enjoyed seeing everyones fish last year:cheers2:looks like it may start early:hihi: 5 inch pikie one of mine this mourning 4/6/09...from work

Yikes! It is starting already?~!! I still need to put hooks, not to mention paint and epoxy, on all the stuff clogging my cellar.

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good going Ed
that's what we make them for

gonna be a month before we get any migrants.... just cant get juiced for 12" holdovers...

Nice Job Ed.... I can almost gaurentee my first plug caught fish will be on a spook...

there moveing around looking for herring..not sure if there fresh or not...this one's smaller on a Mac pikie...they think the sewer discharge is a herring run:D

Well not a custom plug, but a jig I made. This one went 23" long and had an 18.5" girth easily 7+ pounds.

good going eddy spaghetti ... :kewl:

Got some guys out on the water today! This is a Greek plug that was real good to me last year also.

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Holy Crap! Biggest LMB I've ever caught is about 3 lbs. Those are ridiculous fish.

Those guys are pigs!

My son put a hurtin on me today. Cost me $3, first fish, biggest fish, and most fish.:mad:

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My salvation was getting my first one on my own stuff!:jump:

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Did those bucket mouth bass jump for you?

We try to not let that happen. Many times if they get air-bourne is when you see your lure fly out of their mouths.:tooth:

Holy Crap! Biggest LMB I've ever caught is about 3 lbs. Those are ridiculous fish.

for real.... i have never seen lmb that big in my area :eek:

My son put a hurtin on me today. Cost me $3, first fish, biggest fish, and most fish.:mad:

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Wayto go guys! Im lovin it!

Of the season for me. I found this little Greek swimmer in my bag after going through an hour of watching fish sipping. They were on worms or shrimp and I had nothing near the size they wanted. Found this one in the bottom of the bag. Cast and just let it sit, Bam. Saved my night.

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Got out for the first time this year and had good results...7 hookups landed 4 up to 36" in a little over an hour all on one of my spooks. First picture is the first fish of the year and the other one is a 36".

Cool fish, guys. Gotta laugh at your's Bill........Ted spends all that time getting his plug to swim right and you catch fish dead-drifting it.

And 229, a 36" fish for 5/5 when fishing out of Pembroke is no small feat. It is 5 days later and I've yet to break 28"...........nice work.

Finally a 1/2 decent fish. Took a cloud Conrad Jr on an otherwise slow night. Great jetty plug.


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Nice shot George, I can hear your helper in the background.

big fish:claps::Dwood rules:D

Pretty pooch too!:kewl:

After spending way too much time on them this winter I finally got into some fish on darters last night. Nothing to brag about size wise yet but atleast they work...

Nice going everyone!

I hope to shake the skunk off in the morning, had a fish on last week, but lost it... that'll teach me to be lazy and not change out dull trebles.:doh:

Wanted this GooMan Danny.:kewl: Thanks Glen:heybaby:

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Nice fish George and the rest of you bumm's.
Got a 37" on my brainstormed, bastardized, spook. No camera though. I have high hopes for this week as the fish should be bigger in this area and I will remember the camera.

took a 30" this morning, not on my own plug, but on wood none the less, sorry no pic, but it was so crappy out this morning, it wouldn't have mattered. Lure of choice was a little white darter. the skunk, she is gone. :btu:

Caught this one tonite, on one of my Pink sided eel danny's, same color that Bill Couch caught his on, it was actually his color idea, so I figured I better make a couple of them just in case the fish like the color. :jump:

Finally
26# (I know, it doesn't look it)
yellow bottle

awesome fish, your finger looks like its tongue.

Great Fish numbskull! Looks like you were dressed for a COLD night in the water I fished last night as well and the wind finally died down around 11:30 on the back side of Cranes

34" on one of my 5 " spook

Finally
26# (I know, it doesn't look it)
yellow bottle

Chilly out there???? Great fish!

Thanks, guys. You give me hope! Trying NH opportunities this weekend if I either get a turkey on Saturday or give that up for the moment. J

Nice fish George. I finally got my first decent fish of the season last night. 25# on one of my black darters...

