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Tie it on with confidence — free calculators for lure weight, jig heads, fly hooks, colour, and retrieve, plus plain-English guides to lures, flies, bait, and tackle craft for anglers.
From sizing a lure and picking a jig head to choosing the right colour, tying the right hook, dialling in your retrieve, and planning your bait, Uistin pairs free hands-on lure and tackle calculators with practical guides and a richly illustrated museum. Tie it on with confidence, fish smarter.
Lure & Tackle Calculators
Free calculators for the working end of your line — lure weight selector, jig head weight calculator, fly-tying hook size guide, lure color selector, retrieve speed advisor, and a bait quantity planner.
Lure Weight Selector
Pick a target species, the depth you want to fish, and your technique to get a sensible lure-weight range in ounces — with a sweet spot to tie on first
Jig Head Weight Calculator
Enter water depth, current, and your line to get a jig-head weight that gets your soft plastic down and holds bottom, snapped to the nearest standard size
Fly-Tying Hook Size Guide
Choose the fly style you're tying — dry, nymph, streamer, midge, saltwater, and more — to see the usual hook size range plus the thread and hackle that pair with it
Lure Color Selector
Set the water clarity and light to get a recommended lure colour — natural translucents in clear water, chartreuse and dark silhouettes when it turns murky
Retrieve Speed Advisor
Match your lure and the water temperature to a retrieve speed and cadence — a slow cold-water crawl, a steady mid pace, or a warm-water burn
Bait Quantity Planner
Enter your hours, anglers, and target species to estimate how much live or cut bait to bring — so you don't run dry at the best bite of the day
The Tackle & Lure Museum
Wander an immersive museum of the craft behind the cast — the spinners, plugs, spoons, and soft plastics an angler ties on, the artificial flies and the bench they’re tied at, the jigs and terminal tackle that finish a rig, and the fish those baits are built to fool, each in its own gallery, so you can get to know the stories behind the lure box: how each pattern came to be, what it imitates, and the part it plays in fooling a fish.
Tour the museum →From the Tackle Journal
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Keep Learning
Practical know-how on choosing and rigging lures, tying flies, and matching bait to the fish, plain-language explainers on lure weight, colour, and retrieve, and seasoned tips for beginners and old hands alike — everything you need to dig deeper and fish smarter.
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