chowder

I still don’t understand this whole thread. I have no problem with anyone starting a business. I have a business too. What I do have a problem with is the disingenuous way this thread is being played. If someone is selling a product then answer a question about price. It’s as simple as that. Don’t post a bunch of pictures and get friends to do the same and throw out some smoke and mirrors about quality. This isn’t a Facebook page. It’s supposed to be a fishing forum. If someone wants to start a genuine thread to help others learn how to buy blanks and paint lures - right on, but don’t put up pictures of stuff that you are trying to sell while packaging it in BS and then not answer questions about what you’re product sells for.

Are these baits for sale? It doesn’t say so. Why not just run an Ad?

Apparently these finished baits are not for sale. Frankly IMHO this seems like a strange post due to the fact that very very few people on LOU have the technology or the very specific knowledge to paint baits. The price of blanks is really a moot point. Just saying

Are they priced through the roof like most custom musky baits ?

Looks like the Z man to me . Certain days it’s a killer on browns and Cohos both as well as kings from time to time. I like em

When starting out it’s usually best to run a mix of naturals and colors and let the fish decide

I don’t ever run leaders on Walleye/Browns rigger or flat planer rods but I am not far from the Niagara river. Find warmest water you can even if there isn’t much of it. Be prepared to go slow 1.7-1.9. I would run mostly stix on planer lines. Spoons on shallow rigger and shallow diver lines if depth allows

I use small ones drifting in the lower Niagara as long as there is bait in there. I use them along with stix trolling for Browns. I use them clean and behind small spinnys for Coho on riggers. I use large ones on junk lines for salmon all season. I always remove the front treble

Again finding the warm water was key but much tougher after a series of big blows. All stix in 6 fow. Doubled twice on the same pass through water 1.5 degrees warmer than the fishless water we had been in. Rapalas in orange and fire tiger took most fish. Launched out of Fort Niagara

$20,000

Finding warmer water made a big difference over our efforts a week ago out of Fort Niagara. Fish came on stix off boards, spoons on shallow riggers and spoons on shallow divers. Good times and good eats!

Oh Yar!