I liked it, love the hot schtuff! Had a nice subtle burn :D

thanks Slip, Salty,Big Fish,,, great meeting lots of new people and hanging with the over the hill gang ,,Karl,Steve,Fred and Mac.. .. Some great talent ther today lots of nice plugs and skilled Craftsman .. thanks Steelhead for tieing a great tail on my plug .. Lots of great trades today thanks .. Special thanks to Justplugit for nominating me for the special award..

Sounds like maybe Freak has another part of him that is burning instead of his mouth!:rolleyes:

Special award.......................thanks

Great day ... thanks John

:btu:
Guys like Taggah and JPI just make ya wanna :D

Karl tell your dog I said hi .. and give her a cookie ,,:)

I've got more gas than the friggen Hindengurg:eek:

Shoulda "passed" on the chili, baked beans kiebalsa, sausage.....

LOL, my wife said "what did you eat?" My reply" A little bit of everything":laughs:

WOW.I'm pissed

my wife asked me the same thing.. I said everything but meatballs ,,,all gone :crying:

:smash:

:laughs: I might have to go outside and sit in the snow for a while:laughs:

plug

Well I must say, I was blown away (pun?) by the whole festival.

Salty - I know we may never settle our differences but I have to say you and Larry did a truly incredible job. So I wanted to thank you both personally for putting together the perfect plugfest
:claps: :claps: :claps:

Now to the other thank you's

Tagger - Thanks for the Bottle Darter I can't wait to fish it.

Eben - That needle will be destroyed by years end (or lost :laughs: )

Stripersniper - Nice meeting you and SWEET pluggage man :btu:

MAC - Thanks for the colaborative pikie I hope you enjoy yours.

LINK (JR and SR) - You guys are awesome, thanks for the jigs and as I said before I have some more plugs with your names on them.

It was great to see everyone and and the bar is clearly being lifted every year, couple more years of this and the tackle industry is going down :D.

Finally - Thanks for voting me the winner of the Home Competition I was totally floored that I won and a new lathe is on its way to my house as we speak.

So when's the next one??? :laughs:

-DAve

:D :happy: :btu:

:cheers: to all who made it happen.

I can't believe I missed this
 

I am unable to find words to describe the absolutely amazing Pluggage displayed here. :happy: :btu:

When I see you guys at the MSBA show, feel free to kick my @$$ as hard as you can, as punishment for not showing up at this event.:wall:

Its quite obvious that everyone had a great time. Congrats to all the winners at the show and a big :btu: to John R, Scott. Larry & everyone that helped make it possible. The friendships that have developed on this board are what this is all about. Its also really good to see some younger plugbuilders to be also attended.

Ok ,ill go back to kicking myself now.

Missed you Tinman..:( look forward to seeing you at MSBA in March!:D

Tinman, sorry you missed it all but thanks so much for the stuff, you are too kind :D

see you in March anyway.

Hey Tagster, ya gota go back and see ":The Christmas Story "again, the old man got the "Major Award" :D Hope your wife doesn't let you hang it in the front window :laughs::laughs:
You da man:D Thanks for all your help:)

I want to just say I enjoyed meeting all of you for the first time... I really enjoyed seeing your work. I really liked participating in an event like this and hope to do much more in the future... As a Newbe... I kinda was timid about the whole Ho'in thing... I figured I was leaving that place with an empty bucket... instead... walked out with a Sweet WonderBread Surfster (thanks MAC the big eye might have to tap into your special stock ;) ) a BBJ swimmer and one of Slip's Award winning Maple Needles (WAAAAAAAAY SANDEEEEEEEEEEEEELIE)... I owe ya. I also want to thank people for voting my for plug. I figured once the "catch a cow" catagory was taken, I was out of luck. The Contour gauge works sweet!!!

Anyhow... thanks again... and hope to see yall at other events and out fishing. Days are flying and before we know it... the schoolies will be arriving.

Neil

I had a blast. I really had a great time seeing everyone and all the pluggage :drool: everywhere you looked there was amazing wood. Thanks alot to Bigfish and #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& as well as JohnR for putting this whole thing together.
My kids also had a great time, my daughter Danielle had a great time to my amazement. Everyone was real nice to them. Danielle even tied up 2 teasers for her dad.. I wish I could remember who was sitting at the table tieing:smash: anyone remember? Anyway, I had a total blast.

Big thanks to SlipKnot for the awesome wood, definetly tieing that one tight, it is gonna kill:devil:

Also Canalman, whoa...I know i'll be slaying on that one.....

It was great meeting so many guys, and the eats were unbelievable.......I hope to get a chance to wet a line with many of you guys this coming season:ss:

Karl, thanks for your patience ;)

Chris...that was Steelhead tying the flies!:D Your kids were both great and your daughter was the life of the party. Glad you all came.;)

now she wants a vise and tieing material:D

She really had a blast......Thanks steelhead, I love her color choices:cool: I can't wait to tie em on :kewl:

The last picture post of my photo essay has a pic of your daughter tying a fly with Steelhead.

some stuff bestowed upon me @ PF05

Some vintage items as well. Another Mustang for the herd and an original Danny P. Atom swimmer. Some people are kind beyond words.

And as an after effect I went to MikeCC's and blew forty bucks on plug parts and these which one set will be hung up and the other rigged and used.

Flap R those
 

Stan's?

Or somebody that worked there?

Steve I have a old beachmaster atom looks just like that.I used it this fall perfect sea herring imitation.Looks like u had a plug feast at the plugfest.

kids havin a good time at fishing things is too cool.

stan's shape....Hab's plug.

I had a great time. Thanks John R, Salty and BF for putting it together.

Thanks for coming and bringing some of your collection Adam.....you got some tastey plugs there!:drool:

Thanks to all that worked so hard to make this happen. As a new guy to plug building it was awesome to see such incredible work. You guys really set the bar high.

I met a lot of great guys and left with a ton of information. Cant wait to finish my first plugs.

then what are you doing on the computer? get turning my friend. it was nice to meet you, we'll have to do some eeling together, just not off a yak!:D