Customising lures?

[saltydog]

I have started to notice trends in colour choice by fish and want to do a bit more research (fishing). Has anyone out there used nail polish to customise thier lures and if so what were the results. Cause I was at the chemist today and they had some wicked metallic bronzes thru to metallic gold and only $2 a bottle.

[Ravin]

I've used it on jigheads to colour them & it works OK. The worst part is cruising around the makeup parts of the shops to buy it I tried making my lady go & buy it but she always got the wrong colours In the end she said do it yourself

[beefaman]

Now that is an interesting concept! Great idea, and I can't see why it wouldn't work.

[LakeConjolaFish]

Interesting idea because I have some lures that have seen better days and need there paint renewed.

Though I do like to use them when they have a few teeth marks in them, they seem to get more bites

[Bear]

It works well guys.

I have managed to get some that match the Attack colours. I needed to clean up my BreamMaster gold Attack and the nail pollish worked a treat.

[beefaman]

I will be rummaging through the wifes make up drawer tonight Just hope she doesnt catch me in the act!

I've been using Model paints for my lures. Go to a hobby shop and check them out. They are really good. You can get a nice range of mettalics and fluro's. Humbrol and Revell seem to be the best brand. You can also get clear varnish to coat them with.


Dave

[Mitch]

Saltydog,

I started to get bored with the colours I was using and was interested to try out some spun out patterns and see if they would work..so out came some Revlon lavender smoke, pink, dark blue etc..(don't ask where they came from) and yeah slopped a bit of the stuff on some scorpion 35s, a snap shad and some surecatch cheap minnows. Came up with some crazy styles, and they certainly work too. Kinda backs up the theory that it's more in the lures action rather than the colour.

Try out different colour patterns, it's fun to catch a fish on something that you've painted up yourself.

[mike_mad_fisho]

gday
i agree the action has more do to with the lure than the colour.
but the colours do hep as most of the guys use the gold pattern and that seems to work a treat. i have noticed whent hey fish for spanis mackerla down here the use a red head and a white body for there lures. i have painted a manns 5 in a smoke coour and white underside and the fatteis love it. so u can always experiment.
thanks michael

[Stuie_02]

Hi Everyone

I have used nail polish on flies and had all sorts of results. im not sure if the smell of cheap nail polish put fish off?

Does the nail polish grip to the lure. plastic being a non porous material should buy all means repel the nail polish. nail polish should be great for wooden style lures being a porous material.

Cheers
Stuie

Oi Mitch you should tie up custom flys from the shetlands tail man, you could sell them as Shetland Wasabi's. They would go off man.

They would be mad casue everyone knows that Shetlands make the best bream fisherhorses.

Shetland Wasabi's, all natural scented. Two flavours, hay seed poo & clover poo green.

what do ya reckon?

[jimi]

Ira, have you been sniffing the nail polish again???