Have you sometimes wondered how to make fishing lures ?How to make a wooden fishing lure?I am going to show you how to make fishing lures.You can make your own saltwater fishing lures, bass fishing lures,freshwater fishing lures etc. They can even be better than rapala fishing lures.Just follow these steps below and before you can notice lure making is your next hobby...Below are little tutorial about lure making, on top of every picture will be a text about, how to achieve that what is on picture.Now let´s make fishing lures.

1. you will need wood.
2. You will need a knife for molding the lure,
3. different sandpapers,
4. hacksaw,
5. some copper wire,
6. drill,
7. fishing weight,
8. some plastic,
9. waterproof glue,
10. waterproof varnish,
11. some aerosol paint or markers,
12. duck tape,
13. fishing rings,
14. hooks
15. time.
    
    
    

1.From woodblock i molded a model of lure.I chose aspen for material  it is light and easy to be molded, if you can you should use balsa wood it is the best for making lures, rapala makes his lures from balsa and many others lure making companies also make lures from balsawood. There are lighter and easily molded materials like balsa, but for me aspen was the easiest to get.If your hand is unsteady then you could draw a pattern of your lure on your woodblock.

2.I gave the first touch with coarse sandpaper.Just enough to lure get the desired shape.

3.With fine sandpaper i gave the last touch.The finer sandpaper you use, the better your end result will be.

4.Next i sawed with hacksaw from the nose length ways for wire and a i sawed the second trench for mount the tongue.I saw the lip trench according to how deep i want the lure to go.There are 1 rule, smaller the corner on horizon, the deeper the lure goes.The shape of the lip and the shape of the lure affects how will the lure play.

5.Now i took little drill and drilled a hole for the weight.You should at the weight, because there is a chance lure will fall sideways on water, if you are beginner use wight later on you can take the weight away if you like.It is not necessary, but i would recommend that.

6.For the weight i chose usual fishing weight, they where carefully placed on the bottom of the drilled hole.Not full because you want to leave some room for the wire.

7.For the wire i chose the copper wire(in this case diameter was 1mm(0,03937inches)),what went in one piece inside the lure, making a loop for the hooks.

8.Next i made a lip for the lure.For material i used CD-towers see-through cap.On economic crises VISA or American Express will also do the job;).The shape of the lip i cut out with scissors.I smoothed the edges with sandpaper.In one end i melded a trench with hot nail, for the wire.

9.Now i filled the trench with clue.You should use it moderately - just enough, that openings would be nicely filled.

10.When the glue was dry, i used sandpaper to sand down superfluous glue and restored lures previous slim form.

11.Now to the most sophisticated and responsible part - painting.To prevent any paint going on to the lip i used duck tape to cover it up.

12.Before painting i first cover the lure with varnish.It will protect the wood.In terms of security you may add an addition layer of varnish.For varnish i used Boat varnish.

13.Varnish layer half dried, i covered the surface of the lure with white white paint(2-3 layers).Half dry varnish layer because, in that case paint will look more natural and shiny.

14.White paint dried, you can take out colors.For painting i use usually aerosols and/or highlighters.You can use other tools - there are no limits,except one, colors should be waterproof be waterproof.

15.For painting i have developed my own method. First i brush on 2 main layers of paint.On this case it will be, pink under the lure and from above yellow.Using different colors at the same time colors will "melt together" and the colors will look more streamlined.You should look that you wont use too much color because color may start flow and the result will be not so good.

16.Next i have painted back of the lure.Usually i have chosen this from the main tone little more contrast.But that's no rule.Playing with color combination is one of the many enjoys making the lure..

17.Now to the details.This time i only gave the lure eyes.Beautiful round eyes...You can make round eyes by tipping a nail head into color.You can make the dot with black highlighters.If you like you could paint on the lure some stripes,dots,mickey mouse´s...In this phase i also removed the ducktape from the lure.Painting is done they are not necessary any more.

 
18.The last phase is to cover the lure with varnish.I used already mentioned boat varnish.Varnish will give the lure beautiful shine.To get stronger protection you can add extra layers.You should also varnish the tongue of the lure.

19. Now add hooks and go fishing.Hopefully the lure will play.This lure did play.When i made my first lures, then some of them went sideways or didn't play at all.If your lure wont play or goes sideways don't worry.....Remove Hooks and ..We have a nice key chain!!!!

If you have any questions/suggestions please leave a comment.