Piping Plovers
 

This was spawned by a thread in the grumpy old farts section... Eben prefers to use them Live, but I'm a plugger; and my gf says I have too much time on my hands....

All my plovers in a row...

The Piping Plover Lure, or as Eben called them; Popping Plovers.. :smash:

Use for Stripers, Bluefish, or that elusive over zealous environmentalist that has enough time on their hands to baby sit a bird all day... I'ts important to note that I am on the left, and I am an environmentalist to a certain point, but I'm also a big fan of not closing beaches, specially for a small, non-native bird... Ok, climbing off my soapbox....

Endangered Pluggage?

:laughs:

carefull, U will get the PETA people pisssed...

PETA people pisssed per popping plover plugs...

Say that 5 times fast this AM :D

Love the mention of the non-native...
how fast they have forgotten.. "The Great Lakes Piping Plover"

I have to dig up a pic I took on top of some mountain in Western Mass; carved into a tree (deeply I might add) was "PETA Rocks"
Short of carving it in a deer, that kinda defined irony for me....

I LIKE it :btu:

wicked- fish it.:D

These guys arent through wired, and the head is only attached with epoxy and a dowel; I'm working on a through wired version that can be fished....

:laughs:

Thats a riot! I think you got something there... No longer will I have to use live or not-so-live bait agian!

Hmm Thats odd...
I could have sworn it read "Here Lies a Dumb Arse PETA member."

Love that Plover Plug! :D Can ya catch coyotes with it?

Not only will you piss off peta by building plugs of that nature but building them them out of actual PLOVER EGGS!?!? Genius! :laughs:

-DAve

No, but I bet it works real well on Foxes :D

Tastes like chicken:D

:laughs:

The funny thing is.... if you put some lead in the belly and it sits right, you will catch bluefish with it..:)

Plover Fjitas

I'm Tellin' PETA!
 

That is cruel and unreasonable punishment for those poor birds............kill em' quick and run em' down when they are in your tire track!:huh:

"Only joking.....I repeat, I am only joking"!:laugha: :hihi:

Oh that is priceless :laughs: :laughs: :laughs:

Any tips on retrieve ? Should we fish them right in front of the rookerie (sp?) Change of light ?



:D

Beachwalker..... Yes, there is a distinct method to livelining plover. First and formost, you have to find a hole off the beach with a bar that is wadable on the outside of the hole..

The following is taken from Frank Daignault's life's work... "Plover Surf"

"What you do is cast your plover into the wash and let it flutter in about 3 feet of water. The retrieve is similar to a needlefish. Slow and steady, letting the trashing of its wings do the work for you.. Now in the plover off season, us Swamp Yankees use Rhode Island rigged plovers. Rigging plovers is pretty much like rigging an eel, except you have to make certian that the plover is fresh. A gamakatsu plover-pus 6/0 live bait hook stuffed through its beak is the normal set up for ploving... I prefer to use a teaser made from california condor tail feathers, and sprinkle a little spotted owl blood on as an attractant."

Any tips on livelining ? :eek:

:laughs: ;) :laughs: :laughs:

The best way to use this lure is to chuck it into some yuppy beach bar and retrieve slowly. A great way to empty a full bar.:laughs: