Fishing_lure

fishing





lures


plug


little cleo


mormyshka


spinnerbait


spin fishing


sabiki


jig


spoon


spoonplug


surface lure


topwater lure


zara spook


heddon






plastic lures


artificial flies


tackle


recreational




In recreational fishing, a lure  is an object that is attached to the end of the fishing line and designed to resemble and move like prey. The purpose of the lure is to use movement, vibrations, and color to attract fish and induce them to bite the hook. Lures are equipped with one or more single, double, or treble hooks that are used to hook fish when they attack the lure.
Lures are usually used with a fishing rod and fishing reel outfit. When a lure is used for casting, it is continually cast out and retrieved.
Lure fishing can be challenging, exciting, and fun. While fish are naturally attracted to live bait, in lure fishing an angler has to control the movement of the lure to attract fish. Anglers must select the right lure, cast accurately, and retrieve at the right speed while considering water and weather conditions, species, fish response, time of the day, and other factors.

Contents

1 History
2 Methods
3 Types

3.1 jig
3.2 Surface lure
3.3 Spoon lures
3.4 Plugs
3.5 Artificial flies
3.6 Soft plastic lures
3.7 Spinnerbait


4 Daisy chain
5 See also
6 Notes
7 Reference
8 External links
9 Credits



Lures that remain discarded can harm the environment and fish that inhabit it. In recent years, some manufacturers have developed lures made of biodegradable materials, and these environmentally friendly lures are gradually gaining more attention.

History
Fishing lures have been around since antiquity and were first made out of bone and bronze. The Chinese and Egyptians used fishing rods, hooks, and lines as early as 2,000 B.C.E. The first hooks were made out bronze and were strong and thin. The Chinese were the first to make fishing line, spun from fine silk.
The modern fishing lure was made commercially in the United States in the early 1900s by the firm of Heddon and Pflueger in Michigan. Before this time most fishing lures were made by individual craftsman. Commercial-made lures were based on the same ideas used by individual craftsmen but on a larger scale.[1]

Methods
The fishing lure is tied to fishing line which is connected to a fishing reel and rod. Fishermen reel in the fishing line, sweep the fishing rod, jig, or let out line out the back of a moving boat ("trolling") to manipulate the motion of a lure. Other techniques that involve artificial flies, commonly called flies by fly fishermen, include letting the fly float on the surface, slowly submerge, or float underwater.

Types
There are many types of fishing lures that simulate a variety of movements and species.

jig
 A jig
A jig consists of a metal sinker with a hook molded into it and usually covered by a soft body to attract fish. Jigs are made to move with a jerky, vertical motion, as opposed to spinnerbaits which move through the water horizontally. The jig is very versatile and can be used in both salt water as well as fresh water.

Surface lure
A surface lure is a fishing lure designed to waddle, pop, lock, drop, pulse, twitch or fizz across the surface of the water as it is retrieved, and in doing so imitate surface prey for fish such as mice, lizards, frogs, cicadas, moths and small injured fish.
A typical surface lure has a solid body made out of wood or plastic, carries one or two treble hooks, and has an eyelet at the front of the lure body to attach the fishing line.

Waddlers get their action from a scooped metal dish attached to the front of the lure body.
Poppers get their action from a cupped face carved or molded into the front of the lure body.
Fizzers get their action both from the fisherman manipulating the lure with the fishing rod and from one or more blades attached to the lure body that spin when the lure is pulled and create a fizzing noise said to imitate the buzzing wings of a drowning insect.
Sizeable fish can create a sudden, noisy and spectacular explosion when they take a surface lure, usually giving the fisherman a fright in the process. Catching fish with surface lures is therefore considered a fairly exciting form of fishing.

Spoon lures
 spoon lure
A spoon lure is, in sport fishing, an oblong, concave metal piece resembling a spoon. The spoon lure is mainly used to attract fish by reflecting light and moving randomly.
The spoon lure was invented by Julio T. Buel in about 1848. The design of the spoon lure is simple; an oblong, concave metal piece with a shiny chrome or paint finish, and a single or treble hook on the end.
While the basic principle of design has stayed the same over the years, its use has changed somewhat. Fishermen use the regular casting spoon (which is heavier) by casting past a specific area and retrieving the lure through it. Fishermen that use a trolling motor use spoons made with thinner material. While using the trolling motor on the boat, a fisherman could cover a wider body of water and increase their chances for a successful day. Using split shots, or other forms of weights, the fisherman could easily zero in his fishing lures' depth, depending on the speed involved. Also, spoons come in various colors and materials; for example, a silver plated spoon gives it a vibrant look.

