Painting Soft Baits the down and dirty way

What to say beyond the title? This is the easy route to colouring soft plastics it is not perfect but so far the pike have been voting with their teeth.

How To Pour Your Own Baits - 4K with Noobangler

 Making some soft plastic frogs with the Noobangler and friends using plaster moulds.

Makelure, Foiling and finishing lures with Gaddgapet

 MakeLure.com and Larry Dahlberg head off to Sweden to check out some lure finishing techniques with  Gaddgapet a Swedish lure maker.  P.s. If this was a cake recipe it would taste F**king awesome. (and I do not use the word awesome lightly)

Making Soft Plastic Shad Lures Part 1

I wanted to make some simple shads for winter pike fishing as my tackle box is looking a bit empty. Simplicity is what i was after more than anything and there is nothing simpler than using soft balsa wood for shaping and epoxy for a smooth surface.

Basic Luremaking with Splish Splash - 2 Part Silicone Mould

A look at making a silicone mould for soft fishing lures.

Lake Fork Guy visits Lake Fork Lures

It is all just a big story with some lures thrown in

Fire Tiger with Mr Craft and Mad Lures

This is a paint tutorial showing Mr Craft's very own take on the popular fire tiger lure pattern. Mr Craft of Mad Lures has a truly unique style, it is almost a little like grunge mixed with modern graffiti  and graphics. Check out his Facebook page if you looking for some lures you wont get off the peg or to see some inspirational paint work. Viva La france    link to Mr Craft website 

Ludovic Auzou

For one Frenchman homemade fishing lures are not the kind of things carved out a piece of cedar with a favourite knife. Ludovic Auzou has taken his passion for making lures into the world of 3D modelling and cnc machining injection moulds.  His soft and hard plastic lures would not look out of place amongst the expensive imports on a tackle shop display. As the world moves towards making these technologies more accessible to the man in the street, it still takes an unusual talent and a great deal of work to be able to create lures of this calibre.

Hopefully his shop will follow soon, and we can all get our hands on them, in the mean time there is no charge for staring.

Viva la France

3d printing Lures

It will get there one day but that may be a little way off yet.

Mepps, mepps, mepps so good they named it just once

Tour of Mepps Fishing Lures from Sportsman on Demand on Vimeo.

Another little factory tour with some history and squirrel tail

Mr Sebile

Lured from Gate Seven Entertainment Group on Vimeo.

Jealous I am not jealous, who wants spend all their time travelling the world and fishing?

Gibbs Fishing lures

A look inside another great American Lure company

Stanford Lures

Stanford lures, lots of crankbait insights

A life in Lures George Riddell

Not a bad way to spend 48 years of your life

Making Hard Plastic fishing lures on the lathe and Glide bait Leaders

Making Paddletail fishing Lures and messing with lollipop sticks

So the final thing I have to shoot to finish this film is some footage in the bath, not of me thank god but the lures. The only problem being is my small underwater camera is dead, it flicks on and off randomly, then it demands a charge and shortly after refuses it. I resort to finding a clear watertight box I can fit another camera into. The only other problem is I have only one very wide angle lens and my youngest son decided to throw it across the room so it no longer focuses. I sit down with lens and some micro screw drivers and an hour later after finding which piece of glass inside was out of its seating and putting it back the lens is working.  For the enclosure I empty one of my wife’s clear acrylic storage boxes that houses a collection of tea that smells like it has been stored since the opium wars. On request my son brings me a pair of underpants to pad out the box and I press the movie button, place the camera inside, close the lid and hold it just under the surface of the water. Lights, action, camera and I am sitting on the toilet holding a camera  while pulling a piece of soft plastic through the water as my fingers go numb; all the glamour of Hollywood.

Later when I have finished editing and six hours have past while it uploads I sit down once again with my micro screwdrivers and this time with my original broken underwater camera. When it is stripped down I remove the battery, it is a Samsung and looks like a mobile phone battery. I ask my wife for her old mobile and take the back off it.

The new battery from the phone is the same length and width, it even has the pins in the same place, its voltage is the same, but its amp hours are a little lower and it is 2mm thinner. Having made a film about lollipop sticks I know that they are about 2mm thick. I reach for the tub of sticks and snap one in half and slide it under the battery then put the camera back together. When I press the button the camera fires up, it has all its bars and I wait for it to fail, but no it is working perfectly. 

Lollipop sticks, bloody lollipop sticks, I have decided to carry them on my person at all times. 

The Handmade Fisherman

I have finally made a start on building my new website, “The Handmade Fisherman” hopefully this will be a base for visitors to land on and explore. At the moment it seems still like I have a couple of thousand things to deal with before everything is up and running and I can get back to making some videos let alone doing some fishing.

I also did a bit more experimenting with my real minnow, adding another hook hanger and a diving lip. I may get chance for a couple of testing sessions next week, it swims great in the bath but that is never a judge of how it will work out in the real world. Weight wise I have ordered some tungsten 4mm fly tying beads which I think will work out better than lead free shot I am using at the moment. Carving the balsa is still a bit of pig so I made up a face out of layered paper covered with foil, this feels like cheating a bit. Another great thing I discovered about working on something this small is when I go back to making larger lures like the crank bait the feel massive by comparison. 

Making Simple Soft Plastic Fishing Worms

It is all over the film is uploaded it seems to run ok, there are fifty things I would like to change about it but I want to go fishing so much it hurts. Someone on video course I am attending asked me what I do as a job, one day I would like to say fish.

Sushi Whip Tail Grub Molds / Moulds For Sale

In an attempt to pay for some much needed video equipment I am offering some Sushi Whip Tail Grub moulds for sale at £10 each plus postage. These are cast by me using high quality RTV silicone from my master, they take a day to cure and then a day later I give a test, if everything is ok I put in the post.   Recently I have done very well fishing with this grub on small jig heads, the body being just a little over half instead of fully round means the hook can be left to stand really proud, which seems to have helped hooking bony mouthed fish like the pike and the odd very greedy little perch.  

The grubs from the mould are 85mm (3 ¼” approx) long, the tails come out thicker than injected bait moulds which gives them a nice pulse that draws fish out even in the mucky ponds and canals I fish. If you are interested send me an email to paupadam@aol.com unfortunately I can only deal with paypal users.

Thanks

Adding or Replacing the Eyes on Soft Plastic Lures

He tells me the fish used to be bigger and there were more of them and then almost to contradict himself he tells he watched a guy pull a 27lb pike out last year on a dead bait. Before I leave him to his feeder rod and head along the bank he tells me that he has never seen anyone catch anything on a plug. I don’t stay to argue or brag, fish are always bigger and better in the past.

Maybe he is right if I killed a fish and stuck it on a hook my chances of a large pike would improve no end, but often it’s not the arriving that matters so much to me as how I got there. I route in my tackle box and pull out another little creation and cast again; the fish seam less than impressed today with my handiwork.