added to a lure will determine whether the lure floats,
sinks or suspends and also whether it sits in the water
horizontally, nose up or nose down.
For my four lures I plan to make two of them slow
sinkers which rest in a nose down position and the
other two floaters which sit horizontally in a slightly
nose down position. What I hope to achieve is two
sinking jerkbaits for deeper water that work in an updown as well as side to side action (if this is possible)
as I jerk them back in and two floaters that will work
with a side to side action one to two feet from the
water's surface. I have not really done any research
into jerkbait design or balancing and since these are
my first homemade lures it is quite possible that the
lures I'm making will have a totally different action to
that which I'm trying to achieve!
Sealing the Lures
Now that the throughwires have been fitted to my lures and all the filler has been sanded flush it's time to
seal an balance the lures before finally painting them
and getting out and doing some fishing with them.
Balancing My Lures
So what does it mean to balance a lure exactly? Balancing a lure is the process by which weight is added
to the lure (internally) to make it sit in the water in a
specific way to give it the action we require. For example the amount and positioning of the weight that is
The process of balancing a lure obviously requires that
it is put into water, so before I can proceed the lures
need to be sealed so as to prevent the wood blanks
from soaking up water. There are many different products that can be used to do this. I would opt for a poly-