Picture of plugs I traded for. Thanks guys.

After all the great pluggage I saw yesterday, I don't think the fish stand a chance :)

Thanks for all the help everyone, I can't name all the names but you know who you are :D

Much bigger place with room to not be crowded:uhuh:
food was great and the company better.
Thanks John for the place to talk about and learn about building plugs.

I took a lot of pictures so I'll use up John's bandwidth for a while since he forgot his camera.

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sorry about the out of focus PM classic plug

the last one is some of the professors' fancy aluminum jigs and tools and stash

middle is Pauls' other classic with threaded thru wire and nut on the end, fancy workmanship!

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I was real impressed with Swimmers' cutty popper, nice job Frank :btu:

some of the contest winners

Joe rockfish9 most likely to catch a cow on the first cast

Bill sr. with the military theme plug

and DerekL rookie

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he left early
he made these the night before
better epoxy those screweyes in :jump1::fishin:

Thank you everyone!
and thanks Dan for bringing that grinder setup, my gouges are sharper now and have the correct angle, I'll be busy using them soon.
thanks again for the plugs I got, I will fish them hard.
I did miss seeing a few people, sorry they could not come - Bigfish, capesams,Throwing Timber, Stripercrazy, TDF. And it just is not the same without Flaptail Steve Shiraka :(
It was great seeing the rest of you and to see some first timers also.


By the way, Best of show again was Rowhunter with that beautiful big mouth popper painted in striper :btu: What a piece of work that is! Congrats Rowhunter!

I am not sure but we may have screwed up and forgot an award, I think I messed John up when I broke a frame glass and we forgot the classic plug winner. ooops

Next year we'll have to plan this stuff out better and talk more about it online ahead of time. It went well, good organized chaos.

Great time as per usual... good to see old faces and a few new ones...
I saw some great plugs from new faces as well.. I cant wait until next year...

I hope the few that got to see my e-tex "how to" got something out of it... I know I answerd a gazillion questions on the subject...

I'm off to re-assemble my shop!

Wow..sorry I missed this. There are always some amazing works of art there. That rowhunter popper paint job is kewl !

Tyler and I had a great time as usual. Thanks to all who helped put it together and to everyone who traded or gave plugs to Tyler.
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GregW,

by all means keep the jitterbug, i hope you like it and let me know how it works out for you :uhuh:

Douglass,

Congrats on another Plugfest win.....Can't wait to see one of your plugs in person someday. Congrats to all the other category winners as well. Man from the pics posted so far there were some crazy cool builds!

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MS

Kudo's to whoever made this darter .. I have a CCB with this line tie ,, Been meaning to get around to making one .. I was glad to see it and wondered how well this system works .. nice work ..

Eddie,
Rockfish Joe made that.

Another GREAT year !

We did miss a few of the old and grumpy ones :(
from Chatham and Orleans ,
please plan ahead next year , it's not like your going over the bridge or nut - in

Making some now Ed!:uhuh:

Bruce, John, all the great builders, and everyone else involved thank you dearly! Always have a great time, where does the time go? This event always gets the juices going. As said before, come on spring, can't wait to throw a few, fish on!!!!!!! Now thats what its really all about. Happy Trails!

It was great to see your works and shake a few hands, wish that I could have stayed longer But had a to-do list.

A big, huge thankyou to Slip and JohnR. Without them I truly believe this hobby would have gone nowhere.

I have a CCB if you need a model ..

had a fun time w/ the boys. some truely amazing plugs.

Awesome time and crazy nice work all around. Thanks John & Slip. We dropped a lot dough on supplies, thanks Mike always worth it.

Had a great time. Thanks to everyone who made this happen.