[ckarren]

LaPala,
The $290.00 bait is an 18? Wishmaster. This bait is for trolling only. Take a look from the people that I chat with say it is money well spent. He stands behind his baits 100% anything happens, you get a new bait http://www.wishmasterbigbaits.com/why.asp . This bait is intended for one thing and one thing only, (BIG FISH).

As of the hooks, I have not had hooks brake but I have had hook straightened, bent, twisted, ripped from the bait, baits brake, and 250 lbs split rings open. I use VMC hooks that I don?t think I know are the best.

-Corey

[BassnG3]

I started because the price of Senkos seemed kind of far fetched to me. I did a search found this site and ordered some plastic and a mold then caught some fish on my creation and the rest is history. I now pour over a dozen different baits and enjoy the time spent making them almost as much as I enjoy fishing with them. My next goal is to come up with a creation of my own .

BassnG3

[Hiro]

In some situation, mass production lures are not enough. When I make lures, I consider about the conditions of my field and the behavior of the target over and over. I think the custum made lures are the best like the tailor-made suits or the Formula 1 racing cars. I think my custum made lures are the best for my fishing and if I can't catch any fish with my lures, I guess all the fish are full or sleeping on the day.

[Big Mike]

I carve and paint custom lures because it gives me such great pleasure.

When I begin carving on a block of wood, in my mind I am transported back to a particular summer day when I was about 10 years old when my Grandfather showed me how to sharpen his pocket knife on his very old and worn whet stone and showed me how to hold the blade and gently carve a nice long curl from a piece of red cedar. Every time I sit and carve I think of this moment and many other times we would whittle a stick of cedar into a tiny toothpick while we talked. We talked about his dad and his granddad and talked about stories of when he was a kid and about stories of when my father was a kid. We talked about nothing and we talked about everything. Every time I carve I am sitting and visiting with my grandfather who died more than 30 years ago.

When I start sanding the lure I begin imagining how it will sit in the water or how it will wiggle just right and where I will place the hooks and how this lure will look so good that this great big ol' fish will have no choice but to gobble up this lure. Then I start thinking about fishing and I remember my Dad bringing home a new Shakespeare rod and a Garcia-Mitchel open face reel and taking me and my brother out right then to show us how to use it, and I remember the first cast with a frog pattern darter and the big swell in the water as a bass crashed into the lure. I remember specific casts and fish that were hooked and I remember the gut wrenching feeling when the line broke because I had the drag set too tight.

As I hold my newly carved lure in my hand I start imagining what the lure will look like and how I will paint it and what colors I should use or new techinques I should try. While I am painting I am oblivious to time and I have nothing else on my mind. All of my stress from every possible source vanishes. Perhaps the only thing that bothers me might be my vision not being what it used to be, but even that is not on my mind most of the time while I am busy. After I have painted it I am just like a little kid wanting to hold it up and show everyone "Look what I did."

After getting the clear coat on the lure and getting the hooks on it I can't wait to pick up my new lure and examine everything I have done and to make mental notes of what I did well and where I might improve on the next one. Then I just have to float it in the sink to see how it does in the water and my imagination starts running again and mentally I have left to go fishing and cast the lure out and surely those fish will just have to eat this thing. Maybe I won't actuall get to fish with it for a long while, but in my mind I am already there.

And then the urge to carve another on hits me and I am back once again with my Grandfather and my Dad and my brother and all of these great memories and imagined new successes.

I do this because it brings me great pleasure. I hope each of you has as much fun.

Mike

[D.J.]

I love the feeling of myself or one of my friends catching bass on a bait I have poured. Another reason is I love the fact that I can alter any color made by the big companies to taylor it to the lakes I fish.

[jigjointer]

Keeps me sane or insane don't know I just want to make lures it's a become a necessity.Can you understand that ??????
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[Linu_z]

i love to fish and it's it a fun hobby and a real challenge to make nice goodfishing baits..

[Dean McClain]

I was lucky. Growing up on a boat dock, I was introduced to Bass lure-making before I was a teenager by someone who was spanking everybody elses butt on the lake. This probably kept my lure-buying as a child to a minimum, thus robbing me of a house-full of valuable antique lures today. But we built lures then to do what the price-point factory lures couldn't, and I build them for the same gratifying reasons now.
Dean