Recent content by Bucho

I`ll buy it. Thank you Hawn, this looks perfect for my commercial boolies. I got the "precision" mold that does not fit the steelhead hooks I prefer.

The legal size for a sea-run atlantic trout there is 50cm which is when they start fast growing. The Fins have no understanding of imitating shrimp or sea worm since the Eastern Baltic is practically fresh water. The are not as enormous as the ones in the great lakes though. Today I tried the...

I was on x-change in Finland and have been visiting Friends there in the years after. I still stock handcrafted tout trolling lures from there to complete my product range. They derive from row-boat summer fishing and are particularly well suited for simple spinning gear on small watercraft...

I remember extremely good results on herring feeding finnish sea trout with the Westin Salty "diamond thief" color sceme that is nothing but eye-soring holografic silver. Best herring imitation ever. Its a technique I found I need to master when jigging around herring.

starting to get the hang of it. I use a contact grill to heat the silicon foam and then sandwich everything between two thick wood boards taht I step upon for 80sec. Not exactly "money" considering the combined effort but nice to learn a new technique.

The paint is nice for breaking up structures but does not do much for the details of the head. Can you show us some raw castings? I could think of a tin cast and spinner blade insert under the chin.

Slow Jigging is all the rage overseas while many Americans look at casting jigs and wonder what the fuzz is all about since they`ve been doing almost the same thing for ages. Almost the same....  The thing is, there are some interesting new perspectives to it. In their attempt to evade fishing...

Looking for new ways to adapt slow jig techneeks to my shallow home waters, I have done very well with improvised inhciku jigs for small mouthed flounder. Namely a 1oz Flutter jig with a hole in it, rigged with a bucktail flounder teaser from e-bay (=China) and a pair of #2 octopus. Tipped with...

Howdy! I came across this cheap knock-off from a pouring supply store that makes cheap knock offs from molds that some guys found desireable for Norway n stuff. The action is fantastic, a very unique lure! The mold however is nothing to work efficiently with. The perfect fit of do-it inserts...

I am intrigued with this stuff, and as it seems it can`t be too hard. Does anybody have experience? Would love to combine it with powderpaint.

I hear its the European`s turn now to not be let into the U.S.. Frankly, I understand. The Chinese Government has managed to get a grip on the plague but only with measures that are inapropriate for a western democracy. Situation in north Italy is bad. ERs are saturated, certain groups like...

We have this ridiculously small "put and take" (is that even a thing in english speaking countries?) trout ponds where people cure their cabin fever during off-season or just go for meat. I have learned to respect them. What looks like literally shooting fish in a barrel follows its own rules...

Had a friend over for bucktailing cod in front of the shop yesterday morning. Trout used to show every evening lately so I made a few casts in the shallows around dusk. Got some small and pre-spawn ones together with this well fed 53cm keeper. You can spot my lure maker nemesis, the...

Its "Kiel Week" again, we are expecting 3Mio bilge drinking visitiors over for free concerts, quite a bit of sailing contests and last not least half the free world`s navy to relax after the "Baltops" naval exercise. What struck me this year at the "open ship" event in the naval base is not only...

Had very little success lately chasing flatfish with my own boat so I was happy to follow the invitaiton of a friend who knows every single boulder in the outer kiel firth. We had 7 nice cod in the 60-70cm range which is a very satisfying size over here. Its been a while since I harvested so...