Z-Lures

The first three „Smiling-Bombs“ were born.

I built three poppers:
20cm/170gr
17cm/100gr
15cm/65gr

To paint my poppers, I have purchased a very basic airbrush set. I was quite happy with my first results.

The next batch of Z-Lures were poppers. I went for a „classic“ square head/round rail design. Later on, I realised that they looked similar to Black Ledge lures.

These brown-perch style worked super well in Denmark!! We caught over 20 pikes with them, which made me suuuper happy!

My Z-Lures actually catch fish 😂😂

(ok...might also depend on the location 😉)

For my second trip to Denmark, I made three more lures:
- A super shallow running Jerkbair (Brown-Perch)
- A copper tail-bait
- A brown tail tail-bait for my fishing buddy

This jerkbait was the first Z-Lure I have ever caught a fish with! I really liked how the green perch pattern turned and my idea of the large googly-eyes was awesome!

Last summer, I started working on my first freshwater Pike lures. I aimed to work craft two shallow suspending jerkbaits and one tailbait.

This was one of many jacks I caught in Puerto Vallarta.
This stickbait has a wide side-to-side movement right under the surface. During pauses, the head pops out of the water.
Super easy to fish!!

Z-Lure #0.4
This was my third floating stickbait prototype and the swimming action of this lure was spot on!

All of my future floating and sinking 17cm&20cm stickbaits are based on this shape.

Damn, this lure delivered in Mexico!!

Even though the swimming action of the lure wasn‘t very nice, some jacks in Puerto Vallarta could not resist to attack it!

Z-Lure #0.3 was in a „bloody“ redhead design. Again, I wasn‘t too happy about the swimming action.

Still, my friend caught a nice jack with it!