Fish caught on your own plugs?
 

So how many of you have caught bass on your own custom made plugs this year so far? Any pictures you care to share?

I've done ok, not great but ok. Not many pictures because when I bring a camera, I end up with nothing to take pics of half the time. There is still time so I'll try some more.

I got a few for you Slip! :btu:

25#'s on my needle. Same night Toby caught a 35# on my needle too.

Striped ones.....

Hi, Slip.....
The OJ Needle strikes again..... :btu: :btu:
--OJ

More striped ones...and a largemouth bass....

Ooooops...no pic. Trying again..... --OJ

Tobias...sweet fish and nice pic! :btu:

Ive only made one plug...and Larry helped me.... that plug had some serious mojo before I finally lost it 2 weeks ago :crying:
it was a yellow and red 1.5 oz pencil popper....if any of youz guys have one...( he made more :love: )......you know, that plug rocks
I really should carry a camera too...lots of missed photo opps this fall

hey larry, i recconize that fish with the jointed surfster in it's mouth :jester:

Larry..that plug does look familar.... :btu:

yup :bounce:

Couldn't begin to count how many I've caught on my own lures. Thousands of blues --- into the hundreds of Stripers :rotfl:

5 30# few 20# all in Sept most on different size blue and white needles I made.. dropped a cow , would guess around 90# 1 of the 30# was on a blurple 17a bomber.. 1 of the 20# were on small pink and white needle ,fish i stole from Slingah.. Nephew got 30# on my needle too .. Made them a year ago ,,lost the recipe .. Sounds like I killed them this year but I didn't .. just about everytime I went fishing I only caught 1 fish.. 1 good one.. this is nephews fish ... had him with me, only reason I had a camera

nailed em
 

first day I really hammered them was today on my plugs. after catching the first fish on a yellow spook, I snapped it off. this plugs got some serious mojo cause on the next cast with its brother(another spook) I hooked the line and got it back!!! put it back on and managed about 50 fish throuout the day . largest at 40 inches about 25 lbs!!! tell me it wasn't worth it now!! :cheers:

Pretty much all I've used for the last few years has been my stuff or stuff I've got in swaps from other builders. Have not caught a monster on my stuff yet, but know a few guys who have caught some pretty good ones on them.

Jigman

Here's one from my fishing trip at the beginning of the month. These were all caught at night in a nice 3 foot surf on the the S Shore of Nantucket. We were only one em good for 2 nights, but it was a great time.

In the picture is my Dad, Jim (an old family friend) and myself.
Dad and Jim were fishing my slim yellow danny's, I was fishing my larger fat black one.

The fish weren't huge, 33-37", but how many 86 year old guys are still out there fishing the surf. This was a really sweet night. The past few seasons we haven't been able to get Jim onto any good fishing but we kind of lucked out and found some fish near where we could park so he didn't have to walk too far or fish in a crowd. He ended up with 3 keepers, and a few good memories...

Hey diggin-jiggin, that picture really brought a smile to my face, thanks for sharing it with us. Those are the memories of a life time. And it's also encouraging to us all :)

Armand

no pics, but, no complaints either.... :)
had some schoolies, some keeper size, and bigger,
and a nice one this year :D
but no camera on sand for me.
I caught a bunch of blues on my stuff too :doh:

Best thing by far this year, was coming home and having a message on the answering maching from one of the kids that got one of the 100 plugs I donated, he, and his dad left me a nice message, telling me of the nice striper the youngster had caught... I still get a charge when I think of finding that on my answering machine :btu:

Johnny the ratt boy/ plum island surfcaster/ kennedy yells over to me that hes going to throw some big wood, launches a pencil I made and hooks up :devil: That felt pretty cool, cept I didnt have another one on me for myself but thats ok :btu:

Nice fish guys :btu:

Karl, you should be in the lead for the year-long tourney here on the site with your cow you caught and released :D Nice job.


Armand, that is a really large bass on one of your plugs from out of the canal. SWEET!


Sounds like quite a compilation of success stories so far :) any more?
thanks

caught a bunch on my wood, but nothing to write home about, i had another crappy year all around.

Well I hope it gets better Daryl.
BTW, that 1207 of yours I bought has got me alot of fish :D I love it. casts great and fights fish great :btu:

"Now its time to get serious" Blam "I'm on!" :btu: Ahhhh, the memories :rotfl:

Jigman

on a needlefish

I have not caught on my wood...but... I give most of them away (trade)and the recipients have caught on them.... :splat:

best day
 

This was the about the best day with my own wood. not only because we caught nothing but keepers for about 2 1/2 hours, but I brought my brother, who i don't get to see much and he's only caught one keeper to date. I guess this would be a good time to thank everyone for all the info and instructions in the plug building forum. You helped make a good day of fishing into a great memory with my bro.

over 100 stripers on it, held up well, should I retire it now or keep fishing it?

First Pikies I made I wasn't sure of what the action on the originals was , so , I made mine swimmers...swim a couple of feet under the surface , nice wiggle...turns out the things are PISSA when large bait (herring, ect.) is around. And i've caught LOTS of nice fish on other peoples (online guys) stuff...even yer little white Danny, Bruce , it's still in action. :humpty: :kewl:
johnny

Small swimmer