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    Posted: 15 Jun 2014 at 5:47pm
Iv,e had better results in dams and creeks with timber but better results with plastics in salt, however i have a hard time using timber , As a collector sometimes you just don,t know what is going to be collectable ,So to be safe and unless i have doubles i just don,t fish them , Cheers peter.
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A mate asked me whether the sound is different to a timber lure or a plastic as it goes through the water. I said to him "you know how to tell where the level of water is in a water tank by bashing the side? It gives off a solid thud where the water level is compared to the hollow noise above it. This is the same to an extent with a timber or a solid resin lure."

So there is a difference even if only very minor.
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Personally, I have a preference for using my own timber lures now that I am making a few, but before that I was using other peoples timber lures. There is enjoyment in catching a fish on a handmade lure made by a friend. Very rarely will a plastic lure get used these days...if ever. I like getting a few teeth marks in the lures to produce some nasty battle scars. It adds character to the lure and a big smile to my face.

Plastic lures done seem to have the same feeling.
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Lol!
some kind of tretchery or sorcery!

guess my point is, we give to much credit to the lure, when there are so many factors to consider.....like finding fish in the first place, then working out a way to catch them.
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he put a hoodoo on that bottle eh?
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Was doing a night troll on a fresh water stretch of a popular river up here, my mate was slaying some nice barra , (in another boat)while we caught sfa, later after multiple lure changes,timber , plastic, deep,shallow,big ,small, I noticed a beer bottle in the side pocket on my mates side. Removed it, and started catching fish.....
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it probably makes them angry too
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Originally posted by puglee62 puglee62 wrote:

its odd you should mention the sound a lure makes Alistair and I have to agree ,a mate of has a stereo in his boat and always uses it when fishing on the Dams .He maintains that Bass are actually attracted to that awful techno music that you hear P platers playing so loud ,he put on some industrial heavy metal one time while we were trolling at somerset dam ,50 fish for the day (between two of us) and most were good fish.so much for stealth eh?

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its odd you should mention the sound a lure makes Alistair and I have to agree ,a mate of has a stereo in his boat and always uses it when fishing on the Dams .He maintains that Bass are actually attracted to that awful techno music that you hear P platers playing so loud ,he put on some industrial heavy metal one time while we were trolling at somerset dam ,50 fish for the day (between two of us) and most were good fish.so much for stealth eh?
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A similar discussion was had recently on another Bass forum so I have cut and paste my answer from there.

I am a strong believer in timber giving out a better 'sonic' sound. I have fished the same water/snags with mates way too many times using both my own and others timber made lures against mates $30+ plastic fantastic creations and would say that 8 out of 10 times timber produces better, sometimes a lot better.

Saying that, at times plastic lures with rattles produce better on some days and always have a couple in the tacklebox when required.

Yesterdays session produced a good number of decent fish on timber whilst the plastic vibe only accounted for smaller <30cm fish.


It has been noted over the years when cottage industry makers have been forced into other lure materials such as urethane to meet demand which has not incorporated rattles and are an exact copy of the timber lures that they just don't seem to produce fish as well. When a lure is an exact copy and has the same buoyancy and other factors but does not result in the same number of fish you have to be thinking that the timber gives off a better 'feel/sound'. I think this is far more noticeable, well in my experience anyway, to apply to freshwater rather than the salt but apart from jew fishing I have had limited experience with salt fishing with lures to fish such as Barra. I would be curious to hear others thoughts on that.
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Pete, I like reading about the US bass scene, just for ideas to try here. There is also some lessons to be learn't from that article that relate to our native fish, the clever anglers amongst us will have utilized them before, but some of the new guys might pick up on the tricks.

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Great article Darb, it just shows again, there is nothing new under the sun--also shows how besotted the U.S market is with hero's. I think it's getting the same here, "Starlo" sneezes and we all go and buy a box of tissues.
Enjoyed it, thanks for posting.
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Lure fashion is worse than any women's fashion. I have bought loads of great lures in the clearance bins because of the "latest craze"
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Interesting read here courtesy of the Bassdozer site in the USA

Classic Crankbaits
By Paul Crawford

The last 7 years or so have seen a remarkable rediscovery of one of bass fishing's oldest lures, the crankbait. You could fill a good size library with what's been written about crankbaits over the years, yet everyone is on such a crankbait surge, you'd think they were invented yesterday. In a way, maybe they were. The touring pros have found new and innovative ways to fish crankbaits that only our grandfathers knew.

