Files & templates

Twelve lures to start from, grouped big game, inshore and light tackle. Each is a parametric body with its wire, hooks and ballast already tuned to float or sink as labelled in Paulownia.

GT stick 200F

Big floating stickbait for GT: dives, darts and walks (~85 g).

GT chugger 160

Deep-cupped GT popper: bloops and throws a wall of water (~80 g).

GT pencil popper 180

Tail-weighted pencil popper: sits near vertical and thrashes its head (~75 g).

Kingfish stick 160F

Floating stickbait that dives and S-darts on the pull, for kingfish and tuna (~57 g).

GT sinker 200S

Slow-sinking glider for GT and doggies in current (~140 g).

Tuna sinker 150S

Sinking stickbait that falls tail-down and darts on the lift (~80 g).

Barra and jack walker 115

Floating stickbait for barramundi, mangrove jack and tailor (~18 g).

Barra and tailor popper 105

Chugging popper for barra, tailor, trevally and queenfish (~30 g).

Long-cast 110S

Small, dense sinking stickbait that casts a mile into the wind (~30 g).

Bream and flathead stick 85

Floating walk-the-dog for bream, flathead and bass (~9 g).

Bream popper 60

Small cupped popper that pops and spits for bream and bass (~7 g).

Whiting walker 60

Small floating walker for whiting and bream on the flats (~5 g).

.board.json

Lure Builder's own format. Plain JSON, so it stays readable and diffable, and it round-trips everything the app knows about a lure: the body, the wire, hooks and ballast, and the lure info.

File → Save downloads a file through the browser. Recently opened lures are listed under File → Open recent so you can get back to them without hunting through a downloads folder.

Share — in the top bar, or File → Share… — turns the lure on screen into a link. The whole lure travels inside the link, so there is no upload, no account and nothing stored on a server. Anyone who opens it gets an editable copy in their own browser.

It is a snapshot, not a shared document. Editing your lure afterwards does not change what the link opens, and a link cannot be updated or revoked once you have sent it. If you need someone to see a later version, send a new link.

What travels

The outline, side profile and every cross-section; the lure settings (wire, hooks, ballast, material and tooling); the interpolation type; and the lure info — designer, model, angler and comments. Anyone with the link can read all of it, so treat the designer and angler fields as public.

What does not

Trace images and any other image data, the comparison ghost lure, undo history, your recent lures, and your own settings — units, camera, overlays and appearance. Opening a shared lure also hides your own trace images so they do not sit under someone else's outline; they are hidden, not deleted, and the Trace image section turns them back on. That section opens by itself in the outline and side profile views, and carries a dot on its header whenever an image is loaded.

A normal lure makes a link of a few kilobytes. Past 30,000 characters the app warns that some forums may truncate or reject it, and past 50,000 it will not make one at all — send the .board file instead. A URL shortener such as TinyURL may help with a long link, but be aware it receives the complete lure link, and may not accept or preserve it; Lure Builder never submits your link anywhere by itself.

Share links need a current browser (they use the built-in Compression Streams APIs). In an older one the app says so and offers the .board file instead. Link previews show the generic Lure Builder card — a preview image of the lure itself is not something a link-only design can produce.

On your device. The lure you are working on is saved continuously to browser storage, so closing the tab and returning restores it — along with your view, camera position, trace images and settings. A phone is the one exception to the view: it does not offer the quad view, so it opens on the outline instead and leaves your stored preference alone.

Lures are saved in your browser, not to an account. That also means clearing your browser's site data clears your working lure, so save anything you want to keep.

You can load a photo or scan behind the outline or side profile view and shape to it. Calibrate by clicking four known points and entering a real dimension, then move, rotate and flip the image to line it up. Trace images are stored per view on your device and are not part of the lure file.