ACarrell Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 My "first" was when I was about 6 years old .... Some dog hair tied to a hook....caught bluegill and bass ! Anyway, skip forward 40 years ... And here's the first "real" lure I've made . I made it mostly to see if I could do it. I carved it from walnut...hopefully will be a halfway ok suspended crankbaits. Here's a pic while the epoxy dries. And of course now I'm making a few topwater baits... I could see this becoming an addiction ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACarrell Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 I just saw the rule about not posting photos. Apologies. I don't know how to edit my post to get rid of it. I just saw the rule about not posting photos. Apologies. I don't know how to edit my post to get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRammit Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 I just saw the rule about not posting photos. Apologies. I don't know how to edit my post to get rid of it. I just saw the rule about not posting photos. Apologies. I don't know how to edit my post to get rid of it. Only admin can remove a post The rule says pictures are allowed if it adds insight to the topic..... The topic here is your first lure, which is pictured......... I would assume you didn't break the rule 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodkaman Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 I agree with JR, no rule broken here. We want to see those first lures. DAve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACarrell Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Awesome... Thanks guys ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReactionAttack Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 When I was 5 or 6 I raided my dad's top dresser drawer for a bobbin and thread. I waited until he went duck hunting and nabbed a handful of teal feathers. There is a picture of me somewhere in his file cabinets where I am thrashing away with a fly rod at the local creek and jerking shell crackers out one after the other. I enthusiastically tied flies until I was 12, when I got into bass fishing. I entered a working man's tourney at 13 and won big bass. I overheard the winner talking about how he would have had even more weight if the hook on his jig had not broken. I started looking into pouring my own heads, and within 6 months was casting flipping jigs with Owner hooks and wire-tied skirts. People loved them, and I started my first business out of my parent's garage. The first jig wasn't pretty. Flat brown acrylic paint for the head, poop-brown and purple skirt. At 16 I borrowed my dad's Paasche and started painting cranks, which led to making cedar and balsa plugs. The first one was ugly and had paint drips all over. But man did it catch a load of smallies in the Brazos River behind my house. 15 years later I'm designing match-the-hatch swimbaits for Gulf coast species, and still turning out jigs for my loyal following. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelhains Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) This thread just brought to mind old memories from my childhood. When I was probably five or six I remember finding small pieces of scrap sheet metal with holes already in them from my dad's work shop. My mom was a florist so I got a hold of some of her florist wire and bent them into the shape of a hook them attached them to the pieces of sheet metal. They were my five year old version of a spoon! Edited September 1, 2015 by joelhains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 I really enjoy reading these old stories...And I think you guys posting them like reliving those times..I know I did..Nathan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbob Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 I was 8 and I made a smack n shad look alike that was terrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilinjoe Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 I was around 8 and my pappy was makin some lures and paintin them with house paint,one fell off the bench and dad said a cuss word and kicked it away. the next day I found it and put a hook in it. first cast I caught a tree.and lost lure. smilin joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
