Spalted Sycamore
Caught With Handmade Lure
If you had a really good handmade fishing lure, would you fish it or save it? My name is Joel O’Hearn. I make small batches of lively and beautiful wood lures for bass fishing.
I have been fishing my own handmade lures over 20 years. Back in the 1990’s, I built hundreds of original wood lures. See 1990’s tab
From 1999 through 2016, while our boys were growing up, I focused on fishing and modifying my existing lures. In 2017, with an upgraded work space and lots of improvement ideas, I was building new lures again.
After two more years of turning and testing prototypes, I started making my first line of individually handmade wood lures named “Twitch”.
Twitch lures are based on my favorite type of lure for top water fishing. They are made from buoyant wood bodies that are moderately rear weighted. These durable lures will rotate side to side with just a twitch of your rod tip. See Fishing Twitch tab
Twitch is a perfect handmade wood lure for collection and display. Each lure is carved with raised eye sockets and slowly finished with a progression of base coats, inter-coats, airbrushed paints, and top coats. Allowing the wood grain to show through the coatings is my secret to attractive fishing lures. The wood grain pattern is visible through 13 layers for amazing depth of color, enhanced by flicker and shine from multiple levels.
The very best Twitch lures for display are numbered in chronological order and come with signed certificate. Lures in the Numbered Lure Series have the best looking wood grain and lure coating combinations as well as the highest level of handmade workmanship. See Lures tab for availability and information