Ben Fougere
Active Member
A 3D printe would work for making your own plugs. We have a few lures made by Old Goat Lures that are made on a 3D printer and they work amazing.
Ben Fougere
Active Member
We made wiggle corkies to catch kokanee last year and they worked amazing. Use a Macks Lure wiggle bill and a corky. place a bead between the bill and corky to prevent the bill from wrecking the corky. I also use a bead between the hook and corky.
I had a few pictures, but they are on my old computer and it's at the computer shop right now. Here's a link to using wiggle corkies.
I had a few pictures, but they are on my old computer and it's at the computer shop right now. Here's a link to using wiggle corkies.
Stizzla
Crew Member
Bud, bud light and bud light lime. You must have shares!
You have to make sure you buy the “glow” bottles!
cracked_ribs
Well-Known Member
I have nothing to add really; growing up we fished homemade lures like this one:
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Mainly I just wanted to say how many cool posts this thread has. Some of you guys are true artists.
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Mainly I just wanted to say how many cool posts this thread has. Some of you guys are true artists.
ChilliSpoons
Well-Known Member
I have nothing to add really; growing up we fished homemade lures like this one:
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Mainly I just wanted to say how many cool posts this thread has. Some of you guys are true artists.
Very Cool. How are they made?
cracked_ribs
Well-Known Member
They're just lead poured into a mould my dad carved and then had cast at a foundry with a friend of his back around 1970. The moulds have a pair of locator pins around which I'd wrap a stainless steel wire to make the end loops. We made maybe a hundred at a time, and then spray painted them white and decorated them with holographic tape and magic markers. Or, when money was good, we had a batch nickel plated.
We used to cast them at the work bench under my back deck when I was a kid, heating up the lead on a Coleman stove. It was the only kind of fishing we ever did: casting and jigging these things from either a 12' springbok or, later, a 15 Hourston.
I'll find one of the larger ones; they were his second design and much more refined. They were better for halibut, mainly just on account of the weight.
We used to cast them at the work bench under my back deck when I was a kid, heating up the lead on a Coleman stove. It was the only kind of fishing we ever did: casting and jigging these things from either a 12' springbok or, later, a 15 Hourston.
I'll find one of the larger ones; they were his second design and much more refined. They were better for halibut, mainly just on account of the weight.
Rum Buddies
Well-Known Member
I have been making fishing tackle since I was 13. I even played my hand at fly tying, but my younger brother was way better at it than me...as we were always in a competition, I moved into other areas that better suited me and what I could accomplish.
I wanted to start this tread in order to develop a dialog of sorts with other like minded members that really enjoy making and catching fish on their very own creations. Even modifications etc. to existing tackle is cool too.
What have you been up to? I will share a few things that I do, and that I have recently been playing with, but by no means is this thread at all about me, so please chime in at any time and share your passion, thoughts, ideas and feedback.
serious question - but has any of that silly stuff caught fish before?
