One for the spring squid run
 

It took me a 2 weeks to tweak this guy..my typical turnout is usually one plug a week. I usually spend a little time each day after work on them. (great stress reliever) I do all mine by hand, with a hand drill, sometimes a belt sander, and finish em off by stealing my girlfriend’s favorite nail polishes. :hihi:

This is a slow sinking squid pencil popper. The body is 6 1/2" long and weighs 50 grams...4 grams shy of 2oz. I tested it out yesterday afternoon and it goes real nice. I plan on making a few more of these (not necessarily all squids) over the winter.

The plug is through-wired with stainless, although the belly hook is screwed in. I did this incase the hook position threw the action off I could move it to see if the action improved. But the placement was perfect and the next one will have a barrel swivel belly hook.

I got the eyes at work and they are epoxied in with the stuff they had here at work to hold stones in the jewelry. It took a weekend to finally harden! Where do you guys get this 5 min epoxy stuff?

Only thing I wish I had done differently is made the bucktail a bit flashier. With some pink flash or feathers, or maybe even a soft pink rubber squid skirt with long tentacles... I still have yet to tie my own fly (don’t have the materials) so it’ll be a while till I graduate to that stage of plug making..

Anyway, what do yall think of me squid? Think it’ll catch large this spring?

should catch fine..up-down-up-down rest,rest, up-down...they hit it at rest..what a site to behold.

looks good but bend your tailwrap back down, it might cut your line you never know. You did the best thing that is test it, now you know it will catch.

yeah u r right...I gotta bend that down..thx 4 the advice slip..:kewl:

Good looking popper. Keep it up.....:hihi:

Nice! Looks like the grain shows thru your girlfriend's nail polish.... Makes a great texture! Tell us a bit about the wood, how you weighted it and whether the front is a flat plane or hogged out a bit.

looks like a turd

remember Newell Guys first hand carves much like that,,now a master .. Stick around, read old threads on subjects that you need to know . Good idea doing a screw eye for proto moving it around for best results.. I learned something,,,

nice
 

I like the shape of the body:lasso:

Nice job MXC. :kewl:

In avatar that water looks so damm fishy.. love it when its all choppy like that ..

Looks good! The experimenting was a good idea. Good habit to get into. You can find both 5 and 30 minute devcon in the paint section at Walmart. Around $2 a pack.

Tagger, ya gots to read more carefully. Pasurfer told us about the screw eye thing a couple years back ;) Definitely a good trick for use on proto-types.

Jigman

I read carefully, problem is my heads like a concrete block .. Hard to get stuff to stay in there .. :tm:

thanks guys..:btu:

steelhead, thanks.. yeah the grain does show up..i like the way it gives it a more textured look..I pretty sure its pine, hopefully the blues dont get their teeth on it! I weighted it by drilling holes in the bottom and then what I do is get peices of lead (I save all my chopped up storm hooks & lead, this has supplied me with quite a bit of lead this year) chop it into hole sized pieces then smash it (round it up) together with a set of pliers and then jam it all in nice and tight with a small screwdriver. The epoxy over the holes seems to hold the lead in fine on all my plugs.. The front end is slightly hogged out so I get a nice popping sound on top.

Duke41..you %$%$%$%$ pink? do you fart skittles too? :hihi: :rotf3:

he said fart skittles,,,:rotf3:

Teeth Marks = Mojo :-)