What's extreme fishing?

Only the most exciting, most thrilling, most fun water sport ever created - that's what!

a) Extreme fishing is fishing with a shot of adrenaline!

b) Extreme fishing is regular fishing on steroids!

Trout and salmon fishing in small water (such as streams and rivers) is extreme fishing!

Ice fishing is extreme fishing!

Noodling (the practice of fishing for Catfish using only your bare hands) is extreme fishing!

Extreme fishing uses the same techniques and methods as recreational fishing - it simply takes it all one step furt......
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Old-fashioned fishing lures could be highly collectible, valuable, and tough to locate. If you have an aged tackle box out in the garage or down in the basement, get it out now and check for some of these really rare antique angling lures. The most important lures are produced of wood, painted and completed to a high gloss, with glass eyes.

One of those three-hook wooden minnow vintage angling lure lately offered on eBay for $840, with twenty bids! The obvious glass eyes on this lure were really lifelike, and the hand painted Rainbow paint pattern gives the minnow an appearance that mak......
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In the first article of this series, we covered the very versatile floating/diving style of wooden bibbed minnows. In this, the second article of the series, we will have a look at wooden lures that are designed to sink on a slack line, rather than float on top and dive when the line is pulled. Having a few sinking crankbaits in your tackle box can increase your lure fishing options dramatically, which of course will increase your catch rates.

Sinking wooden lures are essentially just floating lures that have had weight added internally until they no longer float, but there are some oth......
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Technology continues to move forward in our world with an ever increasing pace, though it has only been in recent years that the world of freshwater fishing have seen a marked change in the way freshwater fishing lures have been made.

The biggest change in the manufacture in fresh water lures since the good old days, when pretty much all lures were made from wood is the change to plastic and then to more exotic materials such as titanium.

The fishing masters must be turning over in their graves of what once was thought an art form, is now a mega multimillion mar......
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If you have never made wooden lures and would like to give it a go, here are 5 tips that will slash the learning curve and put you on the road to immediate success.

Tip # 1 - Understand wooden lure design

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out how to design and make your own fishing lures, but it does pay to spend some time studying the different kinds of wooden lures that you can buy or make and what makes them work. Even if you never get started making your own lures, taking the time to do this will improve your lure fishing success, because you wi......
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The problem:

Ever get frustrated that you can't buy a fishing lure that does exactly what you need it to? You know the feeling, the lure you are using is almost there, it just can't be retrieved fast enough? Or maybe not slow enough? or maybe you need it to shimmy rather than sway widely?

The good news:

One of the great things about making your own wooden lures is that it becomes possible to make lures for a specific task and to fine tune and optimise them until they are absolutely deadly! Custom wooden lures tweaked in this way rock and t......
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Fishing has been practiced since before Biblical times. The equipment (nets, bait and lures) are about the only things that have changed - and change they have.

There's a growing interest in vintage fishing lures, but why?

1. Is this because vintage fishing lures catch fish better than the lures of today?
2. Is it because vintage lures are good investments?
3. Is it because they are prettier?
4. Are the older lures more interesting?
5. Is it because vintage fishing lures are more durable?
6. Is it just an interesting and fun hobby......
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A common decision when making fishing lures is what material to use for the diving lips/bibs. I've seen all kinds of materials used from all sorts of sources, but there are probably four common ones:

Perspex is a clear plastic that can be bought cheaply in sheet form of various thicknesses at most hardware stores

Polycarbonate (Lexan) is another clear plastic that can be purchased in sheets of various thickness, although most hardware stored in my area don't carry it, so you'll need to find a source.

Aluminum sheet, again available through hardware stores in various thi......
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When I was a boy I wanted to try my hand at making wooden fishing lures. I remember how I used to marvel at all the lures in my tackle box and wonder at how to make fishing lures. So without any experience or anyone to help me I tried to make my own homemade fishing tackle. Let's just say my first few attempts didn't quite turn out. That's why I decided to write this article on making wooden fishing lures so that you can avoid making the same mistakes I did when I first tried.

My first attempt at making homemade fishing tackle went like this if I remember correctly. I grabbed on old bro......
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This is the first of a series of 11 articles that will describe different types of wooden fishing lures that you can make for yourself, and the advantages, limitations and fishing applications that each type is suited to.

In this article we will focus on one of the most popular lures made by wooden lure makers recreationally and professionally - bibbed minnows that float at rest, but dive when they are retrieved or trolled. In subsequent articles we will look at other styles of bibbed lures, then we will touch on the various types of topwater lures and finally on those wooden lures that......
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