Making Baits

flachristopherkeene9 · 10-09-05, 08:37 PM

I know a lot of you guys make your own lures either jigger rigging around with already made ones or making your own. I wanna make inline spinners and crankbaits or hard topwater baits. Can someone give me some pointers. where you buy your parts, how you do it, painting, etc.

Chris

Rebbasser · 10-09-05, 09:15 PM

I mostly make spinnerbaits, but here is where I get my components:

http://www.staminainc.com/main.html

And for tackle making:

http://www.tackleunderground.com/

That is one area I don't know a much about.

Fish On · 10-09-05, 09:24 PM

I make hair jigs, bass jigs, crankbaits, feather treble hooks and topwater.

I tried worms but to much work!

KenDammit · 10-10-05, 03:02 AM

Tonight, I just decided to mess around with some soft plastics. I made a "brush hog", a 4 inch worm with a chartreuse tail, and a 3 inch grub with a chartreuse head and a purple tail

Mixed some grubs with berkley power worms. Turned out pretty nice, I think

KenDammit · 10-10-05, 03:12 AM

sorry about the quality, just a quick little webcam picture

Fish On · 10-10-05, 05:45 PM

Jigs I made yesterday and feather treble hooks for poppers that I made yesterday!

KH. · 10-10-05, 06:34 PM

ken,have you tried yums zellamander,ever sinxe i did i look for mostly doublre tails,i cant find them for the worms

KenDammit · 10-10-05, 07:24 PM

no, I haven't tried them. I don't fish lizards and the like very often, they just aren't very common here, but I'm finding that my personal bass really like "creatures" so i'm gonna offer them up some lizards soon.

lizardsrule · 10-11-05, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KenDammit

no, I haven't tried them. I don't fish lizards and the like very often, they just aren't very common here, but I'm finding that my personal bass really like "creatures" so i'm gonna offer them up some lizards soon.

I don't care if you don't have many lizards around, throw some out and you will catch fish. So do they have creatures there but no lizards? Do you have curly tail worms there too. How about PNJ do you have alot of those running around. I think you get the point. Also those of you who think lizards are just for spring, well think again, they will catch bass ALL YEAR LONG.

Lizards

senkosam · 10-11-05, 10:51 AM

Have to agree LR. A fellow angler on another site mentioned that he take the claws ofF craw baits because bass avoid claws and doesn't like using Sweet Beavers as trailers. NONSENSE! Bass have a pea size brain that functions as a conduit of it's senses to it's muscles and fins. It wouldn't know claws from the sharp spines on a sunfish or perch, eaten tail-first.

If it's alive and easy prey, it's eaten. Many ponds in my area have no yellow perch, but perch pattern, floating Rapalas get more strikes than silver or gold jerks.

Large Zoom Salty Chunks are as easy to pour as soft sticks and work as well as the original. I don't include salt, but do make them softer for a better tail action that approximates that of a #1 pork frog. Beavers are also another easy bait to mold and pour and cost a fraction of packaged originals.

KenDammit · 10-11-05, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lizardsrule

I don't care if you don't have many lizards around, throw some out and you will catch fish. So do they have creatures there but no lizards? Do you have curly tail worms there too. How about PNJ do you have alot of those running around. I think you get the point. Also those of you who think lizards are just for spring, well think again, they will catch bass ALL YEAR LONG.

Lizards

you have a point and I know they catch fish year round...just have a hard time with the bass in my personal pond not wanting to eat a very wide range of things. We have frogs, birds, snakes, and insects around the pond, just about it...oh and two dogs. I thought curly tail worms were supposed to be immitating the fin movement of a baitfish?

flachristopherkeene9 · 10-11-05, 07:20 PM

Reb thanks for that site gonna put a big dollar order in tonight. and can i see some of your creations. And does anyone make their own buzzbaits??

Chris

KH. · 10-11-05, 10:16 PM

hey ken where you live u[ north,i thought lizards roamed every where

KenDammit · 10-12-05, 02:36 AM

good ole central Kentucky. I wasn't speaking generally, just talking about my immediate area.

Fish On · 10-12-05, 04:56 PM

I tied these last night.
The hair jigs I was going for a bass look.

Dyas · 10-12-05, 05:18 PM

Looks like a winner to me...........

Fish On · 10-12-05, 05:36 PM

Thanks. I am going to make a few more tonight.

pig n jig · 10-12-05, 06:30 PM

Lizardsrule, This is a family site so I will as cleanly as I can state that if I let my lizard run around on its own, there will be a whole lot of little P N J ' S running around.

I am sorry I could not help it.

P N J

pig n jig · 10-12-05, 06:35 PM

Janns netcraft & Barlows are 2 other places that sell lure making items. P N J

Fish On · 10-12-05, 06:51 PM

I fused some plastics together today.
Assalt salt shaker worm with swimbait tail
" " " " " paddle tail
clear Grub with pink tail
green grub with pink tail

I like these because I am using old plastics

Few more jigs
Chat. jig
Black and brown jig
brown jig

KH. · 10-12-05, 08:07 PM

i thought you said that you have trouble with plastics,you mean handpoured

Fish On · 10-12-05, 08:51 PM

ya. This is easy all you need is a candle. Plus I am reusing old plastics or plastics I don't have confidence in.

1FASTLASER · 10-13-05, 05:28 AM

PNJ

You gotta be showing your age. LOL You where slow at commenting on this LOL Come on fellow sharpen up those senses.

lizardsrule · 10-13-05, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pig n jig

Lizardsrule, This is a family site so I will as cleanly as I can state that if I let my lizard run around on its own, there will be a whole lot of little P N J ' S running around.

I am sorry I could not help it.

