The first finished Muskie baits for 2012

These are the first in my batch to get cleared out. I am still working on a set of stencils for gills and a fin, along with how to spray them. This batch I tried to detail the areas with a Sharpie, probably should have left them alone. I don't believe the detail catches more fish, but it is fun to play around with it and really helps to understand how to use the airbrush. By no means do I claim to know how, but I do enjoy doing it.

The last two are of the3/4" aspen and  pretty  rough, but the green one has the mirrored silver and the prism silver on the blue. I used a scale look tape ( clear scale tape ) from Moore's Lures to try and salvage the baits. I wasn't to happy about it when it showed up and was a pinkish pearl. The tape is like the hologram scale type, very thin and flexible. I wish I had bought more, it is pretty cool tape.  Even though it appeared to be pink, it takes on the colors of the bait. Now all I have to do is decide which baits will use the rest of it. This tape would work well over a paint job and have a very thin tape edge.

( Keep it in the Water )