Making your own baits!?
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Jacksonville, IL/ Huntington, WV
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Making your own baits!?
Hey folks, I was just wondering if anyone makes their own baits or has ever attempted to make their own baits. I have just recently began messing around with pouring my own plastics. I haven't yet bought any plastic in bulk I have just been doing repours (melting down old or used plastics). So far it has been alot of fun. I have purchased a mold and made a few of my own out of Plaster of paris. I went out to our farm pond this weekend and ended up catching a few bass on the frogs that I made. I haven't yet fished with the dragonfly, I am looking forward to trying it out. Here is a picture of some of my pours so far.
#2
RE: Making your own baits!?
I did once. I melted old baits in the backyard, and that was the end of that chapter Neighbours complained for a "few" days about our house stinking like burnt rubber. And they didn't turn out well.
#4
RE: Making your own baits!?
i mainly make jigs, spinnerbaits, and buzzbaits
i have made plastics in the past and will be starting back up soon (i think), also have been thinking about making some crankbaits, if you ever do them and use cedar, which i have a good source of here, when sanding them wear a mask, cedar dust is very toxic[X(]
and i would like to start back building some rods
BTW, nice job on the baits
i have made plastics in the past and will be starting back up soon (i think), also have been thinking about making some crankbaits, if you ever do them and use cedar, which i have a good source of here, when sanding them wear a mask, cedar dust is very toxic[X(]
and i would like to start back building some rods
BTW, nice job on the baits
#6
RE: Making your own baits!?
balsa is fine, i was just making a reference to the fact that cedar dust is toxic, the advantages of cedar or basswood, from what i have seen, they are less boyant than balsa, any of the three will work fine
#9
RE: Making your own baits!?
i once melted down a plastic worm to fix a crack on my old canoe that was taking on about 200 gallons of water a minute.[8D]
aside from wrapping my own rods, and pouring a few giant worms out of torn plastics, I usually just break donw and buy plastics.
aside from wrapping my own rods, and pouring a few giant worms out of torn plastics, I usually just break donw and buy plastics.