Painting jerkbaits for big trout

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Used to eat Columbia river smelt, take the head off, gut them, fry them.  Bones would soften after cooking so you could chomp them down.  Pretty tasty.  You could get them in restaurants in the spring also, local specialty kind of thing.  About 20 years ago the population crashed, run dwindled to the point smelt fishing was pretty much shutdown.  

  Grunions in California,

  I did not do this but it was and is still a big deal. To keep this on track Duane paint a grunion jerk bait,

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He's got the formula nailed.  And the painting is just stellar.  After fishing these it will be hard to ever go back to mass produced...

No hype here, they are legit given results yesterday.  Repeated over and over and over results!  

So here is going to be my experiment down there next week.. 

The size looks good. I too am interested in the swim baits but feel like I’m chewing on enough right now.  

Did you paint?  

Found that color on the rack. I thought it looked pretty close and just added some dots with a sharpie.  I don't think it looks awful. Gonna throw it with a slow retrieve and also thinking about using it on a drift rig when the water is on.  Will be fun to mess around with atleast.  I threw some 6 and 7 inch swimbaits and glide baits the last couple trips with no results but I didn't stick with them long enough either though. This smaller size might get some action though. 

That looks like it will be a good one.  Can't wait to see what you catch!

I also have this 5 inch glide bait on the way.  I have fished these brand for bass and it works great and has a great gliding motion to it.   EDIT: Dear Lord fellas please ignore my wife's "wish list" at the bottom of the picture........

You need to learn to crop!!