Thanks for the kind words guys, I appreciate it. I sometimes get too specific with my baits as I make different versions for rivers versus lakes by changing blades sizes, spacing, and wire diameters. This perch pattern bait is made to be a shallow runner without being burned, I used medium spacing to keep some vibration but the blade sizes are only 1/2 size apart and this I found is optimal spacing for lift. Now if I was going to make a burner the wire coming out of the nose of the body would be shorter and it would be at a steeper angle. the blades would smaller also, a #4 and a #3 with more spacing, and now I'm rambling but I mess with these a lot. Anyway, Lamar, the powder paint is applied with a hobby sand blaster, a Badger model 260 to be exact and it looks like an air brush. It is impossible to get fine detail with just regular powder paint unless you change it with powder water but that is another story. What the sand blaster does is it allows me to spray the powder on, while I can't do fine detail it does make for excellent color blending, fading and color transition. You can't see it in my bad picture but the top of the body is more green and it fades down into more of a gold color, it is how I do perch color by layering the colors starting with transparent gold and then going over it with candy yellow and then finishing with candy green but then I go a little higher on the body with each color so you can see the transition as it goes from a lighter to a darker color while being seamless, pretty neat actually.
