got a bm clone from Kurt goette from the other site, hes the guy who runs their spring fling donation/fundraiser

took it for a test this am and it worked great,

19" and 39" fish, both for daves tourney

Watch out. This daytime plug fishing will spoil you.

Always been a fan of Bigfish pencils, so did some over the winter and tweaked them for what I wanted. Second cast from the dock fooled a just legal fish.

Wow......thanks Ross I think I am blushing! Love to see some pics of your work!:uhuh: Congrats on the catch! It does not get old does it?!!!

squid colored, little more weight in tail, moved hook hole forward just a touch. But it is still a Bigfish!

How about we call it a "NightFish" or a "BigFighter"! LOL!! Looks great Ross! Go get em'!

Nightfighter mac patern last years plug fest swap.
Got a bunch of mid teen fish and a few low 20's. this the only one I remembered to take a picture of
Also killed a 30pounder on Christians ballerina. But lost the plug on the next fish.
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Thanks for posting that Mike! Very cool to see stuff work!

I also want you to know I put a couple plugs in the hands of my friend, Jarrod, who was a survivor of the Marathon bombing, including a few you gave me. He and two of his friends are fishing them while recovering at Shaughnessy! He wheels them out in their wheelchairs! Both brothers lost legs.... Jarrod was more fortunate, but still has a lot of shrapnel in his lower legs.

Here are a few

First a small fish on a pretty day that ate a pretty plug , one of Ted's (Greek) spooks.

A 10# fish (good for me these days) that jumped one of Franks (Eskimo) medium skinny donny swimmers (with a downsized lip).

.....and finally a fish with some shoulders that inhaled a big maple swimmer last pm.

Nice job George! Some Numby Darters packed in the bag for the weekend. Be there tomorrow night, how bout meeting up?

blonde terror needles continue to produce well for me, no monsters but lots of fish

Nice one George, that weed looks real familiar.

This one liked a Numbskull darter too. Thank you George, since Tyler is in school today I figured I would borrow it. I really like this plug:love:.

Poor kid. I'll bet you steal from his dessert plate as well ;)

The kid ain't dumb....he knows where Dad's plugs are!! LOL!!:uhuh:

Pretty close to his tools And gear and all the cool things dads own ;).
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chapter four, always remember to raid your sons stash of plugs

George, your darters are amazing
I tried the small one and it has great action, I hope to break it in next weekend

Nice one Andy. George was kind enough to give me one of those a few years ago. Admittedly, I still have no clue as to how a darter is fished and have never caught a fish on one. Just for reference, how is it rigged with regard to hook size and placement? Seeing I'm off the eel kick there's never been a better time than now to learn something new.

Got this hefty mid 20# class fish this morning on one of my skinny brown pencils. Action was real slow where I was but this fish chased it quite a long distance and finally took the plug down after about 10 attempts...surprised she kept with it as long as she did.

It's rigged with two cut 3/0 and a 5/0 dressed swash on tail. I love fishing darters. That fish was 42", 26# . Nothing great, but it couldn't resist the plug.
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He speaks the truth..Ty has great taste when it comes to swiping my stuff.
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You ever have breakfast with Tyler and Andy @ leo's the kid dont leave scraps lol
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23# on one of my yellow/white medium pencils.

wow....you guys are putting me to shame....only catching on bucktails right now for me....some wood to come hopefully.

Sounds like a personal problem :eek:

I love these posts every year, so good after a long winter and plug building to see the pictures of fish on new wood. I got this one about a month ago. Friend and i were fishing in a bay which seemed like the dead sea. Tide was absolutely not moving, water dead flat, no birds, lots of fishing boats not doing anything. After several hours we were makeing our way back to the launch when my friend said, that bird has been diving down in that spot for a while, there must be bait so let's troll by it. Bam, fish on... nice wake up call on this 36"er. The cool part is I had been playing around with this small swimmer at around 4.875" that you can see hanging in the back of the kayak next to the wheel.

Good luck everyone, tight lines.

Ok, this is getting old...one hit all morning today, low 20# fish on brown pencil. Kind of a repeat of my entire season so far. Nice hit and fight though: