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I always drilled my belly holes in the closed grain of the plug thinking it is the most dense and would naturally want to lay on the water with the dense grain down.
Then i started using Taggar's Hydro-orientation method and found out how wrong i was. Each plug floats a little different no matter what the grain.
Now i was thinkin today, being that the plugs, or at least mine, are never perfectly round with the drift off dead center, especially on the softer cedars, could this be a reason why each plug will float a little different?
When i mark my belly holes with a pencil spinning on the lathe, it will hit on the high sides and not the low. I would think if you drilled the belly holes on the high side that would be the heaviest side of the plug and lay down on that side.
Whata you think.
