So, What's Everybody Working on This Winter
 

Every year there seems to be a plug style that everybody plays with in the Off-season. last year a lot of guy messed around with Eel skin plugs and conrads....year before Roman Nikes seemed to be popping up a lot here.

What's everybody want to try this year while hiding in their Hobbit Hole for the winter.

Myself, I'm gonna mess around with some Cowboys and Dannies.

also gonna try making some SS Bullet knock-offs....and a larger version of the SS needle, make them about the size of a BM Needle.

What say Ye....

I have a few people (one of them is tall) hounding me to make a BigFish Needle.....so I will be working on a design for one and getting the action just right! :btu:

BF, how about an eelskin prey swimmer :think: - Please

Since this is my first year building, my main goal is just trying to make more of the plugs that have been successful for me so far. I need to learn how to simplify my plug making process. I'd like to do more at the same time. Maybe a duplicator will show up for Christmas??????

I have a lot of requests for darters from friends so I'll be trying those too.

Josh.....let me know where you would like the groove and a few other details and I will make you some special...no problem!:kewl:

Learn how to paint scales and to apply foil

If so drop me a PM

I am going to finish up the Conrads that I promised a few people. With an eelskin attached they swam lovely. I am also going to do some smaller, heavier hawgish style top water plugs and some flat lipped med. size goo goo's, and some more Lido falptails. Of course I have more Hawgs and large boat swimming plugs I need to finish. Lots of owesies too. Hell If I just finished what I already have turned I'd be busy for 5 years.

awsome. thanks. i'll send a pm.

I'll be spending a little more time on hand carved bunkers.. the ones I make now work, but I know I can make them better...

Working on another "fat boy" style darter... more suited for calmer water... also going to do a little more with laminated wood, more for weight/action than looks... I've found that west system G-flex epoxy bonds as strong as the original wood and is not effected at all by salt water... one of my test subjects lasted through approx 100-125 fish with only a BLO sealing, no primer or paint...

Like to see those handcarves, thinking about doing some of them myself.

I need a new spook shape!

Changing diapers for the first time :)

I say that you are gonna do some of those wonderbread howdies for me..... a top big water producer. Got a 20# fish on a Saltyric knock off of your knock off Sunday AM. You know where.

Skinplugs, needles, spooks like Jiggy's, more pencils, sloped swimmers and pikies, maybe a few howdies too.

I want to get a better casting howdy that will dipsy doodle in big water, and will still be able to go sub-surface in quiet water. Got a lot of weighting questions in that formula....

More spook type topwaters

Lots of owesies is my first priority then maybe i can turn some protos that i have had in my head all year.Also make lotsa bottles again.One other thing i might even make a plug to enter in the plugfest contest.

my sanity .....:rotflmao:

I'll have my first manland sometime in december so who knows. :musc:

:kewl: there ya go......

don't worry, that doesn't sound at all gay :heybaby: :hihi:

Being a rookie I just want to get a stock pile going so I have stuff at the ready for plug fests, gifts, trades, and swaps.

I'd like to work up a stash of Walking Stick clones, 5" Dannys, spooks, pencils, and needles.

That must be the New Amusement park they're opening up in P'Town...

Don't go on The Whip...its not what you think :bshake::lasso:

Its fall and its time to fish.:jump1::uhuh:

this winter i'll make stuff i want to fish .. I need a pile of needles large ,,small.. I want to knockoff a cordell red dot 3.5 oz. 6 1/4" for the canal .Not made anymore ..I want to make a casting flaptail ,, again for the canal .. more predators,, and try more equalizers ... Moms having hip replacement soon ,so list may get smaller ..

Taggage, My MIL had both hips replaced at age 80. She flew through it. Piece of cake, no need to shorten your list!

With the exception of pencils I'm going deep this winter and everything will look like an eel...

I really got into fishing a lot of big rubber in places where I'd normally fish needles and I did real well with it, but its expensive whn the blues show up so I think I'm going to take the plunge and make some molds and start pouring my own...

Thanks Bill I needed that ...

Way cool. No other experience in life even comes close. Plugs can wait.

My shop is finally dry after repeated floodings so I'm going to take care of the long lost of owsies first. Then I'm working on trolling plugs, poppers, and needles.

More bottle plugs. Thanks to some great input from Lu and numbskull last year I had some decent success with some 1 3/4 oz bottles this year. Need to work on a jig to do the faces on those. Also want to try a smaller version. Probably another hand carved or two as well :gu:

Jigman

I learned something this week so I will now be focusing on
BIG METAL LIPS!!

If I can ever get my shop cleaned and organized. big windcheaters, big howdies and I want to try to make some mag darter knockoffs.

your welcome to come over.

I am going to learn the ways of the airbrush. I have a dozen blanks waiting for paint right now..

Thanks for the invite sm36, but if I dont clean it up, I might be living with you permanently.

My waistline.:walk:

Planning on "Going Large" are we....



I gotta get focused on that myself.....put a few back on over the summer....

I got a bunch of BIG WOOD I was givin:btu: a while back, an Ive got a DOZ done up not counting the PIKIES I gave away, an got 6 danny plugs drying, getting ready to PAINT, an some RED WOOD, cedar, oak, birch,mahogany, pine :wavey: . a couple of plugs to do, for guys from last plug fest . this season Im pushing the rattle can painting to the MAX (for me anyway) :whackin:

GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN:wavey:
almost forgot the osage, after I get it cut !!!!!!!

Salty...I still got them Polaris Bodies for ya