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Some airbrush basics

January 1st 2009 02:09
Say what? Fishing? Air brushes? What's the connection?

If you're into making you own lures, you may want to use an airbrush and this is a good primer. I had to learn the hard way and there's enough info out there that nobody should go through that!

This may be the best 10 minutes you'll ever invest. If you don't have 10 minutes definitely watch the first five minutes.

I like the fact that he actually says it's okay to chose paint based on price. Considering that, although the painting of lures may is pretty simple, you DON'T want to try diluting tempera paints or Crayola paints. They both are hard to cleanly mix, have a gritty residue, and end up making a sputtering mess in your airbrush.


You don't have to try and break the bank when looking for an airbrush if all you're going to do is paint lures. I have a cheap brush and a fairly high quality bush but, it turns out that I use each of them equally.



You can follow this link to get some lessons, tips, and ideas.


Until next time--watch your line and watch yourself!
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Another lure making video

November 30th 2008 01:27
Here's a video showing an old time lure maker and some old time music. I doubt if it's everyone's cup of tea but it has its moments. If nothing else, you can marvel at the beauty of this gentleman's work.



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Making scale patterns on lures

September 9th 2008 00:20
Scale patterns on lures can give them a professional appearance. (I have to wonder if they appeal more to anglers than fish but, that's another story.)

If you have an air brush or can of spray paint, making a scale pattern is fairly easy. I've read in a couple of places that you can add them with a simple paint brush but I'm not very artsy-fartsy and was never able to get the hang of it.

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Some video on handmade lures

June 27th 2008 00:58
When you get REAL good at making lures, you can put them on display like they are here.

The lure in the first video is like nothing I've ever seen, Beautiful to say the least!

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Let's cut the B.S. and get right down to brass tacks, You want the secret to glow-in-the-dark lures? The ONLY difference is the paint! Let me put it a different way. Any lure can be a glow-in-the-dark lure.

Look at major manufacturers such as Rapala, Storm, or Strike King and they don't even have glowing lures in their inventory! There's good reason for this. You'd hardly want to catch, let alone eat, most bioluminescent fish!

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Visit a lure factory

January 30th 2008 04:26
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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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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