Just another good reason why the Home made lure blog is something I read regularly… As it happens, the mackerel rig combined with a spoon or lure makes a productive rig for sailboat speeds just about anywhere you’ll find yourself.
Needful stuff for the itinerant boat bound fly and lure maker…
What’s working at the moment… The wingie spinner thingie is really an inspired bit of design by the folks at Mack’s Lure.
The other day I got some promotional material for some interesting lures… Yeah, it sorta kinda looks like a spinner, does it not? What makes it interesting is the thought process that went into it. Since fish don’t quite see stuff like we do maybe we should think about how they do see. Geared more …
Well, I’ve always had a soft spot for black light posters… Read More »
The Home Made Lure Blog is a great read. There’s always lots of excellent ideas and very clear instructions on how to make awesome lures… Like this Flying C Spinner… Just a thought but this would make a great trolling lure for sailing speeds if you made it about twice as big.
I’ll be the first to admit that my tackle bag has way too much stuff in it, a veritable cornucopia of lures to entice and seduce the most shy pelagic prey. I could certainly get by with about a dozen or even less. The zen take of less is more where fishing from a sailboat …
A while back, a reader wrote asking why trolling lures were so expensive and, as an example, he gave me a couple of links to one of those “HIP” fishing outfitters with silly expensive lures… Now, as someone who makes lures and flies myself, I realize that there is both labor and materials involved in …
A lure just about everyone could use a few of in their kit… Jigs like these are pretty easy to make and, a picture being worth a thousand words, I don’t expect you’ll need a how to. Make some big ones to troll as well as some smaller ones for casting in an anchorage. They’re …
One of my favorite blogs shows us how to tie a feather rig…
A very neat riff on the cedar plug lure in aluminum… Perfect! You can find them at Lonely Angler…