Author Topic: How many make your own baits? (Read 922 times)

Skipper · « **on:** October 09, 2003, 06:37:58 AM »

I dabble a little at making spinnerbaits. Mostly design what I want, then I get a friend of mine who builds them to make them for me. Its fun to do in the winter, and winter's coming.

Skipper

T/C nimrod · « **Reply #1 on:** October 09, 2003, 07:49:42 AM »

I'm in. Mostly lead based lures - jigs. 1/100 ounce up to 3/4 oz. jigs. Hair and rubber body styles. Spinnerbaits - 1/4 oz to 1/2 oz offerings. dabbling with crankbaits now, but they are too neat to fish with - they make good accent pieces for the mounts.

1911crazy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 09, 2003, 04:01:40 PM »

I tried spinnerbaits but its tough to bend the wire right or maybe it was too thick. I just got a fly tying kit. And while on vacation at an Antique shop I found those dart jigs for ice fishing about 50 of them for $3 some need retying of the hair bucktail on them so its my first tying job soon.
BigBill

ShootnStr8 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2003, 02:40:37 AM »

Like TC Nimrod I've worked mostly with jigs.

As a boy, however, I would transform mom's old jewelry and other pieces of shiny metal into lures. While some of those inventions produced a few fish, most migrated from the tackle box to the trashcan.

Blessings!

ShootnStr8

williamlayton · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2003, 05:07:46 AM »

i have made lures for fishing for trout, redfish, and flounder. used stainless wire, plastic from hobby shops, deer fur, redesigned floats and corks. seems they work only when i can find fish-then jest about anything works. ohhh-welll.
blessings

vytautas · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2003, 10:02:56 PM »

greetings guys

I am new here, so mostly read your thoughts. I make crankbaits. What can I say - it is very exciting to catsh a fish on lure, that is designed and made by yourself!!!

check my website :wink:

P.S. sorry for my english - I'm in Lithuania, EU

Lawdog · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2003, 11:16:10 AM »

I make my own spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, top water wood poppers and wood prop baits. My son is the artist in the family and does all the painting of the wood baits. A great way to pass those long winter evenings. What I would like to learn is how to make plastic baits. Looks to be complicated to me keeping track of all those colors and scents used. Lawdog

williamlayton · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2003, 03:12:09 AM »

the components for making soft plastics can be purchased alibieght(sp-as usual) the formulations to get what you want are tough. i tried without success to do this and gave up--jest couldn't get it done.
the most sucess was with hard plastic beads--lotta color choice--from tha hobby shops. salt water does not seem--at least to me--to be a platform in which attractments (smell) play a magic part of tha process. boy am i gonna get some heat on this but it is my thought(story) an i stickin to it.
blessings

Skipper · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2003, 04:40:30 PM »

That would be neat to figure out how to make your own soft plastics. I've always wondered if they could be melted down somehow and recycled. Every trip, I come home with a floor full of beat up worms, tubes, trailers, etc.

Skipper

williamlayton · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2003, 11:41:31 PM »

skipper-
as ya probable have figured out by now, i'm pretty much a saltwater guy-mainly cause i like to wade an tha weather is warm enough down here to allow that almost all tha time.
i got to admit i was not very good at makin those softtails-made molds,ect. found i culd buy what i wanted bout as cheep. it was a lotta hassle fer me--i'm not to much of that kinda guy with either the skills or the desire to obtain those skills to do it well. but it was kinda fun-at least i learned my limitations.
the main problem was coming up with the right mixture to give me the softness i was lookin for without it coming apart. the folks that make em have it already figured out.
anyway, i had the best luck with tha hobbyshop beads an stailess wire--i had some real purty ones-had? well i still got em-mainly cause tha fish didn't want em. anywho-did have some luck with a few of those. i'm thinkin that my taste in design runs to picasso and tha fish doan go that way. my colors come out of a blue haze phase o' my life-well we won't digress to there.
blessings