Fishing Tackle Making Is A Great Hobby
I remember my first attempt at making my own home made fishing tackle. I painted that first wooden lure of mine with some testor's model paint, took it down to the dock to test it out. The paint peeled off the lure (well kinda melted) and my crude looking plug didn't wobble like the rest of my lures in the tackle box, but looking back on the experience I sure had a lot of fun.
Fishing Tackle Making is a wonderful art and a great hobby, and after many years I learned to do it the right way and now enjoy filling up my tackle box with my own home made fishing lures.
That's why I decided to write this page. There is very little information out there, about the hobby of tackle making and I wanted to help others learn about making fishing lures and help point them in the right direction.
Getting started with Tackle Making doesn't involve a lot of tools and depending on the kind of fishing tackle you would like to make it can be surprisingly easy.
The Complete Book of Tackle Making
The Best Book Written on TackleMaking That I know
The Complete Book of Tackle Making
is much improved and expanded over from his first edition called(Tackle Craft-1974), which was the original "Bible" for learning how to make your own fishing lures. In fact I would say this new edition is about 60-70% filled with new material on the subject of making fishing lures.The complete book of tackle making has the latest info on new tackle designs and also includes a short chapter on making your own tools. A great addition to this book is an overwhelming 10 chapters (approx 180 pages) related to rod making. A big addition over the 1974 edition which only had 1. The complete book of tackle making brings you back to your boyhood days when you marveled at all the lures in your tackle box.
I would say that the complete book of tackle making is the number #1 book you must own if you are interested in learning about making fishing tackle.
Buy The Complete Book of Tackle Making Here
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Tackle Making Videos
Great Examples of Fishing Tackle Making with Secrets on How to Make Lures
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Show and tell on how I make a wooden rattling fishing lure.
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Beginners Guide to Lure Carving
This Book Is the Best In Learning How to Make Wooden Lure Crankbaits
With Over 220 detailed color photos, Greg Hays helps you carve wooden lures step-by-step, from the initial wood blank to a finished beautiful wooden lure, this book covers it all.
Every tool needed is listed and every technique employed is carefully described, including painting instructions. Additionally, the author provides a pattern for the lures illustrated and as well instructions on assembling special boxes for each fishing lure you create.
Basic Fishing Lure Carving
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/05/2009)
The book is actually very good because it explains step by step how to make your fishing lures. It provides a lot of ideas on how to do things to simplify the lure making process. I would definitively recommend it for anyone that is interested in getting started at wooden lure carving.
Wooden Lure Making At its Best
This Fishing Tackle Making Book is Our Second Choice On Wooden Lure Making
Wooden Lure Making is great eBook that covers all the ins and outs to making your own wooden crankbaits. While the book may focus on topwater wooden crankbaits, the techniques can be easily applied to any wooden lure making project.I have purchased a couple other books about how to make your own wooden lures but none else covered it with as much detail as this one does.
Instructions in some of the other fishing making books are pretty basic. Get a broom handle or dowel rod and whittle your fishing lure to the desired shape and then sand and paint with an aerosol paint from the hardware store, add hooks and hardware and you are done. Well I'll be honest that's a little too simplified for my liking.
So if you are looking at making professional looking home made fishing lures then this is the book for you. This ebook on wooden lure making fills the gap.
It covers everything from wood choices, to how to shape the wooden lure right through to how to make a professional paint job. In fact the biggest section inside this books covers exactly that how to do a professional paint job, so that your fishing lure looks like the ones the pros make.
It even covers tricks and tips in making and painting fish scale patterns. Something that would think would be extremely difficult but in fact is not, once you know the technique.
If you want to get started in making fishing lures then the best way to fill your tackle box with your very own home made fishing lures is a two step process in my opinion.
Learning To Make Professional Home Made Fishing Lures is a 2 Step Process
Step#1 Buy The Complete Book of Tackle Making
Step#2 Get Wooden Lure Making
These two books together will teach you near everything you need to know about making fishing lures and then some.
Best Selling Fishing Tackle Lures and Flies
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How to Make Fishing Lures
Great Beginner How To Book On Tackle Making
How to Make Fishing Lures is a great beginners look into how to make your own fishing lures. If your interested in tackle making and lure making and not quite sure if it's a hobby for you then this is a great book to start off with.It covers all the basics from Plugs - Bugs - Spoons - Spinners - Sinkers - Jigs - Squids and shows you how you can make dozens of these for only a few pennies a piece. This book details, step by step, the construction and assembly of almost every type of fishing lure used in fresh and salt-water fishing: plugs, spin bugs, spoons, spinners, jigs, metal squids, and eel and eel skin lures.
