I work in a machine shop...:uhuh:

thanks Gents for the ID...

you poor man
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yea.. I have to put up with a bunch of candy *** machinists that are cold if it is 70.... hot if it is 71... cry like little girls if they dont have their way.... and complain about everything in between ...most of them should have retired years ago... they still have the first dime they ever made...and most of them own more property than the Catholic church...

Looks like everyone is of to a good start! Ted your stuff looks great!! With what I am seeing I guess I'll have to step it up a bunch.
Paul, please send me some pic's of the fly vice to show to Bobby Pop.

I'll be in the garage building almost every day this week ,if anyone wants to stop by Just shoot me a PM here or CL

And I'll bet they are damn good machinists.

:hidin:

I built a simple plug rack to hang my vintage beater examples that I use in my shop. Just something to hang them neatly on the wall in my shop!:)

I have a wire over my desk in the "shop" where I hang my "for example plugs". Some classics , some retired with honor. Hall of Fame on a string..

Couple new big darters .... one cherry and one birch

Nice darters Chris.
I didn't get much done this week, going to repaint a bunch of eelys and some other stuff I have in primer this morning. Glad to see this thread is back

Shop cleaned up so now I can see the bench :) Dupe all set up and working well. Was given a Clemens lathe, all set up but needs new motor. Going to go with this new chubby body for Pikie this spring.

Sarge... it that a metal or wood lathe that you just picked up?

Chris, that is a Clemens rod lathe.

Rod lathe!
Sold the same one about 6 years ago and kicked myself in the ass for getting rid of it. Nice to have one again.

Nice... so I can have you build me a 11' rod to go with the new ZB reel I will get this spring ... will need it for the June Cutty trip

I just started doing hydro orientation... i was surprised what I saw with the first 5-6 plugs i have used it for... definitely will continue doing it... darters... metal lips

Century 1327, cut 4" from butt, w/ my KW-LC-to single foot layout :)

Darters, unweighted plugs, yeah...but I'm with Larry on the rest http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...tml#post920084

Do you write on the retired with honor plugs... hard to remember the stories behind each great plug and what they caught...

You remember Chris! I do anyway! I also have some retired "whipping boys" hanging in the shop!!!:uhuh:

Ted- Again, YOUR WORK ROCKS!

So clean. So polished. So original.

Thanks for sharing.
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Where's Paul ?? I want to see his new Fly Vise:uhuh: I bet it is killer!!

Please share Larry!
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I will see if I can take a pic with my phone and post it??? Have not done that yet??
:smash:

Yeah Larry... would love to see your shop plug rack... picture?

The plugs that retire have to earn it. The really big nights fishing don't happen every year, no need to write on them. I like it that way, keeps special, well, special.:uhuh:

Anyone ever try to build a CCBC 7600 surf darter? Anyone ever use one? They seem to be real scarce. Was it because they fished well and got used or because they were only made for a very short while? Always wanted to try and build one but never got around to it. I like the shape alot. Don't even know if they were more of a surface lure or if they were really a darter.

What he said.

From what I hear they didn't swim great, Gary Soldati has been working on his version for a few years and I think he has it about right now. I think there may be a pic. of it on his site.

like the top 2 CCBC ?

I heard the first version had the line tie in the mouth and they needed to put it up on the diving plane which they did in the next version...

Yes BT. Thanks Sarge. I figured as much as you never really see anyone trying to reproduce them.

Anyone clue me in on how to post pics here from my Iphone??

ted-

I made the red headed one for a lady friend who uses it for fresh water bass fishing in maine... she has caught LM, SM, and pickeral with it on Highland lake in Bridgton. It is close to a CCBC darter...

You could email them to your email acct ... downsize them with Picasa (export function) and they upload them via your PC

Sounds like I am outta luck because (Myassa) don't know (#^&#^&#^&#^&ta) about this stuff???

geez love to see your stash, I'll try and find you at the fest

good morning. Sarge your area looks no worse than mine. Controlled chaos. Got a lot of plugs sealed yesterday. Outside to drip dry and wipe off for 5 min., a little too cold to let hang too long, and then into the cellar for dry to touch and then into sun room for a week. I hope to try and get some primed this week if we get to 45 plus out side. I spray outside and then into cellar quick. Stinks working days again as I can't spray in work like I used to at nite after work. Got my recreation of a classic all ready for paint. Got a bunch of darters and some jointed ones too. Mr. Musso told me he gave up on the jointed ones as they didn't work any better than the regular ones and they were wayyyyy more time consuming, I can agree on that but I like the challenge. So many ways to run aground doing them. Also got a few hybrid darters I have been scratching my head on for a few years but not enough data in to show anyone yet. I got my usual run of howdies, my fav plug of all top waters to fish, this year too and I was able to get some rattles in them too. Got 2, Jr. and Sr. slope headed eelskin Conrads for Sauerkraut to adorn with his skins and hopefully use. Some med gibbs pencil copies and a bunch of Pinchey peanut size dannies. I will probably not finish all the stuff but I usually don't. P.



Sarge I will take some pics of the vise in a little while after I find the darn card for the camera.

Dave Anderson's Pug Darter is similar to the CCBC Surf Darter I think.

Larry- If you connect your iPhone to your PC you upload pics from it as you would from any other folder or memory device within the PC.
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