Lure Substitutes?

[Splash]

Hi Team.

After this morninings' trip, the wife continues to lose all of my best lures to fish or poor angling methods.. :-[ :'( :-[ :'( :-[ :'( >:(

What effective cheap substitute can i use for pelagic lures??

I don't want to keep forking out $10 bucks for one lure and have the Mrs lose it after 2 uses...

Splash

[TheSaint]

Where's the love??

[Leigh77]

What effective cheap substitute can i use for pelagic lures??

I don't want to keep forking out $10 for one lure and have the Mrs lose it after 2 uses...

Splash

At $10 a lure you are already using cheap lures...you wont find much cheaper then that. To combat your problem of losing fish to "fish" or "poor angling technique" try teaching your partner how to angle a fish properly.

[ffejsmada]

Hi Team.

After this morninings' trip, the wife continues to lose all of my best lures to fish or poor angling methods.. :-[ :'( :-[ :'( :-[ :'( >:(

What effective cheap substitute can i use for pelagic lures??

I don't want to keep forking out $10 bucks for one lure and have the Mrs lose it after 2 uses...

Splash

Sorry Splash, but I'd be leaving the missus at home mate!!!!;)

(don't tell her I said that);D;D

Jeff

[FNQCairns]

Hi Team.

After this morninings' trip, the wife continues to lose all of my best lures to fish or poor angling methods.. :-[ :'( :-[ :'( :-[ :'( >:(

What effective cheap substitute can i use for pelagic lures??

I don't want to keep forking out $10 bucks for one lure and have the Mrs lose it after 2 uses...

Splash

Hey splash try one of those elongated sinkers or a bean just above a treble, can use wire, work very well.

Find a few thongs (beachcomber designs used to work well) cut and shape then run wire (or mono) through with a treble, used to make and use these in differing sizes when I was a young bloke for bream, flathead, whiting, anything we called them thong-acks as young blokes do and we called using them bliping:) ...simple days those, cannot say how they would go on some of your monsters though.
Spoons as in cutlery make good lures, check out one of the charity shops.

Buy some dowl cut drill a hole through and wire up.

Your imagination is the limit, fish will hit any junk, I have a quiet home made design that totally brains them, real simple also but you will need to PM if you would like it.

cheers fnq

[Splash]

mmmmmmmmmmm yes please :-)

thanks boys for those thoughts....

You should of see my f585 sounder wroking on weekend! Absolute Heaven!! Large bladders in entire water corridor - cobia, Macks, GT's and who knows what else... I also saw a strange phenomena whereby two straight lines pierced up from bottom at an angle...... thoghts on this one?

SPlash

[finga]

.. I saw a strange phenomena whereby two straight lines pierced up from bottom at an angle...... thoghts on this one?

SPlash
Two rods thrown overboard by your dearest and sweetest??

I make my own hexheads out of brass from the scrapey...or used to make little spinner types of lures for perch etc from nana's forks and spoons....work well ;D

[Splash]

thansk Finga - I had better go out and check if those 2 spare rods are still sitting in my boat... :-(

[oldboot]

spoons are your answer... spoons.

Aparantly with a hacksaw, a drill and a bit of filing, you can get two servicable lures out of a stanless spoon::) .

Or almost anything heavy and shinny.

cheers

[loophole]

miilo lid save the foil from when u open it and glue and shape this around a sinker or hook .

works good

[Splash]

great ideas!

[NAGG]

Check out Ebay ...... some of the knock offs go for peanuts:D ... Nagg

[chrisallangler]

There are some cheap surecatch metal slices around at @mart @ll sports 4 for $10 and they would definatley go well on pelagics.

[Splash]

Thansk boys...

I have sheets of high grade stainless steel in th eback yard (3 mm thick).

How best can i stamp lure profiles out of this sheet?

SPlash

[Noelm]

are you talking about casting types of lures or trolling lures? some are very simple to make, some a bit tricky, just depends on what you want to do, casting lures are a "snack" I have posted a heap of times on my old timer soecials if you are after casting lures, just let us know and I will tell you what I use, and also jigs as well.

[Splash]

Casting lures mainly?

Jigging lures woudl be good also.

SPlash