The Broke Fisher

[styksnstryngs]

Any ideas for the broke anglers out there?

Cork and bottle cap popper

Spoon lure

Thread tied jig

Ect

Im also planning to buy my first bass rod, the pflueger trion rod/reel combo for $60.

[Jrob78]

Go to any Walmart of sporting goods store and look around.  You'll find plenty of baits costing $1-$2.  It would be ridiculous to try to make a bass lure unless you were just doing it for fun and you would still have to buy hardware/hooks etc.

[the reel ess]

Berkley Big Game mono line. The Trion is the best deal in spinning reels right now, bar none.

[Jaw1]

The cost of building baits of any kind is directly proportional to the indebtedness of the build. Ex plaster of paris molds compared to custom cnc or buying hand picked balsa vs scrap wood. My point being that the more your interest grows in any hobby the more your investment grows. If your just looking for budget baits try the bargain bins but if your actually interested in building your own be ready to spend accordingly.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Scrap wood can be good if its cedar

[Brayberry]

Building your own lures will only be cheaper if you are able to sell some to offset your cost.  Cheapest way to go is some Walmart plastic worms and some Eagle Claw hooks

[Bluebasser86]

Walk the banks of popular fishing lakes, north banks in the summer, south in the winter. You'll probably find quite a few lures if you have the eye for it. I find a 3700 box or two full of cranks every year doing that. 

[Jtrout]

Walk the banks of popular fishing lakes, north banks in the summer, south in the winter. You'll probably find quite a few lures if you have the eye for it. I find a 3700 box or two full of cranks every year doing that.

^^this! I have found so many lures in the last two years i litterally filled up a whole tackle box with found lures!

[kickerfish1]

Berkley Havoc baits are cheap and effective.

[the reel ess]

In the spring, I like to find places where crappie are bedding and walk in. I'll even beach the boat sometimes and walk.

 

I'll do the same for bedding bass. If you have a canoe, kayak or waders, you can get to bedding fish from March through May around here. If I spot some bass beds, I might walk the bank or wade and pitch to them.

 

Then, if you time your trips for near full moons, you can find bedding bluegills and shellcrackers into June and July. Bream, as we call all smaller panfish around here.

 

Most of this can be done on the cheap. The bass require a little more expensive equipment and tackle.

[Kbral87]

Go to any Walmart of sporting goods store and look around.  You'll find plenty of baits costing $1-$2.  It would be ridiculous to try to make a bass lure unless you were just doing it for fun and you would still have to buy hardware/hooks etc.

Most of the Walmarts in my area have a little "bargain bin" I can usually find some good stuff in them for under $2

[bigbill]

Wal-Mart's best clearances happen in January thro March.

Checkout DSG too.

[bigbill]

Son were all broke.

[monkeyman3dee]

Maybe he was talking in terms of handmade lures from things lating around the house. I saw a youtube vid of a kid making bottle cap lipless cranks with *surprise* bottle caps and metal BBs. 

 

 

Pretty sure if you tie a hook onto anything shiny, you'll do well if you are broke enough to avoid the bargain bins at walmart. heck, a piece of floating material with hooks on it fished right is enough to have anything swipe at it. Be creative, you can probably make a lot of lures through trial and error with minimum cost and materials, other than weights/hooks etc.

 

My homemade sabiki's utilize a certain type of confetti and a really cool blood-looking sparkly nail polish (my g/f's i swear)

 

 

 

-Joshua

[Fried Lemons]

[kickerfish1]

That is sick! The next time I am out to eat I will ask for some extra straws. This will give me something to do as I wait for the food to come.