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Old 02-05-2007, 08:50 AM   #1
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From the Roc garden

First a pair of Gaint Pikies...

Both finished in black scale, one with Ivory under paint the other in pink... The Ivory/black gave me so much grief I "show" rigged it with hook hangers instead of swivels to make a wall hanging...

The other is a 12" eel, it weighs a touch more than 2 ounces and is driven by a pikie #2 lip, what makes this plug different, is that i turned it off center, so although the head is round or slightly oval, the tail section is nearly flat...
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Old 02-05-2007, 08:56 AM   #2
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First are a pair of bottle plugs, 7" and about 3 ounces

next are a pair of goo-goo's,
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Old 02-05-2007, 09:04 AM   #3
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Some Real Nice Pluggage in that there Roc Garden!

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Old 02-05-2007, 09:04 AM   #4
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next an all white/pearlzed surfster @ 8" and 3.50 ounces, I just couldnt resist adding a few sprinkles of glitter..

with it is a maple cowboy, It sports a home made deep diver lip and is heavily weighted,it is a slow sinker, after tuning, I can get this to dive down and run about 8-10' with a nice tight wiggle, no roll....

the giant wall pikie was a gift I made for a friend for Christmas I just got to post the pic now...

It is 18" long, 2.25" in diameter and weighs close to a pound....
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Old 02-05-2007, 09:16 AM   #5
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sweet

looking great like allways

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Old 02-05-2007, 09:52 AM   #6
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Old 02-05-2007, 10:51 AM   #7
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That's some fine work Roc. Very nice indeed.

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Old 02-05-2007, 10:55 AM   #8
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Old 02-05-2007, 12:36 PM   #9
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Old 02-05-2007, 12:57 PM   #10
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Those are sweet....thiose Goo Goo's Rock

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Old 02-05-2007, 03:16 PM   #11
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Great workmanship Joe. I was curious as I have made a few goo goo's and was wondering about the tail hook. You used a single hook dressed. Why did you use that instead of a treble, not nockin it just ignorant. Look forward to seeing some of that stuff next week. P.

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Old 02-05-2007, 03:54 PM   #12
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Professor,

Back in '84. we had a tremendous school of big bass sitting in the mouth of the Merrimack, the most effective way to get them when the tide was running was with a 300' shot of wire and a plug... a goo-goo being the weapon of choice when the tide was realy cranking,light blue, or rainbow the best offering... the problem was for every 10 fish hooked up, you would land one, droppping fish became maddening ,especialy afterdropping out of the rip and fighting the fish for a few minutes, a half dozen of us switched to all siwash single hooks, even on the belly hooks, you had alot of bumps that didnt hook, but when you did hook up,you owned the fish..... the screw eyes were, as everyone knows, another problem,,so when I started making my own, I through wired them and kept the single hook on the tail, I also weight the chin a little, IMHO, this makes an even better swimming plug than the original....

I'll be sure to give ya one of my doctored goo-goo's ,I've got a few more I need to rig tonight, along with a fancy, smancy rainbow trout giant with a siver scale on top....

thanks for the question...
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Old 02-05-2007, 04:14 PM   #13
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Old 02-05-2007, 04:31 PM   #14
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I will use the singles on a few of the ones i made. A couple of the ones I made are for eelskins so no rear hook will be used. What size tail hook do you use? and belly hooks? Thank you. P.

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Old 02-05-2007, 05:20 PM   #15
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Old 02-05-2007, 06:17 PM   #16
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Old 02-05-2007, 06:32 PM   #17
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Old 02-05-2007, 08:45 PM   #18
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Roc,
Thats one heck of a garden! I hope you plan on bringin some to plugfest so we can see it in person.
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Old 02-08-2007, 11:16 AM   #19
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Very nice workmanship. I hope to have several goo goo's done for the swap. I have a eel skin one for you George already done.

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Old 02-08-2007, 05:15 PM   #20
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sweet

pissa colors. looking great

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Old 02-08-2007, 07:07 PM   #21
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Old 02-08-2007, 09:40 PM   #22
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Very nicely done Rockfish!
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