New Decoys You Carved and Painted

[smalliehunter]

It's a lot of fun to look at this topic. You are a skilled decoy maker! Thank you for sharing.

[Neighbor_guy]

I also finished the Big Girl this weekend. It is by far the largest working decoy I have ever carved. I spent over a month working on it. Copper fins, brass eyes, and weighted to swim.

27.5" in total length and just a tick under 4lbs.

[jasonmichalski]

That's cool, lol

[shamalex72]

Nice work. That decoy is bigger than most of the fish I spear.

[mrklean]

Love the copper fins

[MJ1657]

I agree on the copper. Very cool.

[jasonmichalski]

A few new decoys from my last batch.

[MJ1657]

Very nice Jason. I like the scales.

[jasonmichalski]

Thanks!

[Neighbor_guy]

Here are the results of the ones I showed in bondo in the carvers thread...

I am planning on entering the fat body pike in a contest. The other notable in this group is the evolution of my bent body decoys. This one has a living rubber skirt for a little something different. I like it, but not sold on it yet. May need some further investigation.

Thanks for looking.

[Neighbor_guy]

A handful of perch. The red one is about 7" the others are 9-10"

[Neighbor_guy]

A smaller minnow shape. Very slow swimmer.

And some other random stuff...

[Neighbor_guy]

And the big'ns....

And a different perspective to show just how big they really are...

They are 18 1/2" and 19" respectively. Tried to make the one more "natural". I'm not sure if I pulled it off, but that was the intent.

As always thanks for looking.

[mrklean]

Great looking decoys

[shamalex72]

Finished this one not too long ago, probably the last one til next fall or whenever I feel like carving again.☺

[Neighbor_guy]

Looks sweet sham!!!

[MJ1657]

I like it!

[shamalex72]

I like it!

That's good, it's gonna be heading your way.

[shamalex72]

Looks sweet sham!!!

Thanks

[MJ1657]

I can't wait to see it sitting on my shelf.

[mrklean]

Looks great sham

[Neighbor_guy]

Couple new ones. 

First is a "die'ing sunfish" (flipper) 4.5"

And an 8" red/white. 

then a couple spinners. These have been the most productive thing in my spear shack this year. 

The back view...

[mwal]

This is a spoon year for me as well.

[jvm1]

I just started using spoons but haven't seen a fish come to them yet. Then again I've been out 5 times this year and got skunked 3 so yeah. Hope this Saturday we get a busy hole, my 2 nephews are extremely excited to go!

[Neighbor_guy]

A Few recent highlights. 8" generic minnow shape, 7" perch, and a 6" sunfish.