Pete: What does it take to obtain an original Turnip Spoon before you become rich and famous? Some of your spoons are looking awfully good. Did I ever mention that a freind of mine sells trolling gear through a retail store and at www.flynspoon.com ? If you want to market your spoons, I'll put you in touch with him. Tom
Fishin' fool in NE Illinois

Tom, I appreciate the offer, really!  But I do this as part of my "fishing fix"!!  LOL!  If you would like a spoon send me a PM identifing which one ya want and your mailing addy and I'll send you one.  Thanks for the kind words!

 

 

LM since 2005 Bushwacker Deputy Sherif from S.E. Pa.

I took an old and damaged Dardevel Imp (2/5 oz) and stripped off what was left of the original  finish, repainted , added tape and replaced the hardware as needed...

 

I have started a new thread in "Member Tips" titled: "Tweaking Spoons".  I will do a step by step (with pics) technique for refinishing spoons for your tackle box!  Enjoy!

 

LM since 2005 Bushwacker Deputy Sherif from S.E. Pa.

Ok I got to it today......

before:

Cleaned up :

New tape job :

 

 

Ed, nice job!  I'mm glad to see someone else post besides me!  I have been working on one that you showed me at the NE meet....I'll finish the tape job and post it tomorrow!

 

 

LM since 2005 Bushwacker Deputy Sherif from S.E. Pa.

Yea it took me a while to get to it but it was fun and had the ole mind agoing on what I wanted to do. I see I have two more in my box of the long thin ones and I think I'll just do a basic side to side scallop tape job with that blue tape.............unless that yello/geen is HOT today..............

Boy I wish I was old and retired so I could do this stuff! Nice looking spoons Ed!

Southeast PA LM '99

Ok Ed, here it is!

 

 

What do ya think?  Does it have a chance???  It's a nickle plated spoon, VMC hook.  I ordered this tape last winter and I guess I forgot about it!  Those two orange strips are from one small strip (cut down the middle).

 

 

LM since 2005 Bushwacker Deputy Sherif from S.E. Pa.

Looks good Pete some what like the one I had that the tape got bad , then I had ya take your knife to one to ope the middle up. Nice job..............

I ran the two long thin one yesterday nothing.................I'll try them again but not right away we had a steady bite going so fish should have got a eyeball on them.......

Pete this guy :

And the one above got some rips the other day but didn't hook-up. The one above took a laker deep (82') down and I hit bottom with the rigger ball to see if it would stay clean with the single hook in the up position and it did. I'm not sure which one they were popping the other day but my best guess is the bottom one because that was on the slider line and is harder to hook up and lose more fish on that rig.

I did two more up yesterday but didn' take a piture, I try to get one when I got out later today.

I think Turnip was born with a Johnson Silver Spoon in his mouth.

 

 

Be Fishers of Men, You catch, He Cleans Trophy Life Member and Proud of it. You got a problem with that?

I was thinking the other end! LOL Tom
Fishin' fool in NE Illinois

Wow Turnip. You are both  an angler and an artist!

Here are the three that I did in my "spoon tweaking" thread in "member tips" forum:

 

 

These are casting spoons.  They were originally old Dardevel spoons.  Thanks for the compliment, Ledwith!

 

 

LM since 2005 Bushwacker Deputy Sherif from S.E. Pa.

Hey Pete, do ya have any spoons that are black with white stripes we could try at Blue Marsh?

Southeast PA LM '99

That is a real nice set of spoons and a great presentation. If you are into spoons you might like this if you haven't seen it already. Tight lines, Steve

Tricking Out Spoons

Northeast Bass Fishing For Trophy Bass http://delawaretrophybass.com

Great topic by Pete AND good posts by others here too!

 

I have 200 - 300 various spoons with "jacked up" finishes on them that I will be working on later this fall....and will post both my process and end results in Pete's Spoon Tweaking topic in Member's Tips

Life Member David BB Linkmeister US Army '78-'85 West Central Wisconsin

Well overall, my favorite way to modify spoons is to take a plain Silver Streak and put on some light and dark orange reflective tape to give it a Monkey Puke resemblance, only more flash. Or my other one is to use purple and dark purple reflective tape and put on a glow eye onto a plain Silver Streak. And best of all, these spoons work great here in Illinois and can be used on Wally Board Planers behind 50 yd of leadcore, just plain leadcore out the back of the boat, on a Deeper Diver, or on a downrigger.
Tight lines.