I love turning wood lures on my lathe. I usually make classic designs, but sometimes try to innovate as well. I also make spinners and spinner rigs.

I make inline spinners - knockoffs of Panther Martins & CP Swings. The best thing I ever invested in last year was a Boggs Tacklemaker (no, I'm not a schill for them). It really makes twisting my trout spinners easy. Actually it's kind of bad because I end up making more than I really need.

I think woodworking is something I'd like to try (in theory), not so much lures, but maybe landing nets.

Most of the flys i fish with are ones that i tie my self(exept dry flys cause i cant get the hackle to do what i want) and duck call lanyards braided from para cord.

I make all my own flies, made half a dozen fly rods, and one 1940's White River style wooden jon boat.
I find a great deal of satisfaction in building gear as well as the opportunity to tune and modify it to particular needs and situations

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Well I made a mistake when I didn't log every hour I spent on it. It took 3 months but I was working part-time, finishing my biology degree at college fulltime, and somehow got a 4.0 for the semester?

Back in the 1940's the original jon boats of this area could be put together in a few days. They had old wagon wheel tires for ribs and had to stay in the water and "soaked up" so they wouldn't leak, wood swells when wet. Sometimes they didn't even care to bring them home and had a bon fire with them at the end of the float trip.If you are interested in this history a great book to read is "Rivers to Run" by Larry Dablemont. http://www.larrydablemont.com/ This is where I learned about the old time river boats in the Ozarks.

I guess it would take about a month working at it a little every day. Since it is made with plywood coated in epoxy you can only make it so fast because you have to wait for the epoxy to cure. As I make more they will go together faster.

Kyle
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Kyle...
Those are lovely boats! Remind me a little of the Au Sable (Michigan) long and narrow river boats with which you are possibly familiar. I've spent some time down your way talking with old-timers about guiding, floating, and fishing before the dams went in on the White, etc. Really fascinatng stuff.

yes, sometimes i make my spinners,and my leaders. i made my boat and sometimes i get an old lure and paint it. once my uncle gave me an old jitterbug that was black and i painted it yellow with black and red spots and i caught my biggest bass with it!

I make my own spinners in a Panther Martin design for trout and smallies. I've also molded my own jig heads for walleye. Don't sell any of it but sure as heck don't have any problems finding folks who want me to give them a few:)

I tie my own coho and sockeye salmon flies. I have sold flies before when these guys from down states came up here and bought about $80 worth of spinners and spoons. Me and my brother were really the only ones catching fish at that hole that day. After I limited out and gave my brother my fly rod and he limited out, those guys came up to me and asked if they can buy some off me, lol. I sold them about $15 worth, and soon enough they were catching fish too, lol. Just some days they don't even pay attention to those spinners since 300 people throw them at 'em.