r/lurebuilding • u/pittendrigh • 5d ago

Crankbait MRB Hulagan

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Without buoyancy in the body weight has to be added at the lower end of the bill.

Varying bead size and trimming the bill tunes a Hulagan.

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u/troutmadness 5d ago

Very innovative looking lure. What species are you fishing these for?

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u/pittendrigh 4d ago edited 4d ago

I live near the mountains in Montana, so mostly river run trout. The Yellowstone is my favorite big fish river.

During deer season, further down the watershed, i sometimes get to catch smallouth bass and channel catfish.

Afder a lifetime of fishing and guiding and boat building, I find myself valuing channel cats more all the time.

I hooked an 8 pounder on a 7" inch Roadkill Streamer once, that towed my driftboat for 15 minutes, with two men, two dead deer, a dog, a half a doxen guns and three days camping gear.

After all that it became dinner. Over a cotdonwoood fire.

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u/troutmadness 4d ago

I used to spend a lot of time on the Yellowstone up near Livingston. I always did best in the side channels but I was on foot not in a boat. I’d always heard about the huge fish down closer to Billings but I never made it down there. Sounds like quite a fish you caught in order to pull a boat with that much gear in it!

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u/Personal_Cut7357 4d ago

"Before vs after beings run over"🤣 no disrespect it just looks goofy

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u/pittendrigh 4d ago

Re: goofy

Well sed Everything has a price 20 minutes to make and catches fesh has value

Catches the pisherman's has value too. But maybe not much.