I stumbled up on this the other day when I was surfing YouTube. It gives a brief over view of how Rapala lures are made.

Rapala is a Finnish company that has been making lures since its founder, Lauri Rapala, began carving his own wooden lures back in the 1930's. To make a long story short, they're still around. Today Rapala lures are used all over the world and hold several titles in addition to selling many fishing accessories other than lures.

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I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. I'm a real sucker for this sort of thing. I'm one of those people who likes seeing how things are made even if I don't really appreciate the end product.

Also, how about that tank they were using?!?!?!?!?!? Sure beats trying out the lures I make in the bathtub!

Until next time--watch yourself and watch your line!

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Does lure color really matter?

January 17th 2008 07:14

You hear a lot about artificial lures. I talk a lot about artificial lures for that matter!

One question people often have when looking at the variety of lures on the market is, "Does the color really matter?"

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Lure Modification

October 2nd 2007 00:19

Anyone who reads my posts very much probably thinks I use artificial lures all the time. Far from it! It’s just that there are so many of them around that it’s hard not to say something.

I never thought about it until now but, it seems that it’s always something when it comes to lures—wrong color, dives too deep, or wobbles the wrong way. On the other hand, a minnow or worm wiggles around or you can cast out cut up fish or chicken livers and hope something picks up the scent.
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The color of money, er...LURES

June 21st 2007 00:13

People often ask about the colors they should use on their lures. Unfortunately, I haven't come across many hard and fast rules when it comes to fishing. Just when I thought I had found someone with all the answers, my fishing guru ended our conversation with, "...but, you gotta do whatever works." Duh!!!!!! After I heard that answer to too many of my questions I figured, "What the heck?" and began this blog.

The most popular answer to the question of lure color is "Match the hatch." What the heck does that mean? So many times, I felt like anglers were a bunch of good ol' boys with their own secret language! Basically, this means you try and match your lures to whatever the fish are feeding on.
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Making a case for wooden lures

June 9th 2007 00:12

If you go through your tacklebox you'll probably be like most people and notice that you have few, if any, wooden lures. I don't have any numbers, if there is a scientific survey on the subject, but, from looking in my friends' tackle boxes, I'd say the number is less than 20%. My own isn't much higher and I make lures! Why all the plastic?

Consistency is one of the main reasons. It's much easier to make a production run of say, 10,000 plastic lures than is is to do a run of 10,000 wooden lures and expect the same quality end to end despite modern machinery. That is not to say that consistency is impossible when it comes to machined wooden lures. However, you're going to pay for that consistency

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