Out in the middle of no where today and this old guy (older than me ) walks by watching me... I said helo ,, he said "I don't want to disturb you" I said "your not disturbing me" whats up .. He said he was from Switzerland and was going to be around for about 15 days fishing .. Somebody took him out on a boat and he had caught a striper on his second cast (flyrod) and had caught a keeper ..said He flyfished and spinfished lures.. So nothings happening he's leaving,, I'm leaving.. and I gave him a plug .. I didn't want anything but he insisted ,,opened his trunk and theres a case with Bos tags on it from logan airport .. inside is 100's of plugs and he gives me one he said he got from a guy in France.. Has the guys name on it ... I gotta google it.. The guy told me he just came from Africa where he had been fishing ..Imagine this is this guys life ,, talk about hardcore . We got in our vehicles and both went our ways .. You never know who your going to meet ..

Cool story.

So have you put the cheese eating surrender plug to the band saw yet?

Liberty Plugs ;)

Great story, 2nd cast with his fly rod and he scores a keeper, I have been fly fishing in salt water for 3 yrs. now and can't catch a striper over 24 inches,

I'm leaving.. and I gave him a plug ..

Sooz Tagga, what else is new. :D

Could the plug he gave ya be made by the guy from France who posts here once in awhile. :huh:

Here's the plugs ... He's says it swims :humpty: .. so no copying ok :hihi: This ones plastic ... all his stuff was plastic . I did make a comment the hooks were small .. A decent bass would straighten almost everything he had ... better off with a flyrod ..

sides are scooped out .. kinda like those swimming needles ..

hidden behind the eye is a microchip with secret diagrams on it. :uhuh:

Update ... Plug Porn thread over there,,, Loki is a master of these things .. worth taken a look .. says long time freshwater glider .. never seen them in my area stores ... give me a black spinner bait ..Thanks to the guy that gave me the heads up on Loki pluggage ... u know who you are..

I maybe am the guy who posts from time to time (usually around my holiday in RI...), but I'm not the builder of that plug.

I can give you the specs though :
name of the lure is Mister Joe or Mister Tropic or Mister 100, depending on the size.
Builder is Eric Le Guyader, a Breton guy like me, who spends some of his time as a professional fisherman, another part as an adviser for tacklemakers, etc...

His lures are moulded, weighted, and very popular in the world of spinning for big fish (GTs and so...)

You can see them on http://orionlure.free.fr/

I will add that I'm very successful with his lures when fishing for Atlantic Sea Bass, and stripers also seemed to like the "Mister" serie...

Last year, my "to go" lure was a white "hot dog 160", very similar to the Tattoo Sea Pup (when september comes ...)

I join an old picture from august 2004...

It's a slow sinker, but from my own experience you mustn't just reel it in, you have to work it with long quick jerks to give it a nice weird swim : one jerk it will go up, or down, or riht, or left....

Very surprising but it works !!!

Is that the "Da Bigfish Code." Nice looking lures either way.

name of the lure is Mister Joe or Mister Tropic or Mister 100, depending on the size.
Builder is Eric Le Guyader, a Breton guy like me, who spends some of his time as a professional fisherman, another part as an adviser for tacklemakers, etc...

His lures are moulded, weighted, and very popular in the world of spinning for big fish (GTs and so...)

You can see them on http://orionlure.free.fr/

I will add that I'm very successful with his lures when fishing for Atlantic Sea Bass, and stripers also seemed to like the "Mister" serie...

Last year, my "to go" lure was a white "hot dog 160", very similar to the Tattoo Sea Pup (when september comes ...)

I join an old picture from august 2004...

Bingo ,,,says "Mister Joe Orion" on it ... looks hand written

Tagger :
All these lures, though moulded, are hand made and hand painted... Hand signed too !

That's why they're hot, when Eric is somewhere around the world fieldtesting them against monsters !!!

I heard that is new line of products is in the 6 oz area, for BIG GT's...