Home Made Lures, show us a photo of yours!

Had a bit of spare time today, and decided to make a few lures to toss about up north soon. Got a half inch bit of scrap copper, two spit rings, a treble and some white heat shrink. Fill the copper tube with what ever you want to get the weight you would like.  I know im not the only one doing this, so if you have made some lures..post up your pic here, and tell us how you did it..cheers  Here is some pics of my orange warrior!


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looks pretty good mate. hope

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:05

looks pretty good mate.

hope it gets you something big it'll make it even better knowing you made the lure.

cheers danno

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looks good Wade, hope to

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:39

looks good Wade, hope to start making a few myself soon

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cant remember who but

Thu, 2010-03-04 23:12

cant remember who but someone on here had soem luck on dollies from his home made lure(from broome stick) when he was on an oil rig. hopefully you have same luck with that fine lookin lure:D

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Here is one of the lures I made as part of a project

Fri, 2010-03-05 06:31

I was working on last year.
I will have to get around to finishing it off soon.

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Nice Lures IN your design

Fri, 2010-03-05 07:40

Nice Lures

IN your design Colin what would happpen if there were metal fatigue? or is there like some sort of wire tracing in the tube?

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Not sure Diehard It hasn't been an issue yet

Fri, 2010-03-05 09:43

I had considered putting a wire trace through the centre, but as they only cost about a dollar to make, I wasn't too fussed.

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Love

Fri, 2010-03-05 10:23

Love the lure Col. What does the tribal drawings represent?

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Lol Wade I would love to say it was symbolic or especially

Fri, 2010-03-05 12:01

designed to represent a frightened bait fish. But the truth is the nail polish ran on me when I hung the lure up to dry.

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Ha ha

Fri, 2010-03-05 12:32

Lol, good to hear the truth.

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Home made "Skelator" (Hehehe)

Fri, 2010-03-05 10:43

 

Basically sliced B2 Lumo squids that have seen better days (recycling at its best) threaded over a piece of 100lb 7 strand wire and intersperced with red beads as spacers. Terminal gear is usually a single gama octopus or any other recycled hook.

Works well at night if you hold the lure under the deck lights to soak up some lumenescence before dropping down.

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Nice work

Fri, 2010-03-05 12:34

Nice work! Recycling at its best. How could a fish resist a Kebab like that.

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home made poppers

Fri, 2010-03-05 19:07

I made a heap of poppers/surface lures from a broom handle and some wire. I have tested them out and they cast well and the cup faced ones bloop good too!

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hmmm followed steps but couldn't get pic up, oh well I tried!

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Jigs

Thu, 2010-05-27 00:25

Here's a few jigs and jigheads I tied up tonight for a trip to Shark Bay in a few weeks. those lead eyes are 1/8 oz so will throw 25-30m on bream gear quite easily.

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They

Thu, 2010-05-27 06:11

They look smicko mate! Have you fished these jigs before?

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I notice noone has had a go

Thu, 2010-05-27 06:27

I notice noone has had a go at making a minnow bibbed lure, i have tried and after much shaping and playing with the bib i gave up, the bastard never swam straight!

Broom handle poppers are beaut, especially if you can get the thick handles, i caught plenty of queenfish and trevs on my cheap home made jobbies when i couldn't afford to buy lures, got a 9.5kg queenie on one too :)

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Jigs...

Thu, 2010-05-27 10:49

Yeah Wade been using them for years, comes from a previous addiction to fly fishing and being too tight to pay $10 a fly. And yes they're deadly too.

I spent a hundred bucks or so on materials about 15 years ago and it's still going. The only thing I ever buy is hooks and the lead eyes.

 

As to poppers, a couple of corks slit down the middle and taped to single strand wire with a solid ring at either end does the job. A ball or bean sinker can be added to the tail end for casting weight. White sparkys tape is the go. Great for shallow water bluebone and don't hurt too much when they take them home with them.

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LOL

Thu, 2010-05-27 18:44

you guys heard of Tackle shops ??   Laughing

They are wonderful places that sell Good Lures  Wink

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To lots of suckers

Thu, 2010-05-27 20:00

Being able to make lures and catch good fish on them is a buzz crazydhufish.

Plenty still get bought from tackle shops but sometimes you have to make your own to get what you really want.

Besides who cares if your 50c lure/jig gets taxed. Much easier on the wallet than the $6-10 tackle shop version.

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Fools

Thu, 2010-05-27 19:50

 

 

"a fool and his money are easily parted"

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remember seeing an old

Sat, 2010-06-19 20:33

remember seeing an old shifter with assist hooked added used as a jig back home for king fish. did the job nicely.

 

Have made a few little surface poppers that are yet to be tested. Also make all my own floats that i add swivels to and colour up with flouro paint and some clear glass enamel.

I would love to get into making some serious poppers, recon they would be great fun.

Just need to find a mini lathe that i could set up inside.

 

Will try find some pics.