Echo creations.

G'day Saito,

Apologies mate - I missed your reply. Thanks for your comments. I doubt I'll have a stall any time soon but you never know - July is a long time away
It's tough because I get bored with repetition and I usually dislike doing a colour pattern more than once. I do however have half a dozen individual lures that I would happily spray again if need be so I might do a big batch of copies in the future.

Cheers,

Danny.

good freshwater colors....good colors all round.
nice

Interesting

Your work is outstanding lace master keep up the awsome work.Great old school look and again the eyes the eyes!!!!!!!@

Danny

Glad you like them guys, thanks for the comments they are much appreciated.

Cheers,

Danny.

      
       

Cheers Graeme

Beautiful work Danny! I especially like your paintjobs, Its great to see all your various patterns, colours and styles. I can see you are still experimenting and getting better all the time. Thanks for showing us!

Hi Ces.

The hook hangers are screw-ins mate. They are the only thing apart from split rings and snaps that I don't make myself. I drill a slightly smaller hole than the eyelet in the timber before it's primed and painted, poke a little dollop of glue into the hole then twist the eyelet in. Too bigger hole and you're relying on the glue itself to hold it in, too smaller and you'll split the wood - especially at the rear hanger of tiny lures where the timber tapers off. Some would argue that you don't need the glue for screw in eyelets, however I don't want the eyelet moving at all. As soon as it moves, it breaks the seal between the sealer, primer, paint and clearcoat etc and the raw cedar is exposed to water. It seeps in, expands the timber (only has to be a slight expansion) and cracks the lure from the eyelets long ways up and down the lure.

I think this is the advantage of twisted eyelets as seen in older lures like Paul Kneller's Deceptions. I have come across a lot of his twisted wire Yabbies, Shrimp and Cherax and they have never had any cracks/splits in them. There is a big solid dollop of glue at the eyelets of his lures (and often around the bib) making it as close to 100% watertight as I would ever want if I was fishing them. These lures are up to 25 years old and a lot have been fished hard before I got them.

Others might not see it like this however that is my take on it. When eyelets have moved a bit on my lures (anti-clockwise) the lure ends up splitting. When they have remained rock solid, the lure has stayed near mint (apart from a bit of hook rash over time).

Hope this helps mate,

Cheers,

Danny.

Raffey wrote: Hi Ces. The hook hangers are screw-ins mate. They are the only thing apart from split rings and snaps that I don't make myself. I drill a slightly smaller hole than the eyelet in the timber before it's primed and painted, poke a little dollop of glue into the hole then twist the eyelet in. Too bigger hole and you're relying on the glue itself to hold it in, too smaller and you'll split the wood - especially at the rear hanger of tiny lures where the timber tapers off. Some would argue that you don't need the glue for screw in eyelets, however I don't want the eyelet moving at all. As soon as it moves, it breaks the seal between the sealer, primer, paint and clearcoat etc and the raw cedar is exposed to water. It seeps in, expands the timber (only has to be a slight expansion) and cracks the lure from the eyelets long ways up and down the lure. I think this is the advantage of twisted eyelets as seen in older lures like Paul Kneller's Deceptions. I have come across a lot of his twisted wire Yabbies, Shrimp and Cherax and they have never had any cracks/splits in them. There is a big solid dollop of glue at the eyelets of his lures (and often around the bib) making it as close to 100% watertight as I would ever want if I was fishing them. These lures are up to 25 years old and a lot have been fished hard before I got them. Others might not see it like this however that is my take on it. When eyelets have moved a bit on my lures (anti-clockwise) the lure ends up splitting. When they have remained rock solid, the lure has stayed near mint (apart from a bit of hook rash over time). Hope this helps mate, Cheers, Danny.

Thanks Danny. Helps alot mate. Very detailed response and just the info I was after.

Cheers,

Ces.

You are right Danny , lure making back then was a secret society but its good to see some old lure makers sharing there knowledge on this forum for new lure makers to perfect the art of lure making and thats what it is, an art, its great to see that you have made some awesome lures just from information from this site , and to state the fact cheers pearcey

Since the last trout trip to Jindabyne, I've been itching to get back there. A good way to pass a bit of spare time was to spray a few more lures in anticipation of the next adventure.

The Jinjulu was very successful so I've added a couple more. The metal bib in trout waters is new territory for me. It has a reasonably clean and narrow upright action which, combined with a natural looking paintjob, might just be ok.






This deconstructed rainbow trout Gimlet has been given a slightly deeper bib to hopefully get in range of those big daytime brownies sitting lower in the water column.




The action, depth and fish catching ability of Rob's 1.5mm lexan bibbed Mini Tonk is outstanding. It got to fish that my deep bibbed baby Merrits couldn't get anywhere near. It's encouraged me to try and get even more depth and high frequency out of my smaller lures. Here's two baby Merrits with new ultra deep 1mm bibs. I like the action on them. Time will tell if trout do




Ready for next trip. Rob's Mini Tonk is heavily outnumbered sitting bottom right in the box. Rob you will just have to send a couple more down here to ensure a bigger representation



Cheers,

Danny.

Beautiful lures Danny lovely work. Regards Chris

I am a big fan of the striped lace pattern you are using ATM. Nice work Danny!

First time I have seen it on a lure so as far as I know it is an original Echo pattern

Cheers Alistair - stoked with it actually. If you spray up enough patterns I guess you'll find one that clicks.

Thanks Bazza. A couple of them got chewed and chipped yesterday. A big brown did quite a bit of damage to one of them. Worth it though

Cheers,

Danny.

Thanks Paul, much appreciated.

Cheers,

Danny.