Splish Splash: Scale Painting Tricks

I learnt some new tricks from this video that make a lot of sense.

Handmade Lures From Start to Fishing from dad school

another relaxing look at our hobby

Making a Gopro Hero Rig For Filming Fishing Lures Underwater Paul Adams Paul Adams

That is one big title but i think it says it all.

Lure painting a basic pike pattern and using decals

It has been a while since I have used any decals but it was worth it to a add a personal touch to this lure.

A Little Bit Of Lure Painting

We did a bit more experimenting with this video aiming for a bit of cinema look rather than a straight how to video, it was also great to show some of the details without doing the whole talking thing. I have also made some changes to the Patreon page which is a way you can support future videos, thanks Link to Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=661130

Making a Spooky Stick Bait

Well some days I barely manage to avoid any fish, this is an art form I am perfecting. If you fancy your chances with a bit of broom pole enter the give away and if you win I will make you one.

Lure Colour Studio, painting bluegills and northern pike jerk baits

These are part advert and part tutorial, but I find it relaxing to just watch this guy work using some very nice templates he makes and sells along with everything else you would need to start painting your own.



Link To Youtube Channel

Link to Lure Colour Studio Website

Toxic Tackle, making lure making tools

I am fascinated by the solutions lure makers come up with to streamline things a little, and this is a super video from Toxic Tackle's Youtube channel giving us a bit of an insight and some inspirational ideas for making wooden lures. Check out his channel for more little gems, add a few likes and share the hell out of them so we get to see some more his bright ideas and work. Link to Toxic Tackle's Yotube channel

Antonicont Handmade Lures

Italy has had more than its fair share of old masters, Botticelli, Michelangelo but what about some new ones. Antoni Conteddu of Antonicont Handmade Lures is one of those artists who takes, wood, paint and shiny things to some other place most of us can just dream about. It is hard to find one point alone that stands out about his creations, it is all a master work, the internal engineering and weight shift, external form, carved details and paint work is on a line of perfection.

When looking at someone’s work at this level I can only be inspired, and also a little bit jealous but I take comfort in thought that something else has to suffer for this greatness and maybe he is a terrible cook who’s pasta is always overcooked, or maybe not. Check out his facebook page Antonicont Handmade Lures, you may wish your keyboard had its own like button to save precious time while viewing.

The holiday is over

It has been a few months since I posted a blog, but the break has given me a chance to think about and try other things. In August I took a trip back up to Scotland and Mull where I used to live and made a short fundraising film with some friends who have a croft there. I stayed in the off grid camping hut they were hoping to be able to complete with funds from the film. When the film was complete It took a little over a day for their campaign to raise the money needed and a little over what they expected as a bonus. The hut itself is just a short walk from a phenomenal fishing spot where previously I had filmed the end of the “Making a Coffee Packet Mackerel Rig”, so let's just say I spent some time when not filming fishing.

I always seem to be going backwards and forwards between the future and the past, and although Mull is largely the past for me it was great to be part of something and also to be inspired again by a landscape and the people like my friends who are making a life there. Seeing Celia’s nervousness about appearing in front of the camera for the film really made me face up to actually dealing with my own unease at being in front of the camera for my lure making films.

So for my next project the ‘Five Minute Epoxy Trout Glider’ I stuck my ugly mug up front and also as a first decided to work with my wife for the film. I think when we had finished the video it almost felt like the first complete film I had been involved in; it had a real sense of story not just ‘look at this pretty lure’. After getting featured on Field and Stream’s website in the USA it quickly picked up some viewing figures.

For the future the blog is back and I will posting every few days again about lure making, fishing, and filming and just other shit that makes me feel happy. Well at least until something comes along to give me another break. Film wise I am working on a knife inspired lure which should be out in a week or so and then I think I want to finally make a swimbait.

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The Trouble with Trout Parr

The first fish I ever caught on a homemade lure was a brown trout just a little bigger than a parr but with the attitude of a tuna.

Slinky Kate, Making a Soft Plastic Mould on the CNC machine

Part of me always fancies the computer generated lure route and this guy makes it look all too easy

Homemade Shad Rap style bait

A nice little demo fromSpin Predators

The Lure Foundry (Nudity at its best)

I think I can almost smell the wood shavings.

http://lurefoundry.com/

Making a balsa weight shift lure part 1 of 2

The warehouse is actually colder inside than outside where the wind blows clean off the river and the docks. I am trying to finish a project I am working on, a giant dog puppet that has dragged on far too long. Next to us they are filming a rock video. The band tell us they have flown in from Brussels to work with the director and drop a name which being an old git I am not sure if it is the band or the director, either way I nod.    

When they return to their green room I get a few minutes to marvel at the camera cranes, huge tripods that carry very expensive digital cinema cameras and the bits of track they have laid out. I am left feeling a bit amateur. Apart from my camera, a pair of cheap lights and some tripods that have seen better days my kit consists of inline skate wheels attached to a plank of wood for a slider, a swivel chair and some gaffer tape for doing circular panning shots. They have a swarm of go-pros and I am still sticking my camera in a plastic lunch box to use in bath.  Jealousy is never a pretty thing and it is far too close to Christmas to be thinking of buying myself presents or kit. 

3d Printing Soft Plastic Lures With Silicone

This is a bit clever, the age of 3d printers have arrived and maybe i should hang up my tools and get programming

Guppy Lure Company, Made by Fishermen for fishermen

I like the description of their early lure making days; secretly producing them at home but only when his girlfriend was away working.

Link to Guppy Lure Co.

Northern Scripture

A bit of animation and lure making, does it get any better than this

Vav wobbler

Making the world a better place by having so much laughter at work.

Making a Spybait fishing lure from PVC foam board

I am not sure that spybaits should work, well catch fish I mean. Apart from the slight flicker of the rotating blades they do bugger all and after spending a great deal of time getting lures to make some kind of dying minnow performance it can be a bit unnerving. Spybaits supposedly stem from Japanese bass fishermen hacking shop bought lures by removing the lip and adding props, but rather than floating like traditional prop baits spybaits sink and run almost silently. Not having bass population within a thousand miles of home I took my little creation out piking.


It has to be said they do cast like rockets but with little or no resistance on the retrieve It feels a little like pulling a fly though the water rather than a lure. I am used to feeling the head tug of minnows or the deep vibrations of a spinner through the braid, but with a spybait when fish hit it is a bit of a shock with just a bang out of nowhere. So with a few fish caught under my belt I suppose I have to admit they they work but like any new lure it is going to take me some time to figure out just when or even where to use them.

  Spybait Fishing Lure Drawings and Teplates

Making a Spybait Tool Sand Materials