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Your diagrams are better than the original article, which has the hook position pictured wrong and lopsided "exact" profiles that will screw you up if you use them.
Your diagram is wrong in that it shows a tail hook position. The plug does not carry a tail hook (which would unbalance it and inhibit its action). The article makes clear it should just have a light screw eye with a flag bucktail.
The plug as you picture it, and as the article describes it, will come out weighing 4-4.5 oz. If you thin it some, taper the sides a bit more, and shorten the large weight so it is closer to an inch you can end up with a plug at about 3 oz.
The taper at the head and tail are important. The plug should float level with the water 1/2 way up these slopes (at least as a starting point). Add or subtract weight on either end to get it right.
Frech's epoxy hook hanger system is very strong provided you epoxy the eyes in using 2 ton epoxy (not 5 minute stuff) and you do it before you seal the plug.
Fish it with 1 foot tugs of your rod tip.
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