Making the Heddon Torpedo, Making the most valuable vintage fishing lure

[@shadowscion]

I'd like to see how you'd go about carving a more complicated shape like the Heddon Vamp or River Runt.

[@flexx825]

Still works till this day, my favorite top water to fish with 👌

[@EngineeredAngler]

Good to hear

[@supadupa1905]

Sir, I came across your channel and it is awesome! SUBSCRIBED!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks and welcome

[@JD.California_monkey_mackerel]

Love you my friend @EngineeredAnglerLures 👍🏼🎣🙏🏽💙

[@TheCopperVillageAngler]

Nice build! Love the classics. I think I have one of these in my Dad’s old tackle box! I will have to go treasure hunting for it if it is worth as much as you showed in the video.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

The little version of those called the Tiny Torpedo are pretty good, especially in little ponds. I hooked up on the first cast with one in NC and I don't fish for bass much. And I saw a guy catch a nice big one on one of those in Florida.

[@jesselynn4539]

I would love to see you make a heddon prowler

[@richjageman3976]

My 2 favorite lures as a kid were the Heddon Torpedo and the Heddon Tiny Crazy Crawler, my brother's was the Lucky Number 13.

[@gordoncouger9648]

Add a full-size black Jitterbug and a small chugger you have all the casting and spinning lures I ever used for topwater bass fishing other than flyrod lures.

[@richjageman3976]

@@gordoncouger9648 the Jitterbug and Hula Popper are number's 3 and 4 on my all time favorite top water lures.

[@bokonuko]

Excellent video (as usual) and excellent job on the torpedo. Thanks!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Glad you liked it!

[@tork62077]

You did a fantastic job replicating the old school lure!!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thank you very much!

[@daviddura1172]

Happy thanksgiving Nicely done on a classic

[@odslsm]

It turned out really good!! Enjoying watching your videos!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks so much 😊

[@bobtomlinson8247]

Great work Franco

[@JayLee-od8ob]

Guy has everything measured out perfectly, says there's some disco stuff in there 😂. Thanks, great lure and great video.

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks for watching!

[@pontoontri-hull156]

This may not have been your favorite paint scheme, but it was a very close recreation of the vintage lure. I really enjoyed this build. How did you calculate how much weight to not put in the lure? Super job Franko & Mrs. Angler!

[@martinreyes257]

little bit heavy but looks great

[@FranksDIY]

Awesome love watching you make them

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks so much 😊

[@flywrite]

Nice! There's something to be said for the classic lures, though yeah, like you my aesthetic taste has progressed in other directions... As a film maker, I'd be interested in seeing a video on how you set up your water shots of your finished lures. That filming must take some time and other viewers may be interested to see how much work that goes into that.

[@EngineeredAngler]

Yes...the water shots are lots of work, especially doing it alone. Can be costly too, I've dropped two gopro's to the bottom so far.

[@flywrite]

@@EngineeredAngler yikes!

[@phillipallen2578]

Nice job, have a wonderful holiday season.

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks, you too!

[@Nippelmilch]

Love your Vids, never stop what you're doing.❤

[@EngineeredAngler]

I appreciate that!

[@mipa6028]

great video! how in the world do you as an engineer use those weird fractions of inches for measurements instead of just millimetres? 🤯🤯🤯

[@EngineeredAngler]

Many decades of brainwashing 😀

[@shadygraves]

