good time guys.
wish i could have stayed longer

plugs

more plugs

more plugs

more

pluggs

plug HO's

great time. what a display of work from all!:eek:

1. HOE

2 Plug comp. plugs

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5;;;; plug comp pic 2

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The Link's had a GREAT time today ! It was nice to see everyone.
Salty's tips on jig tying were very helpful , jr link is at the vise now putting the tips to work.
later LINK Sr.:cool:

Yes Mike, good time, we wish you could have stayed longer also. I think Gonefishin wanted to meet you but you escaped before he had the chance.

here are some more pics

http://www.bmwoodworking.com/brucefishing/Plugs205/contestplugs205.jpg


canalman winner http://www.bmwoodworking.com/brucefishing/Plugs205/canalmanwinner205.jpg

http://www.bmwoodworking.com/brucefishing/Plugs205/CSflagnorris205.jpg


That was a great time :btu:

great day!!! :D great seeing some old faces and meeting some new ones!!:) thanks to john, larry and salty for their efforts:D

I had a blast today meeting and talking with all of the folks at PlugFest today!:D I just want to thank you all for coming and making it a great time for all!;) You guys are all the reason this site is as great a place as it is....I saw much giving both of information and plugs.:happy: Great presentations by all who gave them, and I thank them! The volunteers who helped so very much...Missing Link and Jr. Link in the kitchen all day, KarlF with the raffle tickets all day, MikeCC with the front door ticket sales all day, and all of the other guys who helped out with everything else all day Christian and his dad Steve, Backbeach Jake and I am sure I am missing a few, thanks to all!;)

RedNeck thanks for the great danny plug. (Your work is awesome)

Missing Links thanks for the 2 jigs they are great! (You guys know your stuff)

KarlF thanks for the mini-needle, you left before I could give you your plug so pm me your addy if you could! (Again, great work Karl)

Flaptail thats a whale of a nice plug ya gave me...:smash: you are doing great things also!;)

I was so impressed by the quality of the plugs all of you guys are turning out.....Motorfish, Young Salt, RedNeck 24, you guys are turning some heads as well!:D

Also thanks to all who donated and all of those who brought food and stuff!:thanks:

I must label today an all around success, dedicated members also came from as far away as New Jersey and Maine to be there.....:eek: now that is dedication! Thanks again all!:happy:

so??????

who won the home competition?
best paint? etc...?:huh:

whoever made the chili? thanks alot:doh: :eek5:

thanks BF:D that's not the only piece of pluggage coming your way;) thanks again for the compliments:kewl: your display was quite the showing itself.:drool:

There shoulda been an award for the most humorous..
Salty would won hands down :D
Nice Grain, in that entry Booger ;)

Originally posted by Karl F
There shoulda been an award for the most humorous..
Salty would won hands down :D
Nice Grain, in that entry Booger ;)

:laughs: i plan on catching alot of fish with that:laughs:

Originally posted by thefishingfreak
so??????

who won the home competition?
best paint? etc...?:huh:

whoever made the chili? thanks alot:doh: :eek5:

Categories will include:

Best of Show = canalman

Best paintjob= canalman

Best Craftsmanship=Bigfish

Most Creative = PNG

Most likely to catch a cow (on the first cast)? not sure how it was worded=slipknot

Originally posted by redneck24
:laughs: i plan on catching alot of fish with that:laughs:

What kind of fish? Stickfish? :smash: :laughs:

id also like to make sure i thank

mac- for the killer needle

afterhours- for the great plugs

fishaholic- pluggage

karl f- awesome parrot

THANKS! for all the plugs guys they are all very nice and i will fish them all hard this season

. Glad i got to give some jigs away and do some tradeing .... it feels good to give back to people that have helped me out and givin me plugs in the past..

went there with 40+ jigs left with 16 plugs and 10 jigs :smash:

later
Jr Link

Originally posted by Slipknot
What kind of fish? Stickfish? :smash: :laughs:

cow stickfish:D

Slip doing Pikie demo!:D

One more.;)

Ooops...here it is.:smash:

Adam R goodies!:drool:

WOW, GREAT JOB! :)
Bugger and BigFish get a huge thumbs Up !!!!!

Congrats to Canal Man,
and to everyone who made a custom plug,you all did a great job.

Hello to all the new friends I met tonight. Hope to see you all soon.


John,great Web-site :)



It was also good to put some old lures and some new ones in the same room.

Thanks

I wish Spence had said hello!:(

Poser!;)

I had a great time and met allot of nice and talented people today.....Thanks Tagger for the plug that I won.... Gives me an excuse to get another rod:D

:)

Flaptail :)

CapeSam :)

DRives me Crazy

:D

Originally posted by thefishingfreak

whoever made the chili? thanks alot:doh: :eek5:

U not like?

I liked it, love the hot schtuff! Had a nice subtle burn :D

thanks Slip, Salty,Big Fish,,, great meeting lots of new people and hanging with the over the hill gang ,,Karl,Steve,Fred and Mac.. .. Some great talent ther today lots of nice plugs and skilled Craftsman .. thanks Steelhead for tieing a great tail on my plug .. Lots of great trades today thanks .. Special thanks to Justplugit for nominating me for the special award..

Sounds like maybe Freak has another part of him that is burning instead of his mouth!:rolleyes:

Special award.......................thanks

Great day ... thanks John

:btu:
Guys like Taggah and JPI just make ya wanna :D

Karl tell your dog I said hi .. and give her a cookie ,,:)

I've got more gas than the friggen Hindengurg:eek:

Shoulda "passed" on the chili, baked beans kiebalsa, sausage.....

LOL, my wife said "what did you eat?" My reply" A little bit of everything":laughs:

WOW.I'm pissed

Originally posted by MAC
LOL, my wife said "what did you eat?" My reply" A little bit of everything":laughs:
my wife asked me the same thing.. I said everything but meatballs ,,,all gone :crying:

:smash:

:laughs: I might have to go outside and sit in the snow for a while:laughs:

plug

Well I must say, I was blown away (pun?) by the whole festival.

Salty - I know we may never settle our differences but I have to say you and Larry did a truly incredible job. So I wanted to thank you both personally for putting together the perfect plugfest
:claps: :claps: :claps:

Now to the other thank you's

Tagger - Thanks for the Bottle Darter I can't wait to fish it.

Eben - That needle will be destroyed by years end (or lost :laughs: )

Stripersniper - Nice meeting you and SWEET pluggage man :btu:

MAC - Thanks for the colaborative pikie I hope you enjoy yours.

LINK (JR and SR) - You guys are awesome, thanks for the jigs and as I said before I have some more plugs with your names on them.

It was great to see everyone and and the bar is clearly being lifted every year, couple more years of this and the tackle industry is going down :D.

Finally - Thanks for voting me the winner of the Home Competition I was totally floored that I won and a new lathe is on its way to my house as we speak.

So when's the next one??? :laughs:

-DAve

:D :happy: :btu:

:cheers: to all who made it happen.

I am unable to find words to describe the absolutely amazing Pluggage displayed here. :happy: :btu:

When I see you guys at the MSBA show, feel free to kick my @$$ as hard as you can, as punishment for not showing up at this event.:wall:

Its quite obvious that everyone had a great time. Congrats to all the winners at the show and a big :btu: to John R, Scott. Larry & everyone that helped make it possible. The friendships that have developed on this board are what this is all about. Its also really good to see some younger plugbuilders to be also attended.

Ok ,ill go back to kicking myself now.

Missed you Tinman..:( look forward to seeing you at MSBA in March!:D

Tinman, sorry you missed it all but thanks so much for the stuff, you are too kind :D

see you in March anyway.

Hey Tagster, ya gota go back and see ":The Christmas Story "again, the old man got the "Major Award" :D Hope your wife doesn't let you hang it in the front window :laughs::laughs:
You da man:D Thanks for all your help:)

I want to just say I enjoyed meeting all of you for the first time... I really enjoyed seeing your work. I really liked participating in an event like this and hope to do much more in the future... As a Newbe... I kinda was timid about the whole Ho'in thing... I figured I was leaving that place with an empty bucket... instead... walked out with a Sweet WonderBread Surfster (thanks MAC the big eye might have to tap into your special stock ;) ) a BBJ swimmer and one of Slip's Award winning Maple Needles (WAAAAAAAAY SANDEEEEEEEEEEEEELIE)... I owe ya. I also want to thank people for voting my for plug. I figured once the "catch a cow" catagory was taken, I was out of luck. The Contour gauge works sweet!!!

Anyhow... thanks again... and hope to see yall at other events and out fishing. Days are flying and before we know it... the schoolies will be arriving.

Neil

I had a blast. I really had a great time seeing everyone and all the pluggage :drool: everywhere you looked there was amazing wood. Thanks alot to Bigfish and #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& as well as JohnR for putting this whole thing together.
My kids also had a great time, my daughter Danielle had a great time to my amazement. Everyone was real nice to them. Danielle even tied up 2 teasers for her dad.. I wish I could remember who was sitting at the table tieing:smash: anyone remember? Anyway, I had a total blast.

Big thanks to SlipKnot for the awesome wood, definetly tieing that one tight, it is gonna kill:devil:

Also Canalman, whoa...I know i'll be slaying on that one.....

It was great meeting so many guys, and the eats were unbelievable.......I hope to get a chance to wet a line with many of you guys this coming season:ss:

Karl, thanks for your patience ;)

Chris...that was Steelhead tying the flies!:D Your kids were both great and your daughter was the life of the party. Glad you all came.;)

now she wants a vise and tieing material:D

She really had a blast......Thanks steelhead, I love her color choices:cool: I can't wait to tie em on :kewl:

The last picture post of my photo essay has a pic of your daughter tying a fly with Steelhead.

some stuff bestowed upon me @ PF05

Some vintage items as well. Another Mustang for the herd and an original Danny P. Atom swimmer. Some people are kind beyond words.

And as an after effect I went to MikeCC's and blew forty bucks on plug parts and these which one set will be hung up and the other rigged and used.

Stan's?

Or somebody that worked there?

Steve I have a old beachmaster atom looks just like that.I used it this fall perfect sea herring imitation.Looks like u had a plug feast at the plugfest.

kids havin a good time at fishing things is too cool.

stan's shape....Hab's plug.

I had a great time. Thanks John R, Salty and BF for putting it together.

Thanks for coming and bringing some of your collection Adam.....you got some tastey plugs there!:drool:

Thanks to all that worked so hard to make this happen. As a new guy to plug building it was awesome to see such incredible work. You guys really set the bar high.

I met a lot of great guys and left with a ton of information. Cant wait to finish my first plugs.

then what are you doing on the computer? get turning my friend. it was nice to meet you, we'll have to do some eeling together, just not off a yak!:D