Tackle/Fishing Supplies..Tips/Tricks

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How to make cheap light weight spoon found at Lebaron ( 50 cents) or dollar store heavier ,for moving current RIver fishing application? Good at whirlpool fishing. Use the small spoon, more effective than the bigger ones.
1. Bend a penny to the shape of a spoon, then use contact cement or epoxy glue to glue them, make sure to put cement on both side of penny and spoon, dry for couple of minutes before attaching them together.
2 Add some reflectorized (fish scale pattern)sticker found at fishing store to make the spoon glitter.
3. Add glow in the dark paint or sticker (michaels craft store) to make them visible at night for Salmon fishing application.

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Buy cheap beads at michaels, good for trout fishing. go on line and grab the 40% off coupon.

For backing line, Dollarama has some cheap 50lb braided line.

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Most dollar store crank bait are way too light for river fishing application. TO make them heavier?

Drills a 3/8" hole, add any miniture plastic beads, sand, pebbles material, etc... seal the hole with a glue gun.

Always resharpen the hooks, the antirust protective coating make many crankbait hooks less sharp.