10-06-2003, 02:53 PM
[cool]Hey, gang. I know we have a lot of creative types who hang out on the BFT boards. I am soliciting input from anyone who is anything liKe I am. I just can't leave anything well enough alone. No matter how good something is "right out of the box", I usually have to mess with it.
I make a lot of my own lures, so I obviously am opinionated as to what a lure should look like or how it should work. I change split rings and hooks, tweak the blades or change them altogether. I bend or shorten wires and thin or trim skirts. On hardbaits, I fine tune the way they run before I ever send them down to talk to the fishies. Sometimes I add spinner blades to lures that were never designed to have spinner blades...or remove them from lures I do not think need them.
I go whacko on plastics. I snip and trim the vibrating tails to create different actions, and I have boxes of permanent markers and plastic paints that I use to add stripes, spots and slashes. In fact, I often buy clear sparkle or plain white or pearl and make my own color combinations.
I am in the process of outlining and writing a piece on lure modifications and just wondered if I have been missing any opportunities. How about it? What are your favorite lures and how do you modify them to work better? I'm not looking for fancy airbrush painting or anything. Just something as simple as subsituting a rear treble for a single hook...or adding feathers...or whatever.
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I make a lot of my own lures, so I obviously am opinionated as to what a lure should look like or how it should work. I change split rings and hooks, tweak the blades or change them altogether. I bend or shorten wires and thin or trim skirts. On hardbaits, I fine tune the way they run before I ever send them down to talk to the fishies. Sometimes I add spinner blades to lures that were never designed to have spinner blades...or remove them from lures I do not think need them.
I go whacko on plastics. I snip and trim the vibrating tails to create different actions, and I have boxes of permanent markers and plastic paints that I use to add stripes, spots and slashes. In fact, I often buy clear sparkle or plain white or pearl and make my own color combinations.
I am in the process of outlining and writing a piece on lure modifications and just wondered if I have been missing any opportunities. How about it? What are your favorite lures and how do you modify them to work better? I'm not looking for fancy airbrush painting or anything. Just something as simple as subsituting a rear treble for a single hook...or adding feathers...or whatever.
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