Making your own spoon lures and light jigs
Today remembered what I used to do in making fishing lures that i could not afford as a kid.
Used to "Borrow" spoons from our kitchen and used my fathers tools to make these jiggers.
As we are having a bulk rubbish event in the burb, a few spoons were being sacrificed by the one I have to listen to.
A little light went on and the memory files flashed images implanted a great many years .
So 4 spoons, Stailess steel, were resqued from the ever passing hordes of scavengers eying the massive piles of throw away items, and a little manufacturing went on.
Bought some laser tape at a $2 store a while ago and that went on the outside.
Tried the spoons in the pool and they work just as well all therse years ago!
There is nothing as satisfying as catching a good fish on a lure you made yourself.
These are just about indestructable and very easily remade at almost no cost at all.
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Uluabuster
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Good stuff! Make sure you
Good stuff! Make sure you snare a fish or two on them and post the pics here!
Faulkner Family
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they look almost
they look almost proffesional.
as far as jigs go, for light weight ones try a good heavy bread and butter knofe. i have seen them in the past
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Carry
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knives
Thats what i used to use stainless bread and butter knives i can still hear mum yelling at me for stealing all her knives and dad as well for snapping all his drill bits hahahahaha
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chris raff
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Good job ...Glastro
We made some using the spoon handle end ,they done well on tailor...how do you find the hook ups on the double single hooks vs treble ...bit of a buggar dehooking trebles sometimes to release fish...also mate, we just used small screwdrivers to open and load rings was difficult ...did you use a specific tool I presume they must be available , but my local tackle didn't know
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Faulkner Family
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for opening the split rings
for opening the split rings you can buy split ring pliers. they make it easy and no slipping the screwdriver into your fingers either
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chris raff
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ahha ...that makes sense
I just realised, the pliers I was looking at being splitring pliers were actually circlip pliers ....had me scratching my head lol...cheers
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grantarctic1
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Nice job
Nice job Bert, to make your own gear and fix things is so rewarding.
Here is a link i found earlier this year , check it out there are a few more like it too if ya look .
http://www.pensacolafishingforum.com/f33/homemade-knife-jigs-105901/
Cheers Grant