Book on Lure Making - just post war.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 1:47 pm
I wonder if anyone here remembers this book. I have no recollection of the title or the Author's name but I read it while a schoolboy and took it out from Balham Library several times.
The Author, a Welshman IIRC, was a wizard at making lures from odds and ends and discarded household stuff.
His speciallity was worn out toothbrush handles. He would cut the brush head off, use boiling water to soften and shape the plastic, drill the ends and affix swivels and hooks with split rings. The bright and sometimes transclucent colours made killing baits - he said.
The other one, one I made plenty of and in fact caught my first Pike on, was a large Devon Minnow type lure made from bunsen burner tubing and sheet metal taken from 2oz tobacco tins for the blades. They rotated on large beads slipped over twisted galvanised garden wire.
He said he was more successful than other lure users as his lures cost so little he would use them in snaggy and weedy waters, losing one was pennies.
I think, if I can find out who wrote it, and the books name, Iwould read it again - and make some more lures!
The Author, a Welshman IIRC, was a wizard at making lures from odds and ends and discarded household stuff.
His speciallity was worn out toothbrush handles. He would cut the brush head off, use boiling water to soften and shape the plastic, drill the ends and affix swivels and hooks with split rings. The bright and sometimes transclucent colours made killing baits - he said.
The other one, one I made plenty of and in fact caught my first Pike on, was a large Devon Minnow type lure made from bunsen burner tubing and sheet metal taken from 2oz tobacco tins for the blades. They rotated on large beads slipped over twisted galvanised garden wire.
He said he was more successful than other lure users as his lures cost so little he would use them in snaggy and weedy waters, losing one was pennies.
I think, if I can find out who wrote it, and the books name, Iwould read it again - and make some more lures!