Muskie Lures

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Muskie Lures

Raymond Adams · Senior Member

Nice work Jeremy. Silvia's gonna love'em!

Terry Jones · Senior Member

Jeremy....those things are awesome! Are you just making them as a hobby? or do you sell them? What is Silvia going to do with them.?

Terry Goode · Guru

oh no , i can see it now ML, is now gona come out with "snake skin JIGS" just to stay in the game!...
hahahh..

MaryLouVandeRiet · Senior Member

Jeremy...those are some sharp lures !!!....

ML~~

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Thanks for the compliments.

Raymond, only one is on it's way to Silvia, it's the one I have on the drying rack- it has light green alligator eyes. I'll post pictures of it tomorrow. I used D2 as the epoxy coating on it.

Terry, I sell them. I wasn't sure if they'd sell as well as my painted stuff but I had to try and so far so good. The reason I was not sure how well it would go is that the skin adds a bit of cost to them! (i'm sure you know that) I haven't seen anyone else doing this, but I'm sure I'm not the only one. The one that I'm sending to Silvia was finished in D2 and she wanted it just to show people the variety of things that can be done with D2.

Kyle Jud · Senior Member

Beautiful!!! Do you have a website??

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Kyle,

I have one in the works.

www.tuscaroratackle.com

Silvia Davis · Veteran Member

Okay you stinker! You beat me to it. Well, I am still going to post when I get mine. What did I tell you about the response on these? Anyone can't help but like them. I will wait and let you post the pic's and when everyone gets to see those eyes they are really going to love them.

I have to admit I would never have thought of doing something like that. Jeremy has fantastic ideas and really pushes the envelope on creativity in this craft.

I love it!!! Carry on Jeremy!

Hey Terry, when I get it I will bring it by.

Silvia Davis · Veteran Member

Oh Jeremy...I really like the way you photographed them too. Really nice!

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Here's another one I just finished up. It's 12" and made from western red cedar. It has 6 coats of Diamond 2 on it. I used the taxidermy alligator eyes again and the hardware is 1.5" .092" stainless eye screws. It will have three Mustad 3551 Muskie trebles on it in size 7. The total weight is around 7oz. It swims in the 5'-10' range.

jeremy

Doug Williams · Senior Member

nice work Jeremy, they are definitely unique

your latest one is bigger than most fish I catch

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Doug, thanks for the compliment. It's a big lure, but the guy I built it for specified a 12" lure- he's after huge muskies. I'd have a hard time catching anything on that one. Believe it or not, I've caught several largemouth and smallmouth bass on these big lures (my 8" versions). I'm not sure what it is, but they love them.

jeremy

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Silvia, thanks so much! I really enjoyed doing your lure- my first with the taxidermy eyes. The seam on the bottom came out so nice that I didn't have to paint over it. It's quite a bit more difficult to wrap a lure than it is to wrap a rod in snake skin. Most lures don't come out nice enough to leave the seam exposed.

jeremy

Doug Williams · Senior Member

Jeremy, Silvia was kind enough to attend our rod builders meeting today to share some new products with us and to update us on others.

She showed us the lure you sent her and it was beautiful, well crafted, and mean looking in a good way. Great workmanship.

and thanks Silvia we appreciate you coming to our meeting.

Jeremy Wagner · Veteran Member

Doug,

Thanks for the compliments. I love the unique look that snake skin gives to a lure. It was a natural progression for me from rods to lures. It is fun and challenging to do!

jeremy