Best wood for top water lures????

[Tagger]

I see you belong to MSBA... South Shore ? if so ,, white pine or basswood also good besides what Salty said ,,, downes and reader ,,,Stoughton .. They have different grades of white pine ... Furniture Grade $$$ pretty clean .. They have less exspensive stuff all knots and stuff ... when you rip and cut to lengths you cut that stuff out ...

[Flaptail]

Start with a tightly grained western red cedar. You can buy three foot 2"x2" ballusters for a $1.79 ea. Wear a mask when sanding though.
Tightly grained will turn nicely and avoid the lumps and bumps that the loosely grained (growth rings) leave after sanding though the fish don't care much.

Western Red cedar is very light and buoyant and makes really nice fishing spooks and popping plugs with therefore great action.

Hope that helps.

[Flaptail]

I left out the part that was supposed to tell you you can buy them at Lowes.

[kickin'bass ass]

the only baulusters i can come up with at lowes or homodepot is hemlock.has anyone tried that before?i picked up some white cedar from a fence guys scrap pile,a little knotty just cut my pieces from between the knots turns real nice,cb and cg easy to find i kinda like it now to swim it!

[Flaptail]

I don'y know why but my Lowes has the wrc ballusters in the masonry area. Always has too for some reason.