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12-19-2005, 02:21 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Loaded for Cow
This is different. For several years now I've wondered why we don't make sinking plugs that swim like a heavy spoon or tin squid. Turns out someone else figured this out years ago. I found this plug in the bottom of a tackle box I used as a kid (35 years ago). I don't know what it is called (if you can identify it please tell us) and I always thought it was a popper that doesn't pop. But it turns out it is not a popper at all, rather it is an ingenious swimmer. It's action is something like a good swimming needlefish, or littleneck popper, though it swimms better than either. Give it a tug and it will lunge to the surface, pause and it drops with a wobble, retrive steady and it sways along flashing its flanks and swinging its tail. I haven't fished it, but I suspect it should be good. I've made a bunch of copies, all bigger, out of pine and maple. They take ALOT of lead, but boy do they look good in the water. Now if i can just learn how to paint 'em.
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12-19-2005, 02:23 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Here is one of the wooden "copies".
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12-19-2005, 02:25 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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And a closer shot.
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12-19-2005, 02:27 PM
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googan
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Googanville
Posts: 354
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Umm...
You own an X-Ray machine?
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12-19-2005, 03:21 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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Painting looks good to me NS.  Had no idea they used rattles 35 years ago.  |
" Choose Life "
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12-19-2005, 03:24 PM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Sack Of Mass
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That looks something like the plug I made for the crazy swap 2 years back, and its weighted very similarly although mine still needed some tweaking, sounds like it moves something like the ones I made. Pretty cool.
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12-19-2005, 06:06 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Originally Posted by Canalman
That looks something like the plug I made for the crazy swap 2 years back, and its weighted very similarly although mine still needed some tweaking, sounds like it moves something like the ones I made. Pretty cool.
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http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...0&d=1082933659
Rep to Canalman. Henceforth I'm calling these things "Lazyfish". Here I am reinventing the wheel. Canalman, how did your's work? Looks like a perfect scup imitation. |
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12-19-2005, 03:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
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That is a really sweet shape and profile.
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12-19-2005, 03:41 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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looks good to me
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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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12-19-2005, 04:10 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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I was gonna say looks like canal man swap plug .. Very intteresting shape... nice work .. you got awesome skillz ... who r u ?
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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12-19-2005, 04:22 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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I thing flaptail said he was a MD. who loves fishing.
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