Making a countdown stickbait with a flash.  

Just to be clear...I wasn't just trying to get the lure to wiggle as it drops through the water, just about all my twitch baits do that. I was looking for a really outrageous exaggerated waggle. I'm trying to push the limits of the characteristics that might cause that. The thinner of the two lures comes pretty close, it's just Impossible to video with the fast drop rate. From here, I want to refine it to work with a slower fall. I'll keep posted.

Flat belly, flat sides and the weight as low as possible, that always works for me. Cool stuff as always Franco 🤟🏻 Ps I'd love to pay you back for all the effort you put in this channel, if you want measurements, data or a clip of my stuff just let me know somehow, they do wobbles aaaa lot😁

I make one with a shad profile that applies the narrow belly wider back, but it's hight (distance from belly to the back) is greater, about 1 1/4" . The belly being half the width of the back. It wobbles perfectly on the fall.

I'm working since several years on a sinking stickbait with a really fast wiggeling action. My expirience is, that the most important thing is, that it is as light as possible above the centerline and the weight as low as possible. Than it start wiggeling imediatly when its in the water. I do it with 3 d printer and just let an air space in the top part. With wood i would try with balsa wood and more weight in the belly. Cheers from Switzerland

Another great video, everything is well explained

Man those two are my favorite paint jobs I’ve seen you do

You just keep getting better Franco fantastic paint job absolutely fantastic I am impressed my friend

That was a lot of fun to watch. Both lures look really great. Learned a bunch.

Great job Franco. As always enjoy your content from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

Love the paint scheme on both of those. They both look so realistic! Thanks for sharing your skills.

I really like that copper scheme. To wobble more while going down I believe a slightly concave body (thick at top and thin at bottom) should throw off stronger vortices.

At 62 yo should my mind really go straight to "Wiggle" ft. Snoop Dogg? Wiggle wiggle wiggle

I like the chopper/gold one.

Lucky Craft had/has a lure called the Wander, that wiggled on the drop. I lost the one I had and never replaced it. I do recall it being fairly equal width top and bottom, and kind of flat sided, so my guess on why it wiggled on the drop would be that maybe it was weighted very close to, or just slightly below, the center line?

Another video with twin lures. Spraying on the black first and wiping it off added great depth to the scales and paint job. They look amazing and I'm sure function as well!

Wow!! Very nice work...thank you!

Since you asked for input . . . I agree completely with my friend and skilled lure maker Rafal ("Such a Jerk Custom Lures," among the commenters below): I think that the fin you installed on the bottom edge of these two lures is acting just like the "bilge keels" that many builders of steel commercial fishing vessels weld onto the bottoms of their boats to slow the roll of these hulls. Essentially, as the vessel tries to roll from side to side (an action you WANT in your lure), the longitudinal keels move against the water, and that resistance slows the roll. But, you're the engineer, so perhaps you know a theory of hydrodynamics that says I, Rafal, and all those boat builders are wrong. I can tell you from working aboard commercial fishing vessels, however, that bilge keels work (i.e., they do reduce and/or slow a boat's roll). Like Rafal, I suggest that you remove the keel from one of your two prototypes and see if that helps a bit with the action you're looking for.

I bet the reds would attack that golden one. Cool baits!!

Think in reverse! The suick rise and dive lure. Flat belly and flat back. On the rise it wiggles like crazy. With a count down lure...use a flat belly and a narrow spine. Mount lure weight highe in the blank.

One of these days I’ll run into you on lake Santa Fe (one of my favorite lakes and where I caught my 12lb PB).

Meus parabéns esta isca artificial artesanal ficou muito bem feita.

You can wrap hook neck with thin lead wire. Also melting the lead on the bottom of the hook. It will pull down the lure

I have called an onde onde. which has a very good and irratic action on the drop. I made a copy of it and mine did the same. This lure has a flat bottom, with sharp edges on then tappers slightly to the top as a "normal lure would. The weight in the lure also covers quite a bit of the the surface area of the bottom of the lure.

Very nice looking baits Mr Franco!

Hi Franco 👋 They came out real pretty 😍 in my opinion the fin is counter productive when it comes to the wobble/wiggle... I was never good in physics, especially bad with the formulas and calculations 😅 but since I'm making lures, I can very well imagine how the forces are working on the lure, so once you're lure belly wish to go sideways on the curved line up, the flat fin works like a stopper. I'm not sure if you agree, but try one without fin and we'll find out 😉 all the best from Poland 👋😊🇵🇱

Those look great and as always I appreciate the technical discussion. Would have liked to see them swim but poor conditions oh well. Incidentally, there is a you tube channel with the same name as what is printed on your shirt. Also a lure builder.

It’s likely that the sink rate will be fast until it starts to wobble then it will slow down substantially

Wait!! You didn't show the swimming action! I'd love to see that exact lure in a mullet pattern. The shape is about as close to a mullet as I've seen, but I really wanted to see the swimming action to see how close it mimicked the mullet,, like when they're at the top of the water in the "shake" So if it does what I think it would, with the high sink rate, that might be exactly what I'm looking for to throw from the pier I've mentioned before.

Maybe a spearing decoy for pier fishing?

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I making my first lure i need good vibres for lure you helped my alot, thank you

Beautiful looking lure. I wonder if you made the bottom fin out of metal and used a lighter wood if it might wobble more on the sink? (kind of like one would visualize a falling hot air balloon.) Or some kind of hinge between the weighted fin (cloth around the fin glued into the body) to allow it to ocilate more readily. A weighted belly hook placed at the center of the lure might serve the same purpose more practically. With the added benefit of eliminating the need for pouring lead into the body. I may be spinning out of control with this thought excercise, so I'll stop there.

I've had the same desire here in the Pacific Northwest for fishing King Salmon from shore. What would happen if lure dropped erraticly ?

Franco, what microphone system are you using. Sounds really good. Mine, a cheapie just bit the dust. Thnx.

Bro make the back of the lure more flat and arched and the bottom of the lure more rounded my measurements (because I make lures to)are 20mm wide by 22mm deep bottom narower and rounder and the top barely a curve to make it shimmer like crazy,try it out

what if you put a concave shape to the top of it? i think it would create more turbulence and also more drag, which would cause it to slow a bit. that was my one issue with this build, you wanted it to fall fast, and im thinking the more time its spending flshing/wobbling on the way down (ergo, the slower the fall) the more chances you will get to attract a nearby fish?

I think the balance left to right is too stable due to the weight being so low? If you could find a way to measure/mark the center of buoyancy, and place the ballast closer to that point (higher up than current location), it would want to "tip over" but could correct itself.

How does line resistance affect the action compared to without on the drop. Would balancing nose heavy get a more desirable result?

thats nearly the same like my lures,just another sice!!! i think you need more weight, that pulls the lure down. dont be affraid,if it starts to wiggle that will slow down the sinkingrate. and in my oppinion the v-shape dont work, i got the best movement out of a simple square/block-shapeand i tested allot... you got more volume out of the same bodyshape and size,so you can put in more weight,what is often very usable in saltwater,too. and at last make it through-wire, you are not fishing for bass... look at my video where i lost the monstertrout...

can you send me the link on where you buy the stencil you used. thanks

What if you would make the opposite. Floating Countup Lure. Making the belly thick, and the back thin, so when it rises up, it flutters haha. Have you tried that ?

Hello!! Did you use the same weight size for the second lure?

Probably shoud have used half inch wood

? How would you make a lure that looks like a fish that is injured.. please get back to me on this

The center of gravity is too low in the body.

Taller is better…..and get the weights as shallow as possible……….