In this video I make a silicone mold so I can make plenty of my topwater mouse lures. Bass love the lab rat. www.amazon.com... / engineeredangler www.instagram....
Excellent lure! I'd keep a few just white and paint the rest, gotta have them all, grey, brown, dark grey, white, combinations of those colors. For coil part you could maybe make some sort of a tube from a drinking straw and 2 part epoxy like you use for rattles (so you can just cap one end off and mold the cap around the coil) and modify wire snelling tool to keep the distance between coils the same. That way you can screw in your coil how many twists you want and keep it secure in the mold. A bit more work to prepare but better consistency and less cleanup than with clay beads.
It isn't catchy to fishermen but I don't think a bait needs paint. The best lures I own have the paint worn off. I live on Chickamauga Lake and build baits in the shop. I'll seal the wood and test them off the dock, some do better without paint. Maybe I'm a bad painter ? lol
honest question. i know that you think very analytically like me, (thats the main reason i like this channel, most are "art" of lure making, you have solid repeatable measurements and calculations for everything, and that is my language) so heres my question. you claim that this lure outperforms other topwater lures. do you HONESTLY feel that this is 100% the case, or do you feel like this is at least partly, if not mostly, attributable to the fact that you have confidence in the lure, so that, compared to a similar, top water lure, you will fish this one slower/faster, or whatever and/or throw it more when you would have given up on another lure and retied because you "know" this one will produce? i also have my "go to" lures that always work, but sometimes other that are fishing the same time and place have completely different go-to's and cant catch with what im using. i dont like to think that this is just some cognitive bias and is all in my head, but it does seem that way sometimes. thoughts on this?
Well, the absolute best lure today may not be so a week from now. But once a lure has proven to be a winner the confidence is there whenever I pick it up and that often makes the difference.
I'd keep the coil but find some way to keep it more secure in a spot because if something like pike or musky bites your tail off, you can just screw on a new one.
I love the simplicity of your wire bending. Great video
Great video, and really appreciate how you explain how you go about doing things
Great video and explanation of making the mold!
Another great video! Thanks, Franco! Maybe you could attach some smaller hooks, to keep them from hooking to each other?
Good idea!
Great job on the mouse/rat lure!
Nice build. I say paint the belly black and leave the back white so you can see it. Best of both worlds.
Great video and lure
Great content, as always
Excellent lure! I'd keep a few just white and paint the rest, gotta have them all, grey, brown, dark grey, white, combinations of those colors.
For coil part you could maybe make some sort of a tube from a drinking straw and 2 part epoxy like you use for rattles (so you can just cap one end off and mold the cap around the coil) and modify wire snelling tool to keep the distance between coils the same. That way you can screw in your coil how many twists you want and keep it secure in the mold. A bit more work to prepare but better consistency and less cleanup than with clay beads.
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
You always have great ideas for baits and am thinking of trying some myself.
You should!
Oh no Franco is using Pinky and the Brain as lures!!
I plan to take over the lure world!!!
It isn't catchy to fishermen but I don't think a bait needs paint. The best lures I own have the paint worn off. I live on Chickamauga Lake and build baits in the shop. I'll seal the wood and test them off the dock, some do better without paint. Maybe I'm a bad painter ? lol
Awesome job!!! I love the mouse!!! Which casting resin did you use?
Alumilite
Did you know you can melt the modelling clay and pour it into moulds
Great video Franco. Did you use a 10% micro balloon mix when pouring the baits?
Yes I did
Great video.
Thanks
Im from Ecuador, can you try with the other silicone? That is used for glass and bathroom. We dont have that typenof silicone here
honest question. i know that you think very analytically like me, (thats the main reason i like this channel, most are "art" of lure making, you have solid repeatable measurements and calculations for everything, and that is my language) so heres my question.
you claim that this lure outperforms other topwater lures. do you HONESTLY feel that this is 100% the case, or do you feel like this is at least partly, if not mostly, attributable to the fact that you have confidence in the lure, so that, compared to a similar, top water lure, you will fish this one slower/faster, or whatever and/or throw it more when you would have given up on another lure and retied because you "know" this one will produce?
i also have my "go to" lures that always work, but sometimes other that are fishing the same time and place have completely different go-to's and cant catch with what im using. i dont like to think that this is just some cognitive bias and is all in my head, but it does seem that way sometimes. thoughts on this?
Well, the absolute best lure today may not be so a week from now. But once a lure has proven to be a winner the confidence is there whenever I pick it up and that often makes the difference.
Did u use microbaloons this time??
Yes
what was the block material you used for the wire frame?
1/4 inch aluminum plate
hi how can you make a mold for a lure that already has a hook molded into it? Need ur help
Just mold it with the hook and that will give you the location to place the hook for the new casting.
What resin do you pour?
Alumilite
Do you have the link to buy the resin for the molds ? Thank you.
Look in my Amazon store
You could fix the tail in the resin while casting too. This way, you may eliminate using the coil.
I'd keep the coil but find some way to keep it more secure in a spot because if something like pike or musky bites your tail off, you can just screw on a new one.
Then you can't replace it...
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