In this video I make a popper lure specifically for fishing the Florida flats and I add a little something extra to call the fish. www.amazon.com/shop/engineere... / engineeredangler pB5ReGuDlS...
Hey, remember those old sticker dart guns? The were a spring, a catch and a plunger-shaped "dart" with a shaft and suction cup. So what if you had a spring-loaded popper face? When you popped it the front cup would compress the spring. Then the cup would spring back and kind of double-pop the lure.
I do the opposite after watching Matt Stephen talk about his poppers so I have been weighting the tails and tying hair on the back hook so it sits more vertically and it amazes me that sometimes the fish will come up and grab the tail hook and pull it under like a bobber. I can fish about 10 minutes per cast now without all the long pauses. It'll pop and move about 3 to 6 inches if you want to fish slow
Thanks Franco, The idea of a simple rattler made by a straw is excellent, I learned it thanks to you. It fails sometime in a resin casted lure, it happens often, at list to me, that it doesn't work, the sphere, probabbly cause the straw soft plastic, it doesn't move. Only in cast resin lures I use a rigid straw made in brass. Thanks 🙏 so much for your excellent job, you nail it again!
I anderstood why, sometime, the straw it doesn't work, once resin is casted, I use to put my mold inside a pressure pot. I suspect that, cause the pressure, air pump in, the straw that is not completely rigid sometime is "crashed", steel balls are not allowed to move. When I don't use the pressure pot straw is working always fine
So true about cedar. I am working on ten 2-piece swimbaits and have had chip-outs several times. Man, I'll bet that popper shows up on your local doppler!
Love the video I just got back from bass fishing 10 PM-4 AM I like your design for a popper But at night I use a plain Black popper But I think a Bullfrog paint would work well during the day
Thought of a video that others might like.How deep should a wire harness be inside a bait before its rips out? Have a couple baits with harnesses at diffrent depths. Have a force gauge tied to a hook hanger and rip them out.
i tried brushing on Polycrylic on top of airbrush paint. You will need to make sure the paint is thoroughly dry and use a soft brush. A stiff brush could rub the paint on. It seems spraying on would be better. I need to try it.
I’d love to see a video on making a sinking stick bait for saltwater!! for the type of fishing i do in Sydney Australia I would really like to make one I just don’t know what to use to make it sink! Love the video!!!
this is awesome man! just found your channel and im graduating with a degree im ocean engineering this year. im a big fisherman and also started making lures over the past year! About to take my FE exam!
Why not use a metal tube for the rattle chamber? It might be cool to put an empty shell case from a rifle in there for the chamber, and you'd only need to close one end.
Somehow missed this one. Really nice lure you turned out on this one. Just a question, is the cup really necessary, as in could you cut out say a wave or C type shape (for want of a better way to describe it) on the bandsaw and still get the same effect? Only that I don't have a ball bit or any way to scoop it out (well i do have a spoon gouge but that would be tricky)
@EngineeredAngler thanks for the response, will give it a go. Just need to work out the straw part now, can no longer get straws in Australia. Thanks again 😀
Hi Franco, another sweet build! I have a question for you, i was making a new mold the other day and i forgot to divot the clay so i did not have a key to align the 2 halves. Of course i figured this other when preparing for the 2nd half. How would you address that situation? What i did in the end was only vaseline 1/2 the mold, but I'm not sure i'm happy with it as its difficult to get the internals properly positioned. But i just made a handful of harnesses so we'll see if i can learn to live with it.
I had included this in a video a while back...I created divots using a thin tube with the edge sharpened by digging out little cylinders in the face of the first half of the mold. You can use the eraser end of a pencil by taking out the eraser. Good question. Thank you.
Where do you get your polycrylic for $11? Everywhere I look it's $26. I got mine for $26. Very cool lures brotha 👍. I just started airbrushing my own lures 3 weeks ago and I'm having so much fun. Thanks for the vid 👍
I have a question about a crankbait sorry but what would cause the bait to roll when you burn it Thanks and I enjoy your videos they made me want to try to build my own
@@user-tl1bk1ok3c bib refers to a lip which gives an action of a lure. Unless you made lipless crankbait 😀Then you again need #EngineeredAngler to answer it to you.