Thought I'd take a stab at some home brew bomber type swimmers. My apologoes to NJT for the re-engineered lips... :-) Big ones are almost 7 " long. The smaller ones are are just over 5" long. The big ones have a belly weight right at the thickest part of the wood.

Black over purple first...

Parrot....

very nice :claps:

Real nice SH.:kewl: Awesome shape on the 5 inch in the first pic:hihi:

Good Stuff... question, does the thru wire go thru the lips on 1,2, and 3?

No. Those are just epoxied in place. I was thinking about that and once I get the right lip profile, I that's one way to be sure the lip doesn't fall out. Either that or some small screws.

liquid nails... holds metal to wood...extremely well...

they look good. :kewl: how do they swim?

If I can make time, they'll get hooks and a test swim this evening... Otherwise, next week.

Great looking plugs ..

Swam the parrot plugs today... The little one worked great. Got a few swrils behind it by some twinkies... The big one came in in a loose spiral :-( The lip is fairly narrow and pointy form the front. Was thinking I may need to widen it a bit. The plug is alos unwighted. Maybe a touch of weight near the nose? Any thoughts/suggestions anyone???

Went out under the lights last night with a bigger lip. Stabalized the spiral on the big one. Sinks like a stone. nose first. I rememberd that this one was made of maple. The idea being to help it swim deep. Will try a bigger lip. Then may move to the front of the plug with "conventional" lip or swap ends and make it into a pencil style plug..

Just try bending the lip down.even it heavy it should swim from what I can tell from the pic.seems like ur gettin it.One mistake at a time the best way to learn.

I've put a cut down big pikie lip on th parrot one. Will try that later tonight. Also made another body out of red cedar. put a big cut down Lefty lip on it and that seems to be getting me in th right direction. I ended bending it down like you mentioned NIB. That got me a nice tight subsurface wiggle in heavy current.