Largemouth Bass Lure How-To - Createx Colors · your own fishing lures. More and more lakes and...
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The first step after sanding a wooden lure body smooth is to add a coat or two of primer/sealer. In this case I used Auto Air Sealer White. If using a plastic lure I use an adhesion promoter followed by a few light coats of Auto Air Sealer White. Photo 1 First we need to establish what the base color will be that will rep- resent the outline of the scales of a fish. In this case we will use the Auto Air Sealer White. Allow this base coat to dry before continuing. I speed up the process by using a blow dryer on medium heat. Next position your Bass pattern stencil over the lure making sure to have the mouth cut outs end at the nose. I used a sharp pencil to make a reference line along the gill plate through the stencil but you can use the airbrush. The body scales on a fish don’t actually cover their en- tire head and I want the lure to look as real as possible. This reference line is used during the next step so I can see how close I am getting to the head while spraying the scales. Photo 2 I have a trick to help keep the scale stencil in place. I use a metal baking tray covered by a sheet of paper under the lure. Small rare earth magnets are then used to hold down the stencil! Photo 3 Now we spray the actual scales color though the mesh. For this dem- onstration I am using a custom light green color, which is a mix of Auto Air Colors 4208 Emerald Green and Auto Air Colors 4350 Irides- cent Brite Yellow. I purposely avoided spaying scales completely onto the head area of the lure since it is not covered in the same large scales as the rest of the fish. Photo 4 After spraying I use the blow dryer to gently dry the paint. Do this af- ter each of the following steps in this tutorial so that you can rest the lure on the freshly painted side without damage. Carefully remove the scales stencil being careful not to disturb the paint underneath. Voila! You now have some great looking “scales” on your lure. If you need to add a few more rows of scales, simply reposition the scales stencil making sure to line up the ones you just sprayed already and spray on some more. Photo 5 The next step is to use our Bass pattern stencil to render the mark- ings that are prominent on a Largemouth Bass. Position the stencil as shown making sure that the mouth lines up with the tip of your lure. Once again I used some small magnets to keep the stencil in place while spraying. Don’t worry if the tail end of the stencil isn’t quite long enough as we can just reposition it later and add more markings. Photo 6 Hello. I am Mike Bromelow, owner and artist of www.muskysnax. com, a hand crafted fishing lure company in Muskoka Canada. I would like to show you how you can achieve a more realistic look to your own fishing lures. More and more lakes and rivers are getting fished harder and harder and fish do become lure shy over time. A great way to counteract this is by making your lure presentation as natural looking as possible. Most predatory fish feed by sight and the stimulus of a darting baitfish (your lure) often proves irresist- ible to them! The first one I will demonstrate is a Largemouth Bass rendering with some key anatomical features that will add pizzazz to your lure. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Largemouth Bass Lure How-To
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The first step after sanding a wooden lure body smooth is to add a coat or two of primer/sealer. In this case I used Auto Air Sealer White. If using a plastic lure I use an adhesion promoter followed by a few light coats of Auto Air Sealer White. Photo 1 First we need to establish what the base color will be that will rep-resent the outline of the scales of a fish. In this case we will use the Auto Air Sealer White. Allow this base coat to dry before continuing. I speed up the process by using a blow dryer on medium heat. Next position your Bass pattern stencil over the lure making sure to have the mouth cut outs end at the nose. I used a sharp pencil to make a reference line along the gill plate through the stencil but you can use the airbrush. The body scales on a fish don’t actually cover their en-tire head and I want the lure to look as real as possible. This reference line is used during the next step so I can see how close I am getting to the head while spraying the scales. Photo 2
I have a trick to help keep the scale stencil in place. I use a metal baking tray covered by a sheet of paper under the lure. Small rare earth magnets are then used to hold down the stencil! Photo 3
