Fishing Lures: Are They Really Attracting Fish?

Fishing lures are designed to attract and catch fish not human. Nowadays, there are so many types, designs, and colored series of lures.

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In most cases, lures are all manufactured to resemble fish prey in different ways,

but are sometimes engineered to appeal to a fishes curiosity,

aggression or sense of territory. Most of them are made to look like fast moving fish, injured, or dying fish. Lures include the following types:

1. Crankbaits are also known as plugs. These fishlike body shape lures are run through the water and because of instability of the scoop under the head can make a variety of different movements.

2. Top water lures are also known as surface lures. They are float, resemble prey and can make a popping sound from a concave-cut head.

3. A jig is a weighted hook with a lead head opposite the sharp tip. They are often covered with a plastic worm or even a minnow of crawfish to get the fish’s attention. Jigging is effective deep fishing technique.

4. Spinnerbait are pieces of wire bent at about a 60 degree angle with a flashy spinner mechanism on the upper end and a hook on the lower end.

5. Spoon lures are design to resemble the inside of a tablespoon. Due to their shape, they flash in the light while darting or wobbling.

6. Soft plastic baits are made of plastic or rubber, and designed to resemble lizards, worms, leeches, frogs, and other creatures.

7. Artificial flies are made to resemble all manner of fish prey and are used with reel in fly fishing and throw with a fly rod.

8. Swimbait is a minnow – like soft plastic bait that is reeled like a plug and some have a swimming tail.

These lures can be made of plastic, wood, metal, rubber, cork, and materials like animal hair, feathers, tinsel, string and others. 

Some are designs and finished with glow paint and produce light in the night.

Every target of species (bass, tuna, walleye, pike, trout, muskie, crappie, wahoo, salmon, etc) use different lures, tools, line and gear.

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These great outdoor sports produce excellent game and action.

To produce strike in open sea, river, or lake, casting from boat and trolling is one of the popular and power techniques. Lures selection and sizing are depends on where will you take place for fishing, whether saltwater or freshwater.

Nowadays, lures is also become collectible items. These antique lures and tackle accessories include their books are increasingly search by many collectors.

Antique lures complete with their boxes are more valuable. Vintage lures can also great for special gift. Early lures such heddon is parts of collector list for sure.

Online store is the easy way to buy products and save times. Their website usually offers great information, news, video, prices of lures they are sell. Product reviews are often provides and become best guide for angler to find details items and do shopping.

Their site Articles and info are written by pro fisherman that often joint on tournament. So its good place to visit and learn. Not to mention their webs catalogs contain update photo with world quality and brands products.

Their companies site sometimes offer special work for making custom lures and free shipping for USA resident.

Simply select and click for any interest item or you can contact them via email and dont forget to views, read their disclaimer page. If you are enjoy making lures, you can buy lure components, parts or kits and create your own.

Lately, the industry releases an innovative items features high tech technology. Even many pros and cons, this high tech is success caught fish more than conventional items in live shows testing by fishermen.

Here's Fishing Lures Selections


Crankbaits
Wholesale/Bulk Lot of 51 New Born-To-Fish Crankbait Lures

 

Customer Review:
This is a fabulous set of fishing lures. They look great, high quality and are at a fraction of the prices compared to the retail stores. Can't wait to try them out. Read more...


$99.99
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Top water lures
6 Custom Shad Bass Fishing Lures-6 Lure Set -Plug-Crankbaits- Set M6X 

Product Description:
You receive 2 of each colors shown-2 red heads, 2 baby bass, and 2 silver shads- these lures are a great value - You will not find these custom lures anywhere else! We had these custom built to our own specifications to give you a one of a kind lure! All have Rattle inserts for vibrating action. Read more...
 

$11.99

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blue fox vibrax spinnerbait
Blue Fox Vibrax® 2" Spinnerbait

 

Customer Review:
My wife purchase a set of 4 afew years ago for a stocking stuffer, the trout colred one turned out to be what I call a confidence lure, when the fish, Bass, are not biting anything else they seem to go for this. Read more...
 

$4.97
star 5.0

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swimbait
Megabait Charlie Swimbait

 

Customer Review:
Personally I bought the 5" lure despite the recommendation that it was "too large". The first night I brought it out I pulled in a nice 29" Northern Pike.

Unfortunately the skin of the lure didn't stand up to the teeth of the fish all that well and it lost the eyes in the fight. Still the movement and look of this lure is the best mimicry of a minnow I've got in Read more...

 

$6.32
star 5.0

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Berkley Gulp! Alive! Shrimp 11.5 OZ Bucket
Berkley Gulp! Alive! Shrimp 11.5 OZ Bucket

 

Customer Review:
My brother and I recently went on a fishing trip to the Tampa Bay area. We like to wade fish in the grass flats and have always had success with live shrimp.

We bought our normal 4 dozen shrimp, and headed out into the water. The fish were really biting that day, and we quickly exhausted our live bait; so we had to use our artificial lures as backup. Read more...

 

$18.49
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