If you could only have 5 plugs what would the be? (including color and brand)

Mine:
Afterhours 10" needlefish, white
Gibbs pencil, pearl w/ pink stripe
Tattoo diver, pearl or bunker
Gibbs danny, blue
Afterhours slider, yellow over white

Blue white senior musso
yellow junior
white 7" wad needle
yellow red head pencil popper
surf howdy
I make my own and only 5 plugs would be a real struggle

Fin-S fish
Storm Shad
Skitterwalk
Superstrike Popper

And live bait when I'm done screwing around...:)

9" Needlefish
Superstrike Popper
BM Atom Jr.
Danny Plug
Bomber

superstrike
popper,needlefish,darter,bottle plug
all yellow
and white bucktail

A darter- green SS
a bottle- White Gibbs
a pencil- white, any
a danny- any color- any maker
a bucktail- white

Man, those New yawkers always gotta push it.

blurple a-salt
yellow a-salt
black/gold bassmaster needle
yellow/white afterhours needle
edit: yellow loaded redfin

3 - 7" Redfins (2 Chicken Scratch, 1 Black)(loaded)

1 Super Strike Needle (Neon Green)
1 Gibbs Needle (Neon Green)

DZ

Jigman spook /Jigsmith
9" blue/white slow sink needle
skinplug swimmer
Hawg style pencil popper
bucktail jig
I got 6 tubes and can double even triple up in some ,, bringing 5 plugs would never happen in real life ..

yellow red fin
yellow super strike darter
white afterhours 2 oz. needle
white 2 oz. hab's
bm or caped cod takle atom jr. in either yellow or white

SS darter - gold
7" Tsunami shad - pale bunker
white bucktail
Bomber 16A - Chicken Scratch
*Habs Needle - Yellow

* Got some AH needles over the winter, heard only raves, so this might change.

2 - Mambos - 1 Olive over white, 1 black

1 - Habs canal-style pencil - White

2 - Habs needlefish - Eel color, 1 2 oz & 1 1.5 oz

And 1 (take your pick):

- Scud loaded with an extra slug of lead in the tail

- Either a Surf Howdy or BigFish Blitz Seeker,
pogie color (Hi Larry...:wave:)

- 9" McKenna rigged black Sluggo or a 5 or 7" Senko on an Uncle
Zeke through-wired swinging hook bullet head jig


Eeee zazoosh, that's six...:huh:

seeing I fish what I make, all will be my own..

1) 6" slow sink olive/white needle with an eels skin..
2) 9" jointed eel, white/olive black
3) 7 1/2" 3.5 ounce yellow darter
4) 7 1/2" 3.75 ounce black conrad
5) 6" white spook

and if I could have only one LURE.. it would be a 1.5 ounce upperman style jig in white...

Just do it
Be like Mike

4 F90's
1 Wad...........................................of Skoal
;)

SS Popper Yellow/White
SS Bottle Yellow/White
7” Tsunami Shad
1.5oz Bucktail - White
Redfin - Bone

Night time selection----1.) 9" black Slug-go rigged with 2 ,7/0Gami hooks and 4 Slug-go insert wgts. 2.) 6" Danny or BM Danny 21/4oz. surface swimmer in yellow,parrot or white 3.) 5"(6") Redfin,Rebel or Bomber in silver/blue,yellow or burple 4.) 7" Redfin any color and wghted w/10cc's water 5.) Danny Conrad jr. in white or if you can't get that plug a 11/2 oz. white bucktail w/porkrind . .............. Honorable mention, BM junior any color............... Daytime slection-- 1.) Bucktail white, 3/4 oz and porkrind, 2.) Rebel jumping minnow, bone, change hooks to #1VMC 4x strong 3.) Gibbs Pencil popper, yellow, 21/2 oz to 31/2 oz. 4.) Danny or BM 21/4 oz. surface swimmer in parrot, white or yellow 5.) 7" Sluggo in white or pink, rigged and weighted. ..... Honorable mention, Cocohoe minnow, pearl on 1oz. lead head...........(Please note that I always carry an eel skin plug ,day and night, but it's in another catagory.)

