• Bass can be caught on homemade lures.bass image by Liz Van Steenburgh from Fotolia.com
  
  You can catch bass with a variety of lures and jigs. However, you don't always need to buy lures from the fishing tackle store. You can make effective lures using household items, combined with a few essential fishing gear pieces such as hooks and swivels. Several tailored household items can catch a bass--from wine corks to old spoons
  
  

French Spinners

• Spinners, as their name suggests, twirl through the water on retrieval. Spinners are usually made of a bright piece of oval metal, some wire and a treble hook. You can use household items to create the spinning blade, such as flattened teaspoons or shaped metal. Buy hooks and wire from a tackle shop. Most bass species will go after spinners--particularly if you add a couple of stripes of reflective or colored tape to the spinner blade.
  
  

Cork Popper

• Poppers are floating lures that "pop" to the surface, encouraging bass to strike from below. You can make homemade poppers from old wine bottle corks. Poppers have blunt, wide front ends, which makes corks an ideal medium to work with. Use a small hacksaw to taper the body down to a thinner rear end. Sand the entire body until smooth, then apply waterproof paint. Most lures include two large eyes painted at the front end to mimic the head of a fish. Other materials that are good for poppers include cedar and pine wood, according to Clemson University. Work the homemade poppers across the surface of known bass waters to provoke a strike.
  
  

Spoons

• Spoons can be made from--you guessed it--old silver plate and stainless steel spoons. Spoons are one of the most straightforward homemade bass lures, provided you have a good drill and metal file. Snap off the spoon handle and file the edge down. Drill small holes in each end of the spoon and insert a split ring into each hole, according to Clemson University. Attach a treble hook to one of the split rings. Achieve different effects in the water with different sized spoon lures and by flattening the bowl of the spoon with a hammer.