Can I put a rattle in a plexiglass lure?Making Lipless crankbait  

Thanks...and nice job giving back with your lures. I don't mind when other RU-vidrs use my ideas but it would be nice if they gave me a shout out.

@@EngineeredAngler , I can't recall if they mentioned you or not, some do, but I watch so many lure making videos. I did see a picture on a Lure Making Group where someone made a copy of your Simple Lollipop Lure and gave you credit! As much help as you provide the lure making community, I would like to see credit given where credit is due. I know that your calculations have helped me with a couple of lures lately. Thanks Franco!

Well I'm glad you recognize my stuff out there...

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Go for it!

Thanks, I think so too

I think I would make friends with the mouse first.

Thank you sir

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Watch this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RaeoHpmBt_Q.html

Thank you! That answered a lot of questions.

Glad it was helpful!

I have two or three...😃

That cast isn't hard at all really. I been using casters since the 80's.I didn't try to go out and "learn" it,I just caught myself doing it one day when I didn't have much room to cast. I'll also do it with spinners but I'm working on phasing out my spinners for nothing but casters. I do another cast where you twirl the lure clockwise or counterclockwise depending if you want to cast left or right and don't have the room to do it normally. You can also do this method to cast under things like fallen logs,docks,etc. but it does take some time to get proficient with it. Then you can use this type of cast to cast forwards if you twirl the bait just straight out. This takes quite a bit more practice over the prior one I mentioned as you can not twirl it straight out from the rod,it has to be off center and your lure is going to go that way also so you have to learn to compensate for that too.

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I'll check it out...thanks

Not really...more like an erratic swim

14 tpi

I'm pretty sure a bass couldn't resist a mouse swimming across the surface. I remember trying soft plastics and hard plastics on bass I could see in a pond. I was a kid. The fish wouldn't touch anything artificial I tried. I put on a live lizard and as soon as it hit the water and swam a couple inches the whole school of little bass went after it and I caught 1. Another time the same thing happened with a live dragonfly. That was all in Florida growing up. Recently I saw a bunch of water snakes at Lake Norman State Park and a few small ones swimming around the edges got hit by something, probably bass. Nobody was catching fish with lures from the bank and I wanted a good snake imitation because I won't kill a live one for bait (or any reason). Anyway, if you could get a mouse lure to swim like a real mouse it should be awesome.

Sure...that's something I've done with crankbaits to demonstrate how it changes with the tie eye location.

@@EngineeredAngler I'll have to look for the videos. Thanks for the answer.

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I love it. I've had it for more than three years and it gets abused. It's not unusual for me to walk away and leave it turned on for hours.

Thin cable can work but you'll have to crimp them.

I believe so...

I don't think I've painted any trout patterns...not much call for it in Florida.

Sorry but I don't think so...

I like your idea. Unfortunately most of the drawings for the videos I do by hand, and I do that because I think it's less intimidating, more accessible than a CAD drawing. But ironically the hand drawings get distroid in the process and are not accessible to anyone. I plan to produce a set of drawings and instructions for a few of my favorite lures and offer them up for a very small price. That's the plan....

@@EngineeredAngler start making copies of your drawings before cutting them up. Personally I’d really like to have some to hang in the shop for inspiration if nothing else.

@@EngineeredAngler I wouldn’t want cad drawings. They lack character and don’t show the art of refinement with the additional lines. Your draftsman/ blueprint style is bold and unique in this field of lure making. Don’t ever change that, it is very cool.

You need a cheap hand saw.

@@EngineeredAngler ok thanks I’ll look for one I might have one laying around (somewhere)

No...just make🙂

@@EngineeredAngler I will gladly buy your work, its awesomeness

I don't...but I need one.

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