How to make a perfect bucktail lure

By Kevin B.

Making your own lures is not only easy it's fun. You'll save up to 90%, hundreds of dollars a year for most anglers, by making your own tackle. It is the only way you are sure to get the exact lures you need to catch those trophies. You can also make everything from mega bass lures to floating saltwater lures, too!

Start customizing every aspect of all your lures today! ...color, weight, size, finish etc. You may even decide to make a few dollars by making lures to sell to your fishing buddies. So here's how to make a bucktail lure:

1. Place the hook eye in the eye of open loop wire shaft
   
   
2. Next, pinch the two ends of the wire shaft together and slip the desired spinner body component down the shaft. With those small spinners, you may have to trim the short end of the spinnershaft a little. Note: This hook has a piece of premium latex hook tubingon the shank for more fish attraction.
   
   
3. Slide remaining body components and the desired spinnerblade with properly sized stirrup clevise onto the shaft. Note: the blade has a polka-dot die cut prism tape attached.
   
   
4. Using some needle nose pliers, grab the wire shaft about 1/4"(6mm) above the clevise and bend the wire three quarters (270°)around the nose of the pliers.
   
   
5. Now wrap the tag end of the wire shaft tightly around the shaft. Wrap two full turns.
   
   
6. Trim excess wire as closely to the shaft as possible. There you have it and it took less than a minute to make it!
   
   

Now go out and use your new lure that you made yourself!

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