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Learn to make your own handmade fishing lures, baits, and tackle with these easy-to-follow instructional guides. Simply browse through the available topics below and select the tackle topic that best matches your project.

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How to Make Soft Plastic Baits
Instructions for making soft plastic fishing lures such as rubber worms.

Making Plaster Molds for Soft Plastic Baits
Instructions on how to make plaster molds for use in crafting homemade plastic baits.

How to Make a Wire Fishing Lure
Instructions for making wire fishing baits such as spinnerbaits

How to Make a Double Blade Spinnerbait
Explains how to make a double-spin pyramid spinnerbait

Instructions for Bending Eyes for Wire Baits
Instructions on how to create four different types of eye bends for wire baits such as spinnerbaits or buzzbaits.

How to Use a Living Rubber Skirt Factory
Instructions for using a Living Rubber Skirt factory to add skirts to wire baits.

Videos Showing How to Make Wire Baits with a Wire Forming Tool
Videos showing how to make wire baits and spreaders using the Boggs Professional Tacklemaker wire forming tool.

How to Make a Wooden Fishing Lure
Instructions for making a wooden topwater fishing lure from scratch.

How to Make a Crankbait
Tutorial from Sebastian Perez on making handmade crankbaits and fishing lures

How to Make a Metallic Japanese Minnow
Instructions for making a Japanese Minnow fishing lure with metallic coat.

How to Make a Lure with Through-Wire Construction
How to make a fishing lure using through-wire construction

How to Seal Wooden Lures Using Propionate
Article explains how to use propionate to seal and base coat soft wooden lures.

Making GripSticks for Hold Lures During Painting & Drying
Detailed instructions on building GripSticks for holding fishing lures during painting and while drying.

Masking Patters for Painting Fishing Lures & Crankbaits
Printable real-size masking patterns for painting firetiger, gill, eye, sonic, and dalmation patterns on lures and crankbaits

Lure Making & Design - Eye Spots on Fishing Lures
How to make and design eye-spots and eye triggers on fishing lures

How To Make Jigs by Mike Barkley
Instructions on how to make your own jigs for fishing.

Powder Painting Instructional Videos
Excellent instructional videos showing many different aspects of powder painting jigs, spoons, etc.

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