Back Beach what kind of shorts do you wear with those?

Naturally. Wouldn't dream of wetsuiting without one.

Never thought I see one of those again. Used to have the same one. Nice plug collection!

George nice scale! Is that the 6 oz. model or the full 1 pound model??:rotf2: I want one! I also want to see more pics of your shop!!!:drool:

Larry,
I use a 30 and it works great for me. I thought about a 60 but it looked like something fot off shore fishing.

I have a 30# boga Larry which I bought for freshwater and use it in the salt as well. It is great for controlling fish, but I rarely use it for that. As far as a well made product I still have the one I bought when they first came out and it still looks and functions the same. You could swim with it every day in the salt and never wash it and it wont rust, but it does need to be lubed so that the jaws work properly. Go for the 30.........the 60 is just way to expensive I think, but I still go back and forth about getting one every year.

I use a 30lb on the yak. It's just a more comfortable size to use than the 60lb.
If you just want to control fish at boatside, get one of these. They work great, they're cheap, and they float.

KayakFishingStuff.com: Fish Grip

If you do use a Boga, get one of these for the lanyard.

KayakFishingStuff.com: Anchor Float

That isn't a lure collection in the back ground....that is my fishing rotation. This is a "lure collection"....or a part of it. Lots of beaters. For fun, see what you can identify.

http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop1.jpg
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop2.jpg
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop3.jpg
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop4.jpg
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop5.jpg
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop8.jpg
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...sett/shop7.jpg
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Pretty cool George! I am going bug eyed looking at them all! Thanks for the tour!:drool:

Here are several other things that jog the memory.

The wooden rulers used to come with a FW license
The trebles were stainless steel........87 cents for a box!

nice bass aqua's and the mack darter too

I see a Wiglet, lots of Creek Chubs, a Troublemaker Surfster, lots of Gibbs poppers, darters, pencils, Atoms, some Beachmasters.........alot of cool stuff!

[QUOTE=numbskull;726555]That isn't a lure collection in the back ground....that is my fishing rotation. This is a "lure collection"....or a part of it. Lots of beaters. For fun, see what you can identify.

/QUOTE]

George,
Are those Arbogast Dashers with the propellars? Years ago when needles were hard to come by I would reverse those to make a needle. Took off the props and added a little lead. They worked.

DZ

Yup. 2 are wood dashers, the green one is plastic. Keep planning to make one to try for bass on a full moon. Fished them a lot (primarily for bluefish) as a kid.

Here is most of the stuff I actively fish.

more. These days I try to stick with the stuff I build and the stuff given me.....just because it adds a little something to each fish I catch (to make up for the size deficency plugs entail). Lots of great commercial wood and plastic stuff out there that works as well or better.

One more......get the pikies their due

RAPALA JTD NEEDLES!!!!
Looks like Santa's elves have been busy.

I don't get it?

More to the point, how the hell did we go from a boga thread to looking at Numbskull's antique collection?

Love the 60 but it is big and I only carry it on trips that I don't need to worry about carrying to much or times when I'm pretty certain I'm going to go large. I see no use for the 60 in a yak.

the 3rd pink one on the left looks like something from a bad porn movie:humpty:

Numbskulls collection deserves its own thread!

maybe he had a few pops after his turkey sandwich and decided to start showing us his awesome collection....

That's a Brockton one-eyed canal snake.........built by the master himself, Tagger. I have fished it.

As for showing off, lots of guys have much more and much higher quality. More a case of pulling out the de-liar, getting nostalgic, and deciding to liven things up. It's meant to be more about plugs than about me. Also motivation for me (and hopefully others) to start building some more.

I actually have one of those :laugha:

errr, ahem, this is still a hijack, plain and simple...

Yeah but its my thread and it is authorized by me! Speaking of "building more" I heard there was a "mini plug quilloquium" in a south shore town yesterday! Some folks are gearing up!!:uhuh:

what a thread! bogas, grape smugglers, plugs....

I am BigFish......and I authorized this thread!:rotf2:

I have a 60 and its 5 or 6 years old now. I never wash it off or take care of it. I test it a few times a year for accuracy and its always dead on. Carry it on a zinger on your belt and clip the gripper part on a caribiner so it crosses your back. One of the best pieces of gear you can buy. All I carry on my belt is a knife, pliers and boga, the weight never bothered me. Get the 60 boga so you can release those 40#ers!

"More a case of pulling out the de-liar, getting nostalgic, and deciding to liven things up. It's meant to be more about plugs than about me. Also motivation for me (and hopefully others) to start building some more."

Numbskull... are those Masterlure eelie repros made by you. I made one last year but did not get a chance to fish it yet. What has been your experience fishing the ML eelie design?

The medium version (soft maple) is a dead on copy and fishes very well....particularly by day from the boat. It tends to run sub-surface and suspend. The larger version is a freelance plug made of AYC (somewhere there is a thread that shows how I weighted it...it stays on top) and it has become a midsummer "go-to" plug when I'm fishing quiet water. Plenty of nights it outfishes whatever else I'm carrying. They cast much better than you would think.

Big Fish, Afterhours, and Tatoo also make sweet jointed eels. I've found it more beneficial to carry a jointed eel instead of an "extra" danny or needle (I always carry at least one danny/donny and several needles) whenever conditions are right.

The plug I've not done well with (none are hanging but I've got several) is the BM/Pichney jointed eely. Not sure why, they look great, but I think the thinness of the masterlure and the slower wag make it better for how I fish.

R, can you explain a bit more how you carry the boga. What supports the handle end across your back. Is the zinger enough? What style zinger? Is your plug bag also attached to your belt? The reason I avoided a 60 or even 30 boga was that I couldn't bear to have it banging around on long walks over irregular terrain.