GOOD TIP

Where possible try to use white cedar wood for forming your lure bodies. White cedar is a light and strong wood that holds up well in water. Red cedar or other similar woods can be substituted if white cedar is not available.

Simple Spinner Bait

The last and hardest to construct involves elements of both previous pieces of fishing equipment. The Spinner-Bait starts like the Top-Water Lure and is the same up to after it is carved out. Now cut a spoon as with the spoon lure but dont drill holes at the end. Rather drill a hole in the middle. Now take an eye screw and use it to attach the spoon to the scalloped end of the lure by screwing it through the hole in the spoon into the lure with the rounded side of the spoon facing and fitting snuggly into that scalloped groove. Paint all surfaces to your own design. Now screw an eye screw into the other end and attach a trebble hook with a split ring. This unique architecture gives The jitterbug lure an attractive jittering motion as it is reeled through the water as well as its name.

Simple Spoon Lure

This lure is made using one spoon, two split rings, a trebble hook, your paints and some of the other tools we listed earlier. Securing the spoon in a vice, saw the handle off as close to the spoon as possible. Adjusting the spoon in the vice, first drill a hole in one end with an 1/8 inch of spoon left at the end to spare, then do likewise to the other end. Using the metal file, file off the rough edges of the sawed end of the spoon until smooth and round. Paint the spoon only on the rounded side, leaving the other side to shine in the water when used; this attracts the fish. Attach split rings at each end. Attach a trebble hook to the split ring at the larger end of the spoon only