Dynamite Salt Water Lures: Make Your Own for 75 Cents or Less Each with These Easy Steps - 0 views
started by Alfred Cook on 13 Apr 12
started by Alfred Cook on 13 Apr 12
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Now I'm about as handy for an elephant trying to crochet although wearing mittens. But the craft of lure making can be an amazingly simple one. Besides piquing my attraction and developing some first rate manual skills, it really is an enjoyable experience and kept me using trouble on many a cold, rainy weekend right after they weren't bitin' anyway. Now an "old hand" with lure making, if I'm able to produce fish-catching salt mineral water lures, believe me, it is possible to too.
Two of the easiest and most practical lures to make and use are spoons and top water plugs. Cheapskate i can be, I've learned to produce highly effective spoons together with plugs that fish slam without hesitation using materials available for free or at cost effective. My arsenal of tackle cost me less than the price of a big lunch. Here's how:
By far the best lures to fabricate are spoons.
One plain-pattern stainless steel tablespoon will make several lures. Start by with a couple old ones from some sort of thrift store. (As i told you I had been cheap)
o Break heli-copter flight handle where it joins the bowl of the spoon. Hold or clamp straight down the bowl and work the handle vertical a few times - it'll snap right off.
o Sand the rough edges smooth to reduce burrs and snags. Drill an eight " diameter hole through both ends in the bowl.
o Attach several 4 treble hook with a stainless steel split ring purchased at hardware, craft or tempt and tackle shops. Terminal tackle is attached to the other end of the spoon bowl using an additional split ring and corrosion-resistant snap swivel.
o For added weight use a barrel sinker and separate shot about 30 inches above the spoon. That's the idea. Sizes vary from tiny sugar spoons to cooking utensil ware if you're when bigger game. All sizes been employed by for me.
About 30 yards behind the boat the ocean exploded as a geyser with water erupted skyward. An 18" long Tuna twirled and somersaulted inside air as if performing for any circus before crashing back up the briny deep : with my tablespoon lure locked in its jaws.
I was happier than a set of twins at Christmas. I landed that a person and six more with its warm-to-the-touch brethren with that drizzle-chilled morning off the Pacific coast of South america. Small Tuna are excitement to catch as they'll breach a trolled top-water lure with gusto, performing their incredible acrobatics to get to your lure. Try it. You'll see.
The handle with the spoon also makes an effective top-water lure so the user gets double service from one original piece of hardware. Two for the price of one, I like which.
o Drill an eighth-inch hole with the wide end of the handle on the tip to attach ones split ring. This may be the terminal tackle end.
o The narrower end can have the shank of this hook protruding beyond it around three quarters of an inch. The eye of this hook will lie on the underside of the handle where it can also be attached by soldering, or maybe a stud inserted through your handle and hook attention to secure it.
o Sometimes I tie trailing "hair" made of nylon rope fibers on the hook shank, wrapping the idea on fly/tying style with fine cotton thread. White-colored or red streamer tails are generally my preferred colors. Often I fish the "jig" simple by trolling it twenty-five ft. or so behind the boat. It rides high but the rotation and flash that produces force Sierra, Snapper and Wahoo or even other predator fish to charge it being a fleeing baitfish.
Sharp pain shot through my hands as being the line tightened around these. Slowly, I was being pulled down towards the surface of the deep blue choppy Pacific by way of the freight train that had caught the finish of my line. This was a battle I would lose. Mercifully, the pressure eased slightly - enough for me to start to straighten up. This line around my hands now tinged with crimson, I began hauling within whatever danced below. Several minutes later, a sleek, yellow-spotted Sierra darted to and fro two feet below the surface flashing silver in this sunlight. Its last few moments were spent in a single last tremendous surge for final freedom. The 40 pound test mono barely held and it took the two of us, me using the sections and my partner getting the thrashing tail, to sling the snapping, writhing predator into the boat.
Another few minutes passed as we extracted my 5-inch long, spoon-handle-fabricated lure from your gaping jaws lined through an impressive row of razor sharp teeth. Eleven more joined it before I had to stop. My hands were beginning to look like hamburger. Was the blood in the boat from the species of fish or me? My two fishing companions looked closely within my home-fabricated lure now. They'd seen nothing to my fourteen fish. Their snickers disappeared. "Can you make one for us? " "Sure thing, as soon as we get back. " I smiled all the way home - and next some.
Top Water Attaches
An old broom handle will make eight or nine superior plugs 5 inches longer.
o Saw them off of to length, then drill an eighth inch diameter hole through the center the length of the wooden blank. You'll need a seven inch long piece of heavy wire to run through the length of the plug. A dismantled wire cover hanger snipped off to help length makes through-wire for a half dozen plugs, depending on their length.
o The wire is bent into a closed loop front and back to attach terminal tackle along with the rear hook. Taper the plug's front end to 45 degrees, use brass or non-corroding screw eyes to attach salt water treble hooks below and behind the body.
o Add plastic doll eyes for a more realistic look. Eyes are offered at craft supply stores. The solid, molded ones come in a variety of sizes and last for good.
o Paint with acrylics. Follow the commonest color schemes of commercial plugs or experiment with your personal. A fluorescent orange body top water plug using bulging white / black eyes and a streamer of green hair for the rear treble hook nearly brought me to tears one trip. The fish just wouldn't leave the idea alone!
Costs? Let's see: a length of broom overcome - free, wire coat hanger - free, doll's vision a nickel each, 8 ounce can involving acrylic paint - one dollar seventy-five cents, but one can will paint many lures. Usually two colors are used. Terminal tackle about 26 cents per lure : tops. The whole thing totals out at as few as 70 cents each trick when I'm spending big. Spoons might run me 20 cents or less - just the asking price of the terminal tackle together with my labor of love. You could spend a little more or little less.
Save a lot of money, have fun and get more fish by making your salt water lures. Lure making can soon change from a pastime into a profitable endeavor if you happen to hit on a hot combination and start making them for your friends. If you have a child or grandchild who fishes, teaching them can add to the irresistible allure of the sport. A number of internet and offline publications are available to deepen your lure-making knowledge and skills. Don't cry if you happen to lose a lure, you can easily fabricate its twin. Besides, by making your own lures, for the price of 1 commercial lure you can finance the fabrication of literally dozens of your family. Let me know how you will make out. I've just finished an alternative batch I'm itching to try out. See you later, I've ended up fishin'.
REFERENCE:
http://www.articlemayhem.com/Art/486972/37/Fishing-A-Starter-s-Guide.html
http://www.articlemonkeys.com/Fishing-A-Starter-s-Guide-375731.html
http://www.articlerich.com/Article/Fishing---A-First-timer--s-Guide/1986994