Lure &
Tackle Making
Some fishermen choose to build their own tackle,
as a hobby or
a way to save money.
Lure & Tackle making is a fine hobby
and something to do
when cabin fever set's in. Sometimes it just feels better to fool a fish
on something I made instead of bought.
There is a wide range of Lures you can make from tying flies to melting
lead. Some of the more popular store
bought lures can be made just as nice at home and the fish don't know how
much you paid for the lure!
In Ohio some favorites to make are homemade jigs, flies, egg sacs, spoons
and especially worm casting
or trolling harnesses. Below are some examples and ideas of tackle that
you can make at home at minimal cost
submitted by members of
the OHIO fishing report forums.
Making your own
bullets
Some hunters choose to make their own bullets, here are the tools and materials you will need to do it.
Although you can melt lead in an open steel over a HOT heat source, I recommend
a lead melting pot specifically for
producing fishing lures, Lead is very dangerous to work with and pour so its
alot safer to work with a production lead
melting pot.
The one I purchased is a lee production pot and its perfect
for the molds I use and the amount of lead I
need to pour. You simply plug them in, allow a few minutes for the lead to
melt, then lift a lever to allow molten lead to
pour into your mold.
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Melting lead is not only dangerous its also highly poisonous, so I do this
outside as I don't want the fumes lurking
in the house or even the garage. I fill the pot with lead and turn it on, then
wait until the lead has all melted into liquid.
You can get lead at your local metal scrap yard, alot of old plumbing systems
were made out of pure lead, and as
houses and buildings are updated the lead ends up at the scrap yard. Its not
very expensive and for a few bucks you
could buy an old sink trap, and have enough lead to make bullets for 3 years. Lead
can also be found at sporting goods
stores in small quantity's but its often pricey.
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Once you have melted your lead you will notice that on top of the lead there is
a thin layer of "dark" covering.
This is impurities in your lead. You don't want this in your pot because it will
clog your tube where the lead pours out.
You want to remove the darker material by removing with an old spoon. You
lightly scrap the top of the lead and the
impurities will cling to the spoon. Once removed your ready to pour your
bullets.
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I start by making sure the inside faces of the
mold are clean of debris on BOTH sides, if 1 single piece of dust or
dirt gets inside your mold, then the mold will have a
miniscule gap when you close it.
This gap will make your lead escape the cavity and the
result will be misshaped bullets. Big defects from such a
small piece of dirt. I take a small sharp razor blade
and place it flat on the face of the mold, then I scrape evenly across
the mold being careful to let the blade cut into the
metal, you don't want to scratch the mold in the very least !
You want to scrape the dirt or dust off in a soft even
movement with the blade completely flat on the molds face.
Also be sure you oil your mold every few months at the
hinge, pour oil through the hollow hinge pin, along with
the hinge itself. After your mold is oiled & cleaned
Now its time to preheat your mold. Some more
modern molds have a "preheating cavity" on the bottom
of the mold, pouring molten lead into this cavity
produces a lead ingot which makes the mold HOT enough to produce
jigs or sinkers. If you do not preheat the mold, the
cold metal of the mold will cool the lead before it has time to fill the
cavity and the result will be disfigured jigs,
bullets or
sinkers. If your mold does not have this preheating cavity,
then you have to preheat your mold by other means.
Now your mold and your lead pot is ready, you keep a firm grasp on the molds 2
handles
to keep it closed all the way and you turn it upside
down. You place the mold to the pot until the lead tube is above the
hole on your molds preheating cavity. You let the lead
out to fill the cavity in 1 rapid flow until lead comes out at the top.
Then you know you filled the entire cavity. After you
fill the preheating cavity immediately turn the mold over to the top
and begin filling the molds cavities with lead. You let
it cool for a moment and open the mold, and if you did everything
right you will have produced perfect
bullets! After
you finish all your pouring and you unplug the lead melting pot,
clean and oil the mold, to ensure it lasts a long time.
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Here is some
other tackle that YOU can make at your home
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