Thursday 21 February 2013

How To Make A Simple Wooden Lure




I padded off down to the lake this afternoon to try out the paint brush handle before the water had a chance to freeze up again. I briefly had the place to myself and threw the new lure without my usual restraint, it flew like a rocket. The hardwood and rear weights kept it on course enabling me to place it rather than hurl it and hope for the best. With the rod tip lowered and a steady jerk on the retrieve I could keep it subsurface gliding and bucking with its silver sides flashing.  I slowed my retrieve and added long pauses so it sank to the bottom and kept some depth. In among the jerks I felt the rumble of a fish but it had gone after putting a couple of bends in the rod. I cast again and again while trying to remember the sequence of tugs and pauses that had triggered the attack. In the end I contented myself with the thought that it would have all been too much to catch a pike on the lure’s first outing, especially in the middle of winter: it didn't stop me vainly casting along the same stretch of water.

When the Essex boys turned up I switched to a lighter drop shot rig and a soft plastic fearing the water would quickly be covered by a web of carp lines.  Moving out of the way while they set up I threw jellies along the reeds. One of the lads asked if I had any old lures going spare so he could do a bit of spinning while waiting on his bait alarm.  I fished out a jig head with a soft plastic lure, but he didn’t seem that impressed so I gave him a Phox Minnow that I had managed to spray up in the style of a multi coloured sock. Although I give away lures a little too regularly I still get that nervous feeling that comes from handing over my work to be judged by someone else.

I moved a little further round the lake and continued my campaign to either catch a fish of freeze to death in the process. Back over the lake my Phox Minnow had claimed its first victim a small pike and I headed over while they waited for me. I waded into the shallows and unhooked it claiming it as my own as I had made the lure and was having no luck myself. I wandered back to the reeds and gave a few half-hearted casts before deciding that despite Christmas winter on the whole is crap, so I packed up and headed home. 

10 comments:

  1. A great job, well explained and 100% economical. You are very generous showing us how you do it in such detail. thank you very much

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  2. what im confused about is where to purchase or how to make the hook eyelets like the ones you screwed into the lure

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    1. I bought these on ebay, but if you are in the USa Lureparts.com, Barlows Tackle, in Europe Lurepartsnl In the Uk they are often available from hardware shops. Or make some from stainless steel paper clips.I don't have a vid of this but if you cut the clip into two u shaped wires then bend around a nail to form the eye and twist the two ends around each other to form the screw.

      hope it helps

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  3. Would this lure work on Trout or Salmon

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    1. i think it might be a little large, for the trout i catch

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  4. could you list the materials you used? thanks!!

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    1. follow the link below , i normally list a pdf if i have made one under the video on youtube

      thank


      http://www.scribd.com/doc/148122130/Tools-and-materials-list-paint-brush-handle-lure-pdf

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  5. Hi, is that a clock mechanism you use as a turner? If so how did you make it? Many thanks and a great instructable :)

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    1. no it is a disco or mrror ball motor runs about 2rpm

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