This reminds me of one of my most favorite FishTales. When I was 15, in 1986, my best friend Philip (R.I.P.) and I had snuck in an awesome Alabama farm pond. We were fishing along in the old man's little jonboat (with a 2×4 for a paddle) and Philip was absolutely wearing me out with a Silver Shore Minnow colored Tiny Torpedo. I was fishing a very similar, Shad colored Skipping Cisco, but he was catching 5 to my 1. He said he'd "borrowed" that torpedo from our Ag teacher's tackle box at at school (yes, we were little heathens). When we came to the dam of the pond, he threw it up into a catalpa tree and broke it off. I asked if he was going to get it and he said "No". I told him I'd climb that tree to get it, and I did. I proceeded to get my payback. We fished on, catching several more, when we came upon a red-winged blackbird, perched on a blade of Johnson grass in the back of the pond. I told him I was going to hit that bird. When I cast at it, I was perfectly in line, but a few inches high. When I immediately retracted my cast, mid-air, it wrapped around the bird and actually caught it, knocking it into the water. We paddled over to it and he hit it with the 2×4. I said, "Aw, man! I wanted to fight him in the air!" Oh, well. He tossed it into the boat and we fished on. Pretty soon, we came across a 2 liter soda bottle, with braided trot line and a hook on tied to it. I got it out of the water, plucked the breast out of the bird, put it on the jug hook, and tossed it out, hoping to catch a catfish. Again, we fished on. It was no time and that jug went racing across the water. Excitedly, we chased it down. When we caught up to it, we pulled it in to find about a 12lb softshell turtle had eaten it! A huge softshell turtle, on a red-winged blackbird breast, that I had caught, on a Tiny Torpedo, that had been stolen, cast into a tree, discarded, and recovered by a poor, tree-climbing kid, desperate to exact revenge on his fishing buddy; now THAT is a FishTale for the ages!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Wow...quite the story ¡

[@raygissendanner1476]

Great build happy Thanksgiving

[@robsnell424]

Wow, you did a great job on this one

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@petrolheadgokce6273]

I love the Endproduct 👍👍 but your measurements hurt my brain 🤣 Greetings from Austria

[@brianwilliard1819]

Reel a couple feet, pause, 2 hard twitches, and fish caught! Been doing that since i was a kid.

[@porkchop817]

Franco, been jonesing for a new video. I know you gotta have your own life too, hope you are doing well.

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks for hanging with me...life is complicated this time of year. Videos coming soon...

[@joeytaylor8767]

Watching from remote Western Australia. This would be a good lure to through off the costal rocks in our area.

[@EngineeredAngler]

That would be cool!

[@lukeprince7690]

Can you please do a rebel pop-r and a bass oreno, that are sized for saltwater fishing from the surf , piers here on the gulf coast

[@mike1261]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife, Franco! Thoroughly enjoyed the remake of an old school lure. When you started putting the hardware on, I was like "Did I miss the part where he installed the ballast?" So I went back to review. I'm guessing the belly hook is enough to keep it upright... Your test footage looked a little different today without the boat, but the lake was so calm and beautiful that it made for some awesome shots. Great job!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks...had my wife working as my camera tech.

[@mike1261]

@@EngineeredAngler She did a wonderful job at it! 🙂

[@davidbailey9587]

Idea: how about a clear lure with parts in it that move visibly?

[@EngineeredAngler]

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[@vonpaulus6647]

Nice work!👍

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@stevewaggoner8237]

First lure i ever got by my grandfather 40 yrs ago lol, Happy Thanksgiving

[@EngineeredAngler]

Same to you!

[@antonepaulino1931]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thanks you too

[@motoformprototyping]

Thank you

[@EngineeredAngler]

You're welcome

[@benrollinh526]

Where can I find the "friction disks" you used on this bait? Excellent video as always!

[@EngineeredAngler]

I get most of my lure hardware from lure part online

[@benrollinh526]

@@EngineeredAngler Thanks Franco I know you do mostly hardbait style lures, but I would love to hear your engineering/hydrodynamic perspective on blades. For example, the different characteristics of each style, french, indiana, colorado, Olympian, fluted blades, willow ECT... Maybe general characteristics of blades like which one flare more/less, push more/less water, higher/ lower frequency sound, speed of revolution, thinner vs thicker blades differences, which blades have more lift ECT...

[@micaelsoderstrom]

Amazing! Where do you get the old school hook hangers with screws?

