Tutorial: How to make your own trolling lures

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Andre Laas

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benniejordaan wrote:
Today we got 3 of these guys, one on a bullet and 2 on my little guy as well as skipjacks. Sadly, We also dropped a sailfish that took one of my DIY feathers.
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What a day on the water! Windfinder got it all wrong again, but the fishing made up for it. Was really nice to get a new flavour on the boat, and I sure did not know the rainbow runners got so big... always thought of them as "bait"size fish. The fight is quite interesting... big initial run, then it comes in, almost too easy, and the next moment it feels like you are getting taxed with big headshakes and strong resistance.

Although that saily didn't stick properly and came off way to soon, we were treated to a brilliant show of baitfish scattering in all directions to get away from the saily, and with the clean water we could observe how the saily used its whole body and sail to ball up the baifish.... it cannot be described in words!

There were loads of garrfish around but despite my best efforts and multiple knocks on light spinning gear, I could not get one of them to stick! Next time I will have a something special specifically for them!

Thanks again for another awesome trip Bennie, and congrats on how well your own lures are working... I actually believe that our catch rate went up since we started pulling home made lures exclusively!
 
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benniejordaan

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When making a lure head, the resin head only has effect on the swimming action of the lure. The insert is the only part of the lure visible under water. The light refraction properties of resin is pretty much the same as water. That means the important aspect of profile is lost and only the insert is viewable in 2D. Try it. Put a lure under water and see how different it looks. Adding a tint to the resin increases profile of the lure head.
 

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benniejordaan

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SurfLauncher

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Hi Bennie
Awesome tutorial! Thoroughly enjoyed it,
Here is a feather lure I made ,using fly tying epoxy for the head
 

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benniejordaan

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fish big wrote:
Hi bennie how do you make the marble head konas is it a special resin
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Standard Resin with various fillers work well. You can even colour the resin with 2K paint. Maybe other paints too but I only use 2k. The colour I use for the marble heads is a pearl white.
 
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belindau

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Great Bennie. Hope you remember to show us a tutorial how you rig the cona with steel wire for single hook setup. This will greatly be appreciated. I lost a very big wahoo 2 weeks ago as the cona was not rigged with steel. Just out of interest: Do you rig all your conas, even the smaller ones with steel wire? not sure if this affects the action of the cona especially the smaller "non marlyn" ones. If rigged, must hook face up or down. Thanks
 
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benniejordaan

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belindau wrote:
Great Bennie. Hope you remember to show us a tutorial how you rig the cona with steel wire for single hook setup. This will greatly be appreciated. I lost a very big wahoo 2 weeks ago as the cona was not rigged with steel. Just out of interest: Do you rig all your conas, even the smaller ones with steel wire? not sure if this affects the action of the cona especially the smaller "non marlyn" ones. If rigged, must hook face up or down. Thanks
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I rig everything I can with steel except the really small little guys. If I could I would though.

We have gone full circle back to having a loose rig so that the hook set can turn into its best position and the lure can do it's own thing without interfering with each other. I will post something later.
 
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abriedem

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Hi Bennie, thanx for the excellent tutorial. I cannot seem to find the longer skirts on the internet. the biggest i could find was 140mm long. Can you please advise where i can find the longer skirts.

Abrie
 
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