Small L. Cooper Goo Goo Reproduction
 

I'm not sure what the name of this plug is but I recently acquired one and decided to reproduce it. Mine ended up coming in at about 1 inch longer. It is one of Leo Coopers earlier small swimmers.

It has the bead eyes and a different lip bend than most of his other plugs. The lip is bent with some small straight bends instead of a curved shape like his other eel swimmers. I unfortunately do not have any Goo Goo hook hangers, but I was able to steal one from my stash of Arbogast lures.

The lip and beads are vintage original goo goo parts and the hooks are vintage mustads.

I learned something about one type of the eyes used in Goo Goos in the process. When I was drilling out the bead for this plug I realized it looks just like the indented eyes that were used before the amber eyes. I had thought those were a doll or craft eye. But they are actually beads that are drilled and painted black. To confirm, I extracted one from the yellow plug in the pictures. Those beads are exactly the same as what I found in the batch of Cooper stuff that I had acquired.

I hope to make a few more of these in some different colors.

Here are some more pics...

Any fish you catch with that is going to feel special. Very cool.

Great looking plug and interesting too. Funny you posted this. I just finished this over the weekend. It's a copy of the popper you gave me at plugfest. I turned a few and decided to thru-wire them. May just make a few with screw eyes to see how close I can get. Thank you for the popper body. I kept it to put away with the few things I do save.

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Those look great... anything cooper :drool:

greek , that thing is nice :)