My last batch this spring
 

I made a few more Torpedos (Musso Senior Swimmers) One as a deepdiver and 2 as surface swimmers.

Then I made an sand eel swimmer following the measurements provided by Rockfish.

I have one last plug concept that I will make after visiting Craft Boston yesterday afternoon. I was speaking with Roger Bennett, an Irish Woodturner who turns beautiful thin bowls out of sycamore and he drills small holes in unique patterns on his bowls that he fills with thin silver or gold wire and then sands it flush. The result are amazing... I plan to make lateral lines on a natural finish plug or anilene dyed plug with ~ 25-30 pieces of silver jewelers wire. the lateral line will sparkle in the light. I have a friend who is a jewelery maker so the wire will be easy to come by... What do you guys think of this idea?

and a couple pics of the sand eel Pitchney style plug

Wait till your friend tells you how much he pays for the silver wire. I have a huge amount in varying diameters sitting behid me right now, my wifes jewelry business stuff. It had gone up exponentially the last eight or nine years.

I will only make a couple of plugs this way... each piece will only be able 1/8 inch long so it will not be that bad... say about 8" per plug of 22 gauge... what is that in todays silver mkt

Sweet looking plugs chris!!

Your stuff is real clean.

I built a bunch of eel skin eelys, they should crush!!

Can't wait to see this silver plug.
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A productive winter for you, and it has been fun watching what you keep coming up with.

Beautiful swimmers, BT. I'd love to see the lateral-lined plugs.