For those out there that make your own wooden fishing lures, the question is this:

"Does painting or glueing eyes on my wooden lures improve their fish catching ability?"

Everyone has their own opinion, but many seriously good lure makers argue that having prominent eyes on your wooden fishing lures will always improve catch rates. After all, fish strike at the head of baitfish, right? Fish home in on the eye, don't they?

There are definitely times when having eyes painted on your lures doesn't matter a bit.....

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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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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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Is there one fishing lure that's better than all the others? In other words what is the best lure? I think it would be impossible to say what the best lure is with all of the options available, but it would be possible to determine the best lure in a few categories of fishing lures. In this article I'm going to list the best lures in each of the categories listed. Armed with this information, you will be able to make a much more informed decision when searching for your next fishing lure.

1. Top Water - Top Water fishing lures are just what their name suggests. Fishing lures ......
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There is a huge range of bibless wooden lures out there, but most of them are topwater lures like poppers, fizzers, buzzbaits and the like, which are all very effective fishing lures but are not the subject of this article. In this article I'm going to focus on bibless wooden lures that do their thing beneath the water surface.

Bibless wooden lures are a wonderful asset in any tacklebox. They will double your catch rates because they are used in different situations than bibbed lures, so having both bibbed and bibless wooden lures in your arsenal gives yo......
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Designing wooden fishing lures is always a compromise. In order to achieve a particular feature in a lure you also have to accept that some other qualities will be lost. Designing wooden lures for fast retrieve/trolling speeds or for fishing where there are strong currents is no exception, so in this article I will go over some of the design features you can use to make wooden fishing lures (other than topwater lures) that work well under these conditions

Fast speeds and strong currents create challenges

So lets have a look at the challenges that face the wooden ......
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Fishing lures are a key aspect of fishing and without them your chances of successfully catching a fish greatly diminish. Few fish will decide to come towards and bite a sharp shinny hook, while the vast majority of the fish will sense danger and swim away. Therefore it is very important that you have a way to attract the fish to your hook.

There is a huge variety of different lures to choose from. Even with all the high tech products on the market which you can put on the hook in order to catch fish, I actually prefer to stick to the traditional way, the plastic worm. All that needs t......
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