up afterwards

I’ve never seen a bird that small look at a person like that before… crows sure

Hey Nate, what is your ultra light rod that you use I’ve been trying to find one but couldn’t

That bait would be awesome in a larger body of water where you want a more extensive visibility/audibility radius.

I'd imagine the weight oversight was due to putting a cavity of air inside the bait..because Science 😚

Happy dads day

I’m normally a Bowyer but, I moved to an apartment you gave me another addiction thanks man.

I wonder if doing a clear coat on the inside of the slot you made for the ball bearings would help intensify the noise.

Definitely my favourite scales by a long way!! Sooo awesome!!!

Use painters tape on the wood before glueing it together. That way all you have to do is break the tape bond.

Awesome bait! Maybe try a smaller version of it? 👍👍👍👍

Hear me out: same bait but like half the size of this one. You’d get so many more hits.

I found your RU-vid channel recently and I gotta say your content is awesome!

You should make a video with the swimbait kid he might help you with the big swimbaits

This is my favourite bait of yours, nice to see how you are changing and evolving across the years. Cheers,

Just tell me who , where, and how and no I'm not going to but can I still have the bait lol 🤣