John Jr brought a box-load of his plugs to the Awards Ceremony at the Coddington Brewing Co. and made them available for those who attended to buy - I gotta tell ya, Habs is gotta be grinning from ear to ear and proud as can be of the way his son is carrying on the tradition he started.
Jessie told me he's
at least as quality-obsessive as Sr. was, if not more so. I was totally impressed by the finish and spray work - Jr. has really got it dialed in
No doubt about it, he's a chip off the old block-head
It was so good to see how well he's done and how hard he's worked. During an afternoon full of highlights, seeing those plugs was pretty much right at the top of the list for me, personally. As soon as I saw the boxful I dove in headlong and picked up several.
I had one of them - the black fat Night 'n' Gale - hung up in front of my workbench in my tackle room next to a pair of his dad's old-style originals, kinda on display.
A few days ago I took it down and put it in my surf bag - just like his pop's, they were meant to be fished - and fish it I will
