Make your own soft lures - Lure Factors (video 154)

This is a quick introductory video in to the art of soft lure pouring and making your own soft plastic fishing lures. Mark Kelly of Lure Factors quickly shows us how to make simple soft lures using products from his online shop. If you wish to see any more videos on soft lure pouring, making moulds, injection moulds, multi colour lures and much much more then leave a note in the comments and Mark and myself will get together and do more.
If you need to find any of the products in this video just get in touch with Mark Kelly at lurefactors.co.uk
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[@cassieabhram7089]

super video thanks Paul .. meks it look dead easy. I'm fairly new to lure fishing , getting into soft lure fishing , with limited success so far . the waters I fishing up here in swaledale and wensyldale , breed a variety of dark northern minnow baitfish that I'm having trouble matching in a commercially available pattern. Your video shows how easy it is too cast these lures. so I'm thinking of trying with a minnow shad mould and some experimenting with colours . even a newbie disabled girl like myself might manage it. cheers Paul

[@cassieabhram7089]

love the workshop ...

[@riverpiker]

Hi Cassie. Yeah great that you can make them really easy and with a bit of thought and experimentation you can make your little minnows. But, remember to also have the total opposite. Something they don't normally see, bright white shad for example, will catch their attention. It'll look out of place and often thats what fish end up going for. Rather than chasing a huge ball of fish they go for the weird looking loner. That's why Ady gets a lot of attention cos hes a weird looking loner! lol ;) As for your fishing. You'll find your rivers up there will often be a bit devoid of fish in parts. Should be some trout about and then some chub too so some fish that will take a lure. Cut your bit of water in to short sections and fish each deep pool or fast run off with a variety of lures to see what is there. If nothing, move on. First time you get a fish or even a knock, try a bit harder and see if changes with lures and styles catches you more fish. As you start to work out where a few fish are, then you go back to those spots more often to see if they throw up anything else. Keep me updated how it goes. Even if you aren't catching a million fish, you are in a beautiful part of the world and that's worth a blank for me. you want to catch some fish though, so keep me updated how it goes.

[@MrTestcurve]

What a great Yorkshire lad Mark is, hope he's invited to the Lure bash.

[@riverpiker]

He's ace is Mark, proper down to earth Yorkie. Came to my last lure bash when we did it for charity, chucked loads of lures in gave kids loads of stuff and he also did a lure pouring demo to show people. This time he's just coming to fish but he'll get in among the other anglers. So if you see him have a chat with him and he'll show you some of the lures you can create yourself.

[@huntnfishnuts5880]

Lure making is a multi million dollar business here in the states. It's nice to be able to do your own colors or mix colors. The one local shop to me here makes a lot of his own soft plastics some common colors others off the wall. With the pike you can really go through a lot of plastics.

[@riverpiker]

I can imagine it is mate. Great to be able to make your own and in the colours you like. A few years ago, white kopyto shads always seemed to be sold out so now I make my own.

[@harveyjackson7174]

Great vid Paul even though it's simple that's taught me a lot and I think it's going to save me a tone of money 😀😀😀

[@riverpiker]

Nice one pal good to know it is useful. I started with just a simple shad mould and every now and again I spend an hour making a few. Means you can have loads in your bag/box and don't worry about losing them as much as other lures.

[@adambagster10]

please do more of these and tell mark that il be buying the 50 pound kit soon and a load of other bits

[@riverpiker]

cheers Adam, will do pal

[@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman]

There is nowt like the smell of soft plastics early in morning, or in the afternoon. nice one

[@riverpiker]

Or if its at my house its the smell of burnt soft plastic. Though yesterday It helped me create a new colour which I call tomato sauce. Problem is i tried to replicate it, burning more soft plastic and they now look like little turd shads. Nice

[@Dani-oq8is]

Good vid paul, keep them coming. 👍

[@riverpiker]

cheers, will do

[@LiamJProduction]

Yet another great vid thanks for the upload

[@riverpiker]

cheers bud

[@salvlicata9899]

Cheers lads, I used to be a modeller in the pottery industry in Stoke (when we used to have one) to I'm gonna make myself a couple of moulds and give this a go! You could suspend rattles and kind of stuff in these lures,!!! Because of the brexit and shit state of the pound, rubber shads from poland and the like will start costing more and more . Thanks chaps!

[@riverpiker]

Nice one pal. Good to know it's given you some ideas. Mark makes moulds himself, you probably have an idea judging by what you are saying but if you need any help get in touch with him. He'll tell you what he has that you can use plus any tips if you need them. Good to see you already thinking about stuff. Like I said in the video, it's down to your imagination what you can do. For me it's usually white shad after white shad but the lads I know that like to be creative make some ace lures. Have a look on his website, lurefactors.co.uk and see what there is on offer it'll help get that brain ticking over. Also if you have any ideas or want to see something just let us know and we might be able to do a video. Mark is 20 mins from me and i'm always over to his for my jig heads and more so we could do a video.

[@salvlicata9899]

Cheers Paul, Just looking at the site now, can you tell me , their are four grades of softness , which is the most similar to standard konger / relax shads I'm used to? Any idea?

[@riverpiker]

The one i have is "soft" which I use for small softies. But Mark is the man to ask. You can get him on facebook too if you search Lure Factors. He'll sort you out mate

[@salvlicata9899]

Ta duck

[@Dsm4g631Evo]

So if you wanted you can block of the tail section and make another color tail. Just heat up 2 cups, one for the body and another for the tail. How do you get the molds?

[@riverpiker]

I'm not that sure how they do all the fancy stuff. To do a couple of colours you need to have two colours heated up at the same time, so two jugs is handy. If you wanted a red belly, poor a bit of red in the bottom then fill the rest with another colour. The two hot plastics then stay together better. If you wanted a solid line between a full tail i'm not sure how you would do that. Though you could tilt the mould and try to poor in just the tail part, then quickly fill the rest in, that should work. I'm sure there are some more soft plastic videos on youtube somewhere. As for the moulds, just get on the lurefactors website, Mark has loads on there.

[@BBFSGaming]

out of interest can you still remelt them if it has glitter in cos metal and microwaves dont tend to mix

[@mv20297]

how do you add scent to the soft plastics? Do you add it after it is finished or add it to the hot plastic?

[@nourddinenour4298]

Thanks mate for this video .. I've a question .. what grade of softness I should use for saltwater baits ? ( Soft .. super soft . Medium.. hard ) ? Thank you

[@grahambailey4168]

Good video gents. Perhaps next time you could look at doing something with two colours, possibly some injection moulding.

[@riverpiker]

cheers Graham. Definitely ideas we will look at doing. This video wasn't so much a tutorial just a quick look and an introduction but in those videos we could do a bit more detail and explanation.

[@Exmilkman]

You can't beat a bit a lube in't mould, enthusiasm at its Yorkshire best haha.

[@riverpiker]

second to none pal :)

[@danielzaragoza6997]

Where did he get the dye and glitter from? Oh and great videos!!!

[@riverpiker]

Daniel. Just contact Mark at lurefactors or go on the website as it should all be on there for you. He has all sorts of awesome stuff for making your own soft lures.

[@jakeshepherd9772]

Could I ask where you get the equipment from please

[@kylebinns3301]

To put plastic eyes on them do you just place them on top of the liquid?

[@riverpiker]

Not sure Kyle I'll have to ask Mark in the next video eh! Or you will see him at the Lure Bash cos he's coming there too.

[@YaLLa2YaLLa]

What is the name of the white material he's puttin in the microwave?!

[@riverpiker]

Hi. It's called Lure Flex. softplastics.co.uk/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=58d7e6f2e5b16cded97091175523be8d

[@Retwak]

do you have plastic that create these molds you use , if so please tell me what is it and i will buy it

[@riverpiker]

go to LureFactors.co.uk they will have some

[@Retwak]

@@riverpiker thnkx

[@m2db772]

Paul wer did you get your NED rig setup from i.e the shroom jig heads and the z man TRD's ?

[@TheRedKite1]

Lure lounge mate

[@riverpiker]

Yep, LL cheers Martyn

[@gregorywickware7976]

Hey Mark, I'm wondering if you custom make molds for sale? I have my own design I would love to have made. Could you give me a reply?

[@TheRedKite1]

Worth putting flavours/smells in too?

[@riverpiker]

Why not? Can't do any harm. Not sure if Mark does any flavours but give it a go.

[@ionut-emilianlupascu5359]

Hi mate, can your friend make me a custom mold for some tails?Thank you!

[@paulludovice7472]

what is that milky stuff called?

[@riverpiker]

It's called Lure Flex, available from LureFactors website. If you are stuck with any of it just contact Mark at Lure Factors and he wil sort you out.

[@paulludovice7472]

is there a way to ship it to Philippines?

[@riverpiker]

I wouldn't know mate you would have to speak to Mark about that and see what he can do. I'm sure he ships to Europe so must be worth asking him.

[@paulludovice7472]

thanks for the information man! :)

[@DannysAnglingBlog]

just shows doesnt it how easy they are to make, you take them costs to a huge company and their profit margins must be huge. very informative video

[@riverpiker]

Exactly that Danny. Have you had a go yourself? This video was just a quick look but we can do more in time showing more detail which im sure will get peoples heads ticking. I'm not creative at all but some of you lot are bloody ace, there's no end to what you can do.

[@DannysAnglingBlog]

River Piker love watching the lure videos, hopeless at it myself haha. do ok wobbling deads. my mate is mad into lures but think if got into it, it would be those bigger lures like eel and those jerk baits where you work it that would be the way i went.

[@riverpiker]

I can make the softies but i'm not that good. Saves me plenty in lures though and I just make loads of 2.5inch shads for me and Ady to use. Last week we were out and Ady had the tail ripped off his last one so yesterday I knocked out another 30 lures in an hour and we're sorted again. I keep meaning to make something bigger to chuck but never get round to it

[@LiamJProduction]

Do a give away with some more of your lures

[@riverpiker]

Might do one some time soon ;)

[@aigarseglitis]

Hi! Thanks for videos. I am going to try making my own lures as well. Was going to order Lureflex, but got confused on Grade (Softness). Which should i choose? I am mostly going to make something similar to this in 15-20 cm sizes: leurre-japon.com/14186/illex-magic-fat-shad-2-5.jpg

[@riverpiker]

Hi buddy. you are better off asking Mark at lurefactors.co.uk he will be able to explain.

[@bryanrae4333]

after me maggots escaped in the fridge last month ,no way is I getting near the microwave

[@riverpiker]

ha ha. Have you found them all yet?

[@bryanrae4333]

em no , but for fs dont tell er

[@riverpiker]

lol I think she might find out eventually.

[@iantweedie4060]

He did not seem happy

[@riverpiker]

stage fright

[@adl2005]

errr

[@jaimecunningham1057]

ehhh......ehhhh....ehhhhhhh....ehh....ehhhhhhh......ehhhhhhh.....ehhhhhhhhhhh....ehhhhh

[@riverpiker]

ha ha, didn't see this as KZbin thought you were a spammer and put your comment in the "this poster has nothing exciting to say" section. But to put you right pal, it's erm.....erm....errr....ermm....errr.

[@kylespivey9615]

1st com ;)

[@riverpiker]

:)

[@kylespivey9615]

I'll watch later dw xxxx

[@zorsenothorse]

he sounds so pissed off with you asking "how to make soft plastic lures" or is it just me ?