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Well I just received a couple of special high quality hard body lures today and they certainly look great and beautifully finished..
They're a well presented brown trout lure that I'm sure will suck quite a few trout in next season.. I'm really looking forward to giving them a good workout in the rivers & streams here in Tassie..
cheers
Adrian

Here's another of my videos as the season drew closer to closing... wasn't a bad spin season with a few wild brown trout being caught... At the end of the spin season I said the biggest trout was a 455 gram brown. it wasn't I forgot about the 485 gram brown I caught... Long day in the water, had a brain fade at the end of it..😜
cheers
Adrian
 

Everyone went to Yorkes.. they have already started whinging about it on the previews for the news tonight of the line up.  

Added the pattern onto some of them this morning. 
Stencils are the best thing ever to add another dimension to lures... added 3 different stencils to 3 different baits... 
Just needs sealant then clear coat Nd eyes and they are ready to smash PBs 😎😎



The middle one is my favourite out of the lot!

So update on Softys Callop Lures. 
After i had applied the base coat of Yellow i added pearl orange to the sides of the lure....
 

 
I then added Pearl Pineapple to the belly to give the yellow a little more pop!
Then i added an colour called Detail Sepia which is an dark brown. I added it to the top of the bait


 
I have now used an transparent sealer over the top of the bait so i can add the stencil pattern tomorrow. The sealent is just a safe guard when using stencils that it doesn't scratch or damage the paint... 
So tomorrow the pattern is gonig to go onto the lure then from there it will just need eyes and completed. 
I also have done two different Purple colours that i will be inverting the 2 purples on each of the baits with a criss cross pattern. Hard to explain but will show once finished.... 




 
Both purple baits will be finished with black backs and black around the eyes.
 
If you think there are other colour combinations you'd like to see be sure to let me know i still have another 15 of these blanks and i also have plenty of colours to choose from

My latest project
Softy asked for some callop lures so after some research and finding some to suit the depths and conditions for the variety of ways people will fish them. 
So after 2 weeks they finally arrived. 
So decided to prep and start placing the sealent undercoat and base coat tonight to let it dry overnight to add the next colours to it... 
Softy gave me a photo of one of his favourite lure  patterns so i am going to replicate it but put my own twist on it... 
The lures are 100m from start of bib to tail end. (Only 5mm larger than the popular Daiwa rpm crank and weigh 15grams roughly with terminal added. 
Come with rattles too. Dives to 10ft-12ft
If interested let me know as i have sooo many colours and patterns available for this lure..
Here is some progress shots..



Ill post pics as i progress with it. Cheers

Check this out..
Would work on most small fish.... 
 

Pressure is off young man😌

Was 5 of us out on the kayaks today for 3 fish between us. Crap day but thankfully I got one of them going 44cm.



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Yep.. As I thought.. Smart people stay away....  Will be a mad weekend.... 
If the weather holds.. I might go to Yorks Tuesday for a few days.. Crowds should of gone by then.. Wind/weather looks good for the bottom to try for this years first winter salmon... and the mullet should be there.. And GKW off the beaches at night in coming tide as its a full moon..
Its coming off the land.. The west coast looks good, I couldn't be bothered driving there just for a few days.. Ill do that later..
Mike

Hi all..
Im curious to know where people are going this weekend? If any are that is..
Im not going anyware as I suspect its going to be mad, ignorant people every ware..... and very cold as well.
I was going to do a few days with the missus, filled the bus, packed and ready to go... But we pulled out, don't want stress....
One good thing.. I got diesel @ 1.02 litre.. Filled the bus and 10 x 20 litre drums for future use..
Pitty as the winds/tides/moon look good.... Coming off the land.. Yorks looks good on the Western side...
Ill do my fishing when no one is about... Much better.
Mike
 

This is one very well used little #00 (1.5gm) Aglia spinner that I've used on the trout on & off for around four years...
It's still holding together and will get some use again next season in the small tannin waters..
cheers
Adrian
 

Didn’t have time to go that far today( sick maybe dying parent I needed to go to  ) plus the quickest walk to Anaconda you risk Pluvers attacking you 😂 it’s happened before 

