Coupla home made lures.

[Junglefisher]

Still a while to go till open water but my son Harrison (13) and myself knocked these up today.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/stimsoni/Lurescale1_zps847b5858.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/stimsoni/media/Lurescale1_zps847b5858.jpg.html)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/stimsoni/Luresilverscale_zpsf126e2d5.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/stimsoni/media/Luresilverscale_zpsf126e2d5.jpg.html)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/stimsoni/Lurenatural_zps90d9171b.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/stimsoni/media/Lurenatural_zps90d9171b.jpg.html)
I like the knot in this one.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/stimsoni/Scalelure_zpsb3420128.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/stimsoni/media/Scalelure_zpsb3420128.jpg.html)
This one is carved out of a piece of an old (50+ years) barn that fell down this winter.


Really happy with the scale effect especially on the silver one.

[Geezle]

Man those look good...very cool! :cool:

[Jack&7]

you might find this interesting...this guy has it figured out!

http://youtu.be/XeDDCk6zZYw

[Ken07AOVette]

I like em!

[wellpastcold]

It would be an awesome feeling to catch a fish on a lure you carved from a chunk of wood! Well done!

[CNP]

Nice. I swear I'm going to put some hooks on a select pair of my wife's ear rings and catch some rainbows:)

[Geezle]

Just curious, what do you use for the lip at the front of the lure? :)

[Junglefisher]

Just curious, what do you use for the lip at the front of the lure? :)

Lexan.
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/polycarbonate-sheet-093-inch-x-36-inch-x-72-inch/924861
Easy to cut, shape and sand and strong as.

[aulrich]

I was just sitting down to start a thread like this, I had skunkboy at KMS tools getting stuff for welding class and we saw a book, "Making wooden fishing lures"
it had to come home with us


The first body I made is for what the book calls a "chaser" a big pike spinner. the body is about 4 - 4.5 inches.

Gonna have to get an airbrush. :)

[Red Bullets]

the wooden plugs should work great at Brazeau. I made a really rough one out of a branch and eye screws and the pike loved it. Natural color too.

[Fish face]

I make home made lures alot. There is nothing better than catching a fish on home made stuff. My buddies always give me the high 5 on catching a big ol pike on a wacky looking homemade unit. Making guacamole right now, I'll run out and grab a couple and post em in a bit. Good on ya! They'll work. Tuning the lip takes a bit but i have one that has the most ridiculous trolling pattern ( big wide unpredictable arcs ) but it works great !

[bigfishen]

Lexan.
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/polycarbonate-sheet-093-inch-x-36-inch-x-72-inch/924861
Easy to cut, shape and sand and strong as.

Nice work on the lures! Just curious do you just glue into the slot in the wood?

[Rabdo]

that's really cool stuff guys. how do you attach the hook to that though?


currently too lazy to google it haha

[aulrich]

There are two ways to hang a hook(at least)

1. The OP will likely just use long eye screws
2. Thru wire, so you either start with two halves or cut a lure in half and embed a wire that has been bent into a shape that fits the lure.

The same guy who posted the paint brush handle lure has a 7 parter that goes through a carved balsa wood plug (think rapala classic minnow)
At this point I have 18 wire sets bent up and a couple of bodies carved. One thing I did read is that a beginner should focus on few 2-3 lure styles that are most useful to you and get good at them, as you get good at them you can up and down scale them.

I figure if I can get 10 out of the first 18 to swim right it will be a decent ROI on 12$ of material so far.

If guys want I have a couple of interesting PDFs on lure building PM me if you want them

I think I am liking this better than fly tying.

[jungleboy]

I was just sitting down to start a thread like this, I had skunkboy at KMS tools getting stuff for welding class and we saw a book, "Making wooden fishing lures"
it had to come home with us


The first body I made is for what the book calls a "chaser" a big pike spinner. the body is about 4 - 4.5 inches.

Gonna have to get an airbrush. :)

I bought that same book and made several lures using it as a guideline. I turned mine on the lathe though. I recently started making Jigs and spinner baits as well Very Enjoyable .http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/AlbertaPete/Jigs%20I%20have%20made/Image0544.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/user/AlbertaPete/media/Jigs%20I%20have%20made/Image0544.jpg.html)http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/AlbertaPete/Jigs%20I%20have%20made/Image0541.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/user/AlbertaPete/media/Jigs%20I%20have%20made/Image0541.jpg.html)http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/AlbertaPete/Jigs%20I%20have%20made/IMG_11541.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/user/AlbertaPete/media/Jigs%20I%20have%20made/IMG_11541.jpg.html)

[iliketrout]

Wow. I feel good about myself if I paint a jig or tie on some flashabou. This brings it to a whole different level. Nice work everyone!

[aulrich]

Then I won't say anything about hand poured plastic tails or cast foam plugs.

:)

This stuff is endless