Sounds like a cottage industry starting up!! Bob's Bassing Baits!"



"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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Well I finally did it. I started making some of my own baits. My first
bait was a giant paddle tail creature bait. I really planned it for a
late summer big fish hunter, but I had to try it, and I've caught fish on
it 4 out of 5 times I've fished it. I really didn't throw it much the 5th
time as I was having success on other baits.

My second was a fluke like type jerkbait. I think the tail design is
better although only an angler or a designer would see the difference as
glaring. That one has been a smashing success. I shot some of my first
baits with it the is last Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday afternoon I
tried it in one of the little pockets I like to fish. It got bit well
dead sticking early and worked really well as a surface breaking twitch
bait and as a wakebait after sunset. I fished it in a tournament
yesterday and it easily got more bites than anything else I threw both on
top and dead stick. I'm even considering using it as a flip bait although
I didn't think of that until after I came off the water.

So far I have 4 molds. All programmed and CNC machined myself on my
little bobby CNC machine. I do not have a good CAD program, so a lot of
the process are backdoor figured, or just hand written and coded. I just
picked up and started to learn how to use a new CAM program that should
allow me to do a lot of the design work faster.

All the molds are totally my own designs although some are influenced by
others. There are only so many overall profiles for a minnow twitch bait.
I do have some ideas for more improvements on some though. All molds are
designed as two or more piece injection molds rather than for hand
pouring. I also made my own injector on the lathe, but I need to make some
modifications and maybe redesign it.

The guys at Tackle Underground have been invaluable at helping me figure
out how to do some things also.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com