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Originally Posted by Slipknot
 Nice Dave, I think I have one of your darters, a squid colored one, I intend to try it shortly. |
Ya, those came out nice but they have too much action. They are more of a subsurface swimmer than a true darter but they do cast well..
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Originally Posted by numbskull
It is amazing how valuable a home made plug becomes, when it is your only prototype and is working better than anything else in your bag. You start trusting it so much and fishing it so often, surviving the season becomes unlikely.......yet taking it out of the rotation deprives you of your most useful tool. I've gone both ways (got the same dilemma right now with the yellow bottle). What I try to do is measure it, weigh it, get a profile, float it to record its waterline, and record its balance point.........then I keep fishing it and hope for the best. I think you learn more by fishing a plug through its lifespan, than by quitting while you are ahead.
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I decided to retire it and I ended up taking my biggest fish of the year on its replacement last night(28#) but then I hung it up and broke it off, so now I'm glad the good one is safely tucked away in the basement... Boy do I want a 30 on a darter... Funny how learning a new way to catch the same fish makes it interesting all over again.
I didn't make that many good darters and the big batch I made when I finally figured them out got 'oversealed' and were too heavy so they were all sitting in the basement. This morning I took a few of the lightest ones and just spray bombed them black. I think a few will be ok, we'll see.