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.

Boga mounts on the retractor on the right side of your belt, jaws clip to carabiner on left side. The boga lays right across your lower back tight to the belt and out of the way. No bag on the belt in this set up. Make sure you get a high force retractor to keep the boga tight. It is strong enough to boga a fish and let go. The tensiton of the retractor keeps the jaws locked but is not too much to be a strain to extend. The one in this link mounts on your belt, but you can also get ones to clip to your belt if you do not want such a permanent mount.

Cetacea Corporation - Scuba :: Retractors :: Retractor

Another option.

Boga Grip

I thought we were talking about Bogas and their use on kayaks. :scratch:
I just use this to clip the jaws to;

KayakFishingStuff.com: Stainless Steel Deck Loop

And one of these for the handle end;

KayakFishingStuff.com: Rubber Paddle Clip (1)

This thread is covering it all!! I love it!:uhuh:

Yep, learned some things I want to know (and a few I don't - grape smugglers :rotf2: )

Exactly what Toby said - thanks Toby!

I've had the same retractor for 5 years now, it stopped working about halfway through this season. Time for something new...

I'm just here to help anyway I can :)

Here is a close up of that wooden ruler nobody but me thought was cool. Check out the bag limits. Remember when waiting for that third Sat in april was more exciting than Christmas?

It is cool in a slide rule in the computer age sorta-kinda way. Problem is that much like engineers should need to learn the slide rule before the easy 'puter, we need to have more people understanding and adhering to the regulations before they go fishing (OK. a little bumpy but work with me here).

Lip gripper/scale is at the top of my list for new equipment for next season. I'll be using it on the kayak and in the surf.
Lots of good input here.
Think I might go with the 30lb. Boga.
Expensive but from the reviews I've read it might be worth the extra money
I've got a digital scale in the pack for anything bigger than 30lbs..

Ouch...personal foul...:no2:

God's gonna punish you for making fun of old people, John

He's gonna turn you into one...:hihi:

me too. getting a hook through the hand is my worst fear, id rather get slammed by a rouge wave then have a nice vmc in the hand. i think it will also help me land fish faster/easier since i alway hesitate the second i see those trebles. the 60 would be nice to have but it is very long and $130 more. i will probably just hang it off my belt on a d-ring. hopefully santa will get me one :uhuh:

Finally got around to taking a picture of how my 60# Boga mounts on my belt.

thats a pretty sweet idea when you get to your spot you just let it hang? or do you just unclip it whenever u need it? my parents got me the 30# i will probably just carry it on a d-ring with a lanyard. that setup would be sweet for long walks or if ur swimming

Sometimes when I am into fish, I let it hang free. Most of the the time I keep it clipped to the belt to keep it out of the way though. Lost a good fish at my feet last year because the butt of my rod got stuck in the telephone cord I had on the boga and I was unable to untangle things in time. My old retractor was out of comission last season after many years of faithful service. Got the shiny new one in the picture for Christmas. :uhuh:

If I am moving between spots, the jaws clip on the belt to avoid it thumping around as I go. One REALLY nice aspect of having it on the lanyard is you can actually let go of your fish after it is unhooked and the strength of the retractor keeps sufficient tension on the Boga jaws to keep ahold of the fish. This alows you the freedom to tend to your rod, lure, etc... before you take steps to release the fish. It is nice when swimming to a spot not to have it "phantom bump" your legs. Scared myself a few times last season using the old telephone cord set up.

Such a nice set up... i have experienced similar tangles with the telephone cord type leash...