Looks like we need to get the ball rolling. Here's my first on a homemade for 2012, on one of the blems I posted last week. :uhuh:

Looks like we need to get the ball rolling. Here's my first on a homemade for 2012, on one of the blems I posted last week. :uhuh:

Looks like the fish didn't notice it was a blem. Nice catch!

Neat to see your design work.

Doing well with this pike so far

A few more

nice work, some fatties on the big pike! congrats

nice work, some fatties on the big pike! congrats
Thanks!! That pike has taken a beating so far this season.

:)

i love the color scheme on the pikie.

Lazzy...Looks like that Pikie is breaking in nicely....Great pictures too.

I can't quite see the color -- is that pearl with some light pink on the sides?

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Got out last weekend Jamaica Bay with my kayak. Picked up a couple fish on a Danny I had made, although he was flapping around in the boat so I pulled the plug out of his mouth before I got hooked to him. Man, what a thrill to catch one on a lure I made...

No way in hell was I expecting this. May 4th, out hunting small with a xra 1083 and calcutta 200, 15lb fireline, 2 year old knots, a badly frayed leader, and a mini-skinny donny with little hooks. I'll be smiling for a month.

Great catch George!

Nice start to the season, George

nice george. Looks like it was snowing out too.

on Mark's pencil ( plugfest trade)

nice fish, Numbskull

Just back from a great weekend canoe camping in the Adirondacks... caught a mess of smallies and LM bass (All C&R) and a few walleyes we had for dinner... here are a few pics of fish I caught on a gold repro design that I made... sinking swimming plug that casts like a rocket

Plug has a Russ Tango look to it. Neat. But what's with the tuna swivel? Lose that and your plugs will swim and fish even better.

Here is a cool one. Small fish, but on a copy of a Paw-Paw bass seeker.
Here is an old thread where it was discussed. http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/plug-building-got-wood/38261-getting-ready.html Took me 5 years to get around to trying it. I think the design has promise.

that plug looks killer

Here is a cool one. Small fish, but on a copy of a Paw-Paw bass seeker.
Here is an old thread where it was discussed. http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/plug-building-got-wood/38261-getting-ready.html Took me 5 years to get around to trying it. I think the design has promise.

NoNeckNike :)

Here's a conrad fish, nothing special (maybe #15), but illustrative that you need to cover the water column top to bottom when you fish. Tough night, very calm and little sweep, nothing showing. Worked the jetty spot thoroughly with dannys (surface), darters (midwater) first without a touch. I was pretty sure it was empty, but felt compelled to try dredging the bottom. Drove a conrad down, worked along real slow, made about 10 cranks and pow. Telling that this fish must have watched the other plugs pass over it 30 times without interest, but when I put a conrad in front of its face...... bingo.

good catch

Still smiling.

great catch

That's different George, a sea robin on a darter. well we know your plugs work well. Catch a Tog on one and I'll be impressed.



I have been doing well with this howdy/spook I got from EricW, thanks Eric :btu:

I also had a kid with me last week do well on this popper I made.

Here is a crappy pic of one of two nice bass I got on a blondterror slim swimmer. First of the season for me, late start.

Nice fish guys.
I got a nice fish this week at first light at slack tide in the canal on a large white Pichney darter I copied. I was as surprised as the fish. It was pouring rain that morning so I left the camera in the truck.

Buzz caught this schoolie on a parrot slopehead I made ...

Here's a classic darter fish

Here's a classic darter fish

Who says a banana is bad luck!

Nice work fellas.

Hello all I'm new here I live in NC i make lures and wrap a few rods I wanted to say hello and make my first post here with a picture of a fish I caught at Cape Lookout, NC two weeks ago in the surf on a top water spook I made. it was a 30" red drum.

NICE

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Welcome. Neat first post. Nice fish, nice plug.

Sweet plug... great Red Drum on topwater..

Buzz caught this schoolie on a parrot slopehead I made ...

that ain't no schoolie, keepah @29"!

I got a striper on a Linesider69 stick shad today.
Thanks for the plug Chuck :D
it got a follow later on that day you gave it to me also.
so now I know it works.

Got a few 20+ lb fish at Cutty this weekend on my plugs... the parrot darter was great at night and caught many fish . My red headed yellow pencil with white belly scored a nice 10AM 20lber after Johnny Duckett got a very similar one at daybreak on a pencil

nice. Where's the pic of Jim's PB fish?

nice. Where's the pic of Jim's PB fish?

Not sure he had a camera with him... it bogaed @ 38 lbs... wow..

Here's a couple from Cutty

Bluefish on a Spook made at Biteme's Place
And my PB from the surf on the First pencil I built at Biteme's place. For reference the set of wraps past the reel seat is taped out at 34" :jump:. It was the first bass I had ever caught on a pencil as well.

Got a few 20+ lb fish at Cutty this weekend on my plugs... the parrot darter was great at night and caught many fish .

Watch out, they are addicting.

And my PB from the surf on the First pencil I built at Biteme's place.

Honey Lami rod, Penn Greenie, home made pencil.........Nice!

Honey Lami rod, Penn Greenie, home made pencil.........Nice!

Agreed. Doesn't get any better than that.

Look who got out with me last week in the tin and on his own wood.

Sounds like a great day for you guys... love that place

great pictures guys.

Too much shine on that plug. I need to tone it down next time. That and start building Magic Minnows :smash:

21 lbs on a parrot pencil

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29 lbs on a mackerel pattern pencil of mine.

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A nice fish on one of my white bottles

The plug looks sweet. Nice work.

The plug looks sweet. Nice work.

Thanks George, were was ya?? :( Nothing more that I would enjoy but fishing with you and Paul!! I bet i'd be laughing my ass off :biglaugh:

Yeah George is kind of funny looking
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Hey Fellas,

a friends son sent me this pic of a nice bass caught on one of my custom Surfsters while musky fishing :D

I hope everyone is having a great season....Great fish caught so far !!!!!!
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Not my wood, but I had a 46" C&R striper on a Killshot glide bait last week.
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This thread needs a kick.

Here are some from the last month.
First is a @#30 fish that ate a yellow musso darter clone for my son
Then a fish that ate a banana just before I got hit by lightening
Then a pair of low #20s that hit simultaneously.

There are still fish out there guys. Anyone else fishing?

Banana!! Doesn't look like your normal white or yellow one. You have a new hot color?

Nice George. Looking forward to get back to fun fishing.

This thread needs a kick.

Here are some from the last month.
First is a @#30 fish that ate a yellow musso darter clone for my son
Then a fish that ate a banana just before I got hit by lightening
Then a pair of low #20s that hit simultaneously.

There are still fish out there guys. Anyone else fishing?


NICE! :btu:

I've been trying


here's my best from this summer, on one of Mike's pencils
thanks to Blondterror for the picture

Nice fish slip!
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You can catch these fish in the daytime???????????? :wall:

:uhuh: Yep 8:30 in the morning and she swam away


thanks johnny

Looking good Slip.

3 bass on Bill 's lures (my dad) that I caught this weekend. Have not been fishing too much earlier this season, but started more frequently recently. Great to catch fish on his lures.
One from MV on his Lido Flaptail (lure almost as big as the fish). One on his classic black darter. The last was on his Purple Pencil popper. Fish absolutely devoured it. All released healthy.
Bill

Nice fish, neat story.

Bill just etexed these this week. He did 2 Parrot needles, knowing I wanted them for the Block next month and also left the red Cedar (from an old limb in his backyard) natural because it just looked so good. (He has 3 more to coat). I will hit MV for a few days this week and next and see what I can hook up on his lures. Hopefully next pictures will be of lures with fish, but since Bill had not been feeling well it was nice to see him feeling well enough to get back at finishing some lures. Thought you all would enjoy seeing them too.
Bill

Those look awesome Bill! Best of luck with them and hope your Dad feels 100% soon!!:uhuh:

I enjoyed this one. BIG surface hit on a copy of a Bluestreak popper. Just as I imagined it while building them. Made up for getting blue-balled by albies today.

I had built these a year ago but used them very little. Turns out the plug floats much like a pencil, tail down and mouth about an inch out of the water. At first I did not like it and felt it was too tail heavy, but today I realized that it means you can work the plug like a spook as well as a popper. Really neat plug with oodles of big daytime fish potential.

My plug works !

First cast this monster jumped on...

The plug is 8" long, and a bigged up copy of the Twisted Flaptail, sans flap, and weighted to walk the dog. Atlantic white cedar with no belly weight, just tail.

That plug looked so nice in person...

Nice plug. Gotta admire that little guy's spunk.

Nice one G. and Woodrow and hardcore

No camera this morn but I got a 25 lber on one of my small Musso copy darters with the concave slope in canal. Took several fish on it actually but the others were not real noteworthy. It was cool and something I will use more often.

Scary how bass will try to devour something it would probably choke on. Gorgeous fish and gorgeous plugs! Now this is making me hungry....

Goo Goo Man handcarve, first cast with it. Too pretty to fish, but that's what he built it for and this is what happened.

nice. sweet looking plug too

Great work George.
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Great work, Glen. All I had to do was throw it out there.

Here is one my son took on the old dependable purple skinny donny. Just an incredible plug for night time bass.

I'm not dead yet....but close.

Hit this real solid 20# class fish(fish was built like a brick) on my old reliable white needle recently. Its actually a modified gag's style body with my signature exfoliating paint...fish like it though:

Great work, Glen. All I had to do was throw it out there.

Here is one my son took on the old dependable purple skinny donny. Just an incredible plug for night time bass.


Nice catch!

I'm still puzzled as to why you crop the handsome lad's face (obviously got his looks from your better half) out of all your pics but leave your mug in???

LOL

I'm not dead yet....but close.
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That's cheating stocking stripers in a golf course pond.

I'm not dead yet....but close.

Hit this real solid 20# class fish(fish was built like a brick) on my old reliable white needle recently. Its actually a modified gag's style body with my signature exfoliating paint...fish like it though:

nice fish. the gag's needles fish really well - until they fall apart which unfortunately doesn't take long at all.

nice fish. the gag's needles fish really well - until they fall apart which unfortunately doesn't take long at all.

I hear that the new owner/operator of the company (24/7 Lures ?) has figured out the finish issues.

I'm not dead yet....but close.

Hit this real solid 20# class fish(fish was built like a brick) on my old reliable white needle recently. Its actually a modified gag's style body with my signature exfoliating paint...fish like it though:

You need to retire that thing. it's been very good to you...

My best ever plug fish courtesey of one of George's yellow/white hab's knockoffs he gave me at plugfest a couple of years ago... That plug would be retired if I hadn't lost it later that night... 41 lbs and released... George if you're making more this winter I need a replacement :uhuh:

That was a helluva fish Dave :btu:

sux you lost the needle but you got a pic of the fish at least

Congrats on the fish, kudos for letting her swim, and credit to Habs.

DigginJiggin- love the way the plug is poking outta the fish's gill (headfirst!) that thing waffled that plug

This is a skill not all can claim to have. If you look close you can see the plug is 3/4 it's body length. Takes a precision presentation:uhuh:.

great catch Paul!! How have you been?

He's not doing too badly. Here he is, same plug, same day.

Thanks George, I actually drove by Pauls house yesterday and it looked like him in the driveway but I was in a hurry and couldn't stop to chew the fat.

Nice fish paul! (nice captaining george!)

Kinda interesting. This past week I've had trouble catching fish with surface swimmers and pencils, done mediocre with spooks and big poppers, but they have absolutely been crushing Paul's flaptail. The poor little thing is getting all beat up.

great. I got more. ruin away. Nutin on the real large one?

He's not doing too badly. Here he is, same plug, same day.

Nice fish on such a little pea shooter of a rod. ;-)
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Hey be nice I'm Irish.

Hey be nice I'm Irish.

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...little... yellow... and hooked up...

...who could want more ?


...what belly hook ??? :)


Thanks for the plug...

Old Man aka Bob