Thread: As usual, most lure designs and all colors worked for four species

I poured and stored the above flap tails pictured but didn't use them much, but as a lure maker and tester decided maybe it was time. Crappie, perch, sunfish and bass all hit them. The other lures are hybrids using body and tail combinations of two different plastics.

This one was made fusing a flapper tail to a cut down worm body:



...and the fusion of a hand poured spike tail to a grub body:


I wasn't sure about using motor oil colored grubs but since I wanted to try a sinking plastisol from M-F, I figured what the hey why not pour some flapper tails in that color plus gold and black flake. Did quite well!:


Crappie Magnet grubs always work:



But one thing of note: 1/16 oz jig heads didn't cut it today; 1/24 and 1/32 oz jigs worked fine. The water is changing with algae dieing (and stinking) and temps dropping. Seasonal changes are in the air. I'm not sure why lighter jigs were a must other than in previous months, but the slightly slower presentation got hit even multiple times on the same retrieve and caught missed fish on the second.

Not a bad afternoon:


(...course I wish I hadn't dropped my pliers overboard ... )

Looks like fun!