Maple Gliders
 

Hey guys, I love to fish with gliders just a foot to a few feet under the surface. Typically gliders are long narrow profile like a spook. I've found that weighting a standard glider by splitting the weight between the front and the rear while maintaining a level drop works best for me. With this panfish profile I started making in the fall, I'm using a single weight in front of the belly hook. With short taps of the rod these little things just about turn all the way around, left then right with belly flash at each turn. I'm real happy with the way these cast as well. I've made larger ones and although they work as well ,it's kind of like casting a small frying pan. Maple, 2.25oz, 4.25" Foiled, glass eyes, airbrushed and E-tex

Douglas

RH,

Simply stunning, AWESOME!

MS

so cool

Those are some mind blowing paint jobs, some of the most life like baits I've seen! Awesome work

INSANE even,

really nice

Those sound like some very interesting lures. Your painting and foil are so lifelike it's unbelievable.
They look just like fish!

what else can one say but Holy Shi(*^*&$^& .
Your painting skills are mind blowing as was your entry in the plugfest. I really wish i could find the time to try some hand carved lures. It looks like a lot of fun.
I really need to befriend you so I can get me one of those mack plugs. Sorry my ho-ing skills are not very subtle.

very IMPRESSIVE
 

unimaginable paint job
how do the fish like them?

About as subtle as a punch in the balls...:biglaugh:

I'm with professor m, will you be my friend?, that mackerel plug was almost life like. :btu:

Amazing!!!

When we doing a swap?
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Beautiful work! :claps:I make a short tall-bodied plug as well and agree that centrally locating the weight gives them a nice action as opposed to traditional spread apart weighting on longer glider(like) plugs.

Thanks guys I really tried to keep the Bluegill ones kind of simple, just the vertical stripes and gill detail, no shading or shadowing. I gave two of them away to some guys at work. One primarily fishes a river in Northern Wisconsin, the other a local private lake stocked with bruiser Largemouth.
Jmac, do you fish your gliders in the surf or from a boat? I'm fishing for Musky so I fish from my Crestliner 1850 Fish Hawk.

Douglas

You have been hanging around bassmaster to long.:smash:

Those plugs are sweet!!!!!!

I fish from the surf and although the plugs I mentioned I make do glide a bit during a pause in the retrieve, they are probably closer to acting like a jerkbait appearing wounded and flash on their sides slightly. I wish I owned a boat sometimes but I am pretty happy in the surf. :)

Do people use Crestliner boats in the Ocean?

i like how they are built

Smoking hot lures. Very well done.:drool:

Are you kidding me!!!!! Those look Awesome.....Incredible work!

Stunning is the only word I can think of.
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If I caught one of those I would keep it, they look too real!

I just can't get over the detail on your paintwork -- just beautiful.

I wonder if you could get that effect in a 5-6" size?

Do you have any plans I could ho?

Thanks again guy's. Striperman, the same effect could be done in any size, I've done larger Bluegills, Suckers, Ciscoes and others. Here are two others a 6" Bunker and Pinfish, both done in foil.

Douglas

Insane man!!

Do you paint for a living??
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Funny thing is yes, I do paint for a living. I work for the Milwaukee Fire Department painting firehouses. So I use brushes and rollers during the day, and nights and weekends I get to use my airbrushes.

Douglas

I'm sellin my airbrushes, that's it. how do you foil that scale pattern,

WOW. Some of you guys deffinitely are way beyond impressive. Sweet

Rowhunter nice to see you posting here, BIG fan of your work,:drool::drool::drool: hope you post more often:uhuh:
GOOD LUCK GODO BUILDIN:gh:

WOnderful craftsmanship Doug! :uhuh: