Building a Wooden Pikie lure

[Surf Hunter]

Ok, sorry again for the delay, now, it is time to begin assebling the plug. I use 30 minute epoxy to glue in the belly grommet, tail and nose grommits, the eye balls and the lip.
Sorry for the bad pics, must have been beer goggles.

[Surf Hunter]

Time to wrap this project up. Been so busy I have neglected this.....See what happens?

Anyway, next is to through wire the plug and add the swivel for the front hook.


One the wire is inserted through the swivel and out the back side, you need to make a loop for the rear hook and the tail wrap. I use a pair of round nose jewelers pliers for this.



Once I have the half loop in the back, I put the wire in a vice and use pliers to start the tail wrap.



Then cut off the tag end of the wire, add hooks, tune the plug and finally, go fish it!



Hope you guys liked the tutorial,it was a lot of fun in the making.

Tom

[cappo5150]

awesome job Tom, looks amazing.
Would love to see some striper hawgs hangin from them hooks.

[SoCalSteve]

tom i must again say how sick that is...that thing would destroy the castaic striper!

[Surf Hunter]

Thanks guys,
These guys here I think may be a little small for stripers, they are heading to a buddy in Texas to use them for redfish and speckled trout. They are 4" and ~1.5oz (but i didn't weight them yet, just a guess).
Thanks again for the kind words and I had a good time making this thread.

Tom

[kichigai]

hi there
I've enjoyed the post and the progress but just have 1 Question
where can i get the wire that you use for to attach the hooks etc?
tahnk you in advance