Abstract: A fishing lure component is made by arranging heat-fusible hair-like fiber substantially in a plane, then a heated bar forms a hot flexible bond of the material of the hair-like fiber by which the fibers are bound together, after which the hot flexible bond is wrapped around an elongated member, and is immediately placed with the member in a mold whereby the bond is internally and externally shaped and cooled, the wrapped bond being fully fused together at the ends that extend around opposite sides of the elongated member. The elongated member can form a part of the lure component, or it can be so formed that it can be removed to provide a fishing lure component having hair joined together at one end by a molded tubular common bond of the hair material.