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Offline senkosam

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Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« on: January 10, 2006, 12:34:26 PM »
I hate to see plastics take up space for years, like any lure I've paid good money for, and would rather give them new life than chuck them as duds.
Besides, I subscribe to the theory that a bass that has never seen a bait, is more apt to strike it.
 
Here are some creations that have kept me busy in winter when ice fishing was slow and the weather  brutal:
http://www.zipperworm.blogspot.com/
http://morecabinfevercreations.blogspot.com/
http://senkosamsothercreations.blogspot.com/
http://2005effectivehybrids.blogspot.com/
http://senkosam.blogspot.com/

All  it takes is a little imagination, crap lures you got suckered into buying from clearance bins and a candle flame. Beats sitiing around watching the boob tube!
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Offline JackJ

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Re: Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2006, 12:37:51 PM »
Very Nice!!!  :clap

Are you making a mold to make those copies???
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Re: Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2006, 12:51:47 PM »
I've just begun!
Made five since Dec 1, '05 and have over two dozen more to make.
The copied baits were easy.
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Offline GMAN

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Re: Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2006, 01:09:51 PM »
You have some cool creations.  Me likes.
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Offline senkosam

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Re: Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2006, 01:47:01 PM »
Light my pipe, put in a good movie in the old vcr and away I go, in my own little world, thinking,
"now what goes with what that might catch bass or crappie?" (Many crappie lures make great smallie baits!)
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Re: Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2006, 01:33:24 AM »
Senkosam,

Good to see you hear too! I haven't talked to you since buying your awesome glitter.

Those plastics look great, by the way. Let me know if you need some help with 'field testing."  ;D

I think some of those in the right colors and sizes might nail some west coast steelhead too.

-Alex
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Re: Making golden lures from old junk (soft plastics)
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2006, 08:33:22 AM »
I have about half a dozen field testers - what's one more?
e-mail me and I'll send you some, but I expect a report on this site once the season is in full swing!
What I am trying to prove by coming up with new designs is that function follows form and certain things about a bait (other than presentation) will get a fish's attention and provoke a strike more so than others in the same lure category.

For instance, a Sassy Shad has a club tail, yet a similar tail on a Slider Grub seems to provoke far more strikes. Why? And simply because it does work better, how can that tail be used on the back of other lures? How can the Sassy Shad itself be modified to be more successful? The pictures reveal how the Sassy Shad has been modified into a more productive lure.

Some lures work superbly in some of my local waters and only fair in others, which is amazing because you would think, a fish is a fish no matter where it swims. I guess biology, fishing pressure, environmental factors and other mystery elements can make all the difference whether a lure is magical or a dud.
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