Design Considerations with Wooden Fishing Lures
Design Considerations with Wooden Fishing Lures
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Hello All,
I am collecting information for a series of articles I am writing about design considerations for wooden fishing lures. I've searched high and low for information about this topic but haven't been able to find anything. I apologize if this is a little off topic, but I would truly appreciate any tips you could provide on the topic of selecting wood and designing wooden fishing lures.
Thank You!
- Erik Moore
TackleMaking.com
I am collecting information for a series of articles I am writing about design considerations for wooden fishing lures. I've searched high and low for information about this topic but haven't been able to find anything. I apologize if this is a little off topic, but I would truly appreciate any tips you could provide on the topic of selecting wood and designing wooden fishing lures.
Thank You!
- Erik Moore
TackleMaking.com





RE: Design Considerations with Wooden Fishing Lures
To the question, the book had lots of examples of wooden lures. I copied a couple, mostly plugs from balsa (the book also covered spoons and other lure types, like fake eels). Sadly, all my fishing equpiment is gone, including the hand-made lures...
The crayfish plug I made was of two balsa sections, between which ran a piano wire for attaching hooks with the appropriate hardware. The sections were fastened with expoxy and I painted the thing with Testor's enamal. The thing cast well, sank and certainly functioned well. I figure Rapala would've charged $10 for such a fine reproduction of a crayfish.
When I was in high school, I experimented with cedar plugs in the woodshop, but the teacher thought I was makeing dope paraphenalia.
Mind you, none of these ever caught a thing! Thusly, I go with live or cut bait exclusively.
RE: Design Considerations with Wooden Fishing Lures
www.luresonline.com.au
Looks like an up to date site which could supply some useful information.