I think the real reason i started building was the fact that you really can catch fish, big fish, with plugs. Had the bait fishing thing working for plenty of years but a whole new world opened up with plugs. There is nothing better than experiencing that top water explosion!!! What put me over the edge was realizing after watching Rockfish's pictorial, How To ,that I can actually build and catch something with what I build. A great felling. Then even better, having the guys I fish with catching fish with your Plugs. Its only been a year, and there is only two things that come to mind that I have a hard time with. I live in the hills of Monadnock. Testing in a bucket! Ice in November out in March. Also the cost!!! Belts, blades, electricity, hardware, paint,epoxy, it goes on, and on. And we thought we would be saving MONEY?