Thread: Fishing lures

Auzzie Turner, Don't know where you got your ideas about fishing lures and making lures from. I lived in Cairns for twelve years, made and sold hundreds of lures through the tackle shops, all made from wood. In fact I was one of the first in Cairns to make lures by hand. Some were loaded with lead to sink, for trolling for pelagics, some were bibbed types. Poppers from 50mm up to 150mm were turned on a lathe. Some were fitted with rattles. We made lures with the bristles from brooms, lead sinkers and the "fingers" from plastic gloves, almost anything was fair game.
Jim

Hey Joash,
I'm sure you did a search on the forum.....just in case you didn't here it is:
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...archid=1013159
A few things 'popped' up.

I mostly manage about 8 - 10hrs fishing a week. Largemouth Bass, Tilapia & catfish - probably a wee bit different to what you are after!

If you make any lures, let us know how it turned out.

Every Saturday fishing here, 8 to 10 hours fishing in Kenya there. You Kenyans and Queenslanders are spoilt. We mexicans have to work hard to earn our little fish down here. Up north, just plop anything with a hook on it over the side and a fish commits suicide on it. And a big fish too. Lucky buggers.

Anyway. I think Auzzie with his comments about poppers being the only wooden lure is probably talking about a) salt water, and b) agressive pack feeders such as salmon and tailor, plus others. Please correct me if I'm wrong Auzzie.

There are many, as has been mentioned above, people who still prefer wooden lures for both deeper diving and surface luring. Some friends of mine who picked up metre plus Barramundi in QLD just two weeks ago, exclusively on wooden bibbed lures would agree. Metal lures in camparison, have a fairly limited scope.

Still, I can get into this type of controversy on the fishing site my fishing club belongs to. Don't need it here. Have a great day.

Yeah, my lures will be used on sammon, tailor, dhuies, etc: all the big fish. Here at Yanchep, we have a reef where the drop off is 15 meters or more. In season, we get huuuuuuge fish. I have a a Parker 7000(It's big enough to handle Marlin) and a 12 foot surf rod. I am a salt water fisher. The lures will be quite big, up to 12" long. I saw the topic on finishes, I was ondering if mettallic paint would do?

Anyway,

Regards.......Joash

Originally Posted by weisyboy

4 hours is that all. i spend a all day every satrday fishing, 8am to 4 pm and in the winter 4pm to 1am.

I suppose it's safer than the shed !!! Knives, hooks, water, poisonous fish...... go home and watch TV - - - - - - please!

Originally Posted by Auzzie turner

ummmm, if you look back on that thread, you will see someone else spoted that, and I calculated it out for everyone. Scroll down and have another look. It works out at around 1200

Must admit, once I saw you say it was 10,000 hours, I thought "what a load of crap" and never went back for another look. Even at 1200 hours, that is about 1190 hours more than me Jealous? me? definitely. Wish I could dedicate that much time to developing a woodturning skill.