GOO GOO QUESTION - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

saltydog · 02-23-2008, 12:56 PM

Im want to build a couple of Goo Goo eye plugs, I looked at the ones the PROFESSOR built, at plug fest, but never asked How they were WHIGHTED. Im leaning to 7" lenth w/ 2 hooks, an 1.1/4 dia. also would like to know the TAIL Dia at end ? Im thinking 5/8 ?
any one help?

GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN

P.S. got any PIC'S would love to see some.

Tagger · 02-23-2008, 01:21 PM

I believe they're unweighted .. arse is 5/8"
6" goo goo .. measuring hooks from head 1 1/2 " 3 3/4" eye ball is at 1",, plug stays 1 1/4" from head to 3 1/8" down body than gradual slope to 5/8" at tail ..

8 1/8 " goo goo ...hooks measuring from the head 1 3/4" ,, 4 5/8" eye ball 1"...plug stays 1 1/4" 4 3/8" down body ,, there it slopes to 5/8" at tail ...

slope may be tricky .. might want to buy a beater somewhere as refferance..epay

leptar · 02-23-2008, 01:28 PM

5/8" on the large one.
This is an original i thru-wired.

ProfessorM · 02-23-2008, 01:32 PM

No weight on most all I have seen ,although I have done them with belly, or chin, and a few with small tail weight's. You can do what ever you want. The more popular ones seem to be the 6 inch and the 8 inch ones. 5/8 is about right for both models on tail dia. The dimensions vary as I have a bunch of originals and the dia.'s are not all the same, but close. When you make them install the lip first, because it is screwed on. It is a lot easier doing the belly holes in relationship to the lip than vise versa. The only pictures I got are ones I made and they are long gone. I need to make some more, very soon. If you want some pictures of some originals I can go down cellar and take some pictures or someone else can put some up. There are several goo goo aficionados around here. Let me know. Good luck.

EricW · 02-23-2008, 05:53 PM

I have a few of these. Here is a link to a thread I put up with some pictures.
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ad.php?t=30022

If you want any close ups let me know.

As Tagger pointed out they aren't weighted. Some of the poppers have a small weight, but none of the goo goos I have seen ever had much weight in them. I think they were made out of pine and they all had screw eyes not glued in either. They seemed to hold up pretty well.

I am still trying to figure out with these designs screw eyes vs thru wire. I have made some repros and I get much better action with screw eyes. especially with the poppers. Could just be me, but that is what I have found.
Mike CC now has the lips to make some of the big swimmers. I picked some up and look forward to turning some out this spring.

Good luck,

Eric

GooGoo Man · 02-23-2008, 07:17 PM

I just measured a bunch of GooGoo's
The large one "Big Daddy" was between 8" & 8 1/4". The majority was between 8 & 8 1/8". I even had one yellow/ black swirl that was 7 15/16". The smaller version"Husky Dude" also varied between 6 & 6 1/4".

saltydog · 02-24-2008, 07:53 AM

Tagger,I picked up some lips from MIKE at PLUG FEST with intent to do 2, cause I got some eyes from the PROFESSOR a while back. THANK YOU for the DIMENTIONS. I shaped 2 up last night LARGE ONES 8.1/8 took a couple of hours (HAND CARVED) SANDED,an now there soaking in SEALER.

PROFESSOR was nice to hold an see thoes there.thank you again.

EricW,very nice colection, Im planning on getting some MORE eyes an doing more up to fish with at some point in time. I use SCREW EYES on everything cause I Hand Carve (no lath), Rattle Can paint.
THANK YOU ALL

GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN