Bobby Bass's Fualt

[tripnchip]

[HD]

You make those?


Nice work!   


You'll be even happier when you catch something on them.   

[Randy Kaar]

nice trip!

randy aka bh

[Duckslayer]

Those must be catch and release plugs with no hooks to harm the fish!   

OK, really they look good Tip!  You will have to take pictures of the monster that you catch with one of them hanging out of it's mouth!  Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

[D.T.]

Sweet job on carving out the plugs. And like it's already been said, you will really be proud when you land a fish on them. Very nice job!

[Cody Gruchow]

very nice work trip!

[tripnchip]

Thanks for the good words guys, much of the credit has to go to bobby bass as he gave me and still is giving good advice. The real test has to come with open water and the bite.

[Bobby Bass]

I wonder how many people see this post and want to know what I did wrong ! actually all I did was point Trip in the direction and he made some nice looking fishing lures.. We will have to post pictures this summer of fish we cach on our home made lures ! 

[Tami]

Everyone blames it on BB
it's just the thing to do

Like my small hungover today, it is BB's fault too

Great work there my friend, i love them.......

when i learnt morse code, the Z was ZA ZA DID IT   _ _ . .
i think now then i use MC i will always think of BOB BE DID IT lol


NG

[Bobby Bass]

To follow up on Trips nice work here is 15 top water lures primed and now ready to be sanded and painted. No hardware except for the front eyelet so there is something to hang and hold the lures by. I will be able to paint by computer these lures before I actually paint them. By using a graphics tablet I can import the image and paint the lures on the computer screen. I will post a picture of the computer painted lures and then the real painted lures. This will let me play with colors with out really painting them.

[tripnchip]

Here are some finished Booby







got some nice blanks going there bobby

[Grute Man]

WOW Trip, those are awesome.  I doubt you'll ever go with a store bought lure again.  Those would make a pretty special gift to some youngster, look great on a mount, or just flat out work great for catchin fish.

Congrats!  I know you're proud.  As soon as I dwendel my Honey DO list down, Im gonna try my hand at this.   

[tripnchip]

Thanks Grute, Bobby Bass is a good instructor.
 
MY joke of the day, just in its primer state

[Grute Man]

That may not look like a "Rappala" but its no joke.  A bass doesn't know the difference.  I only hope I can make one that looks that good.

GOOD JOB, Trip.

[Fawkinnae]

I love this post. TripnChip how long does it take you to make these? Very nice.

I didn't understand this comment by Bobby, "I will be able to paint by computer these lures before I actually paint them." Do you mean you take a photo of the blanks and then experiment with the colors on the computer. Great stuff you guys.

[tripnchip]

Fawk, will see if i can answer for Bobby. Yes his daughter has a program that he can put the lure into and play with colors before painting the lure itself.
I cann't wait to see some of the stuff he will turn out.

[Bobby Bass]

We have a graphics tablet that you can connect to your computer. The picture will come up on your screen and we can adjust size. Using a drawing/painting  software to paint or change any design. We will take the lure blanks after being primed and  take a picture of them. Then we can paint them using the tablet. This way we can play with color combos and see what they look like before we actually paint anything. Been side track with other projects but hope to start painting here soon.

[tripnchip]

Now this one was fun and just for laughs

[Grute Man]

I bet you'd catch a big old cat fish on that one.   

Seiously - Good Job!!   

[Bobby Bass]

ok we finnaly have gotten back around to this project. we have started to play around wth color ideas. Here are the next 15 blanks

[Fawkinnae]

Nice. You must have a lot of colors to choose from when you actually paint - or do you try to limit the colors (paint) that you have to buy. Or do you airbrush the stuff?

[tripnchip]

aawsome bobby, knew you show us how it is realy done.

[Grute Man]

Bobby, that's great!!  I could have used that program when I was picking out paint for my house.

 

[Bobby Bass]

My daughter is an art major so as long as I have the primary colors on hand I just tell her what I want and she mixes for me. This batch will all be air brushed as we have a few ideas we want to try out. If they work you will see them, if not they will remain top secret and hidded in my area 51 tackle box.

[Bobby Bass]

While waiting for a parts catalog to arrive I hit the tackle box and took the hardware from these old lures. I will prime and repaint these but some of these are 15 years old and have earn the right to be retired.. they were hand painted.

[Bobby Bass]

Here are five lures with hardware. Another ten are done but will not post till hardware comes in. Next up some BIG top water lures.