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The "Firetiger" pattern

Defining this color pattern isn't easy at all. Some say that it is merely a bright color pattern that should be used in stained, other believe this is some sort of bright perch pattern. I agree with the latter line of thought. In dark water or water with a green stain to it this color pattern gets noticed fairly quickly and it can remind you of a perch pattern. Well, that is if you paint thick tigerstripes and not those wimpy, tiny tigerstripes that can only be observed from up close. Some manufacturers use these and I believe this type of firetiger pattern benefits more from the flash generated by the chartreuse spray paint than from the black tigerstripes.

Necessary items:



The pattern explained step by step

We start from a white colored lure blank, as usual. The first step is painting the entire lure blank in fluorescent chartreuse. So take your spray can and shake it well for several minutes. Spray chartreuse paint on the lure blank with quick, swift movements. I work with imaginary stripes. I spray one stripes from the tail towards the head and then I spray another next to it until I have covered the entire lure body. I then hang this lure up to dry and after some 5 minutes I repeat this process. It allows me to cover the lure completely with chartreuse paint and I know I won't spray too much paint in the same spot. (view picture 1)

Now I'll take both the orange and green spray cans and I shake them well during some 2-3 minutes. I hold the jerkbait in front of me and I spray the belly side orange and the back green. The way I do this has been described in the "carp" color pattern. In that color pattern I used orange and brown instead of orange and green. (view picture 2)

I hang this jerkbait up to dry for about 15 minutes before continuing with the black tigerstripes. After having waited 15 minutes, I put the jerkbait on a piece of newspaper. One side faces upwards. I put the tigerstrips stencil on that side and I position it so the tigerstripes will be painted the way I want them to be. I now take the spray can with black paint and I shake it well. I will then spray black paint on the side of this jerkbait by spraying from the backside towards the belly side, not from the tail towards the nose. This allows me to control the amount of black paint that ends up on the stencil so I won't spray too much paint on it. Otherwise it may flow underneath the stencil and it will ruin this color pattern. I immediately remove the stencil and I hang the jerkbait up to dry. Normally it only takes about 1-3 minutes for the black paint to dry. It depends on the air temperature.

After the paint has dried, I repeat this process for the other side of the jerkbait. (view picture 3)

The only thing that remains to be done, is to add stick-on eyes. I used gold colored stick-on eyes in this article but I use chartreuse and silver colored eyes as well. It all depends on your preference. (view picture 4) Good luck!