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Back Beach · 10-10-2009, 05:48 AM

Chuck,

I would try lightening up the big pencil first. A 5 oz surface plug will unlikely gain you much additional distance as its quite unwieldy to cast at that weight. Most of the distance pluggers I know rarely exceed 3.5 oz with a surface plug and many of them cast well over 300'. I fished next to Zeno this past spring and he was putting the 3.5 oz yo zuri surface cruiser about as far out into the canal as I've ever seen a surface plug go.
As for blanks that will do the job(3.5 oz or so), there are a few...ssu120mh, gsb 120M, xra 1205. Good luck.

10-10-2009, 05:48 AM	#2
Back Beach Respect your elvers iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: franklin ma Posts: 3,368	Chuck, I would try lightening up the big pencil first. A 5 oz surface plug will unlikely gain you much additional distance as its quite unwieldy to cast at that weight. Most of the distance pluggers I know rarely exceed 3.5 oz with a surface plug and many of them cast well over 300'. I fished next to Zeno this past spring and he was putting the 3.5 oz yo zuri surface cruiser about as far out into the canal as I've ever seen a surface plug go. As for blanks that will do the job(3.5 oz or so), there are a few...ssu120mh, gsb 120M, xra 1205. Good luck. Last edited by Back Beach; 10-10-2009 at 07:21 AM..
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