Its About the Plug 2014
 

Big, small, who cares? Lets see what your (or someone else's) custom plug can do. We all learn from it.

To start here is a 26" bass (it looked huge compared to what I have been catching so I measured it :rollem:) that ate a 4" Musso small darter clone. The plug has done well for me, which is a pleasant surprise since I was not impressed when I swam the prototypes. Interestingly, the plug swims better with larger hooks than I tested with. The forward hook position seems to balance things out well.

George, your darters catch great. The medium Musso did me very well. Love to have a small one. LOL

I love darters nice work.

Caught this one few weeks back on a Billy DeLizio "redfin".

I had been throwing plastic with no takes and switched to Billy's plug which offered a larger profile, tuned the line tie down to keep it on top w/ wake. The fish cooperated. Thanks Billy for saving what was turning into a frustrating night. 36.5" released

Thats great Matt. Thats a gary 2 version. great tail waggle. no tail weighting.

Nice plug, nice fish.

Got this high teen fish on a skinny pencil made by some irish guy who used to live in Franklin. Good hit too.

Good idea filming it so you can remember how to do it as you get older.

Sounds like porn to me

how come I can't catch any fish on those. Must be the fisherman and not the plug.:uhuh:

This 37" fish came from the spot some Irish guy who used to live in Franklin should be fishing but isn't.

Ate a little bottle I built this winter.

Nice 1 George, cool lookin plug

Hey George,
Love that old style Gibbs bottle mouth!
Great picture!

Make more of those bottles, very productive plug and one of my favorites!

nice picture.
That Irish guy must be pretty stupid.

Throwing a Blonde Terror yellow pencil this morning, the bass went 15 lbs on the boga, it hit as i was just lazily finishing a retrieve in about 4 inches of water, :rotf2:certainly wasn't expecting that.

The blue went 6 lbs, caught another blue that went 6 lbs on a 24/7 blue mackerel pencil which snapped a one treble off the front hook, has anyone ever had that happen to a vmc before??, all fish released to swim again and they did. Not a bad first morning out, considering there were quite a few people there this morning.

Natural color
 

Natural color hardwood. First catch this year on own wood. It's a jr. variant, weighs about 1.85 oz.

[QUOTE=johnny ducketts;1043061]Throwing a Blonde Terror yellow pencil this morning, the bass went 15 lbs on the boga, it hit as i was just lazily finishing a retrieve in about 4 inches of water, :rotf2:certainly wasn't expecting that.

Nice fish.... i need to make some more yellow pencils for Cutty... morning sessions at the Barges beach.

[QUOTE=blondterror;1044132]Awww, man I can't believe I am missing it again!.. I love the action on that plug!

When your fishing partner ask "Do you even know how to catch fish on plugs anymore?" (I fish a lot of eels/he fishes a lot of plugs) I had to put on a needle, land a fish and make him take a photo of it.

Sin: fishing eels
Ultimate Sin: fishing numbskull's plugs with a eel jug over my shoulder. (Sorry) :devil2:

REPENT Sinner!

:btu:

at least you recognized your mistake
stick to plugs to catch fish, it makes the few big ones well worth it
now where did I put my eel jug?


was that on a Numbskull needle?

Nice Frank

I can't leave the eels alone. :smash:

It's a hab's clone from numbskull. Birch or Maple I'm guessing. Fish hit it as it tagged bottom and I'm guessing that is why it was not he siwash.

Nice one Frank

not wood but metal counts too:uhuh:

2 straight days of these things will put a hurtin on you and this lure was automatic

Nice Paul, I had fish on that small green darter the other night but couldn't get pics. Next time.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Nice Paul, I think I have one of your wooden needles in that shape.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Daytime pic
 

Not often that I fish in the day. Nice to see the colors instead of black and gray.

Lure is a chunky needle made over the winter.

this is one of christians aka chrisjoes metal lips he gave me. its a atm jr hybrid of sorts, cast decent considering too.

i threw it the second night at cutty, slow waking it on the top and the fish were just blowing it out of the water left and right, was a blast to watch,must have happened 10-12 casts in a row, then finally hooked up with 2 decent fish on it.

have the fish pics on the camera, ill upload later on

took a nice chunk on my buddies white darter in the pitch black too

this is a clone of the 2 oz musso darter in lobsta paint ... black over orange and well used.... this and my parrot version are my go to night plugs... this was a 32" fish from the barges area on thursday night at Cutty

The Corner still has magic! Nice Fish!

Last week on vacation I found some wood caught fish worthy of some pics.
First one was my copy of the Pichney large white Danny that I turned thinner dia.. fish was 47" and most likely 40 plus lbs. The next fish was just slightly smaller on a med white old version BM danny I made. The night before this I had a few high 20 lb fish on the white med danny. They were fished 3 cranks, pause, twitch another 3 cranks, pause. Seemed to do the trick.

Couple nights later the first pic is a mid 30 lb fish caught on a really cool plug. It is an over a foot long needle made by a gentleman from Conn. that I got in a trade. Gigantic is the only way to explain it. Was really fun using that plug and the fact it floats allowed me to fish it real slow with a lot of pauses like few nights before. Fight was great but the fish put the siwash thru my finger landing it, lucky I crush the barbs. The next fish was the best of the few nights. I wandered away from the few guys I was fishing with that night and again the med white danny just twitched on the surface and reeled extremely slow was the ticket again. The fight was one of the best I have had in years with tons of drag being taken on several great runs but being only sand in front of me there was no anxiety of losing the fish on rocks or structure. Very enjoyable. All the above fish were revived and swam away. I do sell fish but it was quite rewarding letting these fish go.

Nice Vacation you had there PM.

Was that sytle of retrieve with the medium white Danny something new that you have been trying recently or just what they seemed to want that night......and how many other sytle retrieves did you try that night before finding the one that worked?

friend said he got a good one night before on the pause so I used that info. It would not be the way I would normally fish a danny. I like a slow retieve on a danny but the way I was fishing it never really got moving like a danny. Took a good 4 minutes plus to get the plug in from the end of the cast, super slow. It worked for the first fish so I stuck at it . I had been pissed I had left the dark colored danny's at home in Lakeville too and only had white. Glad I did. Learn something every time out.

Here is how big the needle was. Hangs out of my bag about 5 inches

What an awesome fish on a homemade Paul... and an excellent release to boot. Good talking/seein ya today too!

crush em. The photo are great.

Beautiful fish Paul... I love that you caught them on danny's.

Looked like you were askin the big girl out for a date Paul. Sweet fish. That pic looks like a wall hanger

Nice fish Paul. The last pic is awsome
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Thanks guys. I don't want you to think this was some kind of premeditated plan of attack. I had run out of places to find decent fish and took a shot. I had gotten a little intel the day before but intended to waste some time there anyway being free of the constraints of work. Bottom line is fish swam by and I caught some. No fishy swimming by I end up home early and not back there again. Got to love Lady Luck sometimes.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device