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Old 02-26-2006, 05:25 PM   #1
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whats your best on one of your own ?

I seem to be spending all of my time downstairs, spinning wood I hope will tempt a few big fish. Got me to wondering, what's the best you or one of your friends has gotten on your own wood? Have any of you gotten a 40 or 50 on your own stuff?

My personal best last year was only 38" on a fat black danny, my dad got a 42-43" on one of my danny's, and we both lost fish one night that I'm betting would have pushed 40#'s. Both fish hit dannies on the same cast, mine managed to leverage the trebles open while it was still running and my dad's broke him off after a 20 min stalemate.

We were all excited to go back the next night looking for a rematch, and 1/2 way up the beach there's a rope across the trail, closed for the stinkin birds and it's like a 2+ mile walk from there...
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Old 02-26-2006, 06:09 PM   #2
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ixnayon the ackblay annyday. I caught one 30# on one. let that go, kept a lower end keeper, and a let bunch of near but not quite keepers go.

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Old 02-26-2006, 06:55 PM   #3
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Very good question, My biggest on one of my own was 37 pounds from the surf on a yellow pencil popper. However the biggest tournament fish caught on one of mine was 47 pounder out of the canal by Joe B. black/silver pencil.

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Old 02-26-2006, 07:29 PM   #4
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So far, mid teens bass out of Plymouth/Duxbury Bay and 11lb bluefish out of Buzzards Bay. Same plug too!

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Old 02-26-2006, 09:13 PM   #5
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I've taken several in the 20's on my poppers and one around 26# on the 1st needle I ever made... Biggest fish I know of that were taken on lures I made were caught by tlapinski at cutty... he had 3 or 4 fish in the mid 30 pound range on my pencil popper in one weekend. That's almost better than catching them yourself.

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Old 02-26-2006, 09:30 PM   #6
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several fish in the low 20's on my dannies, & darters. biggiest was 36.5 on one of my needles..

Nothing compares to the feeling you get landing a cow on your own wood.. nothing.
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Old 02-27-2006, 08:21 AM   #7
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A 21-22 lb'er (roughly, no scale) on one of my Poppers last year and a 10 1/2 lb Blue fish on the same style popper.

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Old 02-28-2006, 04:05 PM   #8
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I don't keep all that many fish each year so I will guess that my best on one of my own plugs was around 20 pounds on needles. I did have one bass last fall on one of my own topwater plugs in the canal that looked to be mid 20's but I did not weigh it, just released so I could get the plug back out there.
I get larger fish on jigs in the canal usually.
Someday I'll pass 30 pounds on a plug.

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Old 02-28-2006, 04:07 PM   #9
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Slip....you caught bigger than 20 at my beach that night in June a couple years ago? You had one of your needles on then didn't you?

Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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Old 02-28-2006, 04:37 PM   #10
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Around the 30's range last year on a proto darter ,must have caught 8 of them and then i hooked a freight train could not do anything but hold on and then line goes slack waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
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Quote:
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Slip....you caught bigger than 20 at my beach that night in June a couple years ago? You had one of your needles on then didn't you?
I don't know Larry, it was dark that night, maybe 1 or 2 might have been a pound or 2 over 20 pounds but none of them reached 40" so it's hard to say.I still have that warrior needle You may have got some better.
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Old 02-28-2006, 05:26 PM   #12
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Good wood night though!

Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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