{"id":31,"date":"2025-07-19T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:15:26","slug":"getting-started-with-jerkbaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/19\/getting-started-with-jerkbaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started With Jerkbaits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As part of my start into this bait making adventure I first tried my skills out on a few hand carved wooden jerkbaits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First you need some lure blanks which were not too hard to make with my shop setup. I designed two different body styles and cut them out.
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After making the lure blanks, carving them to shape, adding through wire, and gluing together the halves together it was time for the most fun part! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Painting these lures was quite a challenge but also extremely rewarding to see them come to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second design offered a bit more of a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I still need to catch a fish on one of these but I am a little too scared to fish with them…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As part of my start into this bait making adventure I first tried my skills out on a few hand carved wooden jerkbaits. First you need some lure blanks which were not too hard to make with my shop setup. I designed two different body styles and cut them out. After making the lure blanks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[12,23,10,3,7,6,14,22,20,19,9,21,13],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jerkbaits","tag-artificial-bait","tag-custom-lure","tag-fish","tag-fishing","tag-fishing-bait","tag-fishing-lure","tag-freshwater-fishing","tag-handmade","tag-jerkbait","tag-jerkbaits","tag-lunkerresearch","tag-lure","tag-saltwater-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}