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Ive decided to give a try at making my own lures I carved out a basic shaped crank bait today out of apple wood seems how I have 4 apple trees. I have plenty of wood. Any way ive got it carved and painted and a bill for it to dive. I used an old CD case to cut the bill from seemed to be a good thick plastic. Ive got the hooks now I just have yo figure out what to use to put the eyelets to watch the hooks and to tie onto. What is a good item to use? I was thinking of just clipping strait shank hooks and using one of them for the eye to tie onto. Any ideas? Reasoning behind making my own Is just because I feel the need to catch a fish on somthing I made and to see if I can do it.so far it floats up right like it should so im happy about that. And because I was limited to the nail polish my wife had laying around I went with an as close as I could get to a perch patern. Not perfect but its my first try. Ill post pics of what it looks like so far..
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Use screw-eyes for hook and line attachments. They're inexpensive, and come in any size.
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That sounds cool Jeremy. Look forward to the pix. Apple's a pretty hard wood - will it float well enough? Guess I don't know what kind of wood "regular" cranks are carved from. Been thinking on tinkering with some wine corks.
Made some spinners from bottle caps. Perch patterns are always a good way to go!
You could check you-tube, seen a lot of home-made craft baits there. I have a number of crafting catalogs, and they are full of all kinds of parts, from bills, to screw eyes, etc. But your CD case sounds interesting. Maybe actually cutting an old CD - get a bit of flash at that?
I got cheap nailpolish from a dollar store for spinner blades. Might not be "UV" but - a few spots and stripes - and sparkle. Fish don't seem to mind.
Lemme know if you want some catalog numbers.
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Sorry I havnt gotten any pics on here yet.. It floats great I went and gave it a test cast on the river just.to.see how it.swam and floated. It has a very wide wobble but.tracks where I want it.. And floats great wait didnt I already say that.? It also casts a flipin mile. I ended up using strait bank hooks closed off the curve part and then coated then in gorilla glue and tapped them into place. They works great. As for hooks I put a single for the front hook and I tied two singles together for a tail hook. I atatched them with pink fluoro line. It totally looks home made but it should work it does everything rigby and bass are not very picky..
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pictures as promised they will go in this order how it started to finished... dont poke me to hard about how terrible it looks it was my first one ever....
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The Portneuf Stinger? Peace Bee? Jeremy Jerker? Lavalicious?
Pretty cool. Don't forget to share the picture of the fish you catch.
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That's pretty cool. I like that you're going totally from scratch making even the bill from household materials. You're more adventurous than I am, I've never tried to make hard baits.
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Kudos to you for making a lure from the stick up!
It looks good. I am sure that you will catch some nice fish on it.
It may be harder than tying a fly, but you will be amazed at how much fun it is to catch a fish on a lure that you made.
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I like the jeremy jerker, looks pretty cool man lol[laugh][laugh]
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