These are just a few of the lures that have caught hundreds of fish:

including this white sucker:

and this 7# catfish

white perch

yellow perch

decent crappie

bass

sunfish

chain pickerel

Some days you can catch 4 species in on lake. Many shapes do well:
wacky mini-stick:

curl tails:

swimbaits:

cone tails:

straight thin tails:

 

Nice post!!

Thanks
Nice thing is being able to make most of the lu res shown - rigged on light jigs.

This one I designed after watching a video:
https://imgur.com/653KwKy

The shape and action should get at least a few strikes.

Love me some soft plastics and a sickle hook jighead. Can't remember the last time we bought minnows for Crappie. I'm partial to the Bobby Garland straight tail or Strike King Slab Slanger.

Great looking baits. I am a huge fan of plastics. Catch fish and don’t make you feel like jumping in the lake to retrieve if snagged!

With the prices of hard baits going up, soft plastics are the way to go and still cover water though slower (and most times more effectively).
A gal. jug of plastisol can produce 1000 or more lures for less than a few cents each. Molds last forever and single-pour molds are very cheap on Ebay.
 
Now that I've found how to attach parts of two lures together using a candle flame, new lure shapes/sizes/designs/actions are unlimited!
I.E. a French Fry plastic stick segment attached to the tail of a hand-poured stick:

Catches everything!
The lure at the beginning of the post is similar except the tail was from a hand-poured mini-stick.

Gotta love making your own. Got about 10 molds now even making my own out of silicone. So far my best would be a craw pattern getting a lot of different species. Thanks for sharing.

Here’s the musky lure I did out of silicone mold. Plus the craw that works.

Bet the action is great!
Made a plaster mold of a craw similar to yours:

 
using this lure:

The action is no different than the original,