TIME STAMPS:
Intro: 0:00 - 1:26
Fusion 360 design and walk-through: 1:27 - 11:41
Assembly: 11:42 - 14:07
Painting and Epoxy: 14:08 - 16:29
Summary and outtro: 16:30

In this video I explain how I designed, printed and assembled a large surface popper fishing lure for pike and musky. I have been doing a lot of designing and printing of large hard baits for fishing lately which is a quick deviation from my soft plastic baits that I am traditionally used to. I figured this would be a good introduction to some of my techniques I use with fusion 360 by Autodesk. I have been using fusion 360 to design baits now for about a year, mostly crankbaits but I had not seen a large surface popper before so I thought it would be cool to have a large popper in the same design as its smaller cousins.

To design this bait I used techniques I learned from the Sthone youtube channel which you can find here:
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The actual video with this technique used can be found here:
   • How to Duplicate a Fishing Lure in CA...  

To finish this bait I used a popular 3D print coating epoxy called XTC-3D, although it does work well the set up time does take awhile, it off gasses a lot of fumes and it is a volumetric epoxy which means you will need to figure out how to get accurate volume measurements for mixing. I have since tried multiple other coatings and I will be doing a video shortly on which ones I find the most effective. I have recently been using a good weight to weight measured epoxy that seems to be holding up well, low VOC and a standard cure time with a good working time as well. I will go more in depth on that epoxy in the future video.

I also did some fly tying for this bait making a "bucktail" on the rear treble hook which I thought added a little bit of traditional flare to this new school popper.

I printed the original of this bait on a heavily modified Anet A8 3d printer, it has been modified for safety with a new power supply and new firmware to include thermal runaway. If you are thinking about getting an Anet A8 I would advise these upgrades as a must for the printer.

I think this lure should work well for northern pike in the larger size range, I'm hoping that when the ice clears this year I will be able to use it to get a larger fish in the 40 inch range. It's a tall order but be sure to subscribe because you never know what may happen. This spring I think I am going to focus on fishing for large pike and muskellunge which I have not traditionally targeted, I think it may be a good learning experience and may be a fun exercise in testing new waters.

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