the rat plug
 

i've been in discussion with a very good plug maker
on the rat plug design...........

in particular the kind of water commotion device built into it..
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but now on to the reason for this post...

remember when it was said on the jaws movie

by Roy Snyder (sp) "were gonna need a bigger boat.."

well i just came from a farm where they had
goats and sheep and chinchillas
rabbits, chickens, and ducks - alright...
and i looked into this one section and said to my wife
who i knew would be horrified...heh heh heh

check out the rats! and these suckers
were much bigger than squirrels and fatter too!

so for a rat plug! its gotta be... 8 inches long
with a 6 inch tail ....and 3 inches wide.:rolleyes:

Rago makes them big out west with guys targeting larger trout. Silent scott makes them also but theyre waay to much work. They swim awesome though! :uhuh:

took a look
 

take a look

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...1/huge-rat.jpg

One of the guys on TU makes them. Rats, muskrats, etc. Wood with rabbit fur or some type of fur over top. Look real close to the real thing.

Jigman

t u not familiar with that abbreviation :huh:

the rat plug is hilarious, do you think there are any guys fishing live or rigged rats? maybe set traps at night and then keep them in a tank in their garage, starve them down a little till they're a good casting weight and skin them occasionally for their rat skin plugs? YIKES?

Got squirrels for that..:kewl::heybaby:

those rats i saw today
 

were exactly the size in the above picture

i kid you not....


and i was saying HOLY sh1t

look at them- i was ten feet from them
...they were like

the healthiest rats i've ever seen...

then i thought of the rat plug

and said it would take a one big ole cow
to eat one of them dudes. :uhuh:

there's a PETA member somewhere right now all red-faced and shaking over the thought of someone using live or rigged rats and squirrels to catch fish...

use the real thing... a circle hook and a couple rubber bands to hold the hook onto the live rat...:devil:

You do the rubber band thing then put them on a piece of shingle and let them float out into known Muski or Pike water. When they get to an area that seems productive..............yank them off the shingle.

maybe vb will post the pictures but back in the day there was a tackle company that sold a little vest/harness that was used to fish pinkies.

TU = Trout Unlimited (at least to me)

TU -tackle underground ,to me

I you think live eels work well, you should try a live rat! They are a sonofabitch to hook ( they will bite you) but once hooked they cast a mile and swim like Mark Spitz on steriods. Bass will run up from 40' to take a live rat. Raven is right, the big ones are the way to go too.
:bl:

(Let me know how it works for you)

I don't have any rats on my property that I know of but skunk season is beginning and I trap plenty of little ones and they come with their own "smelly jelly", also possums, mice , stray cats and bunnies.. but I like them...soooo, I'll keep the bunnies but the rest are fair game, what size hook do you reckon? BTW ...Raven, nice thread, this is funny s%&t...

Whoooops... I was wrong... :err: