Wooden Fishing Lure

The wooden fishing lure is one of my favorite scroll saw patterns. It is an easy wood craft you can modify to meet your needs. I crafted mine after the classic "Lucky 13" topwater plug that has been around for over 100 years. I caught my first Largemouth Bass on a Lucky 13 in Mathis Lake (now Lake Corpus Christi) around 1974. I'll never forget that day!

If you have selected wood for your project, you can use a scroll saw or a jigsaw to cut out the lure shape. The process is simple.

• Download the wooden fishing lure template at mxtn.com
• Print out the pattern on your printer.
• Cut out the pattern.
• Place the pattern on a flat piece of wood.
• Use your scroll saw or jigsaw to cut out the lure shape.

Once you cut out the shape, you can paint it and decorate it with eyes and hooks. I used antique white and red colors to give mine an antique look. I used bottle caps for the eyes, bent flexible wire to the shape of hooks, and threaded these wire hooks into screw-eyes on the bottom and the end, like the real Lucky 13 lure.

Finally, I placed one screw-eye on the top of the lure at the center of gravity to hang it from my patio cover or the awning on my RV. You can also hang it on a wall.

The picture of my project (below, left) shows how I painted my wooden fishing craft project to match the colors of the original lure. I was trying to give the lure an "old" look by using a thin layer of paint, but you can thicken the paint to cover up the wood grain so that it appears a little newer, like the picture of the actual modern lure (below, right).

Enjoy!

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