
Piketrapz
Welcome to piketrapz.com. Piketrapz® are handmade pike lures built for a purpose, to catch big pike and withstand the abuse. Each Piketrapz® lure is unique. Each carved from a piece of wood, individually balanced and weighted, then airbrushed and finished with several layers of epoxy. Have fun and explore the site, who knows what you will find.
Buying Lures?
One of the most frequent questions I get is “do you sell lures?” I am a small batch hobby builder producing just a few batches a year. I do not produce to sell or take orders. I do however produce more lures than I have use for myself, these lures I make available via the lure builders blog or auctions.
Currently I have taken a bit longer break to build a new cabin and workshop. This project will take a few years to complete which means that for now lure production is paused.
The lure builders blog
The lure builders blog keeps you up to date with what is going on at Piketrapz®.
Lure Projects
It starts with an idea of a bait. Once the idea grows irresistible it turns in to a bait project. During the project different shapes are developed and tested using different materials. Some projects are short and instantly successful, other are much longer and not always successful. I am not sure yet a bait project can ever be finished of if it just takes a longer pause before the evolution continues. The portfolio displays some of my bait projects past and present.
A Bigger Generic Jerk

A Bigger Generic Jerk The Generic is a very good size bait for much of the pike fishing here in the south of sweden at 16cm and 90-100g, but there are days when I need a bigger bait. During late summer and early fall season some bigger pike seem to specialize in feeding on ide that gather in the cover of vegetation. Bigger pike move in under the cover of darkness to feed, a bigger imitation bait presented at the edge of the vegetation belts can be very rewarding.
A Generic Jerkbait

A Generic Jerkbait The generic was my first attempt serious at creating my own bait. I have been carving baits for as long as I have been fishing but not really had all the tools needed to get the quality build I wanted. The idea behind this bait was more or less to use it as a platform for learning to make baits. As a learning platform I didn’t want it to have any special features that risk affecting its action so I choose very generic drop form shape.
Creating a Perch Imitation

Creating a Perch Imitation Through the years I have always caught a lot of fish on Perch patterns, naturally I have to have a Perch project. This got kickstarted when I caught a good picture of a small Perch while trying to catch roach for laminate pictures. With such a good laminate I just had to give it a try. The first Perch This one was in the same batch as the first generics, it has the same good properties and naturally suffer from very much the same bad ones.
Gobys

Gobys Gobys have invaded the Baltic sea over the last decade or so and are now very much on the menu for the Pike. When fishing the outer archipelago a Goby bait is very much a must have for me. A modified Generic Goby Having studied Goby behavior snorkeling their home waters in the summer months I decided to make the Goby a swimming stop and go bait. What I mean by this is that I want the bait to swim on its own on a steady retrieve without having to add rod action and I intend to fish it with a lot of stops on the retrieve where I want the bait to sink slowly.
Karma 15

The Karma 2015 Piketrapz Big Generics One of my goals during 2015 was to contribute to the Karma 15 charity auction. Since this timed well with the big generic project I decided to donate two BigGenerics in a color pattern i haven’t done before.
The Jack Pike

The Piketrapz Jack Anyone fishing for pike know that they are canibals. Big pike focus on the food source that yields the most profit in the nutrition vs energy spent equation. When many pike are packed in a limited area during the colder months the looser of that equation is usually the smaller jack pike. For every bait builder of pike lures creating a jack pike imitation is a must do project.
The Karma 2016 Piketrapz Jack

The Karma 2016 Piketrapz Jack This is a very special Piketrapz Jack. This one is hand carved from solid Beechwood. Hand carving a lure removes all limitations on curves and shapes imposed by machine tools. The result is a lure with a more original shape. This lure is laminated with a new photo laminate originating from a small Jack I caught in the eastern Blekinge archipelago. The Jack was released.
The Starter Lure

The Starter Lure The Starter Lure project is a bit different in the sense that this is not going to be a Piketrapz lure. One of the harder things when starting out as a bait builder is the first lure. Coming up with a first lure design that works is not easy, there are many mistakes to be made and usually involves a bit of prototyping. A shortcut to get started is to copy an existing model.
Top water lures for pike

Top water lures for pike Topwater fishing pike is both fun and challenging. Fun because the takes are often spectacular when you can see the pike coming just below the surface and you can judge by the size of the wave what is coming. Frustrating because it is so hard to have the discipline to wait until you can feel the take before setting the hook, very often you end up setting the hook when you can see the take, if you do you set the hook to early and will most likely miss the fish.