1. 2 0z white bucktail
2. 3oz white bucktail
3. 4oz white bucktail
4. 5oz white bucktail
5. 4oz black bucktail

White Tattoo Darter
White Afterhours 10' needle
yellow/or white Gibbs pencil
White Habs needle
Herring Tattoo spook

7" Choopy needlefish, eel color
7" Mambo Minnow, Olive
2 oz Tsumani Talkin popper, yellow
7" loaded red fin, bone color
SS Needlefish, green

This is based on plugs, 9" Sluggos is my first pick for all artificials.

blurple loaded redfin
BM Danny white
AH needle black over red
SS bottle yellow
SS darter white

Yellow Gibbs Polaris
blue/white Atom popper
black RI Lures Needlefish
Yozuri Hydro Popper
10" Bone double wide Hogy

BM Wadd needle (Pearl)
Habs 3.5 needle (Eel)
Surf Asylum Big Danny
Left Hook Swedgehammer (All yellow)
and Tsunami 7'' (Pearl)

chicken scratch mambo
black mambo
white with pink stripe danny (3oz)
yellow/white SS popper(sinking)
Gibbs canal special

10" white AH flotin needle
CCT yellow danny
CCT scaled polaris, its old an ugly but damnnnnnnnnnnnn
AH spook in bone, the middle sized one.
6" pearl storm shad, when all else fails...

7 inch redfin loaded - 1-1/2 oz habs needle -2oz saltys needle-yozuri mag darter- super strike darter

ss popper sinking yellow/white
surf howdy 1.5oz blue/gold
bm danny yellow/white
cripple herring 4oz
grs bluefish pike

sooooooooooo,

that means that the other 300 or so
plugs i own are expensive firewood??
:bl: :bl: :bl: :bl:

why would i limit myself to 5?
perhaps, 5 per fishuation,,,,,,,
:uhuh: :uhuh: :uhuh: :uhuh:

1. 2 0z white bucktail
2. 3oz white bucktail
3. 4oz white bucktail
4. 5oz white bucktail
5. 4oz black bucktail

Nice plug choices :kewl:

I'd go with

pencil
SS little neck
point jude tin :D
jigman spook
jighead with pink sluggo

night I'd go with
yomag darter
beachmaster danny
pikie
eelskin needle
black bucktail jig or eelskin jig

:hs: shame on you....nobody thought to bring a metal.

1: large 3-4 oz sub surface swimming plug (lots to choose from)
2: 10" sinking needle
3: floating Plastic minnow a la Xrap
4: darter ala tatoo style
5: metal lipped surface swimmer 2.5-3 oz(lots to choose from)


(I overload my 5 slot bag)
6: Big surf howdy
7: my 3.2 oz floating mag-weight minnow with hinged lip :)
8: A large squid-like swimming plug
9: ronZ with custom head(s) of different buoyancy/weights
10: several buck-tails 2-4 oz and several 2-4 oz tins

If I had any room left I would tuck in a spare needle of different color and a few storm shad.

It is impossible for me to go down to the beach with the small bag with one plug in each slot, I can't do it. I have tried. I take the small bag, but I always max it out.

2.5 oz pencil
3 oz. pencil
3.5 oz pencil
2.5 oz polaris
3.5 oz polaris

This is an easy one, I only fish Pikie's

Giant Pike
Jointed Eel Pike
Troller Pike
Medium Diver Pike
Deep Diver Pike

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2. BIGFISH
3. Tattoo BOB
4. AFTERHOURS
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1.5 oz needlefish 2.0oz needlefish 2.5 oz pencil popper 2.0 oz pencil popper all in yellow/white,don't need a 5th

I always hated these type threads How does one only pick 5..
If I have to pick only 5 i will say Five eel hooks..
'No, four eels hooks and a rigged eel..:jester:

I always hated these type threads How does one only pick 5..
If I have to pick only 5 i will say Five eel hooks..
'No, four eels hooks and a rigged eel..:jester:

!!PRECISELY!! and entirely my point, earlier!

i have a hard time narrowing down to five per:
stage in tide, time of fishing window, amt of current,
wind speed and direction, and time of year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

i get it, that you are asking which five are peoples' go-to's.

still, it seems counter productive to me and narrow minded
when being proficient at working many types of LURES, in ALL
fishuations is where i'm looking to take my GAME.
broadening rather than narrowing, my friend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

hence, an arsenal that would give most pause~~~~
although, i think that the sandman's list is in the right vein.
why else would there be so many pluggs/AYC mfg's???

funny stuff NIB, as my first two choices would've been riggies and sluggos also,
depending on THE where and THE when.
:bl: :bl: :bl:

Old atom Jr
BM Wadd needle
SS darter
Black Bomber
Bottle plug
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!!PRECISELY!! and entirely my point, earlier!

i have a hard time narrowing down to five per:
stage in tide, time of fishing window, amt of current,
wind speed and direction, and time of year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

i get it, that you are asking which five are peoples' go-to's.

still, it seems counter productive to me and narrow minded
when being proficient at working many types of LURES, in ALL
fishuations is where i'm looking to take my GAME.
broadening rather than narrowing, my friend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

hence, an arsenal that would give most pause~~~~
although, i think that the sandman's list is in the right vein.
why else would there be so many pluggs/AYC mfg's???