In the 30s and 40s, crankbaits and topwaters, and several lures that acted as both, were about all there was available. Bass fishermen learned truly exotic ways of use the baits, but even they were limited by the equipment available. The baits themselves, mostly made of wood or maybe the occasional hollow metal, didn't run too deep. If you wanted to get down to the big fish, you trolled. When throwing plugs, you were pretty much limited to shallow water.

In the late 50s and early 60s, we discovered other types of lures. Rubber worms took their place in the tackle box, and later spinner baits then modern soft plastics were all the rage.

In the 70s, crankbaits made a reappearance starting with a plug called the Big O. This big round body bait caught fish everywhere it went, and pretty soon, it and all it's imitators were pretty much everywhere. As all baits overexposed are prone to do, it cooled off after a few years and fishermen moved on to new baits once again. Carolina Rigs brought plastic worms back into vogue and the spinnerbaits had a big run.

But then came along one Mr. Rick Clunn. He was already well established on the tour making an early name for himself throwing spinner baits. He started winning consistently at the bigger tournaments, and won a couple of Bassmaster Classics. Then he designed some flat sided baits with a tight wiggle for a small lure company called Poe's that specialized in cedar lures. When Rick won the Bassmaster Classic again with his shallow running baits, the rush was on! Spurred by a wonderful blow by blow account of Rick's winning day with the RC1 and RC3 baits, (he had the tournament pretty much sowed up by 9:00), and a fantastic come from behind victory, crankbaits were rediscovered. At least RC1 and RC3 crankbaits. Everyone was throwing crankbaits and a few were catching fish. But quietly in the background, new ways to fish them were being developed.

The next year found crankbaits in the news again. This time, Paul Elias had used an obnoxious looking oversized plastic crankbait loaded with BBs called the Mann's Loudmouth to make a run in the Chesapeake Bay Classic. Paul's Big Bass, caught on national TV caught the imaginations of fishermen as well as the fish, (Ken Cook won in '92 with a spinner bait, but that's another story.) These big old deep divers had been around for several years, and since everyone knew the bigger fish were down deep, it was only a matter of time before someone connected. But wait a minute! Paul wasn't deep! Paul was throwing this lure designed to be fished in 15' of water in just 5' of water! But won't it hit bottom? Sure it will, that's the whole idea! Churns up the bottom just like a crawdad. Never mind that it's blue and green, it's a crawdad in the mud. Color just lets them see it good! That's also the year we learned a new word about crankbaits, "deflection". Paul's theory was the fish wouldn't touch a crankbait just pulled through the water. It needed to bounce off something to give it an erratic motion. And while other people were making a little tuff of mud plumes with their jigs, Paul was digging trenches in the mud with his crankbait. And he won cash doing it! About that time all of the other pros chimed in "Sure, we knew that all along!" The word was never to throw a crankbait unless it hit something. About anything would do. Hit the bottom, hit the weeds, hit the rocks, hit the stumps, hit the dock pilings, hit anything but make sure it deflected the lure, that's when all the strikes come.

Well, why didn't someone tell us that before. We can all throw a crankbait into something hard and get a deflection, can't we? The next spring saw overhanging trees and underwater stumps across America filled with ugly blue/green rattling, deep diving crankbaits. Tom Mann retired a rich man while making them and Paul Elias got several new endorsement deals. There were so many rattles in the lures that year I'm surprised the fish didn't climb out of the water just to get some peace and quiet. And the hot color that year was brown, red, and black, just like a crawfish.

The next year was Robert Hamilton's turn. He threw a crankbait right over the top of a brush pile setting on top of a hump with nobody around and won the Classic doing it! Again, a spinner bait and worm played heavily in his game plan, but all of the talk was about throwing crankbaits around brush. It had always worked around fish attractors, right? Might be something to this stuff after all! Tackle boxes and tree stumps across the land were filled with crankbaits until the trays and limbs rattled. Even Bill Dance was giving shows on crankbaits.

The crankbait craze was well underway. Fast Forward to a relatively unknown pro, again in the Bassmaster Classic, by the name of Mr. David Fritz. While everyone else was deflecting crankbaits off of shallow cover, David found a way fish crankbaits deeper than anyone else had since the trolling days. Dave rediscovered what our grandfathers knew, put a crankbait in deep water, work it slow, and really BIG fish will slam it. Everyone spent the following few months buying deep water crankbaits and moving to offshore structure, sure that it was all figured out at last. About that time, it was a new tournament year, and guess who was in the winner circle again. Yelp, Dave did it again, and the next week, again! Unheard of! How? Why? And this time he was in shallow water when everyone else went deep! What's going on! Turns out Dave's secret wasn't just going deep. He had developed a whole new system on how to fish crankbaits and it worked just about anywhere he cared to try it. Dave was about the only one who noticed that Rick's earlier win had come throwing crankbaits where few others dared, straight into the heavy wood. Rick was fishing the knees of cypress trees, and Robert was fishing brush piles. Dave was fishing bush piles, stumps, timber, or anything else wood he could find, and the fish loved it! Wood has always been a known magnet for bass, and people have been throwing crankbaits in wood since they were invented, (much to the delight of lure manufacturers.) So why now, after all these years, was a wooden crankbait working around wood cover the magic answer?

