soft plastic lure fiddling

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senkosam

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When weather doesn't permit, I'm down in the basement workshop smoking my pipe, listening to the news or watching movies on the Roku while messing with lures that I make either by pouring hot plastic or cutting and fusing plastic parts together using a candle flame.
Some of my best lures for all species of freshwater fish have been discovered in my well organized workshop:
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(BTW, the barbel on the floor has been collecting dust for over a decade...)

Plaster of Paris has allowed me to make copies of lures no longer made such as Uncle Josh's pork rind frog (never could figure out the name):
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..and another way too expensive to buy:
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I can't pass up a sale and found a way to secure this similar skirted jig trailer:
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Composite designs work better than most of the usual ones sold and there's no limit what you can come up with. Don't like the tail ?, substitute another using a flame (curl tail cut off and replaced by a spike tail):
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Here I added a Joker Grub 3-prong tail to a tube:
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Interesting, I also just read about modifying plastics on another site, seems like there's no end as to how you can play with them.
 
Which site if you don't mind? I also post under the name of Spoonminnow.
Also figured out how to make a lure lock for jigs and soft plastic lures:
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wrap once:
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snip one end close to post:
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then bend a wire L shape:
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Now I buy only barbless jigs from Ebay.
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I don't use soft plastics, but I sure like your workshop. The experimentation process you talk about is pretty cool. I bet it isn't hard to lose yourself in there for hours.
 
That shop rules!

Winter is here for a lot of us and fishing and boating comes through the screen.

What are you working on now? This question goes to anyone and everyone.
 
Sorry I didn't get back to answering sooner as I hope many other will. Daily I come up with modifications and even tied my dogs hair on a jig and caught fish on it (#8). :
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These are hand injected into molds. Decided to use more clear and lightly tinted plastics this year. Clear worked great last year.
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A few more hybrids and Spike-It dyed swimbait:
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Ever since Jan. I been able to test lures and catch fish in the pond behind my house that never froze over.
winter
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now
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