.035'' diameter wire, 5/0 Owner hook set far back in the lead to mitigate the need for a trailer hook, Airbrushed with three different colors, dipped in UV reactive clear coat, sealed with KBS diamond finish, Nichols blades, ball bearing swivel, hand tied keeper that can hold elaztech, 6th sense 3d crush eyes, hand tied skirt with reverse flare (thank you for that tip bassjiggin1955). Is there anyone making better spinnerbaits with do it molds? If so I wanna see them!!




This is the real deal super fluke mold. No angling ai, no epic baitmolds, but the real zoom fluke. I make them in different colors and plastic densities for myself.

Those flukes look like the real thing

I started cutting the lead keeper off my jigs and tying a trailer keeper like that. It brings the weight forward slightly on the jig head and changes up the action.

balazs they look great the jigs tied that way also look good with the flared skirts also.

Thanks again ^^ I've done a few bladed jigs like that and they absolutely pulsate in water. These are some zako style bladed jig trailers I made with epic bait molds "epic darter"

Nicely done.

nice

I used 3/8oz lead, #4 humdinger blade, 3/0 owner spinnerbait hook, and 2 strips of all terrain keitech skirt material in tennessee shad. I've been getting a lot of bites with this jig. Ignore the weird line tie, i ran out of snaps and had to improvise.

Hey if it catches fish....!

Good looking tennessee shad blade bait.

Heres a red eye shad I repainted

Here's a curly tail swimbait mold designed by Marling baits. Its 5.5 inches and has a weighted tail with a super hard thump. Good pond bait, gets big bites, but it takes about 1/4th oz of lead to get the tail going unless you make it out of super soft plastic. If you haven't watched Marling baits youtube channel, I highly suggest it- extremely entertaining and you learn a thing or two about lure making.

Good old green pumpkin purple. Added a tungsten weight and spinner to the beast hook

Choked!!

Nice baits.

My bladed jigs. #4 Humdinger blade, Do-it mold, 3/0 Trokar or Owner hook, and 2 tabs of skirt material tied in reverse flare the way bassjiggin1955 does it. I do a base coat of powdercoat and bake it on for durability, then airbrush some details, glue eyes, and dip in UV clear coat. I use my own rage menace style trailer that i got from baitmold.com. The 3/8oz run about 1-4 feet deep on a steady retrieve and get absolutely smashed! I appreciate the comments banker.

balazs Nice blade baits 👍 How is tying the flared skirts working out for you.

It works incredibly well on a bladed jig! lots of pulsation

Anyone ever fish a black crank? I saw a bunch of baby black bullhead swimming around so I quickly painted this KVD 1.5 and caught three small bass before i snagged.

man great work!

Thanks! I appreciate the comment, I havent posted much because this forum is pretty dead but I've really gotten into painting cranks lately.

Those cranks look good. These remind me a baitmaker out of Indiana, he would hand carve and hand paint all them. He had one he called the redriver. It worked during winter and spring on the White River tricking smallmouth.

I've caught multiple fish over 5 pounds with that flat side in red craw. Good bait!!

Black & blue and brown & orange are my favorite skirt colors for jigs; white pearl for spinnerbaits.
If I cast more crankbaits, the colors shown would be my choice. Nice work!

What trailers do you use for jigs and spinnerbaits? Do the colors match skirt colors?

Black & blue and green pumpkin are some of the most popular jig colors but they are extremely overlooked in spinnerbaits. Black cranks are really good too, but I have yet to try this black and blue flatside posted above. I use various swimbaits and curly tail grubs as spinnerbait trailers and just let the fish tell me what they want. I do like to match the jig skirt color perfectly with custom plastics.



Heres a couple tungsten two taps I repainted

I really like the crawdad color crank baits the blade baits and spinnerbait all look good 👌 👍

Neat thread.

Balazs does some really nice work. 👌👍

Thank you guys! Yall are helping me keep this thread going.

Heres a KVD 2.5 I repainted. I used createx red, black, and copper.

Pumpkin chartreuse squarebill and spinnerbait

What do you guys think of this? Its a Z-craw body (no hook slot) with rage menace appendages. I got the mold because it looks like an awesome jig trailer.

That's a good looking bait, outta work good.

Thunder cricket trailer!

I use it as a bladed jig trailer and it gets a lot of bites. I watched a Hank Cherry seminar where he claimed that the best bladed jig trailer you will ever use is a menace rigged sideways with the top appendage ripped off. I've had great success doing just that!

Couple of the do-it S-wavers I painted. Hope they run well!

I really like the colors on those baits

Thank you bassjiggin that was my first rainbow trout.

Some more of my craws! This color gets bit hard

You selling the crawdad cranks ?

Yeah, you can have those three lures for 30 bucks if you want.



What do you guys think, fin or no fin?

I could use a few of those myself.

Fin.

You can have this batch of three for 26 shipped if you are interested. They aren't as clean as the ones i offered bassjiggin but will still 100 percent get bites.

A super beat up pistol pete I repainted for a friend

The do-it crank blanks have been somewhat hit or miss but this little lipless is really, really good. Its only 2'' but a hefty 3/8 oz and fishes about 3ft deep when you reel it steady. I primarily fish it in shad colors.

LC repaint in my red/black craw and a vision 110 knockoff. Going to sneak off to a local pond today to find the right hooks that make these jerkbaits suspend.

The way a 2.3'' preybait lines up with a Z-man finesse eyes jighead is a thing of beauty. This lure gets lots of bites and has multi species capability. I typically use it on an alabama rig when the bass are feeding on tiny shad. Even though its only 2.3 inches it has much more bulk than a 3'' keitech.

Excellent.

Thanks donald! I appreciate the comment.

This little thing is a gem, Ive caught so many fish with it.

Very nice 👌

I call this color "sugar creek sunfish." This is a repaint/replade of a terminator titanium wire. These discontinued titanium wires are indestructible and have a different vibration. The titanium was so hard to bend, it took a couple minutes to get the swivel on the end. The blades are made by nichols and sold on tacklewarehouse.

I like that color I tie jigs that color.

Modified the 45 degree trokar swim pro to hold a 30 degree.



These underspins are built around a 4/0 30 degree vmc jig hook, have a bullet shaped head that comes through cover well, double wire weed guards, and double wire keepers like a jackhammer. I'm excited to test these!

Would you fish a pink crank?

45 degree 5/0 trokar, 3/8 oz

Massive jig fish

Nicely done. Awesome thread.

Nice baits! You've mastered crankbait colors and jigcraft! Congrats.

I wouldn't say mastered, I still can't paint a bluegill crank for the life of me.


Here are some poison tail swim jigs I've been working on. This mold has really grown on me since I found the right hook for it, I sell a lot of these. We run them with z-man elaztech swimbaits, rage swimmers, or fat keitech swing impacts.

I use a 4/0 Gama G-Finesse hybrid worm hook. I learned about this hook from Harvey Horne's swinging football head class on bass university. It has more bite than conventional EWGs and has insane penetration due to the slick coating. It isn't the strongest hook, but its strong enough. I put a tiny grip-pin keeper on the hook to retain elaztech baits, and i tie the jigs with reverse flare. I catch largemouth with these here and there but my friends on the west coast are absolutely tearing up spotted bay bass with them.

Looking good 👍

All of the colors will work, but I know what you mean trying to produce a color or copy one and not succeeding.
Still - great lures and lure colors!

wiggle wart that helped my friend win a tournament

cyber craw i did for myself

chunk I got with the cyber craw less than 24 hours after painting it

KVD 2.5 i did for myself

Nice work!

Custom chatters with humdinger blades

Basstrix style hand dipped tubes

finess cranks

bucktails for my buddy fishing snook in mexico

bluegill swing jigs

This thread has almost 10000 views and I stopped posting because I get barely any engagement. Do y'all not like custom hand made baits? lol I don't get it

I've been building custom jigs for 48 years now and added spinner baits buzz baits and blade baits through the years I've had a customer base of 196 anglers and at one time I was in 9 tackle shops. I still get email all the time I turn alot of them down as I'm 69 years old now and going through cancer treatment which is curable with major surgery.

Balazs you make some dam good looking baits

Thank you that means a lot! Ever since I saw the way you thread tie skirts on this forum I copied you and have had amazing results. Its far superior to the rubber band- I can layer colors, the skirts never fall off, they flare out more, and just get bit better.

I truly hope you beat cancer i'm sorry to hear that. I hope you can still make jigs to maintain sanity. Stay strong!

Like I said I've been building jigs since 1977 when living rubber was the square rubber in fine frog hair and regular grade I tied the umbrella skirts and switch to round rubber when it came it to production then when Skirts plus introduced silicone skirt material in 1986 I started building the umbrella skirts in silicone. In 1984 I also started building the original puffball jigs in living square rubber in both fine and reg grade rubber. I also built the original Lions collar jigs at the same time. And I still build both today the puffball jigs I build in both round rubber or in silicone with accent colors and add flashabou or bucktail accent colors. With the Lion collar jigs I combined both round rubber in fine or reg grade rubber and silicone skirt material in different colors and I also add flashabou or bucktail. I'm a big fan of Yamamoto twin and single tail 4" & 5" grubs as my trailers also single josh pork in 101' 11 and big daddy pork . I'm a big finesse guy I build jigs from 1/8 oz to 1 oz all using light wire mustad black Nickel hooks. I specialize in light line 4,4,8,10 maxima in all types of structure you don't need big line to horse big fish out of trees or brush or rock piles. The u
Umbrella skirts Is just one way to get the maximum flare out of your silicone skirt material or round rubber material it's the best under any conductions you fish.

balazs just keep up what your doing everything you build in jigs spinner baits buzz baits or blade baits or painting crank baits you do everything right and you build some outstanding color combinations in your baits. The umbrella skirts are just one more weapon to add to your jig arsenal no matter what size of jigs you build. I enjoy seeing your skirt design you build. I've had my time in the sun I've slowed way down but I still build my share of jigs I retired from manufacturing about 3 years ago. I still get 30 to 40 emails a week and turn down about 90% of them because I have minimum orders on all my Jigs Spinner baits Buzz baits and Blade baits. Balazs just keep up what your doing because your doing it right.

I buy all my material in bulk from several companies
(Skirts Plus) for silicone skirt material they also do special order colors on silicone
(Living Rubber company) for all round rubber skirt material in Fine grade Regular grade & Heavy grade round rubber they also have silicone skirt material.
(Kaiser lure corp.) Bulk custom fiber guards in all sizes I use 9,11,18,24 fibers in my fiber guards.
(Shorty hooks) for all my bulk hooks Mustad black nickel hooks
Components systems, Inc for all my Powder paint.
Flashabou and bucktail there are several local company I buy from.

You guys are very talented artist for sure and do a great job on your painting. You either got it or you don’t and you guys definitely got it. Thanks for showing your talents.

There also another custom jig manufacture that does outstanding work Cadman jigs he make some outstanding builds and he has his own website. He add the puffball jigs to his line up that he builds himself.
Balazs
Cadman jigs
And Myself
We're all custom builders
Balazs and Cadman take it to the next level

Thank y'all, I really appreciate it!!


3/8 green pumpkin chatter which is my default. Noticed how i tarnished the blade with a torch to mute it


one of many marabou jigs i'm working on for my friend who fishes Lahontan cutthroat trout in Pyramid Lake Nevada


Probably the most expensive lure i've ever painted. Sometimes the simple things work the best

Balazs do you sell the dark crawdad crank bait ?

That one you see in the picture is a balsa crank called the cyber craw by PH Customs. Its a repaint of a 30 dollar lure so not exactly cheap. But I do paint cheap blanks and sell them for 10-15 bucks depending on how they turn out