P N J

Just what we need a few more folks to by Daiwa's, and have to work, just to afford all those Castaway rods. LMAO.

Lizards

flachristopherkeene9 · 10-13-05, 07:24 AM

My first handcarved one!! Gotta wait for the tackle supplies to come in before I can go further though

Chris

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10-09-05, 09:15 PM	#2
Rebbasser BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 10,141	I mostly make spinnerbaits, but here is where I get my components: http://www.staminainc.com/main.html And for tackle making: http://www.tackleunderground.com/ That is one area I don't know a much about. __________________ It's happened to the best of them: John 21:3

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Fish On BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hauppauge, NY Posts: 368	I make hair jigs, bass jigs, crankbaits, feather treble hooks and topwater. I tried worms but to much work! __________________ David Scott

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Fish On BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hauppauge, NY Posts: 368	Jigs I made yesterday and feather treble hooks for poppers that I made yesterday! Attached Thumbnails Attached Images __________________ David Scott

10-10-05, 06:34 PM	#7
KH. BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,316	ken,have you tried yums zellamander,ever sinxe i did i look for mostly doublre tails,i cant find them for the worms __________________ and god said let there be bass, and there was bass

10-09-05, 08:37 PM	#1
flachristopherkeene9 BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 516	Making Baits I know a lot of you guys make your own lures either jigger rigging around with already made ones or making your own. I wanna make inline spinners and crankbaits or hard topwater baits. Can someone give me some pointers. where you buy your parts, how you do it, painting, etc. Chris

10-10-05, 03:02 AM	#4
KenDammit BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Richmond, KY Posts: 691	Tonight, I just decided to mess around with some soft plastics. I made a "brush hog", a 4 inch worm with a chartreuse tail, and a 3 inch grub with a chartreuse head and a purple tail Mixed some grubs with berkley power worms. Turned out pretty nice, I think

10-10-05, 03:12 AM	#5
KenDammit BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Richmond, KY Posts: 691	sorry about the quality, just a quick little webcam picture

10-10-05, 07:24 PM	#8
KenDammit BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Richmond, KY Posts: 691	no, I haven't tried them. I don't fish lizards and the like very often, they just aren't very common here, but I'm finding that my personal bass really like "creatures" so i'm gonna offer them up some lizards soon.

10-11-05, 10:51 AM	#10
senkosam BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Hudson Valley, N.Y. Posts: 716	Have to agree LR. A fellow angler on another site mentioned that he take the claws ofF craw baits because bass avoid claws and doesn't like using Sweet Beavers as trailers. NONSENSE! Bass have a pea size brain that functions as a conduit of it's senses to it's muscles and fins. It wouldn't know claws from the sharp spines on a sunfish or perch, eaten tail-first. If it's alive and easy prey, it's eaten. Many ponds in my area have no yellow perch, but perch pattern, floating Rapalas get more strikes than silver or gold jerks. Large Zoom Salty Chunks are as easy to pour as soft sticks and work as well as the original. I don't include salt, but do make them softer for a better tail action that approximates that of a #1 pork frog. Beavers are also another easy bait to mold and pour and cost a fraction of packaged originals.

10-11-05, 07:20 PM	#12
flachristopherkeene9 BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 516	Reb thanks for that site gonna put a big dollar order in tonight. and can i see some of your creations. And does anyone make their own buzzbaits?? Chris

10-11-05, 10:16 PM	#13
KH. BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,316	hey ken where you live u[ north,i thought lizards roamed every where __________________ and god said let there be bass, and there was bass

10-12-05, 02:36 AM	#14
KenDammit BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Richmond, KY Posts: 691	good ole central Kentucky. I wasn't speaking generally, just talking about my immediate area.

10-12-05, 04:56 PM	#15
Fish On BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hauppauge, NY Posts: 368	I tied these last night. The hair jigs I was going for a bass look. Attached Images __________________ David Scott

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Dyas BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: May 2005 Location: Saraland, AL Posts: 1,995	Looks like a winner to me........... __________________ Southern by birth, Redneck by choice... Saved by the Grace of God

10-12-05, 05:36 PM	#17
Fish On BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hauppauge, NY Posts: 368	Thanks. I am going to make a few more tonight. __________________ David Scott

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pig n jig BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Avoca, NY Posts: 3,508	Lizardsrule, This is a family site so I will as cleanly as I can state that if I let my lizard run around on its own, there will be a whole lot of little P N J ' S running around. I am sorry I could not help it. P N J

10-12-05, 06:35 PM	#19
pig n jig BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Avoca, NY Posts: 3,508	Janns netcraft & Barlows are 2 other places that sell lure making items. P N J

10-12-05, 06:51 PM	#20
Fish On BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hauppauge, NY Posts: 368	I fused some plastics together today. Assalt salt shaker worm with swimbait tail " " " " " paddle tail clear Grub with pink tail green grub with pink tail I like these because I am using old plastics Few more jigs Chat. jig Black and brown jig brown jig Attached Images __________________ David Scott

10-12-05, 08:07 PM	#21
KH. BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,316	i thought you said that you have trouble with plastics,you mean handpoured __________________ and god said let there be bass, and there was bass

10-12-05, 08:51 PM	#22
Fish On BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hauppauge, NY Posts: 368	ya. This is easy all you need is a candle. Plus I am reusing old plastics or plastics I don't have confidence in. __________________ David Scott

10-13-05, 05:28 AM	#23
1FASTLASER BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: crossett,arkansas Posts: 2,777	PNJ You gotta be showing your age. LOL You where slow at commenting on this LOL Come on fellow sharpen up those senses.

10-13-05, 07:24 AM	#25
flachristopherkeene9 BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 516	My first handcarved one!! Gotta wait for the tackle supplies to come in before I can go further though Chris

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