$25 and no discounts at the (2008) Plugfest
 

Yes, I'm still smarting over the price I paid; but at least I'm making the plug pay itself back. As opposed to all my dismal plug building efforts which pay back even worse than my stocks.

Fish: 44" 30lb. 4oz. (NOT including the half pound scup it coughed up when I beached it). Photographed and released night of May 11th.

Plug: BF2.3 Prey with the back hook cut off.

Bonds to all who love the gene pool enough to release these girls.

Sauerkraut.......awesome fish! Thanks for sharing the pics! I see that plug has been paying dividends?:btu: I think maybe I should have discounted that "Prey" swimmer by 10% and forgot to......so to make it up to you if you pm me your address and tell me what color you want I will send you another to kind of defray the exorbitant price you paid for that plug!:jester: Congrats on the great catch!:shocked:

Nice job, both of you.

Did you come straight from surgery to land that thing?

Or a "Michael Phelps swim cap is bitchin" rally??

Awesome fish!!!! Decent plug too:sleeps:

Congrats :cheers:! Nice fish :kewl:. Love the Prey also.

Nice job, congrats.

#97

a great post

Congrats !

Hope you ate the scup.

thats awesome, great catch and thanks for releasing it!

Beautiful fish. I wonder if Spence knows about the new spring trend in the gloves.

I had to go back and do a double take. 1st to take another look at the sweet fish and 2nd to see if that really was a swimming cap! That's a first in fishing attire for me! I love it and surgical gloves to match! No flies on you! Awesome job on the plug too. I am so stoked to get out!

Nice fish and glad to see that your investment is paying out.I just checked the amex and bfbc is up a couple of points after you posted this.:wave:

Beautiful fish, congrats on the release. What did the scup taste like?

A HANDOUT!
 

[QUOTE=BigFish;688295]Sauerkraut....... I think maybe I should have discounted that "Prey" swimmer by 10% and forgot to......so to make it up to you if you pm me your address and tell me what color you want I will send you another to kind of defray the exorbitant price you paid for that plug!

Thank You, Mr. BIGFISH. I could use all the help I can get, because NUMBSKULL has cut me off from access to his arsenal.

Nice fish...Not just the swin cap but the towel around the neck? Did you have to go in aftetr the girl? Hahaha...mm

That seals it - you and George have to come out to Block with me. I don't care what you dress in or how loud your neck ties are.

DZ

Plug building is all about $$, everyone thinks they're gonna go commercial these days.
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And some do!:tooth: I do not do it for the money either......I do it because I enjoy it. Anyone who knows me knows this to be true. I make what I can and sell what I make.

Nice!

Larry ... You should be honored .. I believe SAUERKRAUT only fishes 2 plugs .. A white plastic Atom 40 or a white Gibbs 1 3/4 oz needle

wasnt directed at you BF, just the current state of building as I see it from the internets sideline

I know Krispy.....you are right. Many think you make alot of money but from experience I can say its a good thing I love it!:jester:

Very nice fish.:cheers2:

Re: Block
 

Mr. DZ: We'd be honored...promise I will not wear the tie.

Bonds,

Sauerkraut

Ask him about his white w/red head Flaptail Surfster sometime.

NJ and Surfsters
 

Mr. Flap is right: he turfed me one of his big, classic colored, redhead home built surfsters last year which caught me a couple of substantial fish.

I started on the beaches in Jersey, and I think Jersey fisherman always had a thing about those Creek Chub Surfsters in that era. I know I did. It may be just my whim, but I always have my eye out for these. So, when I met Mr. BF's Prey Plug at the '08 Plugfest, I probably would have paid double for it.

:bc:

the white w/ red head prey is the staple of my arsenal so far this season. killin the schoolies. can't wait till some bigger girls get this far north.

did my part last night.... thank you fish gods

Therefore, Bonds to Mr. Fumifish.

Way to go SK..
Just another Jersey guy showin them how its done..:rolleyes:

NIB showed me how it is done,I did have to hold his hand though.

Jersey Guys
 

Thanks for compliments, Mr. NIB; but truth is I rememeber how desperately awful NJ surf was, and how I utilized going to college to emigrate. Spent the rest of my surf life trying to catch up to my New England and Mass. spoiled brat friends who grew up in this territory. Therefore, my plugs are in the water more hours than theirs are...

Wouldn't you know, after I leave the state, Jersey starts getting these amazing June menhaden blitzes. I have a brother down there who refuses to visit me until he fishes through this annual ritual.

Excellent report! All good....