$5 Dollar Umbrella Rig?

So depending on were you are at in the country. You are either enjoying your summer or unlike me and much of the mid-west we have been having 100 degree days for the last 20 days or so. I don't really want to count because it will just depress me further. At 8:00 am it is already 85-89 degrees, so needless to say i have not been out fishing much. I really am a dedicated angler, however melting away while trying to find deep biting bass is hard for me as i  am just not used to doing. So unfortunately, i have been couped up on the weekends with the AC running 24/7.

So what do i do? I get caught up on my bass fishing magazines and get ideas on how to customize and tinker with my lures, organize tackle boxes and soft plastics. After all my product www.lureluster.com is all about customization, so why not do some other customization for other lures. Now you know that just about every bait that i have has my stickers on them, so i was looking for something else to do. (side story: as i have so many lures now, i really don't buy anything unless it is a deep discount. And although there are some really nice $10-$25 lures, i just can't bring myself to buy them. I just don't think that you have to have a lure at that price to catch fish. Ok i am cheap to!)

The Umbrella rig has obviously intrigued many with the stories of doubling up or more on this unique fishing lure. However, the cost of these are typically $15.00-$30.00 for the rig and then you have to buy the jig heads and swimbaits to go with them. So i have been tinkering and came up with a home made umbrella rig.

Now if any of you watch the Simpson's, and are familiar with Homer's spice rack, that is typically what happens when i take on projects. However, this one came out  not that bad. Maybe not as pretty as the others, but i bet it will get the same reaction bite!

Ingredients: Broken crank bait sawed; a $1.29 small whisk purchased at Ace Hardware, some old weighted swimbaits that i probably got on a clearance shelf and standard fishing line connectors. I couldn't find the wire and just found a whisk and thought, hello that is almost done for me.
I think you get the picture!

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Hello every one. I don't think that I have posted this on my Blog so here it is. I hope if you find this interesting you will go to www.lureluster.com and give the product a try. Please share with your friends.

Good Fishing - BassinBrax

Lure Stickers? - Questionair

Hello all, I hope you are beating the heat this summer. Before I ask my questions, I will share a little story on my last fishing trip. Last sunday I got up at 6 am (early for me) to get to the lake by seven. You know when your driving to the lake and your thinking...."man I should have left an hour earlier."
This day was dedicated to meeting a buddy of mine at the lake for mainly beer drinking, but i was going to get a few hours of fishing in before it turned 100 degrees. Well I picked a new ramp to put in at, problem was it was not a maintained area and the roads were bad. It took me a good hour to back track and find my way in the back roads to get to a ramp I was familiar with. So the first lesson is, make sure you research your launching sights!

Finally was able to start fishing around 830. I always start with a top water and was using a buzzbait and hooked into a nice 1.5-2 lb. largemouth. At that time I remembered to get my video camera out. After all, you need video of catching fish with your product to sell it, right? Well around 9:30 it was already getting hot and every time i turned the camera on, i was getting snagged. I hooked into what was probably a 3 lb. fish and between him and me was a nice 3 log structure that he headed right to. I kept the pressure on, but did not have a good enough hook set on him to land the bass. I tried that area for a little while longer and then decided to go to the beach.

Well, I'm sure some of you can relate or have had similar experiences. Hopefully you may find a little humor in my last outing.

Back to business; If you have visited my blog and/or my website at www.lureluster.com, you have scene that I offer a lure customization sticker kit. This kit is a easy way to add color and flash to any hard bait surface like spinner bait blades, crank baits, spoons and buzz blades.

I have had great interest from all level of anglers in regards to this product, but have not had the sales that I would like to have had.

If you read this and like to fish, i would be interested in your comments:

1. Do you customize your fishing lures?
2. Would you use a product like Lure Luster?
3. What would you pay for a product like Lure Luster?
4. Would you purchase at a store or online?

I could ask alot more questions than that, but just thought these would help.

Please return your reply to orders@lureluster.com. Thank you and good fishing!