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#1 Post by Cormdogg »

Hey lads,Started making my own floating plugs last night. Does anyone know where I can get the tiny propellor blades, I havn't seen them in any tackle shops and none on ebay.
Going to start painting some this week, what sort of bait fish should I be imitating?
Do Pollock ever go for top water lures, Im hoping to target bass too.

Any lure makers here? Making some up for pike too.
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#2 Post by The Austrian »

if you are looking for these buzzbait propellers http://images.google.ie/images?hl=en&sa ... 4&ct=title try ebay or google, you'' find lots of sellers.
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#3 Post by JOHN1 »

Cormdogg wrote:Hey lads,Started making my own floating plugs last night
Any lure makers here? .

there was one guy on here that used to make some fantastic plugs.
his name was RAPALAJO AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER :wink:
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JOHN1 wrote:
Cormdogg wrote:Hey lads,Started making my own floating plugs last night
Any lure makers here? .

there was one guy on here that used to make some fantastic plugs.
his name was RAPALAJO AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER :wink:
HAVE A LOOK IN THE LURE FISHING SECTION.


JUST HAD A LOOK MYSELF AND ALL OF HIS PICTURES HAVE GONE. :shock:
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#5 Post by Dave »

They are still up on his photobucket album, for some reason when the site was updated some of the linked images in older posts no longer appeared.

http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l6/rapalajoe/
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#6 Post by youngrod »

I would paint your lures sliver blue and alight brown and pollock do that surface lures :D
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#7 Post by uvox »

what do you make the lures out of? I'd like to have a go since model-making is another interest and i have the tools....
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#8 Post by Cormdogg »

I bought a 12ft length 22mm diameter dowal from homebase (€19.99) and 2 packs of brass small eyed screws €4 for 6! I just 100 for €2.50 on ebay. Had some trebles but ordered more today for nothing on ebay. Got all the schematics from the web and Im just copying some from pictures. Very simple, Just have an old sturdy knife for carving and a got a rotary tool from Argos for 40 quid. Taking my time I made two poppers and two jerk bait bodies last night. Easy, Got the paints today, prime, sand apint and I have a spray on laquer,Ill post em when theyre finished. Need to get few grades of sandpaper. Its a bit of fun making them and if they dont fish well they look cool and you made em yourself. Im always delighted when I catch a fish on my own tied rigs so I can only imagine catching something on my own lure! Homebase had metalic paint too and I got some glittery poster paints in the pound shop.

http://www.lurebuilding.nl/indexeng.html

http://www.make-your-own-fishing-lures.com/

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#9 Post by uvox »

cheers. good info.
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#10 Post by Dave »

Here is the post Rapalajoe put up a while back in relation to making your own lures, there is loads of good info there about materials and techniques etc.

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bulletin%20board/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=14253&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Actually, I haven't seen Joe on here in a while anyone know what he is up to?
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#11 Post by theshoreking »

Err,

I think i put this info up on the rapalajoe thread but here is a very good site for bits and pieces for lurebuilding and other items. Very good prices and well worth a look. http://www.staminainc.com

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#12 Post by Richie07 »

Dave wrote:Actually, I haven't seen Joe on here in a while anyone know what he is up to?


He had to go back home to Malaysia and then he got a job working on a cargo ship as an engineer, I think it was sailing from Singapore to the Med. Don't think he can get near a PC at the moment and even though he spends most of his days on the high seas he can't manage to throw a line.
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