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Originally Posted by spinncognito
For all your plug-ho's this is as informative as it gets. Was researching an old rebel windcheater I aquired when a friend sent me this link.
http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/surf_plugs.shtml
Question- It turns out the windcheater is rare and no longer made. My friend says DON'T USE IT- but it looks sooooo sweet and I am dying to throw it 
What do you guys do with your "special" lures???? |
The Rebel windcheater of the 70's is not the same as today's. Go to the "Some Plugs" thread link and you will see some of my windcheaters from that period. I still carry several in my bag when I hit the beach. The six inch F-80 floating version was the best and was known to my little band of casters then as the "Super Slut" that thing attracted bass to it faster than a hooker on payday in the combat zone. Many memorable catches on them including one 600 pound night on Monomoy way back when. Ask Stiff tip about them. If have 50 or so hanging in the basement. All they ever need is a dab of superglue on the lip to resecure and new hooks and they catch as good as new. The new models were designed more for the southern states fisheries than what we had. Good ol' #^&#^&#^&#^& Pleska, God rest his soul, of #^&#^&#^&#^&'s Wholesale Tackle, once a main source for shops on the Cape in the seventies and early 80's had a connection at Plastics Research and Development Corp ( Now known as Pradco) and we got stuff sent to us in colors we wanted just by making a phone call.
Pink Mackerel, Bone white, Clear, just about anything we could think of we got. Rebels still catch fish.
My best recollection of how good they were was once when I asked Stan Gibbs if he could only have two lures to fish the beach with what would they be? He replied, "a black and silver and a blue and silver Rebel". Pretty cool.