Thread: Lure Making

Living Rubber arrived. 15 foot rolls will last for years and years. Nice selection of colors. I love the yellow.

My lure improvement research has been difficult and fruitless. So I thought about things, and decided that there was one aspect of my lures that could be gotten right if I put some thought to it. That is proportions.

I looked at pictures of minnows that swim in my local lakes. Not shad, but minnows. I measured and measured the pictures, and focussed on the width of his fattest part, to his length. His proportions. Not an exacting science, but a good rule of thumb perhaps. Most of my local minnows are six times longer than they are fat. That might be a great proportion to proportion my lures.





Here he is freshly tied and too skinny for the mark to accurately measure his width, but he is close. Small to the space between the marks.







Stretched out he figures to be a bit too long. Looking at him I say he looks way too long. But is he ?




















So these are all close to one unit in width and six units long. Again, all appear to be too long. I want to take scissors and crop their tails to make them conform. Yet something this skinny should also be this long, all day everyday out in the lake.

Proportions.