I had a crack at making my own lures, but with a 3D printer. I ended up making the mother of all marlin teasers, which took 40 hours or so to print. Came up awesome though, and raised some bills that's for sure. Stick baits and poppers etc are easy enough to make too.
I've designed and made a few with a 3D printer. The most critical part is getting the balance right. Took me a while to get my bibbed minnows swimming right. You might need to take some weights, blu tac and a fishing rod to your closest mate's pool and try different weight positions until it swims well.
Also if you haven't come across Marling Baits on youtube, you've got a big long rabbit hole to disappear down :-)
Da pirate
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Date Joined: 03/05/15
Looks ..
Looks alright too me !!
will be interesting on
the colours.. cheers
pirate..
scano
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Date Joined: 31/05/07
Good job
I had a crack at making my own lures, but with a 3D printer. I ended up making the mother of all marlin teasers, which took 40 hours or so to print. Came up awesome though, and raised some bills that's for sure. Stick baits and poppers etc are easy enough to make too.
NORUN NOFUN
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Date Joined: 15/08/11
Great job Its an expensive
Great job
Its an expensive hobby, been making a few myself for the past 18 months.
nebbian1
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Date Joined: 31/08/17
Nice work! I've designed and
Nice work!
I've designed and made a few with a 3D printer. The most critical part is getting the balance right. Took me a while to get my bibbed minnows swimming right. You might need to take some weights, blu tac and a fishing rod to your closest mate's pool and try different weight positions until it swims well.
Also if you haven't come across Marling Baits on youtube, you've got a big long rabbit hole to disappear down :-)
Here's a tuna I caught on a homemade stickbait:
Good luck with the rest of the journey!
jighead
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Date Joined: 03/02/12
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Cheers for the tips mate
big john
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Date Joined: 20/07/06
Awesome
Nice work.
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Jigs available online in my web store!
uncle
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Date Joined: 10/02/07
Made a similar long one way back when
managed a nice big queenie off the rocks at Quobba, then we got into leadhead jigs.
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs