Lure Making

[Spoonminnow]

One thing you might want to consider to get him started with plastics is making hybrid lures. I'm always playing around with lures to see if some parts go better with other parts. All you need is a candle, some scissors and an imagination to melt the ends of two different parts and fuse them together.

Lurecraft is about understanding,through experience, the range of lure actions that entice or provoke a fish to strike - any predator fish. You and he will see that some tail actions are superior to others and that fish activity levels determine how many.

Lure designers have been experimenting for years and made money coming out with new and unique lures they claim are the next best thing, next to the invention of the barbed hook. But making and using my own lures put that into perspective the first time I caught fish on my own creations. I got the bait monkey off my back permanently and the proof of that was not buying any lures 50 % off at my local tackle shop on black Friday. My basement is the graveyard for over a thousand lures of different types, many of which I'll never use in my life time.