Frugal Fisherman: Build Your Own Kastmaster Fishing Spoons for Cheap 

Welcome back. Look forward to all the helpful information and all the great fishing!

If I had to choose 1 lure to survive on, the kastmaster is the one. Definately going to buy from them some day.

I've been wanting to try some larger kastmasters for salmon/steelhead lately.

Thank you!

A must have for a trout box, and they cast great. I've been getting my Kastmaster "knock offs" pretty cheap on Amazon Prime and doctoring them up. Never used the color dip, but I will now. Looks great. Thanks for the video.

I've done well recently using copper Kastmasters for rainbows. Lure Parts Online prices were so good, I planned to buy nickel and gold MasterCast spoons and buy copper or metallic orange tape from Shortbus Spinners. Assuming they were brass blanks, I sanded down a nickel one to make a half nickel/brass and was pleasantly surprised to find the next layer down was copper on both the nickel and gold (under that was something else silvery colored, not brass). Back and forth on flat 220 grit (finest I had) quickly exposed the copper on the flat sides. I haven't used them yet, I doubt the silver or gold sides will make any difference. Generally where I fish, (other than copper) the trout seem to prefer silver based lures and the pikeminnows prefer brassy colors. The "Closeout Scratched Master Cast Gold" looked fine to me and were especially cheap. $2.99 for 5 size 1/2 oz..

Great info

Your channel is awesome.

Good stuff I need to find some heavy tins for my surf setup I'm getting. 3+oz castmasters are like ten bucks now. I've been debating raiding my local range and filling spent brass with spent lead. And making giant roster tails out of it but unless I'm going to use 375 H&H s they're only going to come out to about an oz.

That is some good info

If the spoon or blade you want to dip has a topcoat/varnish does it work? Or does the material have to be unfinished?

Do these still come with the split rings? I wish I would have known that just ordered a bunch and the split rings as well. It does not mention that on the site anywhere. Thank you for the video.

Great info, thanks for sharing, chicken cameo too!

Good video. Been doing this for a while. Spanish mackerel love these things, but you lose a lot of lures. These save you a lot of money.

Strike using spent brass, I just saw a guy who makes muskie spinners just by putting egg sinkers on a wire with blades! 😀😀😀

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Can I powder coat those or is the finish to smooth? I am very interested in powder glow colors for the 1oz size. KastMaster only makes the one green glow and the kings seem to love it. Thanks and happy fishing!

I spent an entire day making two blanks from a scrap of steel. Turns out, these are simply sliced from round stock! I started with square stock lol!

you can buy kastmasters on ali express for 72cents a piece

Is it ok to use a conventional reel with the one ounce kastmaster, and how heavy/big should my rod be?

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should i use a swivel for this kind of spoon?

Please post information for me.

Your back , is it just me or have you been gone for a long while?

You really didn’t tell us how to make one. You told us how to buy parts and assemble one.