Wilson?
 

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Sometimes I find myself attached to specific plugs. The plugs that I have
caught fish on and shared success with.

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They get beat up with a rash and a patina that transforms them from just
a cookie cutter plug from a batch the builder created....into an an individual
that is separated from its original form. It becomes a partner that I fish
with every outing.

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It is a sort of right of passage that plugs make when they reach full
transformation. As a plug proves its worth it gains its mojo and confidence.
It has a link with me and my fishing style.

Sometimes I find myself with a heartbreak and separation depression when I
loose one of these transformed plugs.

Recently I lost a darter. I had been crushing fish all spring on this darter.
It was my buddy. I lost it by neglect. It somehow floated out of my bag as
a swam from a rock. I think I forgot to punch the velcro.

I sort of unraveled a little. As I noticed it was gone, I put on the brights to
try to find it and I searched the surfline and the shore. I even looked again
at a different stage of tide as I past the spot at the end of my outing. The
next day I looked yet again and disguised my search as a scouting mission,
but Wilson must have floated off on the tide.

"Wilson!!!!"
"I am sorry Wilson!!!!....."

Wilson floated away and is alone somewhere in the atlantic ocean. I hope
one of you finds him and give him a place in your plug bag.

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That danny looks like it was fished hard by someone, then lost, spent significant time on on a beach or underwater, then was found. Even Sauerkraut doesn't fish plugs with hooks that bad.

Speaking of Sauerkraut, he tells a story of finding a large white Lupo danny in the wash while fishing the Vineyard decades ago. Later in the night he met a guy frantically searching the beach for his lost plug. Turns out the Lupo was his "go to" plug. SK, classy guy that he is, said nothing and kept it (or maybe he found it later after the guy had moved on, I forget, but I like the story better the first way). To make matters worse, he decided it was too fat to fit a skin over it and, since he hated all plugs without skins, took a rasp to it and effectively destroyed it so it would take a skin. I don't think he liked the result because the poor abraded thing is, I think, still hanging somewhere in his basement.

Better hope he's not the guy who finds your "Wilson".

Sorry for your Loss,

I had been laid off and was fishing Plum Island everyday one fall
I put on one of my favorite plugs and my Van Staal grabbed the line while I was casting and it snapped off must have gone to the horizon, Funny how far a plug not attached to fishing line goes. The next day fishing the same spot I'm in the surf casting and I look down and there it is bobbing up and down in the surf

Needles to say I was shocked

Hahah, that's great. Thanks for the laugh!
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Great post !
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i once swam after a plug

damn thing drifted away like wilson

by the time i got it i was getting tired
and tried to step on the bottom a little too early

i stepped right into a big pile of crabs that nipped
the crap out of my feet....i was swimmin fast after that -LOL

X2

Sorry for your loss. I too lost a darter this week that was well worn and producing very well for me. Thanks for the laugh G. Sorry Alan.
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Lost my Maco Joe by PM plug this year... :-( still po'd

Good one George :-)

hahahhahaha...not my plug. Just a web find to use as an illustration.

I do have a few plugs that look like that though....but with new
hooks.

I have one darter I fished for over four seasons. It eventually split
and I gorrilla glued it back together. I still fish it now an again even
with the lip rounded over...it still catches fish.

Hahahahahahahahaha
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great story- I've had a few that hurt when I lost them too......