A Beautiful Fishing Lure "Mess"

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 Tonight was a fun little adventure.  I made a "mess" on my table with all of my fishing lure parts, past lure projects, and future lure projects.  Now that it's all cleaned up, repacked into flat plastic sorters and stored in a reused Amazon box, my table is now clean and the Mrs. won't be too aggravated ... unless I dropped a bead or hook i'm not aware of and she stepped on it.


I'd like to do a blog post to recap the video and consolidate some of my ideas in an effort to formulate more lure making content in the (hopefully near) future.

A link to the video in question here!


First, my camera skills with my phone are atrocious.  I have some smaller off-brand GoPro cameras with mounting equipment and such.  In hindsight, I should have used that equipment instead of my Galaxy 9 smartphone.  (It still works, the OS still updates, don't judge).  

I also needs to work on my verbose, but this was an impromptu video, so cut me some slack.


Moving on, I need to touch up and refine my custom spinner.  It might be my "pride and joy", but it is far from perfect.  I do have an idea to make a "tomahawk torpedo" lure incorporating it (and hopefully sell a few on Etsy), but that is in the far future.  For now, that shape needs refined a bit.  Here is a pic of it:



Next is wire refinement for lures.  I've already taken steps to improve this design.  The wire used on the two failed spinners was very thin welding wire.  I've previously acquired a spool of similar thickness galvanized steel wire from the craft store and also some longer, more stiff (like using two pliers to twist eyelets for lures stiff) wire from JoAnn's that is used in mannequin posing.  

The wire used in the initial spinner design was 0.7mm, same thickness as pencil lead.  The stiff galvanized mannequin wire (i guess people use them for fake flower bouquet posing also) is 0.95mm thick. 


Finally, I do feel this video can be used as a base and lead into rod reviews, more lure building videos, and location videos.

Some ideas I intend to glean off of this:

* Spinner building videos

* Types of riggings using spin-n-glo type spinners going with a dropshot or dragging weight method

* Bottlecap Lures



* DIY / Repurposing different items for lure making - failed prints, printing excess, "scrap items"

    *** I would REALLY LOVE to incorporate some vids shot out while survival  camping with my kids this upcoming summer ***

* Cover more trolling lures and my trolling methodology

* Making "hoochies" and fishing with them.

AS ALWAYS, my vids will be focused solely on fishing within Interior Alaska and beyond.  What works up here might not work down in the contiguous US, also known as "The Lower 48" by us up here.  There are a lot of similarities because fish are fish, lakes are lakes, and trolling is trolling.

Thanks for reading and have a great day.

Fishing is Life, and for everything else there's coffee!!!


Location: Fairbanks, AK, USA

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