If, like me, you buy more lures than you could ever
use sufficiently to find out whether they can actually catch fish, then you
will no doubt, like me, have a few lures that seemed like a good idea when you
bought them but now languish at the very bottom of your lure bucket. Some of
those lures may never have been in the water, some on the other hand may well
have had an outing or two, not caught a fish and been dismissed as a failure.
Most if not all of those lures will have been purchased on the basis of
conversations with fellow anglers, articles in the fishing magazines, You Tube
videos and/or plain and simple marketing by the manufacturers as being the
latest “must-have” fish catcher that you couldn’t possibly do without. Some of
those lures may well have achieved a reputation based upon the successes of
others that elevates the lure to an almost mystical status, but despite that
they just do not work for you and inevitably reside in the bottom of that
bucket.
I own one of these near mystical lures. It is not a
new lure, in fact it is one of the lures that I have owned longest. So long
that I can’t remember how or where I came by the lure. It is a lure that has
been made famous over the years by many well known lure anglers and in their
hands has caught many spectacular fish. Read any article about lure fishing and
variants of this lure will undoubtedly feature in the “must-have” list.
It is the definitive jerk bait……………The Buster Jerk.
As I said I can’t remember how I came by my Buster
Jerk and I certainly can’t remember why I chose the colour that I did ( perhaps
it was the only one the shop had?) but at the time it must have been something
that I just couldn’t do without and it was, for a while, one of my favourite
lures. The action on the lure is fascinating, it hangs in the water when
stationary absolutely perfectly, settling only very slowly, the slightest
twitch of the rod or turn of the handle and the glide is perfect, it feels and
looks like a fish catcher in every respect and in the hands of others that is
exactly what it is. But mine just doesn’t and hasn’t caught me a fish and hence
the bottom of the bucket.
A recent clear-out of the aforementioned bucket
exposed said BJ to the daylight for the first time in a long time and I was
reminded of my earlier efforts with the lure to catch a fish and given that
there could be absolutely no failure on the part of the angler in question that
had contributed to the lack of fish then there had to be something wrong with
the lure. In short order it had to be the colour of the lure that was to blame
I convinced myself. What to do about that was the next question and a trip to
Wilko and a quick review of the spray paint cans on offer was enough to
convince me that what I needed was somebody who knew what they were doing.
Step forward SENPAC founder member Mark Houghton of MH
Custom Lures who very kindly agreed to do a conversion job on my lure. I
provided a very detailed design brief for Mark, “roach pattern mate” seemed to
do the job and despite being incredibly busy trying to keep his head above
water satisfying an ever growing order list for his immense catalogue of lure
patterns my BJ was headed for a make-over.
I think the transformation speaks for itself, and
pictures are worth many words or something like that, so………………………………………..
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| BUSTER BEFORE |
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BUSTER AFTER
The only problem now of course, is that if I fail to
catch with it, then I’ve run out of things to blame!
For lure fishing porn go to………………….mhcustomlures.blogspot.co.uk
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