Category Archives: Lure Making

Build Your Own Kastmaster Style Fishing Spoons

Kastmaster style spoons have been around for decades. They flat out catch fish, whether in freshwater or saltwater. So we’d like to show you how to Build Your Own Kastmaster Style Fishing Spoons, and save some money in the process.

With these lures being made of solid steel, the prices have recently started climbing substantially. And, with these increases, this style of lure is no longer inexpensive to buy.

Save Money By Making Them Yourself

But, there is good news! We’re going to show you how to Build Your Own Kastmaster Fishing Spoons for Cheap, saving you some of your hard-earned money for other things.

You can learn to Build Your Own Kastmaster Fishing Spoons. It’s quite simple to do, since there are only a few components involved. The time it will take you to make one is minimal, at less than 5 minutes.

We’ve listed all of the required components below, as well as a few accessories to make the task even easier. And the only tools you will need is a pair of good split ring pliers. You can see them here.

Quick, Easy Lure Assembly

Be sure that you know the front of the lure from the back, since they look pretty much the same at a quick glance. On these lures, the front is the skinnier end, and the rear is the fatter end. So be sure to attach your hook to the fat end.

Select the size spoon you’d like to work with in order to get started. Then add a single treble hook to the tail split ring. If you don’t want any further customizations, you’re all done.

Customize Your Spoon

But, if you prefer to build your lures to suit a particular species or a certain body of water, then feel free to use lure tape or lure dip to very quickly and easily customize the color of the bait.

Sometimes the slightest variation in color can make the difference between getting bites or going home empty-handed. So don’t be afraid to experiment!

The video below walks you through the steps to Build Your Own Kastmaster Style Fishing Spoons. So follow along, and then take your new spoons out and catch some fish!

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If you’d like to learn how to make a Chatterbait style bladed jig, click here.

Special thanks to Spilt Milt Productions for creating this great video.

And, as always, if you need any kind of lure-making supplies, be sure to visit our website, at http://lurepartsonline.com

How to Make a Spinnerbait

Every angler who uses artificial lures should learn how to make a spinnerbait. Why? Because spinnerbaits are one of the most popular and most productive lures known to man when it comes to fish-catching capabilities.

Spinnerbaits can be fished deep or shallow. They can be fished fast, slow or any speed in between. Spinnerbaits will catch fish in a very wide range of water temperatures and under a variety of conditions.

To put it bluntly, they just plain catch fish!

Why Learn How to Make a Spinnerbait?

So why would you want to learn how to make a spinnerbait, instead of just going to the store and buying them? There are a few reasons, but the main two reasons are these;
1 – You can make endless color and blade configurations if you make your own spinnerbaits.
2 – You can make high quality spinnerbaits for much less than you can buy them in the stores.

How Hard is it to Make a Spinnerbait?

High quality spinnerbait head from Lure Parts Online

It’s not hard at all. Spinnerbaits are one of the easiest lures to assemble. The trick to making great spinnerbaits is in choosing the right components. Good skirt and blade combinations will out-fish spinnerbaits that are just thrown together with little thought given to how the bait will look to the fish.

Once you understand what it takes to make a great spinnerbait, you’ll be spending a lot of time experimenting with hundreds of combinations of sizes, styles, colors and blades.

And as you do that, you’ll discover that certain color and blade combinations will work better under specific conditions. This can vary from one lake to another. Sometimes it can even vary from one hour to the next on the same lake!

So What do I need to Make My Own Spinnerbaits?

You’ll need a few different items to get started once you decide you want to learn how to make a spinnerbait.

You can start with the basics and then expand from there. The first thing you’ll need is the main part of the spinnerbait, the head/wire combination. You can either buy the wires and hooks, along with a mold, and pour the lead yourself, or you can buy pre-poured Spinnerbait heads. You can even buy them pre-painted. This saves you a lot of time and work.

You’ll also need some other hardware items, namely spinner blades, swivels, beads and clevises.

If you want to, you can also use spinnerbait spacer tubes to keep the blades from interfering with each other if you build a tandem blade bait.

And then you’ll need pre-made spinnerbait skirts or a variety of skirt materials in order to finish off your lure.

Once you have those items you can build your own spinnerbait by watching the videos below. They both result in the same type of lure, but use a couple different tricks to make assembly easier.

After making just a few spinnerbaits you’ll be able to start experimenting with different blades and skirts to see what works best for you on your favorite lake.

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Top Reasons for Making Your Own Lures

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Chrome Wakebaits painted by Tackle Underground member, Cougarftd

Top reasons for making your own lures

If you’re a lure maker, you already know about the benefits of making your own lures. You’ve spent time making lures, testing them and tweaking them, trying to make them the best they can be.

Or perhaps you just throw something together and if it works, you just leave well enough alone and use it to catch as many fish as you can on it, until you lose it or it breaks. And then you start all over again with making another homemade lure.

Some people like to tinker… experiment with various designs, color schemes, configurations, etc. Others just have tons of ideas for new lures or ways to vary or improve on existing lure designs.

Whatever category you might fall into, making your own lures at home is a great way to spend your spare time. It’s an awesome creative outlet for a lot of people too, allowing them to take their ideas and put them to use in a productive way.

And for some, it actually turns into a livelihood, creating an income stream that will last as long as the lure maker wants it to, limited only by their time and imagination.

Making your own lures can take a lot of different directions for different people. Some like to carve baits by hand. Others like to buy unpainted, molded hard plastic baits and custom-paint them, adding their own special creative touches to a bait, and then finish them with hooks and the other necessary hardware.

Baits like this “Beaver Eater”, made by Zachary Muhleman, can be made right at home, in your garage or workshop!

Soft plastics can be poured by hand into open molds, or they can be injected by hand to create baits without that “flat side” that hand-poured baits have. Either way, soft plastic lure makers usually find enjoyment in experimenting with different variations of colors and other aspects of making their baits. Some even design and create their own molds.

Most people who get into pouring or injecting their own soft plastic baits find it very addicting as they learn to experiment with different colors, varying levels of softness or hardness to the plastic.

They also tend to experiment with different kinds of other additives, such as salt, garlic or coffee grounds, for enhanced “flavor”, sand for added weight or a host of other modifications that they can tinker with to get their baits “just right”.

Another big part of the lure making niche is the group who like to make their own wire baits, such as Spinnerbaits and Buzzbaits. This can be done by buying buzzbait or spinnerbait heads that are already manufactured and just need to be finished with paint, blades, skirts and the other necessary hardware.

Homemade spinnerbait built using a pre-painted head. This bait was built by Tackle Underground admin, Curt Snow

Or you can choose to buy pre-painted heads and just customize them with your own choice of skirts, blades, etc. Not having to paint a lure can save you a lot of time, but it also removes the ability to do a 100% customization of your bait, limiting you to the paint scheme applied by the vendor.

As you can see, building a bait this way can still result in a very nice-looking bait. It just limits the amount of customizing you can do with the painting or customization of the heads. Either way you choose to do it, you still can’t lose.

Now we could get into all kinds of other lure-making methods and discuss hand-carving and then creating a mold for future production. Or we could talk about designing your own lure from scratch, from concept to finished product. Or we could talk about how factory lures can be tweaked and customized.

But we’ll save all of the for future blog posts. For now, just know that making your own lures is a great way to create baits that meet your specific needs. And anyone who makes their own baits will tell you that there’s nothing as satisfying as catching a fish on a lure you made yourself.

That in itself is enough reason to want to try making your own lures 🙂

If you decide to try making your own lures, please give our website a visit. We can supply you with everything you need to get started. LurePartsOnline.com