Some swimmers, works in progess...
 

My goal is to make them lipless. The top one is my best effort so far. Starts on top and will swim down to about 2 feet. The second one started out lipless and I wasn't happy with it, so I put on a Lefty lip and it was transformed. It swims scary good... The third is totally different and is modeled after a swimmer a good friend of mine gave to me that he whittled out of a piece of cyprus about 30 years ago. A long skinny lip. It hovers in the current with just the tightest littlest wiggle, just like a bait fish doing no more than necessary to hold it's position.

Very nice job

Very , very nice.I've been working on a few double jointeds myself. Lotta work, but I think the reward is there. That long lean pikie style plug has me drooling as well.... nice stuff, thanks.

I need to find a source of sheets of thin brass or stainless steel for the skinny pikie style. I made the lip for this one out of a cut down stainless steel lefty lip. It's nose heavy compared to the original.

Nice work and lots of it. :btu:

Those are very cool.

Salty, I eyeballed the brass, comparing it to your round head swimmer lip. The brass is maybe 1/2 to 2/3 as thick. If I can find a friend who has a micrometer, I'll get you better info.

Threw a coat of paint and epoxy on the middle jointed swimmer.
It may become my go to plug if the early forays are any indicator.


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steelhead,

What size is the jointed lure with the lip? Height, width? They all look nice.

how did you end up weighing the top 2, ive made a couple similar lipless swimmers but havent come up with a way to weight them yet

Top one, no weight, made of cypress. It swims on top to about 12" under. It's scary what it looks like, It just can't handle any amount of current. Middle one, is out of oak, so it's inherently a bit heavy. It has no weight. With the lip it gets right down there. The next few I'm combining the slab sidedness of the top with the weight of the oak in the middle one to see what happens.... Adding belly weights will be after that.

Good stuff