I make all my baits & love it. It's a lot of fun.
Ketchn, Skiptomylu, Snake River, and all my friends and Pastor Bernard Harris, I have had fun making panfish lures for over sixty years now. This is the time for me to quit making them except for myself. I started lure making when I was around fifteen years old. I would take a hammer and beat split shot weights around a hook into a spoon style shape and then take a drill and put a tiny hole in them to attach my line. Jack Manda, from Manda's bait shop on the Portage Lakes got me introduced to lure making by showing me how to solder up "Pinmins." Years later an individual named Skiptomylu on crappie dot com showed me how to make and tie all types of hair jigs. Then an individual named Snake River on crappie dot com got me making my own soft plastic lures for Crappie and White Bass. This hobby has been a lot of fun. check out the DIY section on Crappie dot com and just perhaps one of you reading this might want to start making your own fishing lures. There is nothing so rewarding as catching a fish on something you made yourself. It has been fun. Thanks to all my friends here for your encouraging words.
Mike
Aquatic Species Removal Engineer.
May God be with you. Keep CALM and STAY ANCHORED with your faith.
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I make all my baits & love it. It's a lot of fun.
BigDawgg LIKED above postshipahoy41 thanked you for this post
I can’t imagine trying to squeeze in making jigs to sell. Keeping busy with everything else and barely have time to make myself jigheads and plastics. Enjoy your time you deserve it.
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I enjoyed sharing with you Mike how to make plastics over the years it has been fun chatting with you I’ve also learned a few tricks from you in the past few years thanks for being a friend .
Ship, thank you for all I learned with your posts, I too have cut back to just my jigs and a few for close friends. I am doing some now cause I know the kids derby's are coming up and I still enjoy seeing the kids get free stuff. Please post once in a while.
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Aquatic Species Removal Engineer.
May God be with you. Keep CALM and STAY ANCHORED with your faith.
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Don't quit completely Mike....Keep it up. Its good to keep working your hands and keep your mind alert. Make some for you, make some for the kids at Church, make some for friends and neighbors. You enjoy it, its fun, its rewarding and it will give you something to do on days when your not able to go to the lake, or its too hot out, or raining....kick back and continue your hobby. Its good for Ya!
I have spent most my life fishing........the rest I wasted.
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Never Stop..Never Quit!!!
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John 3:16
Blessed to have as many friends as fingers on your hand is a blessing!!!
"Gone fish'n not wish'n"
In God We Trust.
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87 Years Young..Korean Veteran....
Knee Replacement Twice..
NEVER STOP...
Sent from my SM-J337A using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app
John 3:16
Blessed to have as many friends as fingers on your hand is a blessing!!!
"Gone fish'n not wish'n"
In God We Trust.
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Aquatic Species Removal Engineer.
May God be with you. Keep CALM and STAY ANCHORED with your faith.
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