Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

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stripercrazy

01-06-2009 11:46 AM

last year

was the year of the spook...big pogys in the prov aera...I would be in a line of 50 people throwing poppers and..the blues would swim by all the poppers to hit my spook (or who ever had a spook on) it was nuts.. at least 20-1 hits over the poppers....they would also hit a pencil that was glided...pickey bluefish...only a few of us had spooks...most people off line don't use them, very few had pencil poppers too

gldnbear93

01-06-2009 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by numbskull (Post 651974)

Those nylon bushings get expensive real fast. I gave up and started center drilling dowels. Drill a hole in a wood block (clamped to your drill table) about 3/4" deep, the same size as your dowel, swap out drill bits, put a short piece of dowel in the hole, and drill 1/2 way through, flip it and drill the other end. String a bunch on a wire, soak in your sealer, dry......spacers galore good to go.

You can also use tubing as a cheap spacer, but you lose some buoyancy as the space will fill with water.

Pay attention to this man, he always seems to have a great idea and/or analysis!

stripercrazy

01-06-2009 12:03 PM

1 inch foam brushes

there 3/8 dowel...I thru drill them sometimes

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Dont forget to seal'm

Ake G

01-10-2009 11:20 AM

More horizontal = better glide (no matter where you choose to weight it). The belly weighting gives less roll on the swing.

Spooks with glide are more productive than those that "pop" IMO

splinters

01-20-2009 05:54 PM

awesome thread. i am planning on turning out some spooks soon. this will def help as i was a bit questionable on the weighting.

Lower

01-21-2009 11:08 AM

Your right splinters there is a lot of great info in this one. Let us know how they come out!

splinters

01-21-2009 12:16 PM

will do. i will be posting some pics as soon as i can get the cam away from the GF. i have only been building since last year but i pretty much just build what i use. swimmers/needles/ few poppers. been wanting to try some spooks but just was scratching my head on the weighting. i remember using zara spooks for freshwater and how much fun topwater is. need to build some of those zig zaggers.

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