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Title: Using a candle to make entirely new lures
Post by: senkosam on 02/07/20 21:02 UTC

Whether store bought or poured soft plastic lures, there are unique designs just a little imagination can create using a candle flame and the parts of two lures. Most move differently in the water and catch different fish species plus you can downsize or increase a lure's size. I hand pour or inject many of my lures and still find uses for the parts of each I can melt together to change body or tail shape and action. What has surprised me was how it seems the new hybrid lures caught fish better than the originals. Here are some examples:
hybrids or just parts cut off of a Sweet Beaver:
(https://i.imgur.com/JdI9SQr.jpg)
Note the claw from the Beaver added to a grub body (above) caught this and a bunch more panfish:
(https://i.imgur.com/VzSSrAW.jpg)

One of my best discoveries: fuse the bodies of two grubs after removing the curl tails:
(https://i.imgur.com/gFZ59We.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/g8jauhM.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/bc47gBY.jpg)
Wacky rig a light jig or rig the usual way and FISH ON!

Claw of a craw lure added to a grub body:
(https://i.imgur.com/zAc1ZZe.jpg)

Two tails from an injection grub mold added to a worm segment/ wacky rigged:
(https://i.imgur.com/hGBdgrH.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/opCTqYI.jpg)

Kut Tail Worm tail added to a thicker grub body:
(https://i.imgur.com/zB7hG2j.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/9vm3rYd.jpg)

Even small sunfish jump on it:
(https://i.imgur.com/2gmCC1l.jpg)

Added a tail spike to a grub body:
(https://i.imgur.com/MXILxcs.jpg)

Here I added the head of a craw lure to a grub body:
(https://i.imgur.com/zwEknt4.jpg)

Most of us have over 1000 soft plastic lures hanging around unused and the means to pour more. This has turned into a subhobby of lurecraft and I highly recommend it. The ideas presented all catch fish when rigged on a light jighead and there are many others I haven't posted. Fish sense lure shape, size, water displacement and action even at night and strike these like no tomorrow.

Title: Re: Using a candle to make entirely new lures
Post by: WALLEYE WACKER on 02/07/20 23:08 UTC

Sweet twist to bait’s

Title: Re: Using a candle to make entirely new lures
Post by: basscatlildave on 02/08/20 07:35 UTC

Neat ideas.

Title: Re: Using a candle to make entirely new lures
Post by: senkosam on 02/08/20 08:42 UTC

Thanks.
I forgot to mention that I smooth the seam with a battery powered soldering iron or sometimes roll the seam over the candle flame.

Another idea is to dip a lure in the hot plastic to thicken it, allowing the excess to drip back into the Pyrex cup.
(https://i.imgur.com/g01eCWT.jpg)
The original injection pour is at the top.

The the max thickness I like in a mini-stick:
(https://i.imgur.com/GyTlncK.jpg)

You can dip any lure body to thicken it.
(https://i.imgur.com/AKwomrm.jpg)
This thickened part was cut from another thick stick and fused to a grub body. The action is a waddle using rod tip twitches and catches anything that swims.

Again, there is NO limit to lure designs you can come up with that fish bite.

Title: Re: Using a candle to make entirely new lures
Post by: DF on 02/08/20 08:44 UTC

 Good stuff senkosam. I enjoy doing this also.

Title: Re: Using a candle to make entirely new lures
Post by: andrewlamberson on 02/08/20 08:53 UTC

It is fun to create new lures, especially when they catch a lot of fish! I had a buddy weld a flat blade onto my soldering iron and the hot flat blade makes it really easy to add parts together straight.

A warning though. The smoke created when plastic burns is very toxic so don't breathe in the smoke or let it get in your eyes or nose.

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