funny stuff NIB, as my first two choices would've been riggies and sluggos also,
depending on THE where and THE when.
:bl: :bl: :bl:


I understand that no one fishes just 5 plugs. The purpose of the thread was just to see and compare what works for others. I just think its intresting that there are so many different plugs and colors that work for ppl. The thread was just a question thats all, no big deal, if you didnt like it then dont waste ur time answering it. I also picked 5 because half the time when im fishing a tide there are only 4 to 6 that work for at tha time.

woah, silver!

just having sum fun with NIB,
not trying to offend anyone.

my apologies iffin i was overbearing
with my response,,,,,,,,,i get THAT, alot!

it's too close to SPRING to
stoke the flames, just mho earlier.
THAT! and i've been laid off for entirely tooo long!
:bl: :bl: :bl: :bl: :bl:

woah, silver!

just having sum fun with NIB,
not trying to offend anyone.

my apologies iffin i was overbearing
with my response,,,,,,,,,i get THAT, alot!

it's too close to SPRING to
stoke the flames, just mho earlier.
THAT! and i've been laid off for entirely tooo long!
:bl: :bl: :bl: :bl: :bl:


BassDawg no apology needed. I didnt mean to come off like a d*** and also ment to put a smile after the wasting ur time part. I am not looking to burn bridges around here, insted i am looking for quality advice coming from ppl like you and maybe a fishing buddy once and a while. I am the type of guy that shuts up and listens because i have not been around the game long enough to have any say. I also feel ur pain in being layed off. Next Friday is my last day on the job and I graduate in May...Sucks
:cheers:

AMEN, and i'm sorry to hear about the job sitch.
for me it's the nature of the beast ~being a Union Ironworker.
still, it's mighty SLOW out there in the Trades Industry,,,,,,,,,,,,

i'm still learning from the wily veterans as well,
dunno much~~ prolly better at sharing what NOT to do.

perhaps we can hit the NShore together,

got KORKERS and eeeeeeeels?
:hihi: :hihi: :cheers: :hihi: :hihi:

OOOPS, just saw that yer down Rhody way!

LOVE the whole WKPG area,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
SoCo is one of my favorite haunts should gas prices HOLD.
sea ya at The HABS Fall Classic? good Tourney, great surfcasters!

got some korkers and know where to get eels. I will hopefully be around for the fall classic. What NShore are you talking about?

Hey, don't feel bad BD - I was going to list eels in positions 1 thru 5...:hihi:

Figured I'd play it according to Hoyle to avoid my natural tendency to be a wiseguy...

That's why they don't send donkeys to college, ya know

'Cause absolutely nobody likes a smart-ass...:hihi:

got some korkers and know where to get eels. I will hopefully be around for the fall classic. What NShore are you talking about?

from The Habah (Boston),
to Glosstah (Cape Ann).


my OWN little slice of Striperin' Nirvana!!!



YA, me and about 10,000 other surfratz!
:fishin: :bl: :bl: :bl: :fishin:

Hey, don't feel bad BD - I was going to list eels in positions 1 thru 5...:hihi:

Figured I'd play it according to Hoyle to avoid my natural tendency to be a wiseguy...

That's why they don't send donkeys to college, ya know

'Cause absolutely nobody likes a smart-ass...:hihi:

well said, Chuck, Old Bean!

point taken and duly noted.
:agree: :agree: :agree:

Hey, don't feel bad BD - I was going to list eels in positions 1 thru 5...:hihi:

Figured I'd play it according to Hoyle to avoid my natural tendency to be a wiseguy...

That's why they don't send donkeys to college, ya know

'Cause absolutely nobody likes a smart-ass...:hihi:

Thats not true they sent me!! :hee:

BassDawg- might possible be working in boston after this job so maybe some nights after work. i will let you know if i do or ever head up that way.

make sure none of them contain lead

you'll be an enviroterrorist

make sure none of them contain lead

you'll be an enviroterrorist


Did they pass the law yet?

Kastmaster, blue/chrome w/white bucktail, 1 1/2oz.
5" Mambo Minnow olive/silver
Canal Special, Yellow/cream
Jiggy Spook
Little Jake fat danny solid black

If there were no other plugs,and I was fishing for food, I'd pick these. Thank God there are more. And eels:hihi:

Thats not true they sent me!! :hee:

BassDawg- might possible be working in boston after this job so maybe some nights after work. i will let you know if i do or ever head up that way.

roger that!
pm me if you end up in the area.

the DI is very accessible, long walk,
but it can be worth it some evenings??
:tooth: :tooth: :tooth: :tooth:

9" herring sluggo
black BM danny
white BM jr
yellow BW pikie
SS yellow bottle