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Fishing Lures
June 11, 2007 |
LURE FISHING is one of the most exciting ways of catching predatory fish.The sight of the first predator attacking your lure and gobbling it is a sight you’ll never forget.
There are five main types of lures: Spoons, Spinners, Plugs, Jigs and Soft Lures.
Within each category there’s a huge diversity, in this post I’ll try to cover the basics.
Spoons:
Spoons are named so because of the shape of their head that resembles a spoon.
Spoons are excellent lures for beginners, as they are easy to use and relatively inexpensive.
The spoon lure’s action resembles a real fish, as it flickers and wobbles through the water. Its bright colors and random movement helps it attracts the predatory fish.
Spinners: The spinner bait has one or more metal blades located close to the swivel or head.
When reeling the spinner in, the metal blades spin, rotating the lure as it’s being pulled through the water, making the blades shine and flash as the sunlight reflects off of it .
You can find spinners with additional feathers, plastic tassel or even a tail attached, to make the lure more attractive when targeting specific species of fish.
Plugs:
“A Plug” refers to a whole family of lures made of hard plastic or wood that imitates all manner of baitfish, usually attached with two or three treble hooks.
Plugs are designed to look and move in the same way as a small fish, which often swims in distress.
Plugs come in a great variety of colors, sizes and shapes, and are divided into a few “families”: top-water plug, float diver plug, crank-bait plug, jerkbait plug and suspending plugs.
The plugs world is so rich; I’ll have a dedicated post for it in the next future.
Jigs: One of the most basic and effective lures for targeting any predatory fish during any time of the year is the jig.
A jig is a heavy, lead-headed bait with a single hook. The jig’s color may vary between brightly colored to black, and may have additional feathers, tails or reflective parts (the additional parts’ color can be altered to change the appearance of the bait quickly and economically).
Jigs are usually used for fishing close to the bottom of the sea, where the jig is bounced off the surface, giving the “jigging” motion to the lure.
When using a jig, it’s best to use a fast action, medium-heavy to heavy rod, in length of 1.80 meters to 2.4 meters.
Soft Lures:
Soft lures are mostly made up of scented latex and are divided to two main categories: soft baits and soft sticks often referred to as fry worms.
The soft baits are featured with a thicker head and belly with a tapered tail, sometimes forked like a baitfish. When using soft bait it’s best to reel it back as slowly as possible.
The soft sticks do not have a defined head or tail; rather, they look like short blunt-end worms. These sticks are most often presented as drop or drag baits.
That was just an introduction to the lures world, a separate post for plugs and posts about lures fishing techniques are yet to come.
Happy fishing 
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Bass Lures
Fishing is hobby that is enjoyed by various people. These myriad numbers think of fishing as being a test between themselves and the fish. To prove their superiority over these kings of the water many artifices are employed. Among these will be fishing lures. Both the new breed and the bass lures will be employed.
You will be able to buy the bass fishing lures that you want from various stores which sell these items. While there is a possibility of getting good bass lures you can also make your own fishing lures for bass. These are relatively easy to make and they are not that expensive. You will find that you can buy the supplies to make these bass fishing lures from various stores.
The internet will have a list of stores that you can contact in order to buy the bass lures or lure making supplies that you want. Once you have gotten these lures make a note of the known places where you can buy your next lot of lures for bass fishing.
The main item to remember when you are buying a selection of bass lures is that the lures you buy will need to attract the attention of the fish. For this reason look at the many different ones and buy as many as you feel will aid you in your fishing endeavors.
You will see the more realistic looking bass fishing lures that you have bought are the ones which draw more bass to you. Learn from experiences like this and invest in these realistic looking bass lures.
While the new fishing lures are designed to look sleek and reminiscent of live bait the antique fishing lures don’t have that particular look. In fact the general look of these olden bass lures is that of stiffness and a partial look to the insects that they are trying to replicate. You will find that it is somewhat difficult to actually find and buy one of these antique bass lures.
As the different bass fish like to stay in different bodies of water you will need to look at the nest types of bass lures that you can buy. These will include ones like maribou jigs, curly tail grubs, spinners and others.
The companies which make these interesting looking bass lures are one like Strike King Lures. You should understand that buying any of the lures from such brand name companies can sometime be expensive.