Homemade lure: Somewhere in the past I saw someone made homemade fishing lures by bending a beer bottle cap, drilling a hole at each end, attaching hook to one end and split ring to...

squarehead1943

Somewhere in the past I saw someone made homemade fishing lures by bending a beer bottle cap, drilling a hole at each end, attaching hook to one end and split ring to other. Anyone seen or have done this. How to hold split ring? Any luck catching fishing?

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

Just looked them up on Ebay. interesting.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Welcome to the fishing stage squarehead. Where are you? Please add your location to your profile so we don't have to ask each time you post. I have heard of this, seen pictures, but have never used one. Don't know why it wouldn't work.

BILLBYRD1 Loc: Prattville Al

Welcome Square from Bill. They will hit a square piece of wood with hooks so more than likely yea they will hit it.

Grampa Loc: S. Coast Oregon USA

I reeled up a coho salmon with a banana weight crossways in its mouth, mooching the bar in Coos Bay, Oregon 1000 years ago.

USAF Major Loc: Sea Bright, NJ

Caught northerns that way in Ontario a long time ago!

squarehead1943

howdy to all, I live in Hockley, Texas. Air Force veteran, early warning radar tech., work 38 years afterward in electronics and instrumentation, and then life insurance sales. Started fishing with my dad at very early age. He was a trot line fisherman, used chicken guts for bait, guess who had to tear the guts in fish bait length.

Graywulff Loc: Cortez,Co.

squarehead1943 wrote:

howdy to all, I live in Hockley, Texas. Air Force veteran, early warning radar tech., work 38 years afterward in electronics and instrumentation, and then life insurance sales. Started fishing with my dad at very early age. He was a trot line fisherman, used chicken guts for bait, guess who had to tear the guts in fish bait length.

Gives rise to the old saying, give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him for a,lifetime. Trot lining is almost a lost art. Illegal,here. Welcome,square head glad you are among us.

seasoned Loc: Southeast Michigan

I have a friend who cuts off the handles of spoons and creates lures from them. And I have caught fish on his homemade lures.

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

Welcome squarehead, when we were kids and ran out of bait one time started digging around the bank for worms. Couldn't find any but I saw some small white roots figured hey, we caught bluegill on them, go figure, true story

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

Grampa wrote:

I reeled up a coho salmon with a banana weight crossways in its mouth, mooching the bar in Coos Bay, Oregon 1000 years ago.

Wow Grampa you must be really old. You have Badbobby beat by a mile.
Welcome Squarehead.

msmllm Loc: Huntington, WV

Well if you can catch fish with a beer bottle cap, maybe all those cheap China lures I ordered will work for me.

Dadeaux Loc: Florida Panhandle

Coos Bay...great place for spear fishing...at least it was 1000 years ago...just be careful during seal breeding season...they don't like you getting around their pups...plus the seals would steal the fish off the spear or off your line if lucky enough to get it on the line & off the spear.

Old75 Loc: Broken Arrow, OK

Looks similar to the spinners they are attaching to jigs now.

hacksaw Loc: Pasadena, Texas

squarehead1943 wrote:

howdy to all, I live in Hockley, Texas. Air Force veteran, early warning radar tech., work 38 years afterward in electronics and instrumentation, and then life insurance sales. Started fishing with my dad at very early age. He was a trot line fisherman, used chicken guts for bait, guess who had to tear the guts in fish bait length.

Hey squarehead! I’m only about an hour east of you in Pasa-getdown-dena. Thanks for your service and Welcome to the Fishin Stage.
Hack 🇺🇸🇨🇱