Thread: Spoon Minnow mold

An incredible lure design I discovered last week involves using a long serving spoon as a mold.
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These are pictures of the same lure poured from the front of a tilted spoon (very thin tail), ending with a puddle near the handle. After the head cooled a little I added one more drop to the head to increase thickness.
The middle picture is the first trim with scissors; the bottom the last trim.

Tip: I also use a drop of super glue to toughen the head where the nose hook enters. The bait will stay on much longer after many fish and casts.

The action is phenomenal ! First time out, the lure caught close to 40 yellow perch, 15 bluegill and a few crappie and pickerel. (The crappie were in deeper water and I stayed out of the wind in a shallow wind protected area). The following day, I tandem rigged the spoon minnow with a 1/16 oz. jig on bottom and small polamar rigged Octopus hook 8" above it and caught many crappie doubles, if not one fish or the other lure on consecutive casts.

It is the perfect finesse/ dropshot/ light jig bait.

Also, last night I cut the handle off a spoon, laid it on thick aluminum foil, brought the aluminum upwards to form sides and poured a 4" minnow. Imagine the shape from the rounded thicker end to the tapered end of the handle as the template - thick to very thin. Same great action with the slowest retrieve possible.

Tom Mann's Shadow and a reaper are similar in concept, but this design is so much better.