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02-05-2007, 08:50 AM
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Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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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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02-05-2007, 08:56 AM
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Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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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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02-05-2007, 09:04 AM
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Some Real Nice Pluggage in that there Roc Garden!
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02-05-2007, 09:04 AM
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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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02-05-2007, 09:16 AM
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Hernia Pikie Maker
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: e. prov r.i.
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sweet
looking great like allways  |
its no ones fault
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02-05-2007, 09:52 AM
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02-05-2007, 10:51 AM
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That's some fine work Roc. Very nice indeed.
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The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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02-05-2007, 10:55 AM
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Been many moons
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Swweeeet!
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Standing on the water, casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing
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02-05-2007, 12:36 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Looking GOOD!
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02-05-2007, 12:57 PM
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Super Moderator
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Those are sweet....thiose Goo Goo's Rock
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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02-05-2007, 03:16 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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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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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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02-05-2007, 03:54 PM
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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...
Roc
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02-05-2007, 04:14 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
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Dig your style Roc
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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02-05-2007, 04:31 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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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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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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02-05-2007, 05:20 PM
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Registered Grandpa
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 Keep on Rockin.  |
" Choose Life "
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02-05-2007, 06:17 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Very nice
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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02-05-2007, 06:32 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
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nice stuff!!!  |
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02-05-2007, 08:45 PM
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Location: Southern Connecticut
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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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02-06-2007, 06:28 AM
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Nice stuff! You wouldn't offer a seed catalog , would you?
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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02-06-2007, 07:54 AM
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Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Professor,
I use a 6/0 on VMC perma steel on the tail and 4/0 VMC treble on the belly...
Woodbuster..
I'm gonna bring a bunch of stuff, hopefully I get time to make a few baby bunker hand carved, seeing as I gave them all away at chrismas.. I'll even bring bugzilla and her sister propzilla for everyone to check out, hopefully we have some where to swim them... they create quite a ruccus on the surface...
Backbeach jake,
Of coarse I have a catalog.... it's in the form of a loose leaf binder full of all my screw ups in the endevor to make 'em swim right!...
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02-07-2007, 11:20 AM
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Location: Riverside,Rhode Island
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Awesome bottles |
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02-08-2007, 07:18 AM
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a few more... hand carved, baby bunker and a smelt, 7/0 siwash in foreground for referance....
trio og goo-goos
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02-08-2007, 07:23 AM
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Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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3 ounce bottle, jointed darter, made from ash (remeber the baseball bat reminants?) and a double jointed joppa flats special
a trio "O" pikies, A giant jointed rainbow, a big blow special ( for windy conditions) made from maple, tail weighted and singel belly hook, and a oikie in pike scale..
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02-08-2007, 08:31 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Interesting shape to the bottles, different than the direction I've been going. Hope to see you at the plugfest and compare notes.......lot of subtleties to those things. Thanks for showing them.
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02-08-2007, 09:45 AM
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Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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numbskull,
those are crappy pictures, but those bottles are simular to the Donny Musso style, flatter face, less cup to the mouth, flared cheeks, When I first started making them, I made them like a gibbs bottle, they dove OK but had very little action, since I've changed the face, they are quite lively... if... I flare the cheeks correctly... if not PFFFFFT.. dud.
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02-08-2007, 11:16 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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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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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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02-08-2007, 05:15 PM
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Hernia Pikie Maker
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: e. prov r.i.
Posts: 1,176
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sweet
pissa colors. looking great
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its no ones fault
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02-08-2007, 07:07 PM
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Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Top shelf 
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02-08-2007, 09:40 PM
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Very nicely done Rockfish!
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