Oh yeah. Of all the plugs you can build, knowing you got a darter right is always special.

my little bunker pattern spook has outfished everything in my bag so far, even at midnight last night when all else had failed, worked extremely slowly it produced...

Nice catches guys. Some pics from last week. The shallow water, top water fishing was to die for with larger fish each time I went out. The best day I forgot the camera. Anyway my yellow howdy in red cedar is my usual go to plug, thanks John, but had very good luck with the spooks I made over the winter like the red headed one and one in yellow and a green top white bottom one too. Also had real good luck with a yellow howdy that had the bottom flattened like a hawg hunter. Caught pissa but a fish stole it on me. Had a different action, which I liked. Its all about the strike for me . You could take the hooks off and I would still have a ball.

you guys are on fire.

even though these will most likely be the only two that I lay to rest for this season it still doesn't make it any easier...first two legal fish on my own wood.

Way to go, Eskimo.

Here are a few from last pm and today.
A fish caught by Earlybird on one of Flap's spooks
A fish caught by a really, really, handsome guy on a skinny danny
A bad picture of a 24.5# that ate a yellow bottle.
Time to go get 'em, guys.

Nice fish guys. George I threw the big yellow darter I got from you @ plugfest in the bag last night and it caught first cast. My first bluefish of the year... :hihi: I really like that one, it's heavier than mine and perfect wieght for the rod I'm using.. I put it back in the bag for tonight.

I fried my cell phone a couple nights ago so I haven't been carrying the camera the past few nights. I'll bring one tomorrow...

A couple teens on top and a 21 that inhaled a darter pre dawn. I may retire that one and use it as the standard to judge my others by. Most of my decent fish this year have been on that plug.

I love seeing these fish on homemades!

I got a fatty on my flat bottom pencil this morning, the fish was in the rocks the entire time and my biggest concern was losing the plug as I felt my line dragging across the structure it seemed to keep finding ...it's the only one I'd made...got em' both out of the surf safely:kewl:

..... the fish was in the rocks the entire time and my biggest concern was losing the plug as I felt my line dragging across the structure it seemed to keep finding ...it's the only one I'd made..

I may retire that one and use it as the standard to judge my others by. Most of my decent fish this year have been on that plug.

It is amazing how valuable a home made plug becomes, when it is your only prototype and is working better than anything else in your bag. You start trusting it so much and fishing it so often, surviving the season becomes unlikely.......yet taking it out of the rotation deprives you of your most useful tool. I've gone both ways (got the same dilemma right now with the yellow bottle). What I try to do is measure it, weigh it, get a profile, float it to record its waterline, and record its balance point.........then I keep fishing it and hope for the best. I think you learn more by fishing a plug through its lifespan, than by quitting while you are ahead.

Good job everyone, things are rolling now!

Not a big fish but my first striper on my first jointed plug.:jump1:

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Got a few small bass on homemades recently but can't figure out how to save the pics from the card yet, if the wife ever helps me I'll post them. Took Danny out in the skiff yesterday and he had his gary2 tiger nailed right by the boat, but it came unbuttoned before we could land it. Then I got some on my jigman spook copy and Dan got one we got some pics of on a small Cranium howdy, love those howdies, ya can't beat them things.

Good job everyone on your success so far:bounce::drool: get some more :soon:

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A couple teens on top and a 21 that inhaled a darter pre dawn. I may retire that one and use it as the standard to judge my others by. Most of my decent fish this year have been on that plug.

:btu: Nice Dave, I think I have one of your darters, a squid colored one, I intend to try it shortly.

Here is one I wasn't expecting. Walking the dog, tide too high and I was too tired (after spending myself for naught last night) to fish the jetty I wanted so I was tossing a toy donny (5" 1/0s) on a small rod along a featureless swimming beach to amuse the dog when BANG this showed up.

Nice way to end a walk.

:btu: Nice Dave, I think I have one of your darters, a squid colored one, I intend to try it shortly.

Ya, those came out nice but they have too much action. They are more of a subsurface swimmer than a true darter but they do cast well..

It is amazing how valuable a home made plug becomes, when it is your only prototype and is working better than anything else in your bag. You start trusting it so much and fishing it so often, surviving the season becomes unlikely.......yet taking it out of the rotation deprives you of your most useful tool. I've gone both ways (got the same dilemma right now with the yellow bottle). What I try to do is measure it, weigh it, get a profile, float it to record its waterline, and record its balance point.........then I keep fishing it and hope for the best. I think you learn more by fishing a plug through its lifespan, than by quitting while you are ahead.


I decided to retire it and I ended up taking my biggest fish of the year on its replacement last night(28#) but then I hung it up and broke it off, so now I'm glad the good one is safely tucked away in the basement... Boy do I want a 30 on a darter... Funny how learning a new way to catch the same fish makes it interesting all over again.

I didn't make that many good darters and the big batch I made when I finally figured them out got 'oversealed' and were too heavy so they were all sitting in the basement. This morning I took a few of the lightest ones and just spray bombed them black. I think a few will be ok, we'll see.

Here is one I wasn't expecting. Walking the dog, tide too high and I was too tired (after spending myself for naught last night) to fish the jetty I wanted so I was tossing a toy donny (5" 1/0s) on a small rod along a featureless swimming beach to amuse the dog when BANG this showed up.

"honey, I'm taking the dog for a walk"..."why do you need your rod and camera to walk the dog?" very clever...I'd never get away with that:laughs: great to see the bass appreciating your plugs as much as we do!

Ask the Professor how HE got out yesterday morning with his daughter!!:btu: Pretty funny story!:bgi:

Great pictures guys! Always fun seeing everyone's works of art throughout the winter...but nothing is better than seeing them actually produce!

Here's one from 2 weeks ago. Nice topwater bass from the yak!

Beautiful fish and on light tackle to boot. That one must have been a thrill.

Slingah's 30 pounder on a BigFish Canal Pencil!:claps: Way to go Matt!

Nice fish on a nice plug...gotta love topwater!

BTW...the kayak bass was on a small spook/howdy I made. We were catching nice sized bass on plastics, but the wood brought the big one up.

Slingah's 30 pounder on a BigFish Canal Pencil!:claps: Way to go Matt!

That's excellant! Nice fish Matt :btu:

mr.pogie bottle swimmer:btu: Thanks Kevin

and thanks OldMan for the pic

Nice B. That picture sure wasn't today, I see sun. It was like fishing in November today. I still haven't warmed up.

Oh yeah nice one Matt. You got that on a rubber shad and Larry made you change it.:doh: Tell the truth now.

Just kidding big guy

Took a while. Empty am at the canal and boat stuff has been grim, but snotty SW and rain was too good to pass up. A fatty on ProfM's lido clone, and a nice fish on a large (7.5") donny clone. Felt great.

Nicely done on some classic looking plugs!

Awesome. Hope to see you tomorrow maybe with the tall guy

Awesome. Hope to see you tomorrow maybe with the tall guy

This dude? He fishes plastic and is hitting on my dog. Scum.

That picture is all fuzzy....kind of like that one of Sasquatch!!:rotflmao:

From last week. Taken on a DC custom 2.5 oz pencil. It was literally drawing fish to the surface while everything else was failing...no eels yet in 2009.....not sure how much longer I can hold out.....
Pics courtesy of Zeno Hromin

May the force be with you.

Fished my gliders in several places on the Cape and in Rhody and was pleased with the way they worked. Definately figured out that brighter colors work much better with these and that they caught fish on the swim and when worked fast or hard. I got a much better idea on how I want to tweak them weight wise and figure I should be able to get some to cast comparably to a pencil.

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great job and nice seeing you at the canal last week.

Blues liked them too.

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great job and nice seeing you at the canal last week.


Nice to see you again as well. You are some VERY lucky folks to live near such a terrific place to fish. I enjoyed my week there very much.

Caught fish on everything I wanted too!:kewl:

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Got several on the eggo.:laugha:

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The effing canal hates me :crying:............but at least it likes Sauerkraut even less.

Poor George. At first you don't succeed try,try again.


Nice fish BillC

Here is one that was about 30 on a prototype cowboy.

Nice plug, nice fish.

A decent one on a pencil from a few weeks back.

Nice catch Dan.

Nothing like the firm "yank" when a nice striper swallows a slow moving swimmer! Only 20 pounds but it was my thrill for today! Can't beat the "Prey"!:drool:

Nothing like the firm "yank" when a nice striper swallows a slow moving swimmer! Only 20 pounds but it was my thrill for today! Can't beat the "Prey"!:drool:

IMO best swimmers on the market!

Here's a nice fish on one of the darters George gave me at plugfest. It was 28# and took the darter down headfirst, that's the tail of the plug sticking out of the mouth...

That's been one of my 'go to' plugs. I hope it makes it thru the season...

nice fish guys. George makes a nice darter and yes Lawrence has a winner.
Speaking of darters I saw Eastend Lu at the canal yesterday and he gave me a bottle darter. Man that has some sweet action and I hope to ruin it some nite.

Crap! I didn't mean to give away any of the GOOD ones!

Crap! I didn't mean to give away any of the GOOD ones!

Don't worry you didn't give away all the good ones. The one i got from you got a small keeper on it's first cast on the first night I brought it with me. Since then any it has been in my plug bag I got the skunk. On another note here's some decent fish on my spooks and canal specials.

One more.

Crap! I didn't mean to give away any of the GOOD ones!

I musta got a good one too Numby. Been my go to darter this year with fish to mid 20#s. Will definitely be going large with it if I dont lose it first.

P.S.....finish is holding up great too, and I been slamming it into the rocks.

Don't worry you didn't give away all the good ones. The one i got from you got a small keeper on it's first cast on the first night I brought it with me. Since then any it has been in my plug bag I got the skunk.

Sorry, I meant to give that one to Sauerkraut.

Don't worry you didn't give away all the good ones. The one i got from you got a small keeper on it's first cast on the first night I brought it with me. Since then any it has been in my plug bag I got the skunk. On another note here's some decent fish on my spooks and canal specials.

Nice pics Dan.....I recognize those mussels...:laugha:

Well...........it's something :). Jigman spook.

Not sure if I ever heard of anyone catching one on a plug George??? Have you?? Nice accomplishment!:tooth:

Must have hit that right at your feet?

Very few hours of sleep most nights followed but long work days.

Some boat fish on custom wood.

No epoxy, just a quick clear coat for these. The trollers are a take off of the newer gibbs GTS but I used white pine and a pikie 3 lip. Would love to get a older pichney version but those aren't a easy find.

and a pic of the actual plug...
just plain white, black and brown

great job Frank

I'll second that. Very well done!

Here's another entry for the yellow darter club.

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Awesome pics Bill!


I only have one complaint.

Your head is missing in every picture. :(

Awesome pics Bill!


I only have one complaint.

Your head is missing in every picture. :(

Thats because the thread reads "2009 fish on customs", not "2009 people with fish on customs":bl:.

They had to edit him out. :bl:

Seemed like forever until I got one worth posting, and I didn't even get it. Cloud toy donny.........worked well enough to get this clotpoll a fish.

Seemed like forever until I got one worth posting, and I didn't even get it. Cloud toy donny.........worked well enough to get this clotpoll a fish.

What? No more sea robins?

You're definitely slipping.

Yeah you take him to all your hot spots. Nice plug and catch

Nice stuff guys..

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fore!

Here's a snapshot of a happy lttle guy the other night. Caught on his own wood. The smirk on his face gives me the creeps though.

LOL Yeah with those red eyes he looks a little possessed. Nice fish Dr. Demento.

fathersday weekend I made a prototype 9" 3oz bunker swimmer. Large schools of bunker where swimming past , tried snagging but no hits ...then i WHIPPED out my little friend and swam it slowly on the surface making a nice wake /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ><('> ...10 ft from the beach almost at the end of reeling in BANG 35 " !!:hihi:

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Couple of smallies from a small creek near my place.

Mini jigspook, cause smallies need spook love too :tooth:

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Lipless swimbait, 4 sections, little over 5 inches. Be surprised how many 9-10 inch smallies hammer it. This one is a little bigger:

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Those are sweet!!! I would love to make a mold out of one of those and pour some plastic versions. If interested PM me.
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got this baby on a nice rock in montauk, my first striper on my own wood! yellow/red pencil. very gratifying. this is what you get when you go to an event like plugfest and you get an idea. i just got into turning, but i love it! thanks guys!

baby or not, still awesome! nice pencil BTW

got this baby on a nice rock in montauk, my first striper on my own wood! yellow/red pencil. very gratifying. this is what you get when you go to an event like plugfest and you get an idea. i just got into turning, but i love it! thanks guys!

Jeff, that is great! :kewl: congrats
save that plug, retire it to the wall before you go and lose it, you can make more.

fathersday weekend I made a prototype 9" 3oz bunker swimmer. Large schools of bunker where swimming past , tried snagging but no hits ...then i WHIPPED out my little friend and swam it slowly on the surface making a nice wake /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ><('> ...10 ft from the beach almost at the end of reeling in BANG 35 " !!:hihi:

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holy crap pops, those plugs look pissa

baby or not, still awesome! nice pencil BTW

eskimo, "baby" was 15 pounds on the boga. okay, so it was a baby!:biglaugh:
thanks guys!

OH WHAT A FEELIN! The disease continues to grow!! Congrats Bud. 15lb no slouch. Top water is the best.

here's a couple on the customs successes...the flat bottom herring pencil continues to produce and I've managed not to lose it...monster 16lb blue in this instance, and the Mac I absolutely loved but sadly it was broken off by a nice fish recently so back to the airbrush I guess...

Better to have loved and lost Scott than never to have loved at all!!:uhuh: Nice feesh!!:drool:

I'll second that!


holy crap pops, those plugs look pissa

Here's a decent one. Dark night, no moon, shallow water, no current type spot, tons of weed, and I took 5 of these in a row fishing a parrot Musso-clone darter real slow and twitchy...after covering the same water with a needle for a single smaller fish. :1poke: Learning all the time.

Nice fish, looks like your "go to" plug for a while. I have alot to learn about darters.

Numb,
Very nice indeed.:kewl:

nice G. great job

sweet! nice fish!

Here's a decent one. Dark night, no moon, shallow water, no current type spot, tons of weed, and I took 5 of these in a row fishing a parrot Musso-clone darter real slow and twitchy...after covering the same water with a needle for a single smaller fish. :1poke: Learning all the time.

Good thing your hiding behind that fish, I don't think the world is ready to see you in that wet suit given your "physique".:uhuh:

decent fish on a great plug (NS Conrad, one of my favorite swimmers)

nice Lip:).. Good catch

Thanks for fishing it, Josh. And credit to Paul for the lip. :uhuh:

I think this was a pbadad floating needle. Dynamite plug in quiet water. Learned something from this plug.

Nice catch George. Thanks for posting. Thats the best water for the floaters. Good luck.

decent fish on a great plug (NS Conrad, one of my favorite swimmers)

How would I go about acquiring one of those? Looks like a sweet plug.

How would I go about acquiring one of those? Looks like a sweet plug.

You have to be worthy. AND TRYING TO TRADE EELS FOR IT WILL NOT WORK!

You have to be worthy.

Nah, I gave a whole bunch of plugs to Sauerkraut and whatever he is, "worthy" sure ain't it. Might make you stoop to coming to plugfest to get it, however, Mike. :devil2:

MIke if he doesn't give you one I'd be happy to give a fellow Franklinite a few, maybe good trade bait for that eel rod we were talking about. BTW I fished an eelskin one last nite in canal and got nutin, probably operator error though. George and Josh are much better drivers than I.

love this thread.:smash:

love this thread.:smash:

Me too, so lets not get off track berating a lowly eel fisher. I've made sufficient accomodations for the tomato throwers in the other forum...

This, I think, is the best swimmer I've ever made. It is a skinny donny with less belly weight than usual and an added tail weight. Cool color too, green cloud. Unfortunately, I needed an Xmas present for this lurker (and the nicest, most enthusiastic fisherman I know), Earlybird. In a moment of weakness I gave it away. All day today I was reminded how much I hate Xmas. This year he gets fruitcake. :wall:

great plug fished by a great fisherman. I need to ho one of those someday. Nice job.

here are a few from this season