More than one hundred and fifty line drawings illustrate the tools that are needed in learning the fine art of making fishing tackle.. There are complete details on how to make sinkers, leaders, and connections, and how to care for and repair lures.
Whatever your sport, fresh or saltwater - pike, salmon, bass or even ice fishing, there's something in this guide for you.
While it may not go into the kind of detail as the 2 books I recommend above since it covers such choices as making wooden lures out of broom handles, the only reason why I recommend it is because of the price.
For $9 bucks you just can't go wrong to get started on learning the hobby of making fishing tackle.
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Tackle Making Video Crankbaits
Make Your Own FISHING lure.
how to make metal fishing lures that catch everything that swims!!! Looks just like a minnow and gives off super vibration and flash!
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Vintage Fishing Lures And Wooden Lures On Auction
Excellent Deals On Vintage and Custom Made Lures On Auction Right Now
Finding quality homemade vintage fishing lures isn't an easy task. Luckily we have narrowed down the search to help you find that special fishing tackle which will make your next trip down to the water the best one you ever had.
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Once you get started in tackle making you can make stuff like this
Handmade Lures
Handmade lures have become an artform all to themselves, as you can see here:-)
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Collecting Vintage Fishing Lures and How to Price Them
These Books Will Help Get You Started in Collecting Fishing Lures
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Check Ourt These Great Resources On Fishing Lures
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Collecting Antique Fishing Lures
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Ah antique fishing lures. I remember when as a boy I inherited my grandfathers tackle box. It might as well been a treasure chest full of gold. Sure all those old fishing lures were banged up, scratched, and in really bad shape, but the joy and wonde...
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Fishermen Everywhere Prefer Rapala Lures
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Open any fishermen's tacklebox and I bet you'll find more Rapala's inside then any other brand of fishing lure and for good reason. Not only does rapala make great fishing lures they also catch fish. In fact I think it would be safe to say that more...
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Classic Heddon Antique Fishing Lures
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Heddon lures is a fishing company steeped in the fishing tackle history books. Known as one of the major 5 tackle companies Heddon Lures has been around since 1920 and they are still going strong today. I remember back when I first learned to fish w...
More Resources on Tackle Making
Learn more about tackle making with these links below
- Bass Fishing Secrets
- Great Book covering all the top techniques to help you land that next big bass
- Trout Fishing Secrets
- Trout Fishing Secrets Revealed - How To Catch A Trout Everytime: When Spinner Fishing Your Favorite Stream Or River!
- The Fly Fishing GuideBook
- A Complete Step-By-Step Training Kit Filled With The Latest And Proven Fly Fishing Techniques!
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fishingtackleequipment wrote
Very nice lens! Great information about fishing tackle equipment. I love to fish and i love collecting new fishing tackle and gear. If you get a chance you should check out my site about fishing tackle equipment.
Posted April 03, 2009
TheyCallMeVarmit wrote...
Love the lens; very informative and pleasing to the eye. This is a hobby of mine as well. Will keep checking back for updates.
Have a good'un,
April
Posted February 13, 2009
Gordon_Hamilton wrote...
Fantastic lens. Hope to watch it develop. Used to be an avid sea-fisherman, both boat and shore, but haven't had the chance these past few years due to other commitments.
I always made all my own rigs and sometimes lures - perhaps I should do a lens on similar!
Used to love nothing more than standing on a freezing cold Scottish beach at 3am on a January morning, hoping for that big cod to bite and taking the occasional sip from the bottle of "tummy warmer."
Ahhhh.....memories!
Fantastic. 5* for the memories alone.
Posted January 22, 2009
LarryBass wrote...
Great Lens you've built here dude! Some of my little lure tweaks can be seen on my Fishing Lens @ Squidoo.com/FishingOttaw
Building and tweaking fishing stuff is a Very creative way to express oneself! Keep on keepin' on my friend, you're doin' a swell job...
Tight lines,
LarryB
Posted January 09, 2009
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fishingtacklequipment wrote
Very nice and informative lens! I love checking out new fishing tackle. If you get the chance check out my blog about fishing tackle equipment.
mr
Posted April 03, 2009
LarryBass wrote...
Fine job on a very interesting and informative Lens with this one. I've been tweaking lures for more than four decades now and have made a few wooden plugs too. So I know that this hobby can get Very addicting! Thanx for sharing such a useful and encouraging Lens with the world friend! :-)
Cheers!
LarryB
Posted January 09, 2009
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