[shayne du]

A couple of photos of hand carved lures underway.

 

[shayne du]

A couple of small batches underway, the large format lures are off to a cod tagging weekend in a couple of days.

 

[shayne du]

The smaller lures are getting tested on bass this Friday, so fingers crossed.

 

[Nick Phillips]

Very nice...........

 

[Dave Irving]

Lovely Lures Shayne,
Bet the Cod are going to love them. If you get some pics of the cod, would love to see them.

 

[Neil Dixon]

Nice work.
Now you've got me thinking about trying this myself - as if I don't have enough to do already!

 

[Tom Massey]

I started making some lures and all my fishing buddies took the **** out of me!! defo gonna try a bit harder now. would be an awesome feeling to catch on a lure you made yourself!!:wackit::wackit::wackit:

 

[Steve Lewis]

There must be no better feeling than to catch a fish on a lure made by your own hands, great stuff :clap:

 

[kevin white]

great work, how have you weighted them to swim ?

will be joining you soon on the lure building scene.

kev

 

[shayne du]

Only just started playing with weights for another type of lure, these ones thankfully don't need them as I wanted a floating style lure and the action is pretty close to what I wanted. They run with a medium wriggle and small amount of roll for belly flash. Hope to do gloss coats today and fit bibs tomorrow.

It is a good little hobby and can recommend it.

 

[Tom Baxter]

You guys may be interested in this...

http://www.thelureforum.com/showthread.php?t=5404

 

[shayne du]

Good read and worth downloading, you will need something like 7-Zip (free ware) to open the compressed .rar file.

 

[shayne du]

New cod design successful

The cod lures worked on the tagging weekend. The river system has had restoration work done to it along with a Murray Cod restocking programme. The guys who where given the lures to trial are tagging and monitoring growth rates. This species can reportedly grow to over a 100lbs in their freshwater habitat, these ones have a few more years ahead of them yet.