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fishaholic5
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Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 3:54pm |
These are some lures I made early on before I started Illusion Lures. Carved with an old timer pocketknife, full wires and brush painted. I had a ball chasing bass and trout with them
Red Cedar Yabby made in 1986
Red Cedar Frog 1986, the bib on this was heated with a lighter and moulded to shape
Another Red Cedar creation From 1987. The body is 3cm
A nearly nude version of a Min Min I made in the late 80's
An early Phoenix. I think I made this in 1988 or 89
A suspending lure from 1988
A Trout lure from Tasmanian Oak 1992 or 93
A yabby from 1990
An unfinished frog body from Huon pine carved in 1992 While I was at Uni in TAS.
Cheers
Wal
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Nicho
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not as prety as your recent ones, but would of caught plenty of fish
good to see the early creations......thanks for showing us......they are cool dudes. Bass would love all of them. I love simple things that people have done, they deserve as much respect as any other handmade/handcarved/homemade/whatever lure. Jas |
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Nichos Maulers Homemade timber lures....THEY CATCH FISH!
YA DONT KNOW...IF YA DONT GO...SO GET OUT THERE AND... FISH IT |
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Jeff
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Very cool I might dig up some old pics of my first lures as well ..... and YES ,,, they caught fish
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horrorhead
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Just goes to show where people started from, cool post. Martin
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barneyminno
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They are just beautiful. well made and have bass written all over them.
the frog is awesome.
very nice Wal
Barney.
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fishaholic5
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Thanks guy's. It's been a trip down memory lane unpacking stuff I haven't looked at for a while.
I found some pics of some other lures
I think this pic was taken in 1988 or 1989.
The smallest lure I ever sold. I made a heap of these for trout while I was in Tasmania
Hard at work in 2002
A Jester on a signed card, I never signed lures. There were 29 of the Jew lures like this given away after i stopped production of them in 2004. This is the only one I have
I'm putting a frog back into production, I'll keep you posted
Cheers
Wal
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CircleVbaits
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Great post Wal, I love seeing old handmade lures. Like me, you have come a long way in luremaking,
Thanks, Verlon
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puglee62
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you sure were/are a great trendsetter Wal,those old lures are great
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fishaholic5
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Here's a few more old handcarved, handpainted Trout and Bass lures that I made sometime between 1988 and 1994
Cheers
Wal
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mdlures
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Some nice old bass lures there. Put me down for a few frogs Wal, I reckon the JP's and sooties will love em'
cheers Mark
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fishaholic5
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Clockwise from bottom Left- Original 12cm Wedgetail Prototypes through to the version made still made today Cheers Wal |
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fishaholic5
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Some pic's from one of my old workshops, This was in 2004 at Muswellbrook Cheers Wal
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samlovesfish
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I really love the frogs Wal, when are we going to see your new ones?
Cheers
Sam
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steiny
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Serious production line there! Nice lures.
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cheers steiny
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fishaholic5
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Here's a couple of pic's of the old design that I'm using, It was made in 1993 There is a few changes in the paintwork for the new ones Cheers Wal
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samlovesfish
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They will look great Wal! Put me on the list for a couple.
I wonder if a frog would work in pink?
Cheers
Sam
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horrorhead
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A PINK FROG? ......... that sounds RUDE
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Tony
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Some great examples of your early work there Wal, thanks for sharing them with us
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Cheers, Tony
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Jigmaster
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Wal I don't suppose you sold some of those really early yabbies through Bryan Pratt's shop in the ACT - I have an unknown from that ear that looks very similar - was sold in a Pratt packet.
A long shot I know.
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Life is like a box of chocolates - so why do I keep losing fillings on the hard centres??
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fishaholic5
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I made a couple of hundred yabbies between 1986 and 1991, I'm not sure any would have ended up in Canberra unless they were sourced through one of Dad's Army mates. CheersWal
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Da-Jew-Man
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Hi, Did you make the Toad lures for Jewies or was that Outlaw lures.Thks Dave
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fishaholic5
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The Toad's were Outlaw Lures
Cheers Wal
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fishaholic5
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This is the first 16cm Wedgetail prototype with a Mulloway from Lennox Point, I watched the fish chase the lure across in 6'' of water sucking back off the stones with its back out of the water to nail it at my feet in the moonlight.
Cheers Wal
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fishaholic5
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Clockwise from top left, One of the first lures I made when I started chasing Mulloway, A 10cm Jewel, Fatso (A widebody Wedgetail without the wedge, this later became "Black Betty"), Black Betty, 15cm minnow and my last surviving 16cm Wedgetail prototype Cheers Wal
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fishaholic5
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By putting a heavy single balled rattle inside a brass tube with superball rubber endcaps in the head of the Black Betty I could get a dynamic rate of rattle that destabilized the lure occasionally while creating 2 distinct sounds, one high pitch, one low.
Cheers Wal
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fishaholic5
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From the top, 85mm Barra Jester, 65mmGrinner , Original Deep 12cm Wedgetail minnow prototype ( this is the Deep 12 Wedgetail in the Lure Encyclopedea) and the current Deep 12cm Wedgetail Minnow Cheers Wal
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fletch
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great lures there ..... i could definatly use a few of those freddos .......cheers aaron
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bassnbob
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TOP STUFF WAL the jewwie lures are awsome regards bob
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Red Hunter
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Great post , I like to see how you guys progressed as time goe's by , and you can put me down for a Pink frog .
Ian
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bassnbob
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IAN i think illsion LURES & WAL will do just danndy iam sure of itREGARDS BOB
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fishaholic5
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Sound's like The frog will now be available in 5 colours, Green/Yellow, Green Gold/Pearl, Brown/Pearl, Black/White and PINK
Cheers Wal
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think ILL need a pink frog too WALregards bob
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bassnbob
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THE FROG WAL THEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFROG
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rocco
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i think i found one of your old lures roy
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fishaholic5
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Not one of Mine Rocco, maybe one of Bill Clarkes from YambaCheers
Wal
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