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Building the Perfect Tacklebox Care and Repair of Fishing Lures	Bass Jigs - Jack Phillips Basic Lures You Can Make

Building the Perfect Tackle Box

Walk the aisles of tackle at a sporting goods store and it's easy to get overwhelmed by what's on the shelves. But it doesn't have to be this way. You don't have to have a tackle box so large it could double as luggage.

As an angler, no matter what the skill level, you need to simply ask yourself 'what do I need to catch the fish I'm going after?'  This eliminates a lot of unneeded stuff from the start, and then you can fine-tune your choices.

Think of the species you fish for and then think of your tackle box as a toolbox. Just as there are basic tools needed for nearly any job, so are there basic lures and terminal tackle needed for your favorite fish. Pick lures, baits and terminal tackle that will allow you to fish from water's top to bottom and you should be on the right track.

Just as a good mechanic can accomplish nearly any task with the basic tools, so can the angler catch fish with the basic baits. Know the essentials and master them, then worry about over-loading your tackle box with specialty lures and baits.  Besides, experience says that when all is said and done, you will be returning to the basic baits much more often, and much sooner than you first realize.

Care and Repair of Fishing Lures

from the Make Your Own Fishing Lures website - There is still the problem of taking care of and maintaining repair of fishing lures so that they are always in good condition after they are made. This requires some effort and time but is usually easy for the angler who makes his own lures.

Since he made them and put them together, he also knows how to take them apart and repair them. He also has the hand tools and fishing lure parts necessary for such work.

Fishing lures in general do not require much care when storing them in a home or shop. The best idea is to put them into cabinet drawers or individual boxes so that they can be found easily and can be kept dry.

In humid climates or near the seashore it is important not to expose the metal parts to the air; otherwise, hooks will rust and other metals will corrode. Fishing lures which have feathers or hair should be kept in air-tight containers so that moths and other insects or small animals will not get to them. This also applies to new fishing lures which haven't yet been used. Click Here to Read More on Care & Repair of Fishing Lures

Bass Jigs
by Jack Phillips

Jigs are one of the oldest artificial baits used in angling. The earliest examples used a weighted hooks with animal hairs or bird feathers tied to them. The jigs used today are still just that simple, but come in a wide variety of styles. By adding an assortment of jigs to your tackle box will make you a much more versatile and consistently productive bass angler.

Jigs can be broken down into two general categories; those that are designed for light-line use, for smallmouth and finesse largemouth bass fishing; and those designed for the heavier line and largemouth bass in and around cover.

The light-line jigs are a lot less bulky than their larger cousins. The hooks are also a lot smaller. Relatively snag-free conditions are fished with these jigs, allowing the use of spinning outfits with 6 to 10 pound (2.7 to 4.5 kg) lines. Click Here to Read More on Bass Jigs

Basic Lures You Can Make for Freshwater Fishing

from the Make Your Own Fishing Lures website - No one is sure who made the first fishing lures for freshwater fishing. The fishing lure known as a "plug" had its origins in the distant past.
The modern wooden fishing plug had its beginnings around 1900, and in the following years several companies started to manufacture these fishing lures for black bass.

Later they made larger and stronger fishing plugs for pike, muskellunge, and salmon. Plugs are now widely used in freshwater fishing, as a look at any fishing tackle store showcase or counter will reveal.

Today there are many different types, sizes, shapes, and colors of freshwater fishing plugs on the market. The angler who wants to make his own plugs can duplicate many of the more popular models. However, there are a few basic types, and the construction of these will be covered in this page.

To make plugs you will need wood which can be cut into small blocks and then shaped to the size and form you require. The best all-round wood for making freshwater fishing plugs is cedar. Straight-grained white cedar is excellent since it is light, strong, and easy to work. It also stands up better in the water than most woods. Red cedar can also be used instead of the white variety. Other woods which can be used for making plugs are basswood and birch.

Most of these woods can be obtained at a lumber yard in large blocks or round logs. They can then be sawed with a circular saw or hand saw into convenient small blocks about 6 in. long and about 4 in. square.

The fastest way to shape wooden plugs is with a lathe. With a wood-turning lathe or even a metal-turning lathe, for that matter, you can shape the plugs quickly and uniformly in fairly large quantities. If you already have such a lathe, so much the better. When turning down plugs with a lathe, mount one of the wooden blocks between the centers. Click Here to Read More on Making Basic Lures

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