Here are the garaged ice fishing lures that had brought me a lot of success last year. Sort of my secrect lure stash, but not really.  More like tweaking to see what works better.


This is more like a slow type of lure. Only a slight down tap to make the fairy wings flutter on it.


Can be fished somewhat aggressive, but finesse it really the key to these modifications. I've snipped the front hook, just my preference, and added a treble to the rear. I crimped the regular hook around the the treble and the treble is held up by a glow rubber bead. Color matching hackle feathers is just a nice touch with a bit of mylar.


Straight forward removal of split rings and tie direct with Fireline. Hook set is big huge improvement.


Just fun to make a doodlebug dance with fairy wings.


Fairy wings added to these spoons and fished with a finesse style of tip tap down. The flap of the fairy wings really calls the fish in. Metal on metal vibrations can work at some of the tough bite periods.


These modifications to the buckshots has made them really noisy lures. I was able to call in catfish from the deep to hammer these lures

nice doctoring there slipperybob.........and ya say they work.......cool

Yeap, I tried a lot of different variations and placement of the added blade, but settled on the double winged designed to be most effective set up.  It looks weird but it works.  I like having double kicker tail blades as that looks so much better, even when I tank tested for action, but that design didn't catch any fish nor did it attract them towards it as well as fairy wings style.

A few more simple design with various blades.

Formerly plain Thingamajigs, but now with swapped out components.  While I like how the plain Thingamajigs worked, they simply didn't have enough fish calling power.  The blades added the missing action needed to get the job done.

A Hexi Fly with fairy wings.  A Forage Minnow Spoon with fairy wings.  An Eye Dropper Spoon with kicker tails.  There's just something about having those flickering blades that makes a fish hit it with more aggression vs it's plain original design.

NICE WORK!   Great photos, Slippery Bob.  You are a kindred Spirit.  What a joy it is to be in a club with so many talented fishermen and lure builders.  How bout some of you other guys?  Share some photos and stories about lures you have built or are building.  I enjoy tinkering with lures and building lures about as much as I do fishing with them.  There's nothing quite as exciting as catching a fish on one of your own creations or modifications.  Got started by fishing with a wonderful fellow referred to by family and friends as "Mr. Bill".  There must be several Mr. Bill's!  When I met this Mr. Bill he was in his 80's.  Read the Wall Street Journal every morning with a cup of coffee and after lunch he would get in his ole Ford Station Wagon with an V bottomed aluminum boat on top and a 6 hp Johnson motor in back of station wagon.  He fished the beautiful Flint River in South Georgia where it winds through the old plantations for what has come to be known as "Flint River Bass".  He'd run that ole Johnson with one hand and fish with the other.  Mr. Bill would make most of his lures--some of the ugliest things on earth, but the fish loved them.  Like Steve Pennez says:  "they hadn't been educated on this one".  Easy to understand, it was the only one of its kind!  I can still see him easing along and throwing into brush or log jams along the river's edge giving it a little twist and watching the lure fall into the water and if a fish didn't hit it, he would say with a twinkle in his eye and a grin on his face:  "missed a great chance to be caught".  Thank God for the Mr. Bill's of our lives!  Uncle Tom  While you are sitting around get started on that first or next lure, you can do it!!!!!

i bet these would work in the small trout streams that i fish in mi. during the summer. or for pannies over the side of the boat in deep water too.

The Sweetest Pimple Sickness...Trying to up my fishing catching problem with these Swedish Pimples.



Another twisted idea to be tested this coming ice season.  Blue Fox Jigging Spoons getting an Ice Blue Fix.



Thingamabob gets an added flipper hook instead of the plain aberdeen hook.