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• How to Make Fishing Bait From Dough

  Use the best bait available and you may increase your chances of reeling in a fish. While many anglers choose to cast out with lures or live bait purchased from the nearest tackle shop, the wily angler can save a few dollars and indulge in… read more

• How to Make Your Own Soft Edible Bass Bait

  Bass anglers use a variety of hard and soft lures in pursuit of the popular game fish. A visit to a local sporting goods store will typically provide dozens of different lures designed to attract and entice a bass to strike. However, some m… read more

• How to Make Your Own Plastic Crankbait Fishing Lures

  Crankbaits are highly effective lures on a variety of game fish, including large and smallmouth bass and trout, and are manufactured from different materials including plastic. Tuned to dive to a set depth, crankbaits are commonly fished wi… read more

• How to Make Your Own Power Bait for Trout Fishing

  Trout fishing is a serious endeavor for many anglers, who devote long hours to preparation and fishing. A variety of lures and baits are used by anglers when fishing for trout, including night crawlers, corn, crickets, in-line spinners, fli… read more

• How to Paint Wooden Fishing Lures

  Anglers who choose wooden lures do so because of the buoyancy that wood offers over metal ones. Wooden lures are designed to copy the shape, size and motion of a small bait fish. It is important to paint your lure the same colors and patter… read more

• How to Make Your Own Hard Plastic Crank Bait Fishing Lures

  Plastic crankbait body Small eye screws Pliers Split rings Split ring pliers Treble hooks Enamel model or lure paint Hobby brushes read more

• How do I Make Dough Balls for Fishing Using Corn Meal?

  You can make your own dough ball carp and catfish bait using corn meal and a few other ingredients. However, there is not one recipe that works best for every angler. Ask around and you'll find that every angler has his or her own preferred… read more

• How to Make Your Own Paste Fishing Baits

  Paste baits are used to catch a variety of fish, including carp, catfish, bream and trout. The baits are usually strongly scented to lure fish. Because they do not have hard shells like boilies, they spread a scent trail more effectively, m… read more

• How to Fish With Crankbait Lures

  Crankbaits are one of the most versatile lures anglers can use. Coming in every color and combination imaginable and in sizes from a fraction of an ounce to several ounces, they are used for just about every freshwater and saltwater game fi… read more

• How to Make Garlic Fish Bait

  Catfish, carp and other bottom feeding fish will eat almost anything, from meat to marshmallows. Garlic, with its strong smell and flavor is a favorite ingredient in many fishing baits. It can be added to pretty much any bait recipe to prov… read more

• How to Make Buffalo Fish Bait

  Buffalo fish are bottom feeders like catfish and carp, and like these other filter fish, they will eat almost anything. Every buffalo fisherman has his own buffalo bait, so you will have to experiment to determine the perfect formula for yo… read more

• How to Make Trout Mush Bait

  In many fishing families, trout bait recipes are an ancestral affair. Recipes for dough or mush bait are passed down from father to son through the generations. The theory is, if it has flour and something strongly flavored in it, the trout… read more

• How to Make Your Own Soft Fish Bait

  Did you enjoy chemistry in high school? Are you the kind of person who just loves to figure out how things work and try different ways of putting things together? If you answered yes, making soft bait for fishing should be right up your all… read more

• Ingredients for Trout Bait

  Several factors are significant when fishing for trout. Success depends on the right equipment, location and methods for enticing the fish. The question of lure vs. bait is an important consideration and answered only by a fisherman's prefe… read more

• How to Make Fishing Bait out of Hair

  Whether you're running low on bait or you just like to do things yourself, making hair bait is an option that many fisherman use. Also referred to as hair jigs, hair bait is ordinarily made from rabbit fur and other animal hair, but you ca… read more

• How to Make Stink Bait

  Stink bait is often used when fishing for catfish. Catfish are attracted to bait with a strong smell as they use their sense of smell to find food. Stink bait is usually made with rotten ingredients blended together with other ingredients t… read more

• How to Make Trout Bait

  There's nothing like some tasty bait to get rainbow trout to bite. You can buy plenty of good bait at a local bait shop, but why not have some fun and make your own? Making trout bait can be a relaxing prelude to your fishing trip. And you'… read more

• How to Make Fishing Bait for Catfish

  Many anglers are bitten by the catfish bug and become lifelong enthusiasts. The type of bait is a critical element in catfishing, so many anglers develop their own and sometimes guard their formulas carefully. read more

• How to Make Your Own Fishing Lure Out of Wood

  Have you ever surveyed the assortment of Rapalas, crank-baits and topwater lures in your tackle box and suddenly realized none of them were exactly what you needed? In this situation you have two options. You can either buy a fancy new lure… read more

• How to Build Fishing Lures

  Building hard plastic fishing lures, like crankbaits, allow crafty anglers to produce a lure that is uniquely theirs. There are many styles of crankbait bodies available from tackle retailers that just need a paint job and hooks in order to… read more

• How to Make Lures for Fishing

  Expert anglers prefer to craft their own fishing lures in order to gain an advantage by having baits in their arsenal that no one else does. Whether is be a certain paint job or tape pattern, lures like spoons can be made in such a manner t… read more

• How to Make Rubber Fishing Baits

  Fishing lures aren't always cheap, and the costs can add up quickly if you are going through lures and bait faster than you'd like. If you are looking to save some money, making your own fishing lures and baits is a great way to cut down on… read more

• How to Make Your Own Fishing Bait

  If you don't mind mixing up a bunch of smelly stuff and making a mess, you can make your own fishing bait. Though there are many fish bait recipes, you may have to go by trial and error. Use what ingredients seem to work best in getting a f… read more

• How to Make Fishing Bait

  There is something special about using an old rod that your father handed down to you or putting on your favorite fishing hat. Things like this add an extra sense of familiarity and gratification to the fishing experience. Fishermen that ma… read more

• How to Make Ground Bait for Fishing

  Fishermen have long enjoyed using rods and other equipment that they have made themselves. Bait is no different, as many anglers enjoy making their own bait and some even have guarded secrets about its preparation. You can easily get starte… read more

• How to Make Stink Fishing Bait

  Stink bait is an unpleasant concoction of fragrant ingredients designed to catch catfish and carp. Most catfish enthusiasts have their own stink bait recipe, but they all have one thing in common: dough. Without some flour to hold all the d… read more

• How to Make Your Own Fish Bait

  Making your own fish bait might be something you don't want to do in the kitchen. Not only is it messy, but it also stinks. Most anglers probably have their own sworn ingredients that work, but this recipe is designed specifically to catch… read more

• How to Make Crankbaits

  Crankbaits are typically imitations of small fish that are used to attract larger fish. Made of a variety of materials, including wood and plastic, crankbaits are designed to dive to various depths to reach areas underwater where fish are l… read more

• How to Make Homemade Trout Fishing Bait

  Go to the tackle shop and you will find all kinds of magic bait for trout in jars, bags and on cards. One of the best all-around baits for trout is just plain old box cheese, but some fishermen are a little more creative and like to "kick i… read more