Thread: 'spoon minnow'

My username is derived from my decade old discovery of making a minnow shape using hot plastic and a tablespoon.
1. heat the plastic to a thin liquid
2. dip the spoon into it, remove the spoon and let cool
3. take the film off the spoon and lie it on a hard surface
4. use a blade to cut the shape seen below
5. dip the front of the wider part into hot plastic, lifting and cooling between dips to increase body thickness.

Various shapes, some colored with Spike-It die markers



These two were made from an injection mold. The shape and tail thinness basically the same:

Note: clear/ noncolored plastic catches as many fish as colored lures - hard of soft plastic.