homemade fishing lures

[mainbutter]

Just completed my first wooden lure ever! Carved from basswood, through wiring for the hook anchors and line ties, painted with an airbrush, only tools for shaping were sandpaper, a hand saw, and a dremel.



I'm pretty happy with it!

I've already become addicted to making fishing lures, I even went out and picked up a band saw today, boy does that cut down on the time to cut wood.. I already finished shaping a 4 jointed swimbait today. It'll be completed in a few days I hope!

[joepythons]

Now see if it fools the fish

[guambomb832]

What do you fish for?Bass?Bottom Dwellers? Most likely bass since that looks like a top water bait or spinner bait in the making.

[mainbutter]

This lure is for targeting pike, bass, and perhaps early season musky.

[771subliminal]

it looks good, how does it swim thats the important part.

[mainbutter]

The action for a first-time wood lure is better than I expected.. I was aiming for anything better than the lure exploding into 1000 splinters as soon it hit the water lol..

I'm going to cheat and put a plastic lip on the lure to give it a wider wobble, right now the first two joint's dont swim as much as I was hoping, but the tail has a nice tight oscillation.

I'm already working on another wooden lure, which if things go as planned should get a very sexy slow S-shaped swimming action.

[Neal]

Hope you coated, so it doesn't absorb all the water.

[mainbutter]

it has a base coat and top coat of slightly thinned devcon 2 ton epoxy

[Neal]

Yep, you're good then. Go fishing and let us know how it works.

[DM1975]

Nice. I like it alot. I think I could get into doing that too, but I only really fish for flathead catfish, but I guess I could make some luers for catching the bluegill bait I use.