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How to Catch Carp in Brays Bayou

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Here is a step-by-step guide on how to catch carp in Brays Bayou.

1. Grab some Ned Rig hooks.

Catch carp Ned Riggs

2. Pick up some wonder bread.

Catch Carp Bread

3. Cut a quarter piece of bread for the hook.

Catch carp bread

4. Fold the bread on the hook and smash it to attach. 

Catch Carp hook

5. Go to Brays Bayou and cast a line.

Catch Carp casting

6. Catch a carp.

Catch carp

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Live Giveaway Drawing!

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What's up everyone, Welcome to the Live Drawing Giveaway! Thank you to everyone who entered the drawing.  27 lucky winners will be receiving a full box of lures. Several of you did enter more than once, which is excellent, and I appreciate the enthusiasm. As a reminder, this Giveaway only allows for one winner per prize, so if your name is selected more than once, you will only be receiving one box.

The Giveaway!

Giveaway Drawing

Let's get to it. My chosen recycled drawing bucket for this Giveaway was previously protein powder. I made sure to add everyone's name and email address into the drawing bucket. It took me about an hour, but it was all worth it. Each name selected will be pulled into a separate box. Again, Winners will be receiving a full package of lures. There are 27 boxes with a variety of lures I have purchased at the Houston Tackle Show. Once winners have pulled, I will be sending a follow-up email. Winners should reply to the email with their address to receive their prize.
I will start sending boxes on Saturday.

Our Winners

Giveaway Winner

Eloy Garcia
Daniel Fitzgerald
Joana Garcia
Farhan Syed
Chris Smith aka Adventure Bro
Chandler Farley
Jonnie Hartling
Jimmy D
Addison Barron
Joe Vinsik
Scott Machold
Aaron Grimes
John Fasbender
Carlos Paz
Dante Smith
Joe Aitken
Adam Hagan
Jon Parkoff
Kolton Spinn
Guy Kelly
Donna Wallace
DJ Stone
Anthony Turner
Michael Riddle
Caleb Crung
Nelson Lourinho
David Henriks

No Hard Feelings

For those who only subscribed to enter the drawing, you can unsubscribe directly on the email I send out. If you'd like to continue to receive emails, you can expect emails about new blog posts, the latest videos, lure designs. Overall, your feedback is my guide in creating the most relevant content for 3d printing, lure design, and anything associated.

New Lures

Largest Lure

Finally, here are a few examples of lure prototypes I have been busy working on lately. First up, the giant wake bate. This a two parts design with an open cavity for beads. I am still deciding if the split design will work but think of this design as a big boy for the big boys. I generally throw wake baits in the spring, early summer, or fishing redfish in the flats.

Second, I have a couple of twitch baits, The first is the flat slim, and the other is pretty much its naked brother. I also have swimbaits. Since I decided only to use the lures I have made this year, I needed a quick and dirty paddle tail. Next is a swimbait with a ball tail. As you can tell, it's an awkward name but a great design. I have been producing a lot of lures with ball ends. You can expect these to be pouring in soon.

Thirdly, as fun, as it would be to collab with my local grocery store HEB on their new lure “Ziploc bags,” I am planning to throw these standard angling ai molds. These are angling ai with a 6-inch bait in color dark grey-blue pearlescence. I also have a smaller version in the white shimmer. I typically use these in the winter. Next, I have shrimps, and a bait that I created that did not shoot very well. It's an insane creation with flashing and will be rigged on a ned head. Visually it is like a ned but with a ned fluke-style tail with, again, balls. The hope is when I go after speckled trout and redfish; the fish think it's a dying fish. There's no telling what the bass will think it is, but hopefully, they will find it tasty. At long last, I designed a swimbait that is called the fat pudge. This bait is short and fat but with a hook slot. You can expect new videos about all these lures coming soon. I will be going over the design process and how to 3d print the molds.

Molds

New Molds

Of all the molds I have created, I have successfully designed the largest one to date. I am still tuning the process, but I have to put it in about 50,000 clamps for the three cavity ned rig I printed on my 3d printer to shoot the injection mold. Generally, I use the molds by bolting the two parts together like most standard aluminum molds and then clamp to reduce any leaks. Lastly, I am doing more of a single cavity single shot mold. I typically use the style when creating the pudge swimmer. Shifting my style from multiple cavity molds to single reduces the time and process. Right now, this mold makes the clamping easy and only takes about an hour to print. It also makes shooting even more efficient.

That's all for now. Thank you again to everyone who participated in this Live Giveaway Drawing. Again, all winners should be receiving an email. For more content, be sure to check out my other blogs.

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Let’s start 2021 with a Massive Giveaway

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It's time to wave goodbye to 2020. Later, Bro! 2021 is going to be an awesome year! To celebrate 2021, I am kicking off this year with a massive lure giveaway. I have decided that this year I am only going to use lures that I make myself. Luckily for you all, I am giving away every single store-bought lure I own, and trust me, I purchased a ton last year. It’s time to remove all temptation and give away all 21 boxes and counting of all new and lightly used lures.

Giveaway lures

Entering the giveaway is simple. All you have to do is sign up for my mailing list. Hey, I get it, you may not want to sign up for a new mailing list. If you don’t win or don’t value information on handcraft lure making, or 3D printing, you can easily unsubscribe.

Giveaway Enter Now

Again, in order to enter, all you need to do is sign up for my mailing list. This giveaway is open to everyone on the planet. As long as I can send you your package through US Postal Service, it's all yours. The drawing will be held on January 21st. You will be receiving an email to notify you of the drawing. We will be pulling names, matching them to numbers on our giveaway boxes, and shipping them off to you. Giveaway items will vary. Boxes may have soft plastics, hard bates and can be used to fish bass, saltwater, or inshore. You will definitely find a lure in the package that will meet your needs.

Click here to enter. 

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3d Printer Heated Enclosure Fast and Easy

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Winter in Texas means a bone-chilling 50 degrees at night!  This may not be cold for the rest of the world but for us Texans and Resin 3d Printers, it's cold! For today's video, it's time to learn a fast and easy way to create a heated enclosure for your resin 3d Printer. These printers as you know like to print at a high temperature. For best results, you are looking at a temperature of 85 degrees.

To save you the research, I have dived into researching already great DYI methods on YouTube to find the best way to DYI an enclosure for your 3D printer.  What I’ve discovered is that “You need a hot box, Bro!”Let's start by creating something fast and easy.

The first thing I did was purchase a Heated Enclosure by Creality. It easily holds the Elegoo Saturn or any printer similar to that size. Keep in mind, these enclosures are essentially planting boxes used to grown plants indoors. If you need anything larger, go on amazon and search for grow tents. Make sure you can see inside the enclosure, and it's heat resistant. I added a cool RGB light as an add on. It's extra!

3d Printer Creality Enclosure

 

Next, you'll need a heater. I purchased a ceramic heater from Amazon. Remember, larger boxes will require a larger heater.

Lastly, you’ll need a way to control the heater. It is important that you have the ability to set the temperature on and off. Luckily, you can control the heat with a Temperature Probe. These are usually used in gardening and can be hard to understand at first. Once you hit that setup button a few times, you can expect it to work flawlessly.

3d Printer Temperature Probe

To summarize, after this setup, I do not have anymore temperature variation failures and can run my printer inside this enclosure without any issues. You should also see that it cuts down on the fumes as well. This setup only takes 10 minutes and it's super easy! As always, thank you for watching this video, and be sure to like and subscribe to my channel!