Now we spray the actual scales color though the mesh. For this dem-onstration I am using a custom light green color, which is a mix of Auto Air Colors 4208 Emerald Green and Auto Air Colors 4350 Irides-cent Brite Yellow. I purposely avoided spaying scales completely onto the head area of the lure since it is not covered in the same large scales as the rest of the fish. Photo 4
After spraying I use the blow dryer to gently dry the paint. Do this af-ter each of the following steps in this tutorial so that you can rest the lure on the freshly painted side without damage. Carefully remove the scales stencil being careful not to disturb the paint underneath. Voila! You now have some great looking “scales” on your lure. If you need to add a few more rows of scales, simply reposition the scales stencil making sure to line up the ones you just sprayed already and spray on some more. Photo 5 The next step is to use our Bass pattern stencil to render the mark-ings that are prominent on a Largemouth Bass. Position the stencil as shown making sure that the mouth lines up with the tip of your lure. Once again I used some small magnets to keep the stencil in place while spraying. Don’t worry if the tail end of the stencil isn’t quite long enough as we can just reposition it later and add more markings. Photo 6
Hello. I am Mike Bromelow, owner and artist of www.muskysnax.com, a hand crafted fishing lure company in Muskoka Canada. I would like to show you how you can achieve a more realistic look to your own fishing lures. More and more lakes and rivers are getting fished harder and harder and fish do become lure shy over time. A great way to counteract this is by making your lure presentation as natural looking as possible. Most predatory fish feed by sight and the stimulus of a darting baitfish (your lure) often proves irresist-ible to them! The first one I will demonstrate is a Largemouth Bass rendering with some key anatomical features that will add pizzazz to your lure.
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Largemouth Bass Lure How-To
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I use a custom dark green paint made by adding Auto Air Colors 4220 Deep Black to Auto Air Colors 4208 Emerald Green. The exact mixture can vary, as the real fish are colored lighter or darker in dif-ferent bodies of water. Just add drops of Deep Black until you achieve the desired results. Once the stencil is removed, we have some markings that are seen on the real fish. As you can see in the photo the stencil was a little short for this par-ticular lure so I simply repositioned it and sprayed more markings at the tail end and also along the upper area of the sides. The next photo shows the results. Photos 7+8
Next I spray more of the dark green mixture onto the back of the lure and also add some
stippling over the back and sides. This blends the scales from the sides into the lure’s back. I also join the sides of the mouth freehand so that they go around the front of the lure as in real life. I some-
times use a shower curtain hook to hold my larger lures while painting. I have a curtain rod rigged up at my painting station and can quickly access different sides of the lures when not using the stencils on the flat baking tray. Photo 9 Now we need to add some eyes to the lure. Use the eyes and fins stencil and position the large eye cut out so that the narrow shaped part faces forward as they do on a real Bass. It’s all about details at this point! ;) I first spray a little Sealer White to cover the underlying green then spray 4248 Transparent Root Beer for the color. Photos 10+11
Now I switch to the pupil stencil hole and spray 4220 Deep Black for the pupil. Add a little reflection with Sealer White to complete them. I chose to add some Deep Black around the entire eye to help make it pop. If you REALLY want to get detail oriented use an extra fine tipped gold ink marker and create a gold band around the black pupil as seen in later photos. Photo 12
Next we need to add some fins using the eyes and fins stencil. Position the stencil to be able to spray 4350 Iridescent Brite Yellow in the correct anatomical locations. After drying the paint you can add the rays to the fins with a sharp pencil. Photo 13
After the stencil work is done you can add your own flair to the lure with some white highlights and any other lit-tle details such as the gold banding around the black pu-pils, blood red gills etc. Here’s my own finished Bass as an example.
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SNAX Fish Stencil Set includes: 2 Bass, 2 Blue Gill, 2 fish scales and 2 sets eyes and gills. Small and large each. Item #4820-00. SNAX Color Set, Item # 4923-00. Set includes one 4oz. each: 4001 Sealer White, 4208 Semi-Opaque Emerald Green, 4220 Semi-Opaque Deep Black 4248 Transparent Root Beer, 4350 Iridescent Brite Yellow and 4011 Flash Reducer.
