Who makes their own?

[FshBloodRiverMud]

Here's my first of many.

#10 Blade

two 5/0 treble hooks

Roughly 1 oz of weight in 3 places.

.060" wire.

Two coils of tied marabou - (Purple, Orange, White, Black, Dark Green, Bright Green, Red, Might be another one in there too )

Cost ~$6

Anyone else got some home made lures to share.

[mainbutter]

Great stuff! I've made some small inline spinners for salmon, unfortunately my current pic upload service is being a pain.

I've never made big'uns like that. Sometimes I wonder if a place like Thorne Bros. should have some of the tools needed to make your own musky bucktails available to customers, buy your components and build your bucktail in store.

[FshBloodRiverMud]

There's lots of places to buy components to make your own anything.

I went overboard this past winter and bought everything to make anything from flies to musky lures and spinners...etc.

Made $50 this past weekend from my brother. Gave him a deal on a dozen spinners and hair jigs.

I've made all kinds of crazy hair jigs. Lots of fun and after start up costs, it's real cheap.

[Nick Kuhn]

I made a few for my cousin, actually haven't made any for myself. Wish my cousin would come out more so the Viking colored double 9 could put a fish in the boat. Love the action on that thing, I just don't think purple and gold is a great color for catching fish.

[MuskieFever]

That's awesome! Where are you buying your supplies? Lurepartsonline.com is pretty good.

[FshBloodRiverMud]

There's TONS of suppliers of lure components out there. Simple google searches will find them.

Some things can be bought for the same price at local shops like Cabelas and FF, things like hair/feathers/flash/string/glue...etc.

Anyone wanting to make musky sized stuff, buy some spring coils. That's what the lure manufacturers use. You tie your hair onto those, and they slip over the wire.

I'll photograph some of my hair jigs and toss them in the walleye forums one of these days. LOTS of people on the WWW making their own hair jigs for sale, usually for a darn big price too. Really anyone can get started into their own lure making business with some thread and hair...I don't have any interest in that yet for fear of it taking away from fishing time.

I have fingers the size of bratwursts and can do it, so i'm sure anyone else can too. FIrst half dozen jigs went in the garbage after i realized that i was making them much much better and got the niche.

A buddy might take me musky fishing over the 4th, i'll be sure to toss that spinner a few times and am looking forward to getting in the boat with a serious musky angler to learn a few things...That'll just kick the buying of lure components into overdrive i'm sure.

Best part of making a lure like the one above...If i screw up, or don't like it, all i have to do is cut the wire and every component on there can be used on other lures I can also replicate every spinner sold for a fraction of the price, and add my own tweaks to it if i choose.

IF it seems like something you might want to do, just start looking over component websites and you'll see all things possible.