There had to be more to this story. We now know that Dave hadn't been throwing near the wood, but right into the heart of it, treble hooks blazing. Anyone who has ever tried this, say every fisherman in the world, knows with a doubt this is a pretty dumb thing to do since you always get hung up. Well, you almost always get hung up. Turns out if you start using a little smaller hook, you don't get hung up so much. And if you keep some tension on the line, the bill of the bait will bounce off the wood and you don't get hung up so much. And if you go really, really slow, you don't get hung up so much. And if when you feel the lure move up and hit a limb, then give it a little slack, the lure will kind of float up from behind the limb, and you don't get hung up so much. And, of course, if a 5 pound bass swallows the lure down to his anal fin, you don't get hung up much at all! And guess what happens when you're the first one do all of these things at once? Yelp, that's right, you win the Bassmaster Classic and everything else you enter. Still a couple of problems here.

Now let me see if I have this right. I'm suppose to crank real slow and when I hit a limb, let the lure float out from behind it. But how in the world am I suppose to get the lure down there to start with?!? If I reel slow, the bait doesn't dive deep enough to get to the limb, and if I reel fast, I get hung up! What's the deal here? OH! You didn't tell me about adding lead to the lure to make it float up real slow! Just almost to where it suspends, right? The following year broke all records for sales of drill presses and lead melting pots at Sears. You just couldn't fish without one of these specially weighted lures. And since you have to practice drilling and filling a little to get it right, we better buy some extra lures while we're at it just in case, much to the manufacturer's disappointment, I'm sure.

Fortunately, right before we had to buy 10 different versions of each lure to make sure we had the correct rise rate, someone came up with an idea that ranks right up there with the paper clip, Post It note, and pet rock, the Suspend-A-Dot. Take some thin lead foil, add a water proof glue backing, put it in a plastic package, show it to a couple of fishermen, and buy that retirement island in the Bahamas.

One of the better ideas for crankbaits and jerkbaits ever come up with. They come with both a small dot, and a strip equal to about 3 of the dots. Just peel them off and stick them to the underside of your favorite lure, and PRESTO, instant rise rate control. Just about every lure in my box has a couple of them on there somewhere. You can not only change the rise rate, or make a suspending version of the lure, but you can control the action of the lure by where you place them on it's body. I only wish I had thought of it. Now there is one other little part of this crankbait thing. Remember that part about the smaller hooks? Guess what happens when a pro just barely hooks a bass, works him out of the cover, then looses him when the fish jumps right beside the boat? Right Again, you learn a lot of new words your mom never taught you. In order for all of this system to work, you have to come up with some way to keep a big fish, just barely hooked, attached to the lure. Well, it turns out the fly fishermen have been having that problem for years, and they invented fly rods. With a fly rod, the rod has so much give, it's almost impossible for the fish, even on a tiny hook, to throw the bait or get any slack. Just keep the line pulled up and don't try to overpower the fish, and the rod does the rest.

Well, back when flippin' first got started, they put a rod length limit of 8' on the rods to keep people from doodlin' with 20' rods. And bait caster looks pretty stupid on a fly rod anyway. But if you go back and pull out one of those old wet noodle rods we used in the 60s, you get pretty much the same effect. If you happen to make one of those rods with modern light weight material, all the better. So, grab yourself about a 7' light action rod and some line that will take the abrasion of rubbing against wood all day, and you're pretty much set up to go. And over the next year or so, everyone bought light action rods and truck loads of wooden crankbaits. They then proceeded to loose enough wood to frame a 3 bedroom house. But after some practice, most of them did start tapping in on those heavy cover bass, even if they did cost them about $20 an ounce. I can only pray Denny Brauer wins the next Classic so we can all get back to flipping sticks and jigs before we go broke.

