Hey folks,

Asked a question about some tackle in another thread. Turned out that the person had made them at home.

Anyhoo, I’ve always been interested in making my own tackle. It’s just been hard to decide which to make.

For those of you that make your own lures or rigs......

Let’s see em’!!!!!

:)


Thanks,

Mr. B

I have purchased all the components.......I spent close to $100 on a wire turning fixture........and everything is still sitting on the shelf gathering dust. Be careful becoming CEO of your own business, you never have any time to do anything!!

The plan is a large in line spinner, all black (even the blade), sporting a long shank Owner Ballyhoo hook with a Kalins black Octo grub on it. Sounds deadly to me and not something you can find commercially.

I will experiment wether I want the hook free swinging or a "stiff rig" where the hook is in tight fixed position. Big lure, but not especially heavy going about 2 or 3 oz. I believe it would look like a mega leech on steroids to fish.

I have made ar least a thousand Trout, Bass, Bone fish, tarpon flies over the years. Usual Suspects. They are packed away now, moving.

I started making my own crawler harnesses, I like using different colored hooks, blades and beads in combinations I can’t buy at the store. On our trip to Canada last fall a combination of purple hooks, blue blades and orange beads outfished everything else and I could sit in the boat tie them up for everybody. They are very simple to tie and cost way less per harness than store bought.

I have several sinker molds, I have a wire turning jig (homemade) I have an air brush. I have built wood crankbaits and spearing decoys. I have all the stuff for rod building. I am set up to build bucktails. I kind of lost interest in all of it once I figured out how its done. I'm a curious person and I like to figure out how things work. I have everything though in case I ever get some free time!

Jigs and blade baits account for most of my homemade tackle. I'll make spinner rigs when I fish in the warmer months.

Here is some of my homemade tackle. In the fly fishing game homemade is the way to go if you really get into it. It is like a whole second hobby and you can tie in the winter when nothing is happening. Definitely not a way to save money so don't get into it for that reason. The top photos are deer hair divers. Mine come out as a hybrid of a Dahlberg Diver and a deer hair popper. They dive and pull air under with them and then pop back up. Like a dinner bell for feeding bass and sometime small pike. Big pike seem to want a bigger fly or better yet a big lure. The bottom one is an alternative version of the Murdich minnow. I have not used it before but it should sink slowly and work for bass feeding on the shoreline.

Outstanding john........like little pieces of art ;-)