Plugs
 A variety of plug lures.
Plugs are a popular type of hard-bodied fishing lure. They are widely known by a number of other names depending on the country and region. Such names include crankbait, wobbler, minnow, shallow-diver and deep-diver. The term minnow is usually used for long, slender, lures that imitate baitfish, while the term plug is usually used for shorter, deeper-bodied lures which imitate deeper-bodied fish, frogs and other prey. Shallow-diver and deep-diver refer to the diving capabilities of the lure, which depends on the size of the lip and lure buoyancy.

Artificial flies
 Classic 19th Century Artificial fly-The Triumph
 In-line spinner lure with ring, dish, body/weight and hook
In general, artificial flies are used in fly fishing. Artificial flies may be made to represent all manner of potential freshwater and saltwater fish prey, including aquatic and terrestrial insects, crustaceans, worms, baitfish, vegetation, flesh, spawn, small reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds, etc. Artificial flies were originally constructed from various furs, feathers, threads and hooks. Today there are literally dozens of different types of natural and synthetic materials used to construct artificial flies.[2] In the early years of fly fishing through the mid-twentieth century, effective artificial fly patterns were said to be killing flies because of their ability to put fish in the creel for the fly fisher. By the mid-nineteenth century, there were thousands of artificial fly patterns. Today, the number of distinct patterns is probably incalculable.

Soft plastic lures
Soft plastic lures are made out of plastic or rubber and are made to resemble worms, lizards, bait fish, squid, or any other kind of fish bait. Some are scented to attract more fish.

Spinnerbait
These fishing lures can be made out of wood, plastic, rubber, metal and cork. They can have many moving parts and also no moving parts. They can be retrieved fast or slow. Some of the lures can be used by themselves or with another lure.

Daisy chain
A daisy chain is a "chain" of plastic lures, however they do not have hooks - their main purpose is to merely attract a school of fish closer to the lures with hooks.
Typically, the main line of the daisy chain is clear monofilament line with crimped on droppers that connect the lure to the main line. The last lure can be rigged with a hook or unrigged. The unrigged versions are used as teasers while the hooked versions are connected to a rod and reel. The lures used on a daisy chain are made from cedar plugs, plastic squids, jets, and other soft and/or hard plastic lures.
In some countries (e.g. New Zealand, Australia) daisy chains can sometimes refer to a rig which is used to catch baitfish in a similar arrangement to a 'flasher rig' or a 'sabiki rig'; a series of hooks with a small piece of colorful material/feather/plastic attached to each hook.

See also
Fishing
Fishing boat
Fishing line
Fishing reel
Fishing rod
Fly fishing
Notes


↑ History of the fishing lure Retrieved July 9, 2008.

↑  Jacqueline Wakeford, Flytying: Tools and Materials (New York, NY: Lyons & Burford, 1992, ISBN 9781558211704).



Reference
Becker, A. C. Lure Fishing. South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1970. ISBN 0498074293
Creative Publishing International. Fishing with Artificial Lures. The freshwater angler. Minnetonka, Minn: Creative Pub. International, 2000. ISBN 0865731101
Eubanks, Calvin W. "Fishing Lure." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118, no. 4 (2005): 2107.
Prokop, F. B. Lure Encyclopedia. Croydon South, Vic: Australian Fishing Network, 2005. ISBN 1865130761
Sternberg, Dick. Fishing with Artificial Lures. The Hunting & fishing library. Minnetonka, Minn: C. DeCosse, 1985. ISBN 0865730091
Wakeford, Jacqueline. Flytying: Tools and Materials. New York, NY: Lyons & Burford, 1992. ISBN 978-1558211834
External links
All links retrieved April 12, 2017.

