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02-22-2011, 09:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin
Posts: 68
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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
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02-22-2011, 10:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 342
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RH,
Simply stunning, AWESOME!
MS
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02-22-2011, 10:22 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: new bedford, Ma.
Posts: 651
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so cool
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Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.
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02-22-2011, 10:24 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: CT
Posts: 448
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Those are some mind blowing paint jobs, some of the most life like baits I've seen! Awesome work
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02-22-2011, 10:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: A village some where
Posts: 3,436
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INSANE even,
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02-23-2011, 05:48 AM
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GrayBeards
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,132
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really nice
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02-23-2011, 07:05 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,120
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Those sound like some very interesting lures. Your painting and foil are so lifelike it's unbelievable.
They look just like fish!
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02-23-2011, 08:16 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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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.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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02-23-2011, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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very IMPRESSIVE
unimaginable paint job
how do the fish like them?
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02-23-2011, 08:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
Posts: 2,243
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
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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.
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About as subtle as a punch in the balls...  |
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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02-23-2011, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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I'm with professor m, will you be my friend?, that mackerel plug was almost life like.  |
60 % of the time, it works every time.
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02-23-2011, 11:00 AM
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Chris Blouin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Warren, RI
Posts: 3,330
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Amazing!!!
When we doing a swap?
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02-23-2011, 12:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Melrose, MA
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Beautiful work!  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. |
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02-23-2011, 08:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin
Posts: 68
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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
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02-23-2011, 08:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
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.
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You have been hanging around bassmaster to long. 
Those plugs are sweet!!!!!! |
Originally Posted by Flaptail
"Throw plugs like we do that will cause them to suffer humility. Pogies make any fisherman look good when bass are around. Bait is easy."
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02-24-2011, 09:07 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Melrose, MA
Posts: 92
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rowhunter
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
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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.  |
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02-24-2011, 09:10 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Do people use Crestliner boats in the Ocean?
i like how they are built
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02-24-2011, 10:58 AM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
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Smoking hot lures. Very well done.  |
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02-24-2011, 11:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Marblehead, MA
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Are you kidding me!!!!! Those look Awesome.....Incredible work!
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Fish Rule!
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02-24-2011, 06:30 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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Stunning is the only word I can think of.
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02-26-2011, 07:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 134
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If I caught one of those I would keep it, they look too real!
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03-13-2011, 05:56 PM
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Big E
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Seabrook, NH
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I just can't get over the detail on your paintwork -- just beautiful.
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03-13-2011, 06:12 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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I wonder if you could get that effect in a 5-6" size?
Do you have any plans I could ho?
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03-13-2011, 08:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin
Posts: 68
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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
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03-13-2011, 08:39 PM
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Chris Blouin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Warren, RI
Posts: 3,330
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Insane man!!
Do you paint for a living??
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03-13-2011, 08:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin
Posts: 68
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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
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03-13-2011, 09:36 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rowhunter
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
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I'm sellin my airbrushes, that's it. how do you foil that scale pattern, |
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03-14-2011, 12:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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WOW. Some of you guys deffinitely are way beyond impressive. Sweet
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03-14-2011, 12:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
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03-14-2011, 04:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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WOnderful craftsmanship Doug!  |
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