Like all of the sane people in the world, I love fishing. Over the years, I also started to have a DIY frame of mind. One day, there was a chocolate and peanut butter incident. The two interests came together and I found myself in the very rewarding world of rod building, fly tying and tackle craft.
As a teen, I tied my own flies. I tried to mimic the "real" flies from my fly tying book, and I was sometimes successful. I tied a lot of Mickey Finns. I also tied a lot of my own versions of things
Later in life, I started reading about fishing rod building. I've tried a lot of hobbies, but this was the one! I've built a lot of rods. From ultra light spinning to surf rods, heavy conventional to fly rods, I tried them all. I even started a business for a year or so. I never made any actual money but I realized how awesome it is to have wholesale access to suppliers but how miserable it is to run a business. Whomever runs a rod building business, I applaud you.
Once I started building fly rods, of course I had to get back into fly tying. The flies still don't look like the book.
With these hobbies come catalogs. In those catalogs there are sections for lure building. So of course, I had to check out YouTube and I found many videos of people custom painting lures. Yup, some online purchases from Amazon and China later, I am now trying my hand and airbrushing crank baits and top water plugs.
With this blog, I hope to explore the world of tackle craft. I wish to share my own adventures as well as those of others I come across in the hobbies.
Come along and give it a try.
Roll You Own!
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