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Stage 1 · The Tank

Build it. Run it. Find the flaw.

Shape a lure one component at a time, then change the retrieve and watch its action respond. Tune it for a trial, study the readout, and send the result to a fish.

Side view · nose right · click, drag, or use arrow keys to build40 cells · 11×5
Present to a fish →Right-click or shift-click erases
Live swim test
Vertical tendency—Lip force—Action—

Coarse by design — grid cells, not millimetres. It models the couplings that decide whether a bait works (mass against buoyancy, lip against righting moment, tie position against action), not the exact depth a given bait runs. What the model does and does not do.

Want a known build to modify? Compare twelve lure archetypes, then open any one here with its blocks already in place.