[@EngineeredAngler]

Lure Parts online

[@kevingriggs640]

Do some more reproductions that is pretty cool!!!!

[@theinvasivespecies1119]

Looks better than the original

[@benskai2475akurfishing]

good evening greetings from Indonesia, thank you senior for your knowledge of making beautiful artificial bait

[@EngineeredAngler]

Thank you too

[@benskai2475akurfishing]

@@EngineeredAngler thank you again and welcome again, seniors, greetings always healthy and thank you for your excellent knowledge because we can add new knowledge and techniques in making artificial bait

[@TerryPalmer-u3q]

Can you recommend a signing pen for small lures?

[@badboymowersofnorman6011]

Really would use a vise when drilling. Think of it this way. A drill bit goes in easy and smooth into things. But, are you prepared to have to flip it to reverse while in excruciating pain? PAIN! Imagine being hit with a sledge hammer at full force where ever it penitrates into muscle!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Yeah it looks pretty sketchy on the video but I have my hand cupped behind the wood, the bit can't reach.

[@nedrobreak5594]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@DLac99]

Gundam marker my man

[@turdferguson5300]

Haha A great paint jobs only sells lures it doesn't catch fish. Some of my best wooden lures don't have a lot of paint left on them. I also make lures and some of my best tests occurred with just the sealer before the paint went on. I'll test a new lure on my dock to see if its worth finishing. I made a spitting chugger that worked better unpainted than it did with foil tape, scales, eyes, and the back painted. It seems I catch more fish by letting them use their imagination, too much detail seems to turn them off. A predator doesn't attack a healthy looking victim. All I paint is a silver anus on my baits because when Dad was alive he said I was an asshole for not taking his acquaintances fishing. Being successful in fishing is doing something different than everybody else and keeping your mouth shut. The keeping your mouth shut is where these younger guys fail miserably.

[@EngineeredAngler]

"Silver Anus" great rock band name!😃

[@turdferguson5300]

@@EngineeredAngler Now that is funny ! Have a good Thanksgiving.

[@Slarson63]

wondering why you didn't seal the maple, before painting

[@EngineeredAngler]

It would have probably been a cleaner look but I like to see the texture of yhe grain through the finish. I think it looks a bit more antique...

[@Slarson63]

what you'll end up with a water logged piece of wood with no action, I'm sure the old timers used some type of wood sealer @@EngineeredAngler

[@Slarson63]

has nothing to do with a cleaner look, it has to do with sealing the wood so water does not penetrate the wood@@EngineeredAngler

[@bobjohnson7207]

No problem I sell fly's well my fly for $1000 a dozen.

[@LavalleeLures]

I’ve sworn by these for top water and it seems like I’m the only one to use one locally.

[@i1bike]

Never caught anything on a plopper. Anyone caught anything on it in a saltwater ? Greetings from Europe !

[@EngineeredAngler]

I've caught fresh water fish and I have friends who fish for inshore species with them but, I haven't tried.

[@i1bike]

@@EngineeredAngler Its easy for you floridians, you can cast a chicken leg there and catch a monster. You all return fish, because big fish is 10 times more worthy alive. Recently, one guy from here, flew to key west for a weekend and caught all predators u have there in 2 days and flew back. Here you would need couple of months or even years to catch all those species haha.

[@bonthor7515]

Lol 500-3k for a lure that eventually get stock and lost in the water stupid ridiculous people is.

[@pastmasters9591]

Fantastic!

[@EngineeredAngler]

Many thanks!

[@PlasticAssasin8]

Lol i have about 10 of those things

[@EngineeredAngler]

A retirement nest egg😀

[@PlasticAssasin8]

@@EngineeredAngler Some are pretty rough, they were used for Murry Cod fishing

[@renegade2171]

Never heard they were that expensive

[@renegade2171]

I have a 5 in frog pattern

[@renegade2171]

I have several original ones