Thread: Lure Making

Be safe in the hurricane.

Originally Posted by slowhand

Ya'll still feeding the out of town power crews when they roll in?

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Spent the day yesterday creating menus.

Breakfast Thursday will be scrambled eggs, grits, bacon, hash browns, biscuit, OJ, coffee, and water. As they finish and go to leave they will be handed a deli sandwich with pickle spear and assorted chips. Dinner will be fried fish, cheese grits, cole slaw, baked beans, and hush puppies.

We are scheduled to feed them Friday, Saturday and Sunday, too. Obviously if it is bad we will be extending our services. Some really nice dinners with brisket, pulled pork, fried chicken, etc.

Here I made a complete lure using a plastic bait.






Take a finicky fish to snub his nose at that morsel. LOL

Can’t see them in the picture, but it has green insect eyes that produce a glow like effect. I attached sequins with epoxy, then added some UV resin to fill the cup, and set in the Sun to cure.







Herring Head. Both of these are quarter ounce heads, and both have a UV light shining near them. Hard to photograph the eyes and the head showing off each feature, but in hand they come together nicely.













I would have preferred a little more pop from the base layer, but the crinkle did nicely. They will give me plenty of heads to keep busy with.



Along with the 1/10th ounce under spin heads I did up in a more natural look.








I am also looking into articulated flies, and see where those techniques can be applied to jigs.



Jay Fair used lead lines to get his flies some depth, with jigs there is no need to do that. Besides my local lakes are shallow affairs, with 6 feet being the deepest they get. Large salad bowls. I want to run some jigs about four or five feet deep.


I always troll with the wind to my back, but read where trolling cross wind gives the fish a better look at the bait’s profile. Also, a little ripple on the surface serves to calm a weary fish. Hmmmmmm

I am working on filling MY jig boxes. Everyone says that you want several of each style you plan to fish with. Usually I make one of this and one of that and end up with a pile of individuals. So I am trying tobe like everyone else and so I am making everything in fours. I did botch one though, you might be able to spot it.












I still have other color combinations in this style to fashion up. Again, these are for trolling operations where having the action of the mareaboo comes in handy.

If I ever made only one of something. That was the one the fish wanted. And as luck would have it that is the one that I would lose or damaged beyond fishability.

Ostrich feathering for tail and legs.

Hah…..my Mod buttons do work.

Woke up early, getting things ready for a day of fishing. Waiting on wife. Then she says she is too sick to go afterall. She had been fighting a cold of some kind. Non Covid. So off I go. Landed the one fish that bit.




Smallish…… but good enough to enter me into the Bobby Garland Prize Contest.


I kind of knew that there would be slim pickings. Water was at 87 degrees and the lake is less than six feet deep. I did get to do some testing.

The wobbler thingie doesn’t wobble at the speeds I troll. Boo Hiss. I should have guessed that, but had watched videos showing the thing moving through the water, and everything seemed fine. I had way way too many lures with me. Left my glasses in the truck, too. I was able to tie a few knots anyways.

There were three others out fishing, and they were dipping live baits in the grass and lilly pads. That lake just doesn’t produce many fish. I mean it is chock full, but they hide. Two years ago this time of year I was getting a limit of 25 fish in less than an hour. That was going on for a month and a half and there were hundreds of boats. They may have caught them all. I guess that is possible.

Tried to mail off some jigs Saturday but……two post offices were closed. I will have to take a lunch break and go and stand in line. Always a hassle to mail stuff. Always.


Still studying and have been looking at articulated flies and tube flies.