More noise from your buzzbait

[Mike Cork]

Most buzzbait blades are held onto the shaft with a rivet and a bend in the wire. Take a pair of pliers and flatten the rivet.

When you pull a buzzbait threw the water the blade is pressed against the rivet and the rivet will spin with the blade. If you flatten the rivet so it won't spin then the blade will spin on top of it and create a fish attracting squeak 

[Steve_W]

I have also seen people take new buzz baits and tie them to their antenna on their truck and let the wind break them in,I don't know if it works but it looks 

[Buzzman]

After you flatten the rivet, take an emory board or piece of sand paper and rough up the surfaces between the rivet and the blade - makes it much noisier.

[clubber]

Another way to get more noise or squeak is to remove the rivet. They have a convex area around the hole that the wire goes through. Find a hole the same size as the rivet and flatten out the convex area. Makes for more surface area to rub against the blade.

[G3hp200]

put rivets in bleach so they rust and they squeak like crazy!Also can take a small drill bit and drill holes in very outside of blade to throw water all over the place like splashing baitfish!

[FisherMOM]

these are great tips!!!  I am copying them down to try and share!!  thanks!

[skeeter jones]

If your buzzbait doesn't have a clacker remove the rivet and blade.  Add a small colorado or willow blade on the front that will barely hit the blade as it turns.  This makes a whole different noise than the standard clacker.  You can get a quick change clevis and put it on the front (cabeles).  If you want to change colors or remove the clacker the quick change allows this.  You can put them on spinner baits as well. Then your're ready to file down the face of the rivet that will rub the blade to make it flat.  I will then use the file edge to cut groves in it to make it rough.  If the rivet is steel you can get it wet and put salt on it for acouple of days to get it to rust.  Crimp down the rivet

[Beagle]

I will not use a buzzbait without "tuning" it. I either tie it to the antenna or I just hang it out the window. You got to hear the "squall" my buzzbaits make to believe it.

[bigjim5589]

If you make your own buzzbaits, try using rivets made from different materials. Most folks use aluminum or steel rivets, but they're also available in copper & stainless steel. The friction between materials of different types often creates a different sound, especially when some of the other tips posted here are incorporated into the construction. 

[pretjah]

i make my own clackers by taking plastic carolina beads,a spacer  an old straight shank hook and do the following

[Nickk]

Great Tips!

[bassfishingforum]

You can mount the buzzbait to your vise in the garage and turn on a fan pointing at the buzbait. After a few days it's broke in. It will squeak like hell.

Bob

[Flyash]

You guys are Genius's These ideas are great.  I gotta try em

[sparky]

You might be a redneck if....

You can mount the buzzbait to your vise in the garage and turn on a fan pointing at the buzbait. After a few days it's broke in. It will squeak like hell.

I will not use a buzzbait without "tuning" it. I either tie it to the antenna or I just hang it out the window. You got to hear the "squall" my buzzbaits make to believe it.

[MotherNature]

Ok sparky we all know that there are rednecks here but most folks don't pick on us    so what do you do to get more noise out of your buzzbait or... do you just use it right out of the package?

[sparky]

I use it right out of the package but after reading this thread that wont be the case anymore I'm gonna take some of yalls advice.


               
I sure would consider myself one of the redneck type. But I have been into hunting most of my life and now getting more into fishing and I'm reading things I've never imagined or herd of before.

I sure didnt mean to offend anyone. I guess redneck jokes are off limits on these forums?

[Ron Fogelson]

I use it right out of the package but after reading this thread that wont be the case anymore I'm gonna take some of yalls advice.


               
I sure would consider myself one of the redneck type. But I have been into hunting most of my life and now getting more into fishing and I'm reading things I've never imagined or herd of before.

I sure didnt mean to offend anyone. I guess redneck jokes are off limits on these forums?

Nope you did just fine and I would doubt you offended anyone.  Laurie was just picking and trying to draw yo in to the conversation to find out "like the rest of us" some of the things that you and others do with store bought lures.

You know there are a lot of ideas and things we each do everyday that we just take forgranted is old news.  It's cool to read and share some of the things we all do all over the country to find some different things that may help us all grow and learn something to help hook a few more fish and have an even better time on the water.

By the way folks call me a red neck all the time, but I was born and raised a Country boy from MN so the correct term would be Dam Yankee    See I moved south at the will of the Air Force but I'm not going back to the cold for no one 

Take Care
Fogy

[MotherNature]

I sure didnt mean to offend anyone. I guess redneck jokes are off limits on these forums?

Not at all... like Fogy said, just pickin

[sparky]

Not at all... like Fogy said, just pickin

Okie dokey