Back home and it's time to paint the blades. The idea is to replicate a Mepps #5 red and white without getting too cute and violating any copyright or patent laws. Don't know if that's a consideration but figure the Mepps has caught a whole lot more fish than a Picasso so I best be careful.
The idea is to head to our closest drug store with a blade in hand - I bought a bunch of white ones - and match up the Mepps red with an appropriate nail polish. Truth is I figure Mepps tried their best to duplicate the color of fish blood. Seems fish like an easy meal and will go for the wounded figuring they'd be easier to catch. I don't know that for fact but then I know little for fact and somehow have managed to survive. Call ignorance and imagined truth my guiding principles of life.
My first lure paintings were done with tape and spray paint. Not perfect but solidly okay. Then one day I came upon a one buck rack of closeout nail polish and the lightbulb lit. Looked like paint, was durable in water (even said so on the rack) and best of all, had a paint brush right in the bottle. I bought a half dozen. Turned out most offended me but not so the one called Ruby Pumps. Wow! A rich red with tiny sparkly flecks, three coats sure did look pretty on a spinner blade. Even caught fish. What more could an outdoorsman want?
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