what are your favorite wooden plugs and why? it could be home made, metal lips, needles, who's make etc...

right now mine are the hab's black, or eel needles 2oz.. and beachmaster blurple dannies. :hf1:

anybody else??...

Bernzy small wooden swimmer... herring color

Right now it's a White w/ Black Shading around the eyes Afterhours Needle or a white Hab's Needle. Both in 2 Oz. I fished eels mostly this fall but when I fished wood that's what I caught the most on.

THE Legendary Akespook #1

Gibbs large needlefish #2

....because they are the 2 most productive plugs /lures I know of.

:drool: MAC jointed pikie

lately for me has been an afterhours slider and a big 9" surface spook made by steelhead...

Guppy 155 -- 3 ounce pencil.

Guppy Pencils, Mac Pencils, Canal Specials (in white)

Habs needle 2oz
Bernzy Howdy
Beachmaster danny
Surf Asylum pencil

Tattoo large swimmer
small Habs needle
Gibbs needle

For me, the above list covers about 90% of my catching

Krispy "516" Danny
AdamR stubby needle
Tobias stubby needle
Habs 3oz
Old Atom Jrs
SS bottle plug

Bernzy surfhowdy
Habs Needles
Habs Pencils

krispy how do i get one of those "516" dannys???

LIFishVT Needle

krispy how do i get one of those "516" dannys???
Dre, 516's have only been dolled out to a few.
I havent sold any of my plugs, so its a trade sort of thing, but since I like ya, I'll scratch a couple together for ya :hee:
Maybe by the CSA dinner, I will have some more put together :kewl:

Fished nights with eels mostly ... used needles too ...

... otherwise it was a season of pencil poppers, used 'em all and caught on all of them, all good ... but the biggest producer for me were the Afterhours pencils - the 3.5 landed some good fish for me, as the did the 2 oz.

If I had to pick a couple that are not my own......:think:...I like Afterhours Jrs.....R.M. Smiths Big Eye swimmers and Berzy's Surf Howdy!!:drool:

BigFish pencil poppers....Tagger needles.....Jigman spook.....all I need..

Jiggy Spook -- Jigman :drool:

Bernzy Howdy-- Bernzy :hihi:

Habs Needles- Habs

Every custom from S/B members.

pencils by far, i catch more on pencils

3oz. MAC danny

Hab's night & gale White or yellow
Tattoo 2 oz darter black purple or yellow
bernzy commander olive pearl
afterhours rascal 2.75 oz yellow
hab's pencil popper herring

bm atom 40
bm danny
med tattoo swimmer
s/a pencils (slow poke)

Needles: #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&s 2.5 oz. Habs 1.5 & 2oz. & chances are the overweight stubby that I picked up im going to like when there are fish around to test it on.

Dannys: Gibbs, BM, and troublemaker

rest of my favorites are hard plastics.

Medium white Gibbs Danny (consistent big fish producer for me), 3 oz. Gibbs Pencil (daytime rough-water searching lure), Charlie Gargano stubby needle (BIG fish producer, new to me, but extremely good in short time period).

Gotta second the bigfish pencil yellow and medium sized habs anything with black works. Keep it simple stupid

Needles - Habs 2.0 ounce & Afterhours 2.25 ounce in Blurple. Best fish of year came on Habs needle, around 30 lbs. Love the durability of both these plugs, the Afterhours plug rides shallower and reacts nicely to being twitched as it almost looks like an underwater pencil popper. Habs is a little more versatile, seems better in rougher conditions.

Swimmers - Tattoo 2.0 ounce jr swimmer, great action with a neat injured wobble/waddle. Also like BM Atom Juniors a lot. I think the best small Danny I've used is the 1.5 ounce Troublemaker. Incredible action that you can feel working through your rod tip. Amazing lifelike Bunker finish.

