Wow. You guys out do yourself every year. Wish I could have made it to see them all in person.

What are the details, or is this rumor?
Whose kid lost their bag?
If true, we can easily set this right.


all set, bag was located

I have not heard of any child losing a bag of plugs?? Just one of the builders had a favorite plug grow legs at shows end and he was looking for it. No biggie...we can make more but it sucks when someone helps themselves to something that does not belong to them! There is one in every crowd!


the plug in question was located, all is well

I got a ton of stuff, I wouldn't know where to began.

I tried spending more time looking at jigs, xrays, and everyone else's stuff besides hanging with my stuff. Just to much to take in such a short time. Nice to talk about plugs with others rather then being stuck in the garage talking to myself about plugs.

Not sure that its replaceable or if it was more then one plug but I can send a few to whoever if indeed it was a bag of plugs. I hope its confusing as it would be lame if someone lifted it.

yep, bag was located

I think the cctackle folks knew what happened to the little boys bag.They were saying it got shipped to RI by accident. It was G2h's son.

Frank , was that your mac pencil I got in the second pic in my first post here?

I think it must be

this is why guys should sign them, i'm guilty of not signing all my stuff also though

yup, that was mine. never remember to sign them and most stuff never leaves a small circle of friends so usually its no biggie. bad habit

not a bad habit
thanks
just my brain was toast after the day

i'll trade with you anytime

really?

then i hope mike can clear this up

how the heck does it get shipped to RI from plugfest by mistake?:confused:
oh well

maybe we over-reacted

but even if paul's plug is missing, i'm still bummed
he did not say anything to me

The missing plug bag belonged to the litle boy who was sitting on the floor with Felicia Thomas. From what I'm told the bag of plugs was under Mike's cash register in a box. Apparently someone had a large order and it was packaged in THAT box and taken away. Hopefully when the person who received the box will realize it and try to locae the rightful owner of the bag. I know if it were my son he would be devastated! Its awesome that everyone, including me is willing to make a collection for Jayden, but we shouldn't have to. Lets wait a few days and see if the bag turns up before we jump to conclusions and assume we have a thief. We are all in this together and it bothers me that we have to even think like this.

Spud

Here's my haul :grins:. I still owe Saltydog and BigD a plug, won't forget about you guys. My first plugfest was a blast, I learned a ton. It was great to meet everyone and see there plugs in person. Also great to meet JohnR and Slip.I still can't believe I won best rookie builder, there was some amazing talent.Thanks everyone

If the kids plugs don't show up, I'll send one along as well. It sucks to hear about something like that happening.

OK, everything is fine with the missing bag of plugs.
Hookedagain is right about the mixup.

I just heard from George - G2Hook
he said mike got in touch with the customer and it will be shipped out on monday

it was just a misunderstanding

he'll get the plugs back

all's well that ends well

now we can get back to the regularly scheduled thread :)

Thanks for the concern guys, but not needed. My sons bag was put in a USPS box of lips going to RI, probably by my son. Box was under the register, when it came time for the guy to leave, he just assumed it went with the box. Totally innocent. Mike called him when he got home, guy said he had already dropped the box off at the shop and would check today. This morning Mike told me, he had located the plugs, and that he would send them out on Monday. Sorry for all the fuss. Don't want to take away from another great plugfest.

Rockfish9s' darter demo was insane. Always leave learning something new.

sounds good George


ya rockfish9 is amazing, can you believe he whipped that darter display up in one day :eek: wow
very impressive stuff

i heard that, that's unreal.

Me, too. I think we should take a collection and all chip in to buy a Paul a cheeseburger. That ought to help make it right.

This is what I got, an again thanks to slip an john for putting on a great 2011 plug fest meet some NEW BUILDERS an even LEARNED a few things, still missed a few guys to swap with, an VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU to LARRY "BIG FISH" for the FANTASTIC paint job it will never see water.
RYAN560 I have 2 unfinnished bodies of yours.while showing them, you left them on the table. pm me your addy so I can send them to you.
slipknot, the WHITE/ GOLD NEEDLE FISH 10" LONG is that the one your talking about never been fished your the TESTER:smash:

CHIF, thanks again for the MINI'S there 3 & 4" im gona need HELP on thoes:uhuh:

PRBUZZ, thank you for the 2 bottles of Sam Adams Winter Lager one of my swaps of the day.
this was my plugfest plug "Big eel" that will end it for me this season,

GOOD LUCK GOOD BUILDIN:gh:

They seem to be empty....could of sworn they were cold and full.:) enjoyed meeting you Saltydog.

Here is a pic of all the trade plugs (and tails!) I ended up with. Can't wait to fish them all. Had a great time, met some awesome builders and learned a ton at my first plug fest.

Also happy that people enjoyed the pasta salad, because there wasn't a scrap left when I brought the container home hehe.

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PRBuzz, must have had a LEAK in the cap:smash: was empty when I got home:) Ill return them next plugfest for FULL ONES:rotf2:


GOOD LUCK GOOD BUILDIN:gh:

:zup:


i think maybe a Jets fan.

How did I miss meeting you?

Got Nuttin
 

Had all these plugs for trade and got nothing:(....................Oh! I didn't make it there:wall:
Great, missed it all..really wanted to meet everyone and give a personal thanks to Paul and George for all there help.
And missed the chance to meet a plugbuilding legend and authority...the one and only Capesams!
BT, thanks for posting pic's, especially Peter's Nike's:love:

Paul it goes in the mail today, wanted to give it to you in person.

I guess there is always next year.

Back to the state of depression:(

Probably because I shared a table with GooGooMan (Glen) and the greek (Ted) and linesider69 and you were preoccupied with that sea of masterworks! hehe :) I am sure I missed meeting a bunch of people actually.

Here's what I ended up trading for in the short time I was there. Hopefully, I get them all right since I'm working off memory. Keep in mind that the pic is from my cell phone and doesn't do any of these the justice they deserve.

From top left down:
Back Beach (big metal lip swimmer)
Blond Terror (canal pencil)
Bill C (small needlefish with unbelievable paint job)
Stripermaineiac (spook)
Old Man (teasers and flags)
Happy (freshwater popper for my son)
Slipknot (spook)
Raffle Plug (also by Slipknot)

And no picture, but I also went home with a beautiful windvane made by Blond Terror that's going to be mounted on my new cabana when I get it built.

Sarge- I was hoping that you would make it... I wanted to see your capt Bills repros and other stuff you made this winter... always next year.... The Weasel plugs were cool that Capesams made .. i may need to try a 7.5" version.


Chris

Wishing more guys had used name tags.

I missed meeting a hell of a lot of you folks.
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HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH?

....all dressed and no place to go...

...first ...thanks to all who put this together...ya made it so easy for the rest of us to simply show up and enjoy the day...

...second thought is ....is it May yet ?!?!?!?!

Old Man aka Bob

all is good, my sons plugs made there way back to him.



Who's .the member on this site that had those plugs bags, over by Pauls table. Those were insane. How could one go about obtaining one? I'm thinking Cutty.

Numbskull.

I just haven't had the time to make more than 2-3 a pop at a time so I really didn't have anything to swap, I wish I had, there is some sick plugs being displayed.

I do however want to personally thank the 2 guys who gave my little dude a few plugs, I'll post some pics when I get home, The Large swimmer he got has not left his hands since Saturday, I know it's properly hydro oriented as it has been in the tub every night with him. I even got woken up to the sounds of a 2 year old crying as he fell asleep with it in the crib, and couldn't find it when he woke up.

Thank you all for your generosity. I really gotta get building now for next year.
JD