The unicorn
 

I designed this plug with the mind to appeal to all the senses that a fish posses....

I call it the unicorn due to its lons sloped nose and the pull eye mounted in the tradition of the early CCBCO swimmers...

The body is 12" long and weighs 3 1/2 ounces, it is progressivly turned offcenter from front to rear giving it a realistic eel like shape, it is then off center drilled and fitted with a pikie #2 lip,the head is cut on a 20 degree slope, this "plane" stabilizes the side to side movemens while allowing a eelike swimming motion along the surface,the body has a cut for an eel skin a little over 2" back from the nose, both body portions are fitted with rattles to appeal to a fishes sense of "hearing" the fins on the side sport tiny strips of foam undernieth the bucktail, this is for my favorite liqiid attractant to appeal to the sense of smell... the top "horn" is cemented in place with marine grade 2 part epoxy, and serves as a line pull and to secure the metal swim lip... when used in the "unicorn" posistion, it swims simular to a darter and dives 4-6' depending on the speed of retrieve....

Your on fire for sure !
Very nice
VB

pm me for my address :wave:

awesome eel
 

sure looks fishy edible to me....

thats gonna slay-em

nice work rockfish9 :claps:

wow- thats awsome

:btu: WOW nice stuff there Rockfish :cool:

Awesome RF9, those need to be outlawed. :hihi: :btu:

Nice pecs... bet that looks great in the water .

It looks and swims sweet... disapears in the muddy water though...

took a few tries to get the "pecs" to float where I wanted them, I twist some small diameter 304 around a #0 phillips to make my teasers and fins,I wanted them to lay at the side of the bait in a natural posistion, not floating up or hanging down, by adding foam they floated up, so by trial and error, a few wraps of electrical solder I found the right combo.. so now every length of wire gets measured, all sloder gets measured , I measure the foam and try to pinch the same amount of bucktail... it took a dozen attempts to get it right.. but I have the formula now... I've made 4 and they all look and swim great, at rest the "fins" stand out to the side, as the plug swims, they lay along the body and wiggle back and forth.....probably dont mean squat but was cool to figure out....

Man those are sweet!! nice job.

Got to admire the work that went into those babies.:claps:

Wow,,,, You are Rockin'......... totally awesome,,,,, I am sure there was lots of testing there,,,,

wow
 

joe, your plugs look sweet:wave:

I have to think you'll hang a few nice ones on those. Beautiful plugs...well done!

Beautiful work

:kewl: idea. I like how you tapered the tail section with the off-center. Now show us one of those in a month or so hanging out of the mouth of a monster striper :cool:

Jigman

Not a problem..... by early June

Joe you are the master!:kewl: