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Originally posted by Mike P
That was when I complained after about the fifth case of a darter cracking, slip. They thought I had some "hidden agenda" 
They found it odd because, as one of them said, "who uses a darter in April?" 
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THAT was humorous and an example of how to NOT handle customer service...
Flap - hopefully you can impart some wisdom and direction for them. I'm not a huge plugger - though this year I did more plugging than I ever have
- but there are not too many plugs in my bag that are stock Gibbs these days.
Used to be in my bag most of the time (for wood plugs):
Gibbs Dannys, Big Needlefish, Stubby Needlefish, big Polaris, small polaris, Casting Swimmer (yeh - it looked cool), larger Pencil, the occasional Darter.
This year the only Gibbs in my bag was the Polaris and the Pencil. (Stupid me never got around to putting stubbys in the bag this year)
The Gibbs Danny was replaced with Beachmasters and Phartmasters, The needles were Habs and the occasional Salty, even money on the Gibbs Polaris and Tatto Popper, The Superstrike and Tattoo darters replaced the Gibbs darters. Plus I added a ton of customs from guys from here that I caught fish on (thanks guys
) and then I had the chance to try a bunch of different swimmers & plugs from people like #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, Bernzy, Tagger, Newell, Slip, BM, Specialist, Christian, (not trying to leave people out - but be typin' all day if I mentioned everyone
) all the plug swap guys, it was friekin' awesome.
And the single most productive plug for me this year came in the last 2 months of the fall when I finally got my hands on the Tattoo Sea Spook. I caught probably close to 80 bass on that plug and all but a dozen were keepers.
Granted, I'm an eel guy first and use to fish 80/20 eels but this year I think I fished 60/40 plugs and this fall 80/20 plugs. Next year I'll get more eels back in to the mix but I'll be pluggin alot too