Lure decorating competition

[SteveP]

Hello all,

 

Whilst having a pre-season tidy up I found a bunch of lure blanks I bought from Harris years ago and never got round to finishing.

 

They are 5" Rapala Originals without the diving vane - in plain white.(I've got about 15-20)

 

Is anyone interested in having an AN lure painting competition.

We can set a deadline and post pictures of the results for judging.

 

Could also have a category for the largest fish caught on one of these lures.

 

I'll even donate a prize of a 1&7/8oz Rebel Windcheater for the winner. (Also surplus to requirements)

 

What do you reckon - any interest or different ideas?

 

Cheers

Steve

[argyll]

Nice idea Steve but with the river season almost on us, I'm busy getting ready for a blitz on the sixteenth. Got some new Bagley B Flats ready to go and from what I remember of their poor paintwork, an extra two pot finish will be number one priority this week.

Now if you'd only found them at the beginning of the close season

[SteveP]

Hi Argyll,

Its no problem, they've sat in the drawer for several years so far - I'm sure they can wait until the seasons over if thats the general concensus.

 

Cheers

Steve

[argyll]

This could be a regular close season 'thing'

[UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk]

With regards to painting lures has anyone tried this glow in the dark paint that you can buy on eBay from the states?

 

I bought some of the powder and mixed it with a white enamel and it really does glow in the dark (very bright).

 

Dubious about it working (not tried mine yet), but then I was about the cheap holographic spoons I got off ebay, which did better for me last year than most lures (mr plastic froggy still got his fair share though!)

[argyll]

Ian, having been talked into trying 'glow in the dark', lure lights and all of the other little tricks that involve illuminating a lure, I've come to the conclusion that it freaks the fish out....scares them witless. Noise in the shape of sound chambers and bearings and vibration probably does a far better job in less than clear water. A small Team Diawa TD Rattle Vibration lure arrived with an order yesterday and I took it out with me yesterday evening to see if it worked. It did, where nothing else would. All vibes and noise from a dozen brass bearings in a clear shell. Even outfished a raspberry flavoured softbait that I was trying out (as you do )

[Peter Waller]

I'll go along with the luminous scaring fish syndrome. I tried an orange Mepps something or another in a flume tank containing muck and sea fish. The fish fled the floro job, they went for the subdued colours. Unfortunately there were no hooks attached! The floro glowed like a halo through the muck, like a streetr lamp on a foggy night. The fish did not seem to like it at all.

[SteveP]

argyll:

This could be a regular close season 'thing'

Could be - I've also found a couple of handfuls of devon minnows just crying out for a new coat of paint.

 

Well thats a couple of closed seasons entertainment taken care of!

 

Cheers

Steve

[chesters1]

i think traditional white skirting boards (not those silly 4" modern ones) maybe a very faint vertical stripe wallpaper and the picture rail also in white and white semigloss paint above to match the ceiling

[Tony U]

I was going to get technical advice from Laurence Llewelyn Bowen for mine.