Thats a good title for this group. :) I had a serious motivation problem his year, and for the most part just tried to make do with left over wood, paint & cloudy epoxy. Sucks that michaels stopped carrying paint, but when it gets right down to it I can paint what I need with only 4 or 5 colors.

I didn't really need to make much for this year, so most of these are experiments for a lighter rod (10' stealth)..

Darters on the left are maple and the only ones I really needed to replace from last year, center darters are lighter (made of ayc and weighted), the slope headed on the right are more experiments (big ones are basswood and small are maple). The pencils are pine. I had a real hard time drilling them straight, I won't use that again on plugs that need a tail weight.

That giant pike is a repaint of an old beater of my dad's. Its been sitting on my bench stripped for 4 or 5 years so I figured I'd finally re-finish that and get it back into circulation.

Hopefully these get chewed up soon and I'll be more motivated next winter...

good luck with them, they look great, love the ones on bottom right

superior Blem's there DJ

Those look great, Dave. I really like the red eyes on the pencil and darter. And your mack pattern is really nice.

Sexy.
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Nice darters. Gotta feel good with those in your bag. I'll be curious to here what you think of the stealth as well. What reel did you put on it?

Looking good Dave. You know I lost that mac pattern pencil you gave me a couple years back.

Hint hint.....

always great stuff.

Looking good Dave.