Speaking of going broke, I guess you've now all see the new "super" crankbaits. In the few years since Paul Elias introduced us to Chartreuse with a Blue back as a natural color, those clever Japanese have taken their color copies, love of bass fishing, and some assorted bait fish to produce crankbaits for $40 a pop. Now you can have a lure that not only looks like a shad, but actually has a life sized picture of a shad pasted over it's sides. Not to be outdone, other manufacturers have jumped in the fray offering museum quality prints of blue gill, threadfin shad, and crawfish under a gel coat better than on your Ranger on lures of the proper size, weight, action, and having $5 hooks hanging from the belly. I honestly don't have the heart to put one of the pieces of art in the water, even if I go crazy enough to give you $50 for one. I'm sure they catch fish. And I'll also buy in on them catching more fish to a point. But if I had the money to fill a tackle box with these new lures, I'd buy a house instead. Anyway, I'm saving my money for that new $400 Loomis rod I have my eye on. So, what have we learned so far. Well, crankbaits work better around heavy cover, (there's a surprise), and catch more fish if you bounce them off of something giving them an erratic motion, (another surprise.) They work even better if you crank them in real, real slow, and to make them work at these slower speeds, you need to add a little weight to get them down, (will wonders never cease.) You need all the help you can get if you use small hooks. And a fisherman will buy damn near anything if it wins the Bassmaster Classic!



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Any lure that works. I had a discussion with someone recently that just because a lure was timber didn't mean it was an outstanding fish catcher. I love the old Flicks Cobras but I also love Lucky Craft stuff. It's that diverse.
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It would hurt too much to lose a classic barra king, killa, leads, lee's, lionel white's, ray murphy's, or others, or even the discontinued moulded plastics that are hanging on my wall. For that reason I only use lures that can be replaced.
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Here's what I found, timber has many different qualities which are hard to mimic with lifeless plastic.

The ability to back up when confronted with an obstacle is a huge plus for an angler fishing heavy brush. Supposedly balsa has the best "bounce" when it comes to bumping into stumps, trees, rocks etc.

Then comes wobble which is subjective of the timber. Many use balsa, again, for its lively action due to its light weight.

Generally most here in the states use cedar. I remember Pete (Hazmail) saying that your aussie woods are more denser requiring less or no ballast. So the possibilities for lures are as endless as the timber available.

Its a confidence thing with fisherman so whatever works best for you is what you should use. Lures just seem to work better when you believe they will catch you more fish
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I love timber lures, by far my favorite, but if im working deep water that i dont know very well, or sometimew, just because im confident with the lure, ill use plastic scorpians and classics, also have no problem using plastic lures when I feel like changing lures a lot. These days, if im casting shallow lures, ill use my own barratroopers or Leads hi jackers most of the time, but I also use Barneys deep rivers, nilsies, a couple of maria angel kisses which are my favorite plastic hard bodies, Its crazy really, i take hundreds of lures with me, and use a handfull!
forgot i love the killalure barra baits, the origonal ones, also have a few of Richard Leess versions, which are better than the origional imo, as well as the 8ft plastic ones...oh, and manns...boof baits and stretch 20,s oh and bombers, and killa jews, and oh so many, so fish both timber and plastic.......


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I like to use my own timber lures that I make but I've had a lot of success with barra on Storm Little Macs. These days I don't target barra just Jacks.



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This might seem strange coming from a old lure maker that hand carves wooden lures , but i have had great success with Mal Florences Bass Master lures, no longer made , me and Mal did quite a few trips to Wivenhoe Dam in the late nineties and they consistently caught big bass and some very large golden perch , plastic and very noisy rattle with a very tight action trolling depth about 10 feet, cheers pearcey
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I always have used timber except when fishing shallow(bombers/b52's,now I use my own minnow).
I read somewhere that different timbers give off different vibrations and hence more attractive to fish.
I have found for me the New Guinea Rosewood works well but other blokes swear by Red Cedar.Others fishing with the white beech found it great.I wondered if any other lure makers found this theory correct?

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I don't like losin works of art.
From the bank, in snaggy country, especially with the Boys, I'll use plastics, because retrieval is hard.
When in a boat or Yak, retrieval is 'possible', I'll run with timbers.
Losses happen, minimising impact is needed when $$$ are tight.
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Always timber for barra casting, the only exception I ever made was to use the Rattlin Rapallas in gold finish to jig thru snags.
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I love using lures that mates have made- whether timber or molded. When it comes to actually catchability of wooden, solid molded, plastic lures - well there are some outstanding plastic lures that I think can be (and in many cases has been) matched by timber lures.
My brother in law uses a gold bomber 100% of the time when casting for barra. But I often match him, and at times outfish him using members timber and molded lures. But when it came to him using his bombers for mackeral, then he is worried about the strength of them where as I'll happily put a timber or molded lure in there.
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The old timber lures have loads of character, slight variations and some are worth considerable dollars.....but what type of lures do you generally prefer to fish with?

Would you rather use a timber lure or plastic lure to catch a fish?
cheers steiny
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