ballerina
 

theses are copies of a sweet little plug i got off eastendlou last year.

scale paint jobs......i'll put the belly hook forward next time i make these.

Man, you are crankin YS. :btu:

I'm drooling!!!I got one from Tagger and that started me on them glad that you made some.They are great lures real producers i'm still playing with hook placement and weights.I just can't stop tinkering with these.Great job all around :kewl:

That's the plug man...that's the one! Very nicely done. I actually have a few turned right now. My first of this type...only thing is there little guys...i'm onto the freshwater stuff.

sweet
 

really nice:kewl:

:kewl: Nice stuff Youngsalt!
you are becoming quite the Oldsalt :)


Lower, I painted your ballerina tonight along with 45 other plugs :D I'll be posting some pics soon enough.

hook placement on a real ballerina is far back ,,.. a zarragossa has the hook more centered .

Beautiful work

nice pluuggage dave :cheers: .

Thanks for the kind words guys. still tinkering with these trying to get them to swim right. i started out with a 1/4 tail weight and the plug sank on me.

I rewired it yesterday with about 1/3 less weight in the tail. tested it this morning.....it now just barely sinks. mine is only 5g heavier than lou's, but i put a belly weight in front of the hook instead of behind it.

Im going to take a little more off the tail weight and if that doesn't work i'll start changing the hooks.

I make mine like the original, it has one belly weight a little before the tail, no tail-center-weight at all. I use a 3/8" belly weight or try to proportion it to the size of the body. I just made a few more so I'll put some pics up soon. The first one I made a few years ago worked well, they don't cast as well as a pencil but they spook much better than a spook. If you have an orininal, try to get the profile close to that, it helps also. Did you use ayc? Like tagger said, the belly hook should go far back, next time try a bit further back with the hook,no tail weight just a belly weight.

I did not use a tail weight .I put a slug around 3/4 ,2/3 back.

nice job

other than lou's plug, this pic of the tagger zagger was all i had to go by.

who made the original? anyone got a pic?

hook point on original is halfway, belly weight is 3/4 way back. plug is 4-1/4" long
mine are saltwater bigfish size, i didn't point the nose as much but they do things

YS...plueger makes the original. Tagger posted a lot of info on these on this and the other site.

Slip...:drool:

Lower, pick one I owe you, top or bottom , the ones with dark around the eyes.

youngsalt, the small one on the bottom is an original, they work really well, but more of a boat lure with light tackle, good for LM too I bet

Hmmm, diagnosis: masochistic tendencies. :hihi:

They both look good to me Slip...send me the one that give you "that feeling" :humpty: .