Don't have a hell of a lot of custom plugs but the one I like the most and will probably never use is a peanut swimmer plug by Bernzy I got as a donation to a good cause. Paint is simply beautiful. Paul

Bernzy is a master air brush artist! :beat:

here is my favorite
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Favorite Plugs
 

All the customs I have are All nice but my favorites so far are
DMAC Pikies
Mike Fixter Orange head pearl bodied Round head
Bernzy Dorado Colored Howdy
Hi Islander Egged shaped swimmer

My most favorite plug I ever had though got lost in the Surf and that was a
burgandy Colored Guzz Popper Also Lost my only needle a Jigman :realmad: :realmad: Bad day that was for sure

this is my two favorites :rotf2:
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Ok guys i know im on a pic thing lately, i found my camera coard that was missing for months. Bear with me..... :tm: :wave:
These are some of my favs in the finish dept.
Some gary2 sidekicks and a H'Islander "skull"

I love all my adopted children the same.

After going to The Cape and watching some locals land a dozen stripers
in The Canal on Needles they have became my new Fascination. love: So
now I have new favorite plugs. And anyone with needles they don't Like
I'll be more then happy to give them a safe and loving home :)

It's a long cast from Cambodia to the Canal :wiggle: :humpty:

I've got a Fixter black/gold giant pikie that I just couldn't dream of throwing and potentially loosing!

-spence

Afterhours
 

I was given one of his man what a paint job its hanging on the wall wont see water at all.

That's why I build all my Rods on Allstar Breakaways. They Cast a Long Way :D

my tobias pencil, im kinda sad i destroyed it on fish.
fixter pikey
chumster
fish part needle(awsome, wicked heavy, lots of fish)
bernzy howdy

theres more

i'm torn between Fixter and Gary2 .. when I recieve "The Plug" probably be Chum ,, damm my CS funiture squid,,i'm a Lefty,Wade,Skippy freak.. maybe tadpole Freaked..,etchasketch frog is ill,,all my Mac plugs.. hypnotic jiggy needle/pikie,,giant bernzy howdy,,Charleston red sox popper,, Jake/Fred black danny,,JPI needle,,steelhead slim danny..Karl stezo needle,,Bastaged massa wood bomber,,,Slip needle ,,pile of Christains the kid,boy,man ,,guzzz,,pa surfer darter,,eel punt,Tobias,,Highlander anything, Ryan Smith power trio swimmers, Killy sea scape danny,,Canal man anything,,Stan Kussia blue fish plug,,striper swiper pencil popper,,Winch mini pikie,,husky foam plug,,Mac Wiglet,,,i know said mac like that one though...nebe darter 1st fish this year ,, LIfshvermont darter, John E darter,,bassholldarter,, How do you choose ? If I had a Nib I probably would have just said that ...

Black and gold MAC pikie it doesn't have any paint left on it. That plug cought me so many fish last year. Best looking plug I have is a bunker eel punt swimmer. :faga:

:kewl: my mac yellow over white howdy with the BIG eyes.... beach, boat, canal, this plug has got me fish when nothing elce could

-Jr Link

I've got a Jiggy jointed striper pikie that I swim I probably shouldnt, I got a jiggy I've taken large on I should probably hang it up.. I wont... I got a Mac pikie, that is marinating waiting for its shot in a school of VERY LARGE bait, Ive got a jointed darter made by a random person who was at an inlet, I got a chumbucket popper that is awesome, I have a tobias that is flawless, I've got a signed bernzy pikie, I've got rainbow Pichney's that I got before the craze... I love them all the same and they are all truly great works of art but their time comes and they can hang over the computer desk no longer.. Then they go swimmin :devil: I got Gary2's that are beauties! ANd they'll swim :btu:

Ryan Smith jointed pogie - :bounce:

Tattoo Diving Swimmer -:bounce:

I have to agree with Tagger. I love all my customs no matter who made them. Especially the ones that have teeth marks or that the paint has been stripped off by fish. My current favorite is a digger plug that was mauled one night by bass and blues. It's always one the first plugs I throw every time out, if not the first. It will be going back for a repaint over the winter.

The one thing I realized is that each plug has it's own set of conditions that it's tailored to. You just have test each plug and figure out how it works then fish it when the time and conditions are right. I also try to learn from ones received from other builders. I think I learned more about darters from a swap I did in the spring then I could of in a year on my own. Pictures are nice but, nothing compares to having the real thing and fishing them.