Explains, in text and drawings, how to craft fishing lures that are more effective than those you buy. This title shows you how to design lures for your hometown waters, so they're better suited to local conditions and catch more fish. It includes instructions for building plugs, surface lures and poppers, spinners, spoons and buzzers.

Make Your Own Lures and Start Catching Fish To catch a fish with a lure that you made yourself is one of the most satisfying experiences an angler can have. This book explains, with detailed instructions and hundreds of superb illustrations, how to craft fishing lures that are more effective than those you buy. By making your own lures you'll beat the high cost of tackle, while developing a creative and satisfying hobby that requires just a few tools and easily obtained materials. Lurecraft shows how to design lures for local waters, so they're better suited to regional conditions and catch more fish. The author explains the science of fish attraction-why lures appeal to fish-and covers tools, materials, and basic techniques for working with wood, metal, wire, and paint. You'll learn to build plugs, surface lures and poppers, spinners, spoons and buzzers, jigs, trout lures, steelhead and salmon lures, and lures for big water fishing. This classic book, newly updated for the twenty-first century fisherman, includes an illuminating step-by-step guide to carving, painting and finishing lures, along with a colorful photo gallery of hand-carved lures based on the author's designs. Make your own lures to beat the high cost of tackle and catch more fish! - Step-by-step guide to carving, painting and finishing lures - The science of attraction--what makes lures appeal to fish? - Advice on tools, techniques and materials. Hundreds of superb diagrams and illustrations - Colorful gallery of finished hand-crafted lures