goofy lures

Okay….. I’m sure we have all laid in bed at night and thought about what we can do to make our lures catch more fish…. woops maybe thats just me. Okay I’m kidding. But I’m sure we’ve all either tried our own modifications or else thought about it, so I thought I’d start a thread for people who have tried a new touch to an old lure. Whether it was a flop or a sucess, lets hear it. I’ll start with something i came up with 2 years ago. Its a fluke with a glass tube with beads in it rubber banded to the body. This adds good weight and a loud clicking when retrieved. It worked but it kept coming out everytime i cuaght a fish. I did the same thing attaching the glass pack to a spinner bait but it really didn’t help much.

Sticking on the Fluke thought, nothing real new but I stick a nail in the tail end so when I pause it if the fish is looking it will “settle” back toward them.

Did you ever try to stick the beads inside the body?

One other not so ground breaking deal is that I have used lead thread and wraped it by the trebles on my stickbaits to make a floater into a suspending bait. It is real cheap and can be removed when finished.

This next idea isn’t truly unique, but I think it works.

I took a 1/4 oz rattle trap in a brown crawdad color & drilled into it & only left one bb in it. So far I’ve used it once & it sounds very cool. I haven’t caught anything with it yet, but I will.

Thanks,

Oh, here’s one more that really works well.

I took a fluke and I put a teenee weenee split shot just wee from the hook (about a 1/4″). It falls quicker, but what it really does is imparts a really great wounded/dying shad movement .

Thanks ,

i got one and i never seen it work it looked like a pos in the water but dad swore up and down it would work

he took a homemade spinner bait no skirt or blades threadeda 4 inch rubber fish on the hook (before the fluke) then where the blades went he put a 90 on the end and threaded another rubber fish on there all it did in the water was dragg water with 2 little tails barely moving