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Originally Posted by Diggin Jiggin
I'm mostly looking to build plugs that fill specific niches in my plug bag. Sometimes that means you go on your own path, and sometimes you borrow a shape from the past. I don't go out of my way to try and be original in the shape, sometimes they are and sometimes not, I try to build plugs for specific location, conditions, or the rod I want to use... Functionality is much more important to me. ...
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That pretty much describes it for most of what I do. I borrow some old ideas from time to time, and modify as needed for the conditions where I'll fish them. Pikies, for example, are one plug I obviously borrowed a lot from CCBC, though mine are not clones of the originals.
In my opinion, the best that a garage builder can do is design something to fill a niche rather than make a generic clone of something that is out there already. Yeah, they may borrow some ideas from other sources, but its the combination of variables that makes that plug killer under the conditions it was designed to be used in.
Jigman