This is different. For several years now I've wondered why we don't make sinking plugs that swim like a heavy spoon or tin squid. Turns out someone else figured this out years ago. I found this plug in the bottom of a tackle box I used as a kid (35 years ago). I don't know what it is called (if you can identify it please tell us) and I always thought it was a popper that doesn't pop. But it turns out it is not a popper at all, rather it is an ingenious swimmer. It's action is something like a good swimming needlefish, or littleneck popper, though it swimms better than either. Give it a tug and it will lunge to the surface, pause and it drops with a wobble, retrive steady and it sways along flashing its flanks and swinging its tail. I haven't fished it, but I suspect it should be good. I've made a bunch of copies, all bigger, out of pine and maple. They take ALOT of lead, but boy do they look good in the water. Now if i can just learn how to paint 'em.

Here is one of the wooden "copies".

And a closer shot.

Umm...
You own an X-Ray machine?

:skulz: :spin:

Painting looks good to me NS. :kewl: Had no idea they used rattles 35 years ago. :doh:

That looks something like the plug I made for the crazy swap 2 years back, and its weighted very similarly although mine still needed some tweaking, sounds like it moves something like the ones I made. Pretty cool.

That is a really sweet shape and profile.

looks good to me

I was gonna say looks like canal man swap plug .. Very intteresting shape... nice work .. you got awesome skillz ... who r u ?

I thing flaptail said he was a MD. who loves fishing.

Pretty nifty!

:claps:
Good Stuff Doc.

That's a cool plug. Did you use screweyes? I'd like to see that swim.:kewl:

That looks something like the plug I made for the crazy swap 2 years back, and its weighted very similarly although mine still needed some tweaking, sounds like it moves something like the ones I made. Pretty cool.

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Rep to Canalman. Henceforth I'm calling these things "Lazyfish". Here I am reinventing the wheel. Canalman, how did your's work? Looks like a perfect scup imitation.

hey nummy, who says you can't paint. nice lookin' plug!

That's a cool plug. Did you use screweyes? I'd like to see that swim.:kewl:

Those are big long screw eyes, they'll hold in maple, the pine ones I'm not so sure about (on one I cast a sinker eye right into a 5/8 x 3/8 lead plug- 1 of 4 it takes to sink the thing)

Interesting plug design :kewl: Nice paint too!

JPI, Surely you've come across rattles before. Heck, I've dug up rattles that were 1500 years old. How old did you say you were :huh: :hidin: :rotf2: :wavey:

Jigman

Jigster, old enough to remember finding and reading the original manuscripts which read--

" AND THOU SHALT HAVE DOMINION OVER THE ANIMALS--- EXCEPT OF COURSE THE CATS" :D

George, that plug was made by Cotton Cordell, they were only on the market for a few years in the seventies (early). Can't remeber the actual plug name though but give me a while. Nice work. We have to get together after X-Mas for those lessons we talked about. Santo will be dropping by your house if your good.:hidin:

Nice work!
Gives me a few ideas to play around with....
Very interesting concept...

Flap's right - made by Cordell. Called the "Blue-striper" if I'm not mistaken.

Flap's right - made by Cordell. Called the "Blue-striper" if I'm not mistaken.

Thats it!