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Every fisherman has tried to make their own lures from time to time. By either changing the Colorado blade to a willow blade on your spinner bait, you have modified the lure. This in a general sense would be called making fishing lures. In our modern era we live in, making fishing lures has been that much easier thanks to big companies like Cabelas and Bass Pro Shops. I shop at Bass Pro Shops just for the fact that I have a couple of stores within 2 hours of my house. But with on line stores and great websites like Cricketlegs.com, shopping for the right product is real simple. I have been modifying lures for a few years now and have perfected some of them every well. One of the best ways to teach and educate yourself on what fish like, is to be on the water. Now if you are a bass, striper, trout, tuna fisherman, all of these techniques can be modified or tweaked to your liking. I just keep trying until something works and these days, I document. I mean I really document on everything to water temp, weather, wind, water clarity, sunny or cloudy, and the color of the bait. If I even add a piece of reflective tape on the side of the bait, or maybe add a little bit of weight tape to the lure, I want to know if it works so it gets documented. I have a great friend ask me one time what I caught my winning fish on back in the tournament of 2002. I could not remember to save my life! Well next time he asks about something more recent, I will have to lie. (get it, fisherman never tell the truth, except on Cricketlegs.com)

Making fishing lures can be very easy to do with kits available from stores like Basspro.com. Lets say you are going to modify trout fishing lures, my specialty. I like to use spinner type rigs either with live bait or worms like the following type of bait.

Now by changing either the hooks to a small treble or by adding additional hooks for short strikes is a good way to reduce the overall size of the bait, can sometimes create strikes. Also changing the blade to an Indiana type blade with a different color scheme. All of these types of techniques can be categorized by making fishing lures. Try it sometimes and see what happens. Very inexpensive way to dress up your lures or make your own, the bragging rights go up if you made it.

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I have talked some about the advantages of Lowrance and their products here at Cricketlegs.com. Personally I own 4 Lowrance products that i love; the Lowrance GlobalMap 5300C iGPS GPS+WAAS Chartplotter with Built-In Antenna, Lowrance X 17 black & white display (at the time, this was the best graph money could buy under a grand, now they are out dated because of color displays), Lowrance GlobalMap 5200C GPS+WAAS Chartplotter, and a Lowrance X85 black & white display that desperately needs to be replaced. The 2 GPS units also have the Navionics Gold+ XL-9 Electronic Charts cards to show map contours, lat. & Long. lines, and depth contours of your favorite lakes or oceans. This memory card is a must if you want to locate river channels, depth contour and specific underwater wrecks and/or reefs.

Currently I have fishing buddies that have numerous Lowrance products on their boat. A boat in particular has the new Lowrance LCX-113C HD 50/200kHz Sonar/GPS+WAAS Chartplotter Combo. I will have to admit, spending $2400 on a unit seems crazy, but a 10" display with all the functions of GPS, chart plotting, high definition sonar, and ability to setup with autopilot, what else could you ask for? I have personally seen this Lowrance product and it works awesome. You can setup tracks on the GPS and once connected to an auto pilot type control, just push a couple of buttons and the boat, controlled with auto pilot, will take you exactly where you went. Unbelievable! The resolution on the display may even show them fish playing cards. Definitely tell the difference between trees, brush, rocks and fish, no question.

We are trying to let everyone know about products like Lowrance or any other fishing related products we use at Cricketlegs.com. So when purchasing an investment like these, you can get real life experience and field testing of the items. Best of luck and let me know if you have the same type of experiences.

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I am constantly upgrading my electronics to keep on the cutting edge of technology from cell phones, computers or my fishing electronics. On my latest fishing vessel, I bought the new Lowrance 5300 GPS package with a built-in GPS+WAAS antenna. This unit has both GPS and sonar capabilities tied up in one display of about 5” diagonal, sunlight-readable, super-high-resolution with 256-colors and a display high-detail 480 x 480 pixel resolution. Having this type of compact display was essential for the amount of room I had on the dash of my pontoon boat. The Lowrance GlobalMap 5300 gives my that flexibility with not having to worry about mounting another antenna for the GPS as well. The new color sonars and GPS are a must for me here on out. Being able to truly know the difference between a tree and fish is not a worry anymore. Before I bought the Lowrance GlobalMap 5300 , the Lowrance x 17 black and white display was only allowing me to go through the motions. Back in the day, I had one quarter of this type of technology at ten times the cost. Check this system out and let me know what you think. If I hit the lottery this week, I will be buying the mack daddy of sonar/GPS units, the Lowrance LCX-113C HD 10.4 inch Screen Color GPS and 200 kHz Sonar System.

 

 

 

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