re: A few new fish lures I'm working on

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No pic of my wood, Paige and Spicy Stacy wouldn't leave me alone if I did. However, I'll show you how I prep my cedar for use in the lures.

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hahahaha you know what i'm talkin about. i like that lures and want to learn how to make them. do they float or sink? what kind of action they got in the water? how much you sell them for? those things are like art. man i want a display case like you got with some of those lures in there!

The is the key to these lures. I've tried pulling out the screws myself and can't do it without a rediculous amount of force, they are only 1/4 inch long. But that cedar is so dense that it holds them. It also floats very good, and throws a damn mile. It also carves easily and sands smoother than a freshly waxed Coochie. The action is much better than plastic, the wood always hunts it's center, hard to explain but it's better than plastic. Whereas every plastic lure will perform about the same, all wood lures will perform as good as plastic, but every once and a while a wooden lure will be magical. I've swam across some pretty unsafe waters to retrieve a really good one that got hung.

Diving baits are harder, they require a lot more tuning to get the action just right. I made some once that ran to the left on the retrieve, I never could get them to run straight.