Homemade saltwater fishing gear

[Wetwoodshunter]

This year I learned how to powdercoat with a fluid bed and brushes. It’s a simple setup and I use a vertical toaster oven to cure my powdercoat. I would be interested in seeing anyone else’s gear they make.

[Jake Dogfish]

That’s very cool! 

[metlhead]

No pics, but learned how to make blade baits from Goodwill table knives. All my hali/ling jigs are plumbing scrap and lead from x-ray rooms.

[Wetwoodshunter]

Here is a side by side from some of the first ones I made when I was still using a heat gun to cure.

[Wetwoodshunter]

No pics, but learned how to make blade baits from Goodwill table knives. All my hali/ling jigs are plumbing scrap and lead from x-ray rooms.

If I had a line on scrap copper pipe I would make a bunch of those too. 1/4” dia at 4” work great nearshore. I have melted a bit of the x-ray lead too. Lead like everything else has gone up in price.

[Night goat]

I wanna get a lathe for making salmon plugs

[wadu1]

It also looks like you are loading 3" non-toxic 12ga on a Mec loader possibly a Junior.

[Crunchy]

The rootbeer colored ones do really well. 

[NorseNW]

After paying I believe almost $5 a piece at the marina I was moored at and losing 2 in one morning trip I decided to see if I could cut down on costs. I purchased the lead blanks on Ebay and already had the hooks and swivels.  My setup is far less sophisticated than yours. Just a rattle can of Rustoleum hammered copper penny and a piece of cardboard.  Hopefully they last a few casts before peeling off. 

Clearly I agree with Crunchy on the success of rootbeer.

Tight lines and screaming drags!

[Wetwoodshunter]

Those look great. That color has fished well for me in the past. I will be picking it up in the near future as well as a dark green.

After paying I believe almost $5 a piece at the marina I was moored at and losing 2 in one morning trip I decided to see if I could cut down on costs. I purchased the lead blanks on Ebay and already had the hooks and swivels.  My setup is far less sophisticated than yours. Just a rattle can of Rustoleum hammered copper penny and a piece of cardboard.  Hopefully they last a few casts before peeling off. 

Clearly I agree with Crunchy on the success of rootbeer.

Tight lines and screaming drags!

[Wetwoodshunter]

It also looks like you are loading 3" non-toxic 12ga on a Mec loader possibly a Junior.

Very observant. A lot goes on in my shop.

Here is today’s small batch of slow pitch jigs.

[Happy Gilmore]

Very cool!

[Crunchy]

I bought a handful of the rootbeer ones at Seiku and Neah last few years because they just hammer the rockfish and we caught some smaller lings with them as well.  You do lose them bouncing of the bottom so stocking up is a good idea.

[metlhead]

Switch hooks to the top eye and you can bounce rocks much more without snagging