Spoon Buzzers
By diemai
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Years ago I came across buzzbaits for the first time , these were quite unknown in Germany those days and still not many people cast them over here . I was curious about them , and after having made some "wire-frame-buzzers"(a German mailorder sold the components back then , only for a year or two), I wanted to try something different , so I tought about making buzzbaits out of old , stainless spoons , quite fast and easy !
The trick is , not to saw off the handle of the spoon first , but utilizing it to fix into a vise to saw and file the root of the handle to shape , so that a skirt or a tied bucktail would fit onto it !
The hole for hook attachement is also drilled BEFORE cutting off the handle , after cutting it , the sawcut is ground and filed to a little pointed shape to slide on the skirt easily .
I know , that these buzzers can't be fished in heavy cover due to having trebles attached , just made them to try about such lures over here , though I have occasionally fished them , I can't remember about having caught on them .
Anyway ,the smaller one with a bucktail(tied by a friend) is always in my box , I'll keep on trying;) !
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