Looks like the weathers finally turn’n. We might be cut’n ice by next weekend !! This is an excellent time to post this especially if your home bound or don’t look down ice holes.
Now’s a great time to start making your own fishing lures, ie.
jigs (bass, crappie, pike), spinners, musky bucktails, etc. Yes – you can do it ! All it takes is a little patience, some nimble fingers, a little start-up cash and your time. I can’t think of anything more gratifying than catch’n a good fish on your own stuff !!! For me it’s having a client set-the-hook on a 40” musky on one of my own bucktails !!! Another prime example is a 3/8oz bass jig I make using deer bucktail hair (everybody uses a rubber skirt). In the spring up around the Hayward Wisc. lakes I fish, I swear those fish have never seen a hair jig and old fashioned pork eel. The locals all use what the fish’n tv guys use, (rubber skirted jig and rubber frog chunk). Pull in a 12″ crappie on your own jig and your ready to tackle Babe Winckelman.
All you need to get started is : vise (put your money into a good vise – it’ll pay off later as you get experience), some jig heads (pre-molded and painted or from your own/friends mold),
deer hair (bucktail or squirrel,rabbet, etc.), thread, bobbin, head cement. You’ll probably be spending 30-35 $’s
I started out hand painting my jigs and sonars, now I use an air brush. This winter I might try carv’n my own musky bodies. If you like to use your hands this is a great hobby.
I got tired of paying a “sawbuck” for a musky bucktail, now I have more than I can use in a life time ! Ha You can never have enough equipment – A !
Here’s a few of my favorite suppliers (I’m not sponcered by these guys but I do believe we need to support our local family owned up-nort shops.):
Stamina Components, Minn.,MN – Staminainc.com
Moore’s Lures, Woodruff, WI – Mooreslures.com
Reinke Brothers, Milw, WI – do a search and you get a rep. group
Rollie & Helen’s, Minocqua, WI. – Muskyshop.com
Good tie’n Gofish
Kensyl Reading EFN Pro Staff