Thread: Lure Making

Here's some with the cup turned in and coated with UV resin. Your mileage may vary.
Thanks to you, I have about 17,000 of these little shiney guys. May last me for a while.

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Jungle Jim’s latest idea is to strip chenille fibers to create a flopping tail. I like this idea.






The end gets burnt to prevent further unraveling. I decided a daub of UV resin at the other end might help keep everything together. I used too much resin on the top one, but the others I used my bodkin to smear it about.

you can use a mini Zonker strip the same way.

Nice work. Those look very natural

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Great work as always.

I think that for plastic baits, a large eyeball will be best. That is a 6mm ( 1/4” ) Super Pearl eyeball. I used epoxy to secure them. Beautiful colors as they are turned about.





Visited one of the nicer springs in the region. Juniper Springs. Located within the Ocala National Forest, and owned by the National Park system. This is an old Civilian Conservation Corps project from 1935-1936. The pool itself has two, maybe three boils. The depth is about four to ten feet, with an average temperature of 72 degrees. There is a water wheel that is very old and still works. The water flows from the pool into a creek that runs a long ways Eastward and dumps into Lake George. As do so many other springs in the area.

The walking trails are all closed due to the dilapidated elevated boardwalks. They are rotten now and you can see where folks have plunged through. I imagine budgetary demands mean that money goes somewhere else. Any old who, we like this spring because it is not crowded like so many others are. We were there 10:00-12:00 and there were scatterings of people, but no where near a crowd.

We would have stayed longer had I done what I should have done. Her words. Bring food. She wanted to lay out and read her book by the water wheel. I wanted a cheeseburger. She floated around in her tube. I snorkled. We walked to the campground area and that is very nice. They have a container to place food inside so the bears don’t bust open the car windows, or god forbid enter the tents. LOL. They had a pole with a hook at each site, but I am not sure what they were for. The place was clean and they looked like they were designed to accommodate RVs and campers and such, not tents. There is another section of sites that might be for tents, but we didn’t go lookie see there.

Juniper Creek is gorgeous but no swimming allowed. People rent kayaks and float down stream. Canoes and such, too. It is absolutely the most beautiful part of Florida I have seen yet. Simply gorgeous. They claim it is chock full of gators and snakes, but I have seen none. There are mosquito fish, small slender minnows, but no fish are around. So I doubt there are gators. The water in the creek is a foot or so with small pockets to three feet deep. Crystal clear and slightly warmer than the pool above.

$12 or so each to enter, with a laid back family feel to it. I asked if anyone steals stuff while we swim, and the staff said no way. They had three or four staffers roaming about watching everything. I liked that. No alcohol, coolers subject to search. Boo Hiss.

If you live anywhere near the Ocala National Forest, you should go and visit. Best way to get cool in these the Dog Days of Summer.