I finished this one up about 1 week ago and decided to take my son out and test drive a bunch of plugs, including this one. It comes in about 6-12" below the surface although I couldn't get a real long cast(maybe it will get deeper on a longer cast) given the ice cover in my test pond.

Anyways, I snagged it on the ice well out from shore and had to break the line, thus losing the plug. This afternoon I took my son, 100' of 1/4" yellow rope and a square shovel out to the crime scene and....I got the sucker back..:happy: Anyways, I hope I'm not taking too long with this, but the plug was fully intact, no waterlogging or damage done after sitting in the water for 4 days. It does have a bit of a marble swirl going on the epoxy, but otherwise fine and didn't gain any weight. I'll have one on display at plugfest this weekend, although I won't be there personally.

nice work. I tried to make some last week also. I screwed up the through drilling on the three I made. where did you the lips?

looks good to me
I like the swirl

LOL. Tell me there wasn't a wetsuit involved and that you weren't attached to the rope. Hope you had a freshwater license with you.

Rebend the lip to more of an angle if you want to run deeper.

why a square shovel?

brrrr

why a square shovel?

I needed a certain flight trajectory to reach the open water.:think:..also, it was a short handle version so it didn't tumble during its flight...my son was giggling the whole time...should have brought a camera.

LOL. Tell me there wasn't a wetsuit involved and that you weren't attached to the rope. Hope you had a freshwater license with you.

Rebend the lip to more of an angle if you want to run deeper.

You mean bend the lower section at a more acute angle so it scoops more water? I already tried bending the eye up a bit and it helped a little. The lip is also a mid slot, so its presumably not going to get too deep anyways...next year I'll use top slot lips instead, but will try the bending technique first. The BM juniors have a mid slot and go down pretty good, 1-2' so that 's what I'm aiming for.

I'm putting a duplicate of this one in the general category at plugfest...take a look at the lip and hit me with any criticism pro or con once you look at it...Thanks for the tip.

nice work. I tried to make some last week also. I screwed up the through drilling on the three I made. where did you the lips?

Got the hardware from Salty's.

. I screwed up the through drilling on the three I made.

Don't feel bad...some of my plugs have 2 or 3 repair dowels in them due to messed up drilling......:laugha: Hopefully I used enough glue to keep the dowels from popping out...I can't tell the repaired plugs from the good ones once they're primed and painted..:eek: just hope you're not the recipient of one of them.

BB, Nice Jrs. I made quite a few BM Jrs. Thery have an 1/23oz slug in the belly with a 7 gram tailweight. Mid slot lip. Dive up to 4'. I used clear pine and they weigh w/o hooks 2.3oz. They sit in the water with the tail down slightly. I do agree with a hi slot you would probably go deeper. I do have some slow sinking Bm's with a hi slot. They dig deep and they weigh 3 + oz. Breachway specials.

With lips I always found, bend up go down, bend down go up.