MAKING A CARBON FIBRE SUBMARINE FISHING LURE
This is an action packed video of making and fishing a carbon fibre top water submarine prop bait. Carbon fibre is one of those modern wonder materials which we all take for granted as most fishing rods are made of it these days. I thought I would go a little further and use a small offcut of carbon fibre tube and a bit 3d printing to make a fishing lure that I could use as topwater or with the rod tip held down, take it for a shallow dive just below the surface.
Creating complex shapes in carbon fibre can be challenging, so as a bit of a cheat I designed everything but the tube in fusion 360, a computer aided design program and used a basic resn 3d printed to print the parts.
List of tools, materials and software in order
20mm od carbon parallel tube (available on ebay/amazon)
Fusion 360 CAD software ( still free to makers and students)
Citubox slicing software ( free slicing software for turning cad files into code for 3d printers)
Elegoo mars 2 pro sla resin printer (amazon or direct from elegoo)
Elegoo ABS like resin in smoky black
Isopropyl Alcohol for cleaning the prints
Elegoo Mercury curing station for curing the prints
Lure ironmongery all bought from lure parts online
25mm x 2mm screw eyes
25mm prop blades
Belly hanger and screws
Size 2 treble hooks
The weight I cast from pewter into a wooden mould
20mm minute epoxy to glue both ends
Superglue for the conning tower
Finally apologies to the pike, it flipped out of my hand, luckily into the water