Just to keep the juices going ive put up some more picks of other species that have taken a liking to the vibe/blade
 
 

They are one of my favorite & most successful lures for deep water use in my boat when chasing bream & schoolies.  they are very good snag detectors & i've had a few find new homes in the onka when fishing them from the bank & tend to stick to hards & softs in there these days. 
my most successful method of use was a good long cast but you need to just feather the last bit of the cast to make the lure lands with out tangling up i'll let the lure sink to the bottom & even let it sit there for a few second have had bream pick them up on the first cast. after a few seconds i give the the rod a sharp upward lift you will feel the blade vibe then let it drop be ready tho bream will quite often hit on the drop.
ive dropped in a couple of photos of some of the many bream ive caught on vibes over the years. cop the fatty in the 3rd pic gave me a reel tussel to get him out of 10 metres of water.

All good here from Dinga Never any dramas from them at all! 
As for reels I just bought an Daiwa eliminator 8000 Spin reel for my drone fishing Setup.  I'll roughly be able to get 700m of 50lb braid on it. I also purchased an Penn fathom 2 50lw which holds 600m of 50lb braid haven't used them yet but hoping to in the next couple weeks down the bottom of yorkes.. 
I'll be using an DJI Mavic Pro and m mate has AN 3DR solo drone. Mine can only carry 500g where his can carry 1kg no problems at all.... i'll let you know how I go if we end up going.... 

In WA they are smashing the snappers off the beaches..
Ive pre ordered the Gannet Pro water proof fishing drone.. Got it at an intro price.. saved $100...
Yet to arrive due to the Coronavirus crap.. Should be here by the end of July, fingers crossed... 
Its a new design, water proof, has a bladder, can land and take off from water, live feed on controller.. Can carry 2kilo.... with the tried and tested DJI circuit board/software.. 
I ordered the camera as well....
Just hope it works as promised.. was this or a yak... prefer to keep my feet dry.. LOL..

This video is one of several I made to the Meander River during the trout season.. Another fast water session where the Bug spinner did the job on the trout again..
Hope you enjoy it..
cheers
Adrian..
 

Cheers all... 
Might have some bigger projects in the near future i will be working on....
Just working on the options i have and wether or not they will be viable for me to make and sell..
But keep ya eyes peeled in the near future as it will take me awhile for all the parts to get here
But for now here is a taste of what im working on at the moment

Well these are at the 2nd last stage of the lure painting process. 
Just added my signature on the bottom of the lures and added the 2nd and final clear coat to them. 
The last stage is fitting terminal tackle and test swimming before sale...
It's not as simple as paint lures and your ready to fish. It takes plenty of prep work and tedious bits amd pieces to produce lures like this...
It has taken 2 weeks of prepping. Drying. Clear coating etc just to complete 10 lures... 
That's what makes it much sweeter and rewarding when you sell one and someone catches a fish on them...
Keep an eye out as I'll put these up for sale on here 1st before i post elsewhere...

"Bernie Shzot's  Baltic series were, the Flash and Minnow which were the through line models, the Bobber which had the fixed double and the Gardie." See http://www.lurelovers.com/forum/paw-paw-and-more_topic1773.html
Being of a certain age myself, I remember when lure choice was easy in SA. The lure rack ws dominated by heavy metals: there were only Halco slices (with a red tag if you were flash), "Wonder Wobblers", "Wonder Pilchards", "Stingsildas", "WK Arrows" and "Baltic Bobbers/Gardies". Occasionally stocked were "Rebel Killers" (entire Minnows department), and "Flopys" (sole occupant of luxury, high-end soft plastics row!). Then "silver fox" VibroTails came on the scene and away it all went.......I still catch fish on my Wonder Wobblers and metal slices. I remember a summer when the mullowasy were on in the surf that I could not buy a "Gardie" anywhere

"Baltic Bobbers" http://www.jmgillies.com.au/product/bobber/
Long versions, or long copies thereof, used to be THE gun mulloway lures in the surf at the Murray Mouth (Coorong) in the 1970's !!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!