11-14-2006, 07:09 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Sure, you can make spoons from almost any kind of metal. I have messed around with cutting and hammering out old teaspoons, etc. They make good novelty lures, but you can buy quality lure blanks so cheaply that it really doesn't save you much to make your own from "scratch"...unless your time isn't worth much.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One interesting note is that I used to make some buzzbait blades out of the aluminum snipped from beer cans. They were soft and easily "tune-able", but they worked. I had a lure I made that I called a "Coors Crawler".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You can also make some good jigging spoons by hammering copper or aluminum tubing flat and then bending it to shape, grinding the corners smooth, drilling the holes for ring eyes, etc. If you want heavy deep jigging lures, hammer one end of a piece of tubing flat, fill it with lead and then hammer the other end closed. I used to make these for deep jigging for rock fish off the California coast. You can paint them any color you want and then hang a big old treble decorated with a bass skirt on them. They really work.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also make my own poppers, chuggers and crankbaits from 1" wooden dowels. All you need is a good sander/grinder (Dremel), some screw eyes, propeller blades and/or diving bills, etc. Paint em up and cast 'em. Cheap and effective. See pic.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One interesting note is that I used to make some buzzbait blades out of the aluminum snipped from beer cans. They were soft and easily "tune-able", but they worked. I had a lure I made that I called a "Coors Crawler".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You can also make some good jigging spoons by hammering copper or aluminum tubing flat and then bending it to shape, grinding the corners smooth, drilling the holes for ring eyes, etc. If you want heavy deep jigging lures, hammer one end of a piece of tubing flat, fill it with lead and then hammer the other end closed. I used to make these for deep jigging for rock fish off the California coast. You can paint them any color you want and then hang a big old treble decorated with a bass skirt on them. They really work.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also make my own poppers, chuggers and crankbaits from 1" wooden dowels. All you need is a good sander/grinder (Dremel), some screw eyes, propeller blades and/or diving bills, etc. Paint em up and cast 'em. Cheap and effective. See pic.[/#0000ff]
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