Here’s the final real-life product after injection molding and testing for daily fishing as a soft plastic staple bait. The bait performed best with a weedless rig and a bullet weight for optimal action, mimicking the giant water bug in its natural habitat while hunting for prey.
Below are more renders featuring the ribbed flexible body, bait details, and colorways. As well as a real-life example of the resin cast with proper vents for injection molding and a rendering of an aluminum CNC cast for the bait.
Below are the design drawings that led to the final design of the bait. The green highlighted drawings feature convergent ideations that led to the final bait design, whereas the other drawings feature more divergent ideations exploring different beetles and centipedes as untapped bass bait products.
