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Article #89: Make Your Own Fishing Decor from Fishing Gear

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Decorating with old, used fishing gear is twigs I randomly tie bobbers and lures
fun, creative and inexpensive. It's with mono filament (fishing line). I like
pretty easy to find unique fishing gear to use cafe curtains with curtain clips
to use as decorating items for your log on these swags because they hang below
cabin or home. Here are a few fun ideas the bobbers and lures. Curtains with the
for your fishing decor projects. long tabs work great as well.
First you will need fishing gear. My Old fishing poles from yard sales are
husband is not the fisherman in our very cheap and make great curtain rods. I
family, I am. So it's easy for me to save especially like the cane poles because
old fishing lures that the hooks have they are easy to cut to size.
dulled and gives me a great excuse to buy Another idea is to hot glue bobbers and
more too! Bobbers have a tendency to stop lures all over an old lamp base. I think
floating after a few whacks on the rocks the more the better on this project,
along the shoreline, rendering them totally covering the base. Of course the
useless to the fisherman but a great find lamp size and your taste make a
for the decorator. If you confiscate gear difference. If it's a very large lamp or
from hubby's tackle box remember you now you just don't have enough lures and
know what to get him for the next holiday bobbers you can hot glue solid bands,
or special occasion! about 2 inches wide, of hemp rope or
Yard sales and estate sales are great for twine to fill in larger areas.
purchasing inexpensive, used fishing A mobile like you see in babies rooms are
equipment for your decorating projects. fun and add an interesting art form to
Yard sales are less risky than hubby's your fishing decor. I prefer to hang the
tackle box too. Keep an eye out for used fishing gear at different levels instead
fishing nets, poles, lures, bobbers, of all one length. Again I use twigs or
metal stringers and other gear. sticks for this project's "cross" to hang
The last thing you want is your fishing the lures, bobbers etc. from and fishing
decor to smell fishy. Be sure to clean line to tie it all together.
everything very carefully and thoroughly. Old wooden picture frames with the glass
I use alcohol for lures, bobbers and removed make inexpensive picture boxes.
such. Good detergent and bleach for nets. Line a piece of thin cardboard with
Vinegar and lemon juice work well too. brown, tan or dark green felt. You can
What type of decorating can you do with also use fishing print fabric. Put this
your accumulated treasures? This is where covered cardboard in the frame like you
the fun really begins, let your would a picture and hot glue your
imagination shine. Here are just a few treasures on the felt. A good trick is to
ideas to get you started. Minnow buckets use sets of three. Three lures, one under
make good catch all containers for the other in a corner, three bobbers side
bedrooms, kid's rooms and bathrooms for by side for a top row, three hand reels
items like crayons, hair do-dads, brushes in a row at the bottom for weight and one
and combs etc. If you are really crafty old metal stringer above the reels.
they can be turned into lamps. Buy lamp Things I haven't tried yet but are on my
fixtures at the hardware store or list to create include fishing lures with
inexpensive narrow based lamps that fit the hooks removed as cabinet handles,
into the top opening of the minnow bobbers or lures for light pulls, fishing
bucket. net swag around the bathroom mirror and
Make your own fishing swag from long drift wood with fishing gear as a
pliable twigs, boat line or saining nets. conversation piece.
Make sure you either remove the hooks Creating your own fishing decor is fun,
from lures and replace with twisted wire inexpensive and most of all you have
shaped like hooks or snip the points off unique decorating items for your home or
with heavy wire cutters. I have put cabin. Start collecting old fishing gear
chunks of cork on the ends of each point, and let your imagination go.
these look like baited hooks! From the






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