Some crankbait rebuilds

[Fishwhittler]

These are some Poe's and other baits I just finished. I made the splatter-back deep crank, but the others are all rebuilds. Sorry about some of the pics being a little fuzzy. I had a really hard time photographing the fluorescent baits and getting the colors to look right.

I'll start with a Poe's 400-P.

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Poe's 300 series (I think?).

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Bagley Killer B. I had to make a new head and bill for this bait, as the old ones were in pretty bad shape.

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And my own bait:


I've got a bunch more of these to rebuild, so there will be more.

Let me know what you think.

Ben

[BassinBlazer]

Great work as always.

[pizz]

nice rebuilds for sure!!

[rangerman1963]

wow these are great

[Big Bass Man]

Very nice rebuilds

[Munkin]

How do you take them apart without destroying the bait? I have that orange bait I made that has too much ballast weight. The ballast I epoxied in so I have no idea how to remove it.

Allen

[Fishwhittler]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Munkin &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">How do you take them apart without destroying the bait? I have that orange bait I made that has too much ballast weight. The ballast I epoxied in so I have no idea how to remove it.

Allen</td></tr></table>

If you need to remove a weight from a lure, you only have a few options. You could try to grind away the epoxy and then remove the weight with a pair of pliers, but I'm not sure if this method would be very practical. A simpler alternative is to drill or grind out the weight. Actually, you might not even have to grind away all of the ballast; you could probably just grind out enough to give it the action/float rate you're looking for, and then fill in the hole with epoxy. You'll need to be careful not to grind away the ballast unevenly and unbalance the bait, but that shouldn't be difficult.

On the lures I redid, there wasn't any need to remove the main ballast weights. I didn't want to change the buoyancy or the action any, so I left the main ballast weights intact, although I did have to do some work on the smaller front weights. In that sense, the two Poe's baits in this batch aren't exactly "rebuilds", but they required quite a lot of work in order to get them ready for repainting; I didn't just give them a light sanding and spray them. I can give you a detailed description of what I did if you like.

Hope this helps.

Ben