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Recreational fishing

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Big-game fishing

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Angling

 Angling - Casting - Surf fishing - Beach casting - Bank fishing - Trolling - The Compleat Angler


Fly fishing

Fly fishing - Trout bum - Fly rod building -Bamboo fly rod - Float tube - Fly fishing target species - Fly fishing waters - A River Somewhere - Catskill Museum - American Museum - Annotated bibliography of fly fishing


Artificial flies

Artificial fly - Fly lure - Fly tying - Amadou - Diawl bach - Cul De Canard - Klinkhammer - Flesh Fly (Fly-Fishing) - Hare's Ear - Clouser Deep Minnow - Woolly Worm (imitation) - Egg sucking leech - Muddler Minnow - Woolly Bugger - Pheasant Tail Nymph - Trolling tandem streamer fly


Baits and lures

Bait - Bait fish- Groundbait - Fishing lure - Boilies - Deadstick - Little Cleo - Mormyshka - Original Floater - Plastic bait - Plastic worm - Plug - Sabiki - Soft plastic - Spinnerbait- Spin fishing - Spoon lure - Spoonplug - Surface lure - Topwater lure- Texas Rig - Zara spook - Heddon


Hooks and bite detectors

Fish hook - Hookset - Circle hook - Hair rig - Bite alarm - Float - Shortfloating - Quiver tip - Pellet waggler


Rods, reels, lines and sinkers

 Fishing rod - Fishing rod tapers - Bamboo fly rod - Fishing reel - Fishing swivel - Coarse fishing - Arlesey Bomb - Bombarda - Fishing line - Braided fishing line - Monofilament line - Multifilament line - Power pro - Hand-line fishing - Long-line fishing - Sinker - Sandsinker - Jig - Dropline - Downrigger - Trotline - Jiggerpole


Nets, traps, spears and gaffs

Fishing net - Gillnet - Drift net - Seine - Surrounding net - Chinese nets - Glass float - Ghost net - Fish trap - Fish wheel - Fishing weir - Frog gigging - Lobster trap - Lobster hook - Gaff - Turtle excluder device - Harpoon - Corf - Spearfishing - Speargun - Bowfishing - Polespear - Hawaiian sling - Trident


Other types of fishing

Sea Fishing - Kayak fishing - Rock fishing - Bottom fishing - Flounder tramping - Trout binning - Trout tickling - Noodling - Clam digging - Lobster fishing - Yabbying - Seal hunting - Cormorant fishing - Portuguese water dogs - Pearl hunting - Ice fishing - Fish aggregating device - Light attractor - Payaos - Cyanide fishing - Electrofishing - Blast fishing - Flosser - Paravane (water kite)


Miscellaneous equipment and issues

Bag limits - Catch and release - Tag and release - Panfish - Rough fish - Ike jime - Priest - Fishfinder - Gamekeeper - Snorkel - Diving mask - Wetsuit - Hip boot - Waders - Fishing tournaments


Manufacturers of fishing tackle

ABU Garcia - Acme Tackle Company - O. Mustad & Son - Orvis - Rapala


Boats

Recreational fishing boats - Farley Boats


Writers, photographers and other personalities

 Sheridan Anderson -Charles Cotton - Frank Parker Day - John Dietsch - Henry van Dyke - Jack Gartside - John Gierach - Arnold Gingrich - Theodore Gordon - George F. Grant - Zane Grey - Paul Gustafson Roderick Haig-Brown - Charles Hallock - Henry William Herbert - Norman Maclean - James Prosek - Howell Raines - Skeet Reese - Ernest Schwiebert - Red Smith - Richard Walker - Chris Yates


Magazines and organisations

Angling Times - American Angler - Best Angler ESPY Award - Fly Tyer - Fishing in Alabama - Golden Mile - Gray's Sporting Journal - International Game Fish Association - Operation liberty - Salt Water Sportsman


Regional fishing

Fishing in Alabama - Hunting and fishing in Alaska - Fish in Australia - Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship - Golden North Salmon Derby - Golden Triangle (Rocky Mountains) - Jacksonville Kingfish Tournament - Lakeland Bassmasters - Fishing in Ohio - Redmire pool - Troutmasters - Fishing in Wyoming - Angling in Yellowstone National Park


Miscellaneous

Fishkeeping

Recreational fishing | Fishing industry | Whaling | Sustainability and research

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