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Most walleye fans...and a lot of Koke-nuts...love Mack's Smile Blades. But none of us like the price tag...60 cents or more per blade. Me too either. When I started putting some on my fligs I was looking at taking out a second mortgage to be able to stock up.
Since I already make most of the lures I use, I figured out a way to make my own Smile Blades...for about 10 cents apiece. Here's a pictorial writeup on the subject. Lemme know if you have any questions.
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Pat, your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. Amazing what you can do when you sit around and begin cogitating on a situation. Can you come up with a fool proof way for us to be able to stay on the water during this "stay at home" time !!! Keep up the good work !!
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Very nice Pat. No doubt in my mind they will be killer fligs like all the rest of them. Hope all is well with you and yours.
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[font]Thank you for this I have every thing I need to make them in my house and in the garbage. Also with the ones I have can change what they look like by adding tape to them.[/font]
What amaze me is the time you put in to making a PDF file.Can you make a Spin-n-Glo? they are costly also. I like a Spin-n-Glo on the front of a squid fishing for Kokanee.
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Thanks
I have been making my own Kokanee lures for several years and never thought about making these.
It just seems like more fun to me when I can make my own.
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Pat every one of your custom bait floats will work for kokanee. but pink is the number one color but you need some green when they start going deep. about 4 years ago at flaming gorge we were catching a lot of kokanee. a guide was fishing by us. we came in the same time he did, and he ask me what I was using because no one else out there was catching any thing. I showed him how I had my squids setup with floats ( not as good looking as yours) they use for [font]Walleye, he asked what thay did to the squid, I said I don't know but it is something they have never seen befor. on some of my dodgers I will use 1/2 light green almost yellow and the other half pink. dark green does not work for me. and I love those colors togather. I also make a dodger the first coat is light blue glow and a top coat that is glow pink when it is charged the blue comes through the pink and that works.[/font]
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Thank's for the Write up. Anything that saves a few buck is a good thing.