1 NEW DARTA
 

Swam this guy yesterday. Digs deep, thanks for the inspiation, Tagger, Old Grumpy, and others.

Nice datah, whats the weight on that puppy

A couple more, in the works.

Wow a canal special with the hooks on the wrong side. How does that puppy swim?? It must dive deep once it digs. :shocked:

Cedar Darta weighs 2-1/2 oz. dives deep and wobbles, but doesn't flip. I think its a keeper. Also making some heavier ones now out of some hard old yellow pine and a few Basswood Surfsters that were sealed today. Will start paining when I get back from vacation in about a week.

Very interesting plug sloped that long.

proud to help inspire your creations .. very different,,keep up the good work .. very easy to just give up building darters .. i think your on your way .. try some hardwoods,,,hard maple .. birch . beech ... seal very well ,,, the weight will help them dig .

nice:claps:
looks like one of my hundred mile an hour paint jobs :bo:

Not quite 100 mph, but I do like to paint wet on wet, mix rattlecan colors right on the plug. Sometimes get disapointed and have to redo.
Epoxied 2 Darters today.

and a couple of needlefish

a few more needles

and some short stuff

When I get back from vacation, I'll put trebles and dressed siwash's on these guys, and then get started on my next project. I have about 80 new blanks sealed and hanging to dry for a week. New stuff for me, pikies, surfsters, atom 40's, dartas, etc.
Mostly inspired by you guys, I'm pretty sure they'll look good and I am hoping at least some of them will swim properly.

busy, busy


those are nice

your much better than when I started,, If your fairly new to plugbuilding ,I really can't tell,,Try not to make large batches of plugs . say a pikie.. make 1 or 2 ... take it down swim it .. bring it back tweak it .. hows the roll , hows the swim .tweak ,, You might not like the lip your using ,,overpowering,,,not enough ? How's your weighting for the size your building.. hows it sit in the water when its at rest ? I tried orig CCB weighting around the wire instead of chin .. big mistake .. roll like beotch .. sits higher in salt that kind of weighting no good for the plug i was building .. Most of us learned from the real masters..CCB,Bob Pond Atoms Lures,,Bob Hahn,Stan Gibbs, list goes on and on ..Try to mimic these guys .. get an old beater of there's ,, study . your doing good .. This method will save you money too ..