Other - Love the 2.0 ounce Tattoo Sea Pup, caught tons of schoolies on it this fall when they wouldn't take a Super Strike popper. Easy to work, casts great. Very interested in trying a Bernsie Howdy.

pm sent mr. krispy.

metal lips
troublemaker surfster in teal
troublemaker 1.5 ounce Danny in white
beachmaster yellow junior
beachmaster inverted skin plug
beachmaster medium Danny in herring
beachmaster cowboy with eel skin

darters
north bar tackle bottle-darter in yellow
beachmaster 2 ounce darter in yellow
lifivt herring small darter in green
tagger 3 ounce darter in yellow

needles
beachmaster 2 ounce in blurple
habs 2 ounce needle in olive
gags 3 ounce needle in yellow
gags 1.5 ounce pocket rocket in black

pencil poppers
gags 3 ounce canal special in parrot
mac 3 ounce canal special in mackerel

that was a mouthfu :eek: l.............all nice plugs and all have their time and place but I will still throw skin plugs most of the time

A wooden A40 type. I cast it into a rip, and on the retrieve , I love the way that type of plug swims, you can feel it. I've got plenty of big bass this year on that type of plug.:kewl:

metal lips
troublemaker surfster in teal
troublemaker 1.5 ounce Danny in white
beachmaster yellow junior
beachmaster inverted skin plug
beachmaster medium Danny in herring
beachmaster cowboy with eel skin

darters
north bar tackle bottle-darter in yellow
beachmaster 2 ounce darter in yellow
lifivt herring small darter in green
tagger 3 ounce darter in yellow

needles
beachmaster 2 ounce in blurple
habs 2 ounce needle in olive
gags 3 ounce needle in yellow
gags 1.5 ounce pocket rocket in black

pencil poppers
gags 3 ounce canal special in parrot
mac 3 ounce canal special in mackerel

that was a mouthfu :eek: l.............all nice plugs and all have their time and place but I will still throw skin plugs most of the time

Wood u happen to have a pic. of the beachmaster inverted skin plug..don't beleive I've ever seen one.

Wood u happen to have a pic. of the beachmaster inverted skin plug..don't beleive I've ever seen one.

Ditto

I have favirote customs (chum) that I don't fish but I assume you mean ones you fish ,,, here goes..
Gary2,,anything, all catch, most first cast.
Jigman ,Pearl white spook. 200 fish easy this year 28lb. largest.
Bigfish pencil pop,,catches fish.. my reacher. best casting plug.
Tagger/me needles ,, 6" olive spring/sum,,8" blue/white sum/fall,,please pardon the no humility listing myself . But those are my main go toos I have all the time . Also fish about another 100 plugs customs thru the season and factory plugs cordell/rapala/17a blurp bomb come to mind . Not selling needles haven't sold one ever.. not that ,thats a bad thing ,, just to buisy fishing .

Something different, I took at least a dozen fish 20-30lbs from shore (moving water) with this during the first half of the season. Quit using it (so I can copy it) after that. It is a swimmer.

Bob Hahn "Dannys" they used to work great, many good nights on those............

needles
habs 2 oz white
habs 2 oz custom color


swimmers
rm smith big eye white pink
rm smith jointed black/purple/green translucent

Wood only?

Favorite needlefish---Habs
Favorite pencil--Hawg Hunter or Guppy
Favorite metal lip--Beachmaster
Favorite bottle swimmer--Hahn
Favorite fatbodied darter--Tattoo
Favorite slim darter--Gibbs
Favorite straight popper--Habs

I have favirote customs (chum) that I don't fish but I assume you mean ones you fish ,,, here goes..
Gary2,,anything, all catch, most first cast.
Jigman ,Pearl white spook. 200 fish easy this year 28lb. largest.
Bigfish pencil pop,,catches fish.. my reacher. best casting plug.
Tagger/me needles ,, 6" olive spring/sum,,8" blue/white sum/fall,,please pardon the no humility listing myself . But those are my main go toos I have all the time . Also fish about another 100 plugs customs thru the season and factory plugs cordell/rapala/17a blurp bomb come to mind . Not selling needles haven't sold one ever.. not that ,thats a bad thing ,, just to buisy fishing .

Taggerme needles. :hihi:

I'll try this one.

Needlefish Surface: Eelpunt
Needlefish sub surface:Gag's
Needlefish Stubby waker:me
Needlefish Big Water: Habs
Canal popper:Gibbs Polaris
Pencil popper all around use: Bigfish
Pencil Popper Canal: Gibbs Canal Special vintage 80's
Danny medium: Beachmaster
Danny Large: Gibbs
Surface Swimming metal lip: Bob Pond Plastic Atom P-40 w/brass thru wires
Sub surface swimming w/ metal lip: Beachmaster Junior Atom
Darter: Tattoo
Jointed Eel: Numbskull
Spook: #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
Standard slant faced popper: Creek Chub 2100
Finnish minnow type plastic: Rapala 5-1/2 inch X-RAP
Finnish minnow type plastic 7 inch: Loaded Cotton Cordell

A big yellow polaris popper.

Since everyone's posting multiple plugs I figured I'd share my favorites. Here's my best swimmers and why I like them.

The tattoo diver and yellow r.m. smith danny were responsible for one of my best memories of 2006. I waded out (more aggressively than usual) onto what is now my favorite rock on BI and got into a blitz of keepers this past sept. I landed countless fish around keeper size on these plugs for about an hour at dusk until the tide pushed me off the rock. Nothing huge but it was alot of fun.

The wonderbread eelpunt swimmer has been good to me when there is a good chop on the water. I always seem to hook up on this plug when it digs in just under the crest of a wave.

The jointed R.M. Smith swimmer is just a fish catcher. Seems to always get me a fish when nothing else willl and the blurple 2 oz. swimmer was good to me everytime there were fish around this spring. This plug has changed my opinion of metal lips at night and it's always in my bag on a dark evening.

The yellow/red head Mac Pikie has also been a good choice for me the past two summers. It's accounted for more than a few 20#ers on those single fish summer nights.

Cool pic I came across of some RM Smith plugs-

http://brianmullaney.com/fishing/albums/rmsmith/peanutinwash.jpg

Never fished his metal lips, do they swim as good as they look?

fAVorITES:

left to right: Tattoo Pup, AH Spookster Jr., Big Howdy, SS sinking popper(not wood but just as good), Mac Reverse Pogie Pencil, SA Pencil, SA Sleepwalker, Hab's Squid Pencil

:cheers:

left to right: Bassmaster, L.I.fish.V.T, Afterhours, Hab's Stubby, White Hab's, Blurple Hab's.

Needlefish Surface: Eelpunt



I hope the other site has plans to sell these. I need some.:rolleyes:

:cheers: I picked these up this year but they have yet to make it into my rotation. :cheers:

Picked up the SA needle at MSBA. I haven't found a floater needle that I like yet. Hopefully this will be it.

AH Swimmer: Never got it into the rotation but it did get a test swim and it swims nice. Should be a top producer next season.

Gibbs Bottle: Found a stash of these that I believe are before they went down hill. I keep hearing how effective bottle plugs are so I hope this one will show me the way.

rm smith ...any
habs 2oz p popper
tatoo darter
gary 2 bombers & wood o's
charleston poppers

Luds, ure gonna love that gazelle, give it a few tugs every now and then, it bounces up and down on the surface..

Everyone's overlooking the obvious.......

(Free ones)

Everyone's overlooking the obvious.......

(Free ones)

A few in those pics were free.:bl:

BigFish pp, Afterhours spook:btu:

1 1/2oz habs stubby needle

White Tattoo Spook, err Sea Pup :buds: is really still my favorite :cheers:

Ugghhh ... you guys are killing me, as I made the decision a few weeks ago not to add many plugs to my collection this winter ... as I cannot use all the ones that I have now ... but my philosophy just went out the window now that I have seen this thread ... started thinking about plugs that are not in my collection, or a few that need to be added to and now I have the plug bug again ... my decision for a little constraint has gone bye bye ... :huh:

Ugghhh ... you guys are killing me, as I made the decision a few weeks ago not to add many plugs to my collection this winter ... as I cannot use all the ones that I have now ... but my philosophy just went out the window now that I have seen this thread ... started thinking about plugs that are not in my collection, or a few that need to be added to and now I have the plug bug again ... my decision for a little constraint has gone bye bye ... :huh:

AAAHHH Ha Ha Ha .... You'll never have enough ... Never !! Sick isn't it ? :tm: