What Plugs Are You Never Without?
 

I am just curious....what plugs can't you leave home without? You always have them in your bag....the biggest producers? Lets see whats in your bag!:eyes:

Dave Mac, Long Island Fish in Vermont, Gary2, Digger in VA, bernz and RM smith, Steve F. for calm waters

always.

booger needles
manzi needles
booger round nose
mac pikies
BOMBERS (loaded and unloaded)

Salty's 1-1/4 big mouth popper for the boat, and Salty's sherriff for the Canal :bounce:

There are a few - some are my own - but for daytime I have to have a Bernzy Surf Howdy. That plug is just too versatile not to carry one in my bag.

This changes often for me because I tend to get fixated on different plugs at different times.

So far this season during the day it has been: 1. SS popper 1.5 oz in yellow/white sinking, yozuri hydro pencil, labrador jointed herring swimmer and surf asylum spook

night= chartreuse, schoolbus, yellow/white , blurple bombers all sizes/ Labrador 2 Oz. swimmers in blurple and chartreuse scale.


soon(actually tonight) I won't bother during the day and will be turning to alot more needles. Hab's, L.I. fish v.t. and bugger needles all are a must.:soon:

the drain plug:D

Needles and Tins, always

1. Habs Neddles Large; in white, black, small in white, black, burple, and chartruese

2. Beachmaster swimmers in Burple and herring wish I had the dannys

3. Poppers in Yellow, white, black, mack Pink/white, 3oz Blueback

4. Windcheaters in Pink, mack, black, and white washed

5. Judes irons

6. Red 9" sluggos rigged with slingshot pellets

Misc darters and such :D oh and the kitchen sink!!!

Normal everyday bag
(4) 3 or 3 1/2 oz white barracudas (Old canal term for lead head)
(6) Eel rigs from 2 1/2 up to 4 oz
A jar of white #240 pork rind
Maybe some rubber, but not very often I still perfer skins.

if I know I will be fishing up until daybreak

(1) Pencil A gibbs, hawg hunter, or my own
(1) Polaris A gibbs, hawg hunter, or my own
Most of the time I could care less about the color. (white, yellow, blue, etc, etc) it does not matter to me. they all catch. especially when the bucktail on the trebbles gets rusty, and the paint is just about gone.
(2) 3oz tins, maybe a hopkins, or a cripple. my favorite are stingsilvers.

The nicest thing about this bag setup is I can fish everything in this bag well with one rod. And I am able to travel as light as possible. For me anyway I have found keeping it this simple makes it nice an easy, for me anyway its better than needing to feel like pulling along a Uhaul

But the most important thing about the bag is I have complete and total confidence that its all I'll need to catch fish in any condition where I fish. and I fish the canal 98% of the time that I fish.
Big Dave

thought this was just plugs, definitely the t jude nautilus tin.

1.9inchblack
slug-goriggedandweighted

Steve you even don't need a bag! You can pocket the 2 doz or so you must carry. :bl:

ifyou are not using the modified slug-go you are really missing out on some great bass action.

I like them it just take so long to rig

ittakes a little practice, but i can rig one in 3 minutes now.

Steve check PM

during the day....green mackeral polaris popper....ALWAYS!!!

at night....sluggos.

gansett bill ---one 3/32 weight in tail and one 3/32 weight on either side of slug-go--mid body--------- back to original question---- i also like use the 7 inch redfin weighted with 10ccs of water with vmc 4x strong hooks; the black gibbs or tattoo darter and original danny swimmer. that's about it.

In no particular order...

Manzi needle Olive
Habs Needle Black & One Other Habs
Big Fsh Burnt Orange Needle
Black Mambo
Loaded Black Back Silver Red Fin
Tsunami Electric SchoolBus Popper
BlACK MAMBO
After Hours Creamsicle Spook (even though I am mad at Don)
ReelExstacy Yellow Spook
Cordell Pencil (1OZ)
Guppy Pencil My color
Black Mambo

BigFish yellow 1.8oz pencil popper
black mambo
AfterHours small spook in pearl
Tagger blue needles......and the "alien":alien:
Habs olive needle

Always have Bernzy's surf howdies..its my go-to
Always have a Beachmaster danny
Always have a Rm smith..size depending
Always have a 5" redfin..
Always have a habs 2oz in eel
then u can add in the tins, and a few smilin bills

OK....my turn!

Afterhours Jr Spook in yellow over white.
Afterhours needle in white. (need some dark ones:hee: )
Habs 2 oz. needle in powder blue over white and blurple.
RM Smith swimmer 2 oz.
Mambos in blurple and black.
Bombers in herring and black /chrome.
Hopkins 1-2 ounces.
Hopkins 4 oz. (For boaters:hihi: )
Kastmasters and Crippled Herring.
Pt Jude Tins (These are new and can't wait to try them....heard good things Joe)

Bombers
pencils
at least one Bassmaster danny at all times
couple needles (builders vary)
BigFish jointed swimmer
sluggos
Storm shads


Other things get mixed into the rotation, but these are ALWAYS in my bag.

Substitute some for others like BigFish:wave: and this guy in RI; Throwing Timber:wave: and my bag is about the same.:hihi:

Eels, always have them. OOooohh plugs, I have a few of them.
Black 7" bomber
Yellow BigFish Pencil
Blurple Habs or Blorange Afterhours Needle depending on where I am fishing
To tell you the truth I could stop using a big %$%^ plug bag because I only use those three or for plugs and eels.
Oh ya 9" shad for the canal

1or 2 redfins 7''
2 oz tattoo swimmer in blue swirl or gold/yellow
any color beachmaster dannys or large atoms.
pencils from beachmaster or surf asylum
a few needles after hours,habs,gibbs,
a spook or 2

Many things change during the season but I always have these in my bag, Charlie Graves J7, white bucktail, gold/black Yozuri crystal minnow (suspending)

Stevie...where'd you come from???
It's been a long time!!!
I hate lures...give me bait..especially the herring that Manzi and I used to fight for!!!
Hey Larry, I hear you're sending a package to the darkside, but nothing for me.
Later,
Sleepy Bomba

Oh yeah and a BBJ herring pattern that'so perfect I hang it on my Xmas tree every year cause I'm to afraid to lose it!!!
Later,
Rick

beach bag =

surf howdy
yozuri mag darter
bomber
Old John needle
bassmaster needle
Habs needle
superstrike needle
mr. wiggly
slipknot needle
beachmaster danny
lifishvt darter
sluggos and ledgerunners and ronz
pt,jude tins
kastmaster
a storm wildeye just to have one with me.



canal bag =

jigs - white and black
tins
skinjigs
pencil popper
howdy
bottledarter (mac)
mr.pogie polaris

3 size needles (mine) and some teasers (redgills,decievers,)
1 Jigman pearl spook (dusk, dawn)
2 black 9" rigged sluggo's
1 loaded redfin
1 17a blurple bomber
metal 1. deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&, hopkins,kastmaster ,diamond jigg,tinman tin,point jude tin

Then I got about 100 plugs somewhere nearby if possible ,if not i just pick a couple,, hard to pick,, just about every builder ,,this years swap plugs,,and a bunch of my stuff .. Too many plugs .too little time.. thats beach fishing ..

If its the ditch, I like bouncing lead .. bring a few plugs ..

i would say a 2oz hopkins,2oz bucktail jig ,9in sluggo on a jig head and a 9in sluggo or hogy rigged , all other plugs are trivial.

CANAL- assorted canal special bucktails up to 5oz and a 2oz, white canal special pencil popper as well as 9in sloggos rigged on jig heads up to 4oz, throw in some hopkins and kastmasters

I don`t have any :o

RickBomba....I told Mikey he has to share.....so its up to you!:bgi:

I fish many different waters an use many different lures.If I had to give em all up except 2 one would be a 1.5 smilin bill an the other would be one of my 3.5 pencil poppers.For a beach plug I always carry a schoolbus an pearl bomber an a mullet pattern mag minnow and a Surf Hog Sented ebeneel..

Two plugs that NEVER LEAVE the bag are a blurple Mambo and a Salty's olive/white 1.25oz popper.And some form of tin like a Pt.Jude or Kastmaster.

All other stuff gets rotated in or out depending on where I'm fishing.

I haven't set up my beach bag yet, but if I had to pick one plug that'll never leave it, it would be a 1-1/2 oz Superstrike needlefish in olive over silver.

Canal plugs:

Hawg Hunter pencil poppers in pogy, mackerel (green and pink) and squid colors.

Mike Fixter pencil poppers in pogy and squid.

Gibbs Canal Special, 3-1/8 oz, in yellow.

Gibbs 3-1/2 oz pencil popper, yellow and green mackerel.

Gibbs Polaris in yellow and green mackerel.

Medium Hawg Hunter polaris-style in squid, pogy and black over silver.

Superstrike polaris style in yellow and olive over silver.

Jigs:

Canal style round head jigs in assorted weights, from 1-1/2 to 5 oz (yes, there are places where you need the 1-1/2).

Rigged plastic--Sluggos, Fin-S fish and Ledgerunners, on 1-5 oz heads.

3 and 4 oz Crippled Herring and/or diamond jigs.

2 and 3 oz Ronz eels.

6" and 9" rubber duckies :D

Yozi Crystal Minnow
Meduim & Large Krockadile

do those RONZ work well? there a little too expensive for my taste for something your going to lose on the bottom of the canal