home made tackle

[munty]

i got box of broken household plugs in an auction lot , yeh ok it was among 6 other boxes so i had to go through them and think about what i was gonna do with them .well i make my own leads and sometimes the wires dont stay in so i now use the brass wire holders to hold the wires in place and then pour thhe lead over them as normal . holds em great anybody got any way out tips like this ?

[chesters1]

spark plugs!!!!!!! ,raid your local garage ,use them over rocky ground

[glennk]

I make my own rotten bottom clips.

 

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/rotten-bottom-rigs.php

 

This ones quite interesting too, once you get past the 50 million cookie requests

 

http://codheadbob.tripod.com/index.html

[Ken L]

Another rogh ground option:

Get yourself some old lead pipe (the stuff that's got so much limescale that it wont melt properly for casting your own leads).

Cut it into 3" sections.

Strip the plastic off some 40amp wire and cut it into 8" lengths.

Bend the wire in two and bend the ends that are away from the loop back on themselves.

Stick the wire into the lead pipe with a loop showing at one end and hit it with a big hammer until the wire is locked in place.

Instant rough ground leads for free.

[UK_Ozzie]

Grab some 60lb single strand wire, a barrel sinker and a treble

 

Haywire twist treble onto wire then pass through the barrel sinker and haywire twist loop other end.

 

shift barrel sinker to forward loop and smash barrel lead flat (within reason, not too much , should be just flat shiny sides) with hammer and use when shiny.

 

Smash again if it goes shiny.

 

Theres all sorts of variants on that such as red fur around hook or 5 pence spinner etc etc..

 

One baitfish casting lure for bass or jigging lure for Pollock etc.

Edited August 29, 2007 by UK_Ozzie