Custom/specialty lures?

[dampeoples]

How many of you guys use custom, or generally expensive lures? I've always just pretty much used off the shelf stuff, or stuff I made myself until July 4th, when I won a contest at Custom Lures Unlimited. Heck, I just found the company the day before, signed up, and won
Anyway, my first prize was a prototype Jitterfrog, it's really a beautiful lure, or well, it was
See, I took it to the local honey hole, and caught a few fish on it, before one took it away from me! The guy who made it, and a couple of my club buddies jokingly said the same thing, they hexed me, I think. I'm pretty sure the knot broke, I went back several times since that happened, always hoping to find it on some log, but no luck.
I was so impressed with it, and it seemed to work better, that I ordered a crank from the same company. I had just lost my favorite color Wiggle Wart (still the best crank of all time!), and decided to get one made up like that (the guy doesn't have 'stock', you tell him how to paint it, and he does), there is a pic of that crank here. It's a nice lure, just got it, and fished a tournament with it last weekend, my partner took me in shallow water, but I got to throw it on a point, and I hooked a White Bass on each treble at once
As far as my personal lures, I only have pics of my spinnerbaits now, one here and here. The top is by far my favorite, it has a twin, except the skirt is white, and the paint is missing on most of it due to fish

It's got me looking around at other stuff, I recently bought one of Mattlures swimbaits, never got anything on it, but I'm new to swimbaits, and I need to get my confidence up on that I'm kind of surprised it's taken this long for me to get on the custom train, I've been fishing a long, long time, hell I run a club!

I've been looking into hand poured baits as well too, I've got some samples on the way from My Mom is becky, and from what I hear, the action is much better, and you get to deal with the people.

I've got about three Lucky Craft jerkbaits too, never caught a fish on them though, I suppose you have to USE them, the floating Rapalas have always produced well for me

Anyway, what about you guys, got any favorites? You can tell me, I promise I won't tell everyone about your killer bait