I can’t get no, satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction, and I tried and I tried but I can’t get no satisfaction with store bought lures.  Hey, hey, hey…store bought lures just don’t seem to catch as many fish as ones that I have altered with.  It doesn’t matter what species of fish it is; it’s just so rewarding knowing that I just caught a fish with something I helped make. 

 Hand crafting lures goes way back to the beginning when man built their first lure. Maybe they added a feather or shinny stone to a bone to attract or entice a fish to catch them.  The great thing now is anglers can purchase holographic tape and craft products from fishing tackle retailers, lure building supply companies, or from individual companies like WTP Inc. (www.wtp-inc.com) who offer a wide selection of products for hand crafting lures.  WTP Inc. owner, Ron Warczynski, loves to see the final results of lures when anglers enhance them with holographic tape products.  “There are so many different things you can do with the tape products; there are endless ways of using it to change a lure, planner board, flashers, dodgers, spoons, blades, and the list goes on and on,” Warczynski, “it’s only limited to the imagination of whoever is using it and the self satisfaction is immeasurable.”

Holographic tape products include holoform tape that is transparent and can stretched into almost any shape, soft molded 3-D eyes, flat eyes, or sheets of tape.  Some new products include super scallops, flashers cuts, or ladderback packages.  Ladderback’s are fish bone shaped holographic tape and are commonly placed on flashers, dodgers, jerkbaits, and musky plugs.  Possibly the number one product anglers adds or replaces on a lure is eyes.  Lure eyes come in two different styles, scores of colors, and numerous sizes from 3/32-inch to 3/4-inch.  Flat eyes can be added to any lure, blade, spoon, or fishing product to attract fish.  Soft molded 3-D eyes are available in over twenty fish catch colors.  These raised eye give lures a lifelike appearance.  For beginners to tackle crafting most retailers offer kits that have an assortment of products like ladderbacks, flasher cuts, scallop strips, sheets of holographic tape in popular color patterns.

The ideas for using holographic tape are endless.  Bass anglers may use holographic tape on jigging spoons on spinnerbait blades to add flash while a musky angler to a topwater plug to change it appearance to the forage it is eating.  Fly anglers may take and use some of the same lure crafting products to build flies with for fishing.  As long as you have a flat, clean surface most lure crafting products will stick.  To increase the longevity, many crafters will add a layer of epoxy over the lure’s surface.

I can’t get no satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction…when I am fishing will a lure that I haven’t tinkered with.  Hey, hey, hey; that is what I say.