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03-03-2009, 04:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
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another QUESTION ?
I don't own any SURFSTERS outher than the BIG one GOLDENBEAR made for me in the SWAP  QUESTION IS iwant to build a few HOW are they WEIGHTED  THANK YOU
GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN
P.S. here is the one I got, I put the tail one it got this thing for TAIL.
CUSTOM made lip, it's about 8.1/2 long an 1.1/2 wide an one SUPER PAINT JOB. |
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03-03-2009, 06:10 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by saltydog
QUESTION IS iwant to build a few HOW are they WEIGHTED.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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03-03-2009, 07:11 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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03-03-2009, 08:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Saratoga Springs NY
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no weight, I toyed around with a touch just under the chin to keep the head down and tail up both work.
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03-03-2009, 09:34 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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A good heavy surfster lip is all you need.  |
" Choose Life "
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03-04-2009, 07:37 AM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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What conditions do you like to fish surfsters? I never fish them.
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03-04-2009, 07:44 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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My "Prey" swimmer which is a surfster has a belly weight. I have tried other surfsters and did not like the wide roll they had. The weight cuts down the roll and adds a sexy wiggle action at least in my case......not traditional sure but I find the action alot more to my liking and the fish seem to agree. 
I fish mine in all conditions.....day, night, calm water or rough, fish it in the Canal with great success! Stormy rough water it seems to excell in.....nightime it crushes! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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03-04-2009, 10:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: S. Boston, MA
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Larry you fish them in the canal? at slack, or when its running?
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03-04-2009, 10:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: on a rock
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that one has no wieght in it. I considered putting some in the belly to cust some of the roll, but I liked the roll with the white sides-lots of flash.
from what I have seen and fished, except for Larry's prey, the surfsters ahve no weight, just a heavy lip.
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Go Bears!
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03-04-2009, 10:49 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
adds a sexy wiggle action at least in my case...........nightime it crushes!
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03-04-2009, 11:54 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by go4broke44
Larry you fish them in the canal? at slack, or when its running?
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Both! Swimmer was with me one day when the current was pushing its hardest and I was catching fish after fish. Lost an early season slob on one in a hard current! They are perfect for the canal! I fish them there almost as much as pencils and spooks and at slack........ ! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-04-2009, 12:41 PM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Sack Of Mass
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Funny, because I have known them to contain a tailweight. Also, the originals had huge hooks which I THINK served to stabilize the roll. Someone asked me to reweight a few commercially made surfsters, saying that they didn;t cast properly and were prone to rolling out on the retrieve. I put a 00 buck shot a touch behind center and added 5/16 tailweight from M&D, the thing swam much tighter and cast a lot better--the guy was happy with the result--but I have never swam an original so, I don't know.
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03-04-2009, 12:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Creek chub tail weighted some of thier latter Salt water surfsters... I make some tail weighted, and some of the action is lost, on these models I make the tail thicker... on my standard surfsters, I make the tail thin and chin weight it, I like that tail slapping side to side, weighted this way, they create quite a ruckus....
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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03-04-2009, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Attleboro, MA
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One of my favorite plugs.......I weight under the chin as well (someone gave me that tip...  ) Swims pissah....sick action. |
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03-04-2009, 05:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
Posts: 2,313
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WOW, THANK YOU ALL for the comments, I got 6 I carved up an sanded an think Ill put a 00 just back from center as suggested  it's still all new to me,  these will be my first,if they S@%K an don't swim good, Ill give them to the kids on the beach, that"al keep them out of my BAG.  THANKS AGAIN Ill post when done.
GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN  |
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03-04-2009, 07:08 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Since ya got 6.....2 unweighted, 2 chin weighted, and 2 center/tail weighted.......then you can choose which ones you like better
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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03-04-2009, 07:34 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Salty just try and do them up with diff. weight configurations to see which works best for where you plan to fish them  |
Domination takes full concentration..
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03-07-2009, 06:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
Posts: 2,313
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2.2.an 2. got -it 
don't know what Id do with out you guys THINING for ME. 
OK, now that you guys had a hand in buiding them what colors should I do them in 
GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN
P.S DAD do you still have some POPPERs for MEEEEEEEEEEEE ! |
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03-07-2009, 08:39 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Paint on that plug is very Chumbucket like ..
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03-07-2009, 10:47 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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That day in the canal of which Bigfish spoke of I caught also on the Surfster I was using. Worked well. Caught fish that day in slack water elsewhere too.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-07-2009, 04:06 PM
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Hernia Pikie Maker
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: e. prov r.i.
Posts: 1,176
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surfster and weight
I've build a few and thought I made the body too fat(no weight) they rolled too much for me but they looked good..ha ha ha...so now I build them thinner...or just fish a pikie  |
its no ones fault
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