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View Poll Results: What plug if you can fish just one?
Pencil Popper 24 17.65%
Popper 13 9.56%
Spook 17 12.50%
Needlefish 23 16.91%
Surface Swimmer (metal lip) 11 8.09%
Subsurface Swimmer (metal lip) 3 2.21%
Plastic Swimmer (bomber,redfin, etc) 28 20.59%
Darter 3 2.21%
Bottle Plug 0 0%
Jointed Swimmer 1 0.74%
Other 5 3.68%
Fkoff......Plugs are for losers 8 5.88%
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Old 04-03-2007, 10:53 AM   #1
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Just one plug

Another thread got me thinking......if you had to fish the season with just one plug (no rubber, bait, metal, dynamite) what would you choose? What color? Why?
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Old 04-03-2007, 10:56 AM   #2
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Just sticking to wood...
Yellow darter, red head... hands down my #1 confidence plug. Fishes great in rips, big water, or twitched slow on calm nights.

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Old 04-03-2007, 10:58 AM   #3
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Old 04-03-2007, 08:29 PM   #4
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Old 04-03-2007, 10:58 AM   #5
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Bone redfin, loaded

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Old 04-03-2007, 05:52 PM   #6
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Bone redfin, loaded
that plug works day or night,calm or rough surf always the first out the bag.
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Old 04-03-2007, 06:18 PM   #7
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MAC 3oz danny white with pink stripe. my favorite and best catching plug in my bag...
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Old 04-03-2007, 11:06 AM   #8
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Great poll idea.

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Old 04-03-2007, 11:15 AM   #9
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If this question was more site and time specific I could answer the query, one plug all season in a single color and size is impossible for me to rationalize.

Those that could answer this are and must be truly blessed for doubt does not hinder them as it does me.

Why even try.........
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Old 04-03-2007, 11:23 AM   #10
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Yellow Danny with a white belly. Works in the day and at night, rough or calm water, in fast or slow water... If I could only have one that would have to be it...
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If this question was more site and time specific I could answer the query, one plug all season in a single color and size is impossible for me to rationalize.

Those that could answer this are and must be truly blessed for doubt does not hinder them as it does me.
Just a hypothetical question, Steve,...........for my part I'd go with a yellow/white medium danny. Good day or night most places and both big and small fish like 'em.
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Just a hypothetical question, Steve,...........for my part I'd go with a yellow/white medium danny. Good day or night most places and both big and small fish like 'em.
okay okay then my choice would be a needlefish, white. Something that comes easily to the surface.

Why even try.........
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Old 04-03-2007, 12:36 PM   #13
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#1 Pencil in....Yellow over White
#2 Blitz Seeker....Herring
#3 "45" Swimmer....Herring

As Flap said...I had to ease my concience and list the top 3!

Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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Old 04-03-2007, 11:21 AM   #14
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Well if it was survivability (i.e. desert island) I'd say white bucktail jig.

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Old 04-03-2007, 11:24 AM   #15
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I would have to pick a plug that would be versatile since you are saying we can only choose one. Depending on where I fish also comes into play. If I only had one plug , then I'd have to choose something that would work in at least a few of the places I fish. I don't really use needles in the canal and very few times from a boat , and they tend not to work that well in daylight so my choice would have to be a spook as long as it is one of my own built to what I need it to do. It could double as a slowly retrieved needlefish at night, it works on top several ways at first light and during the day, they work great from the boat, they do things that swimmers won't do. The only drawback is they won't go deep so I hope I have a jig and rubbah with me also
The color would be pearl belly, light blue head because I have had great luck with one like that. It will imitate a squid, herring, mackeral most any baitfish if I want it to. I wouldn't choose a danny myself because I can do so much more with a surf howdy.

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Old 04-03-2007, 11:38 AM   #17
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seeing as eelskin plugs are not all "natural",jigs are not plugs, If I had just one plug ... I'd choose one of my slow sinking 6" needles, olive over white.......the versatility of the needle and what it does or can represent gives me options other plugs dont...

I could fish it "nekid" on top as a popper using a rapid retrieve if the fish were on top, add wraps of solder around the body or tail to change the weight for adjustment to local conditions to fish deep in rough or fast water....


or, I could fish it the way I ntended it to be fished if the conditions are to my likings....I've taken alot of big fish on my own needles, hard to turn my back on them in my time of need....
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Old 04-03-2007, 11:27 AM   #18
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I said spook, but mine sink so they are not limited to on top. Flap it's only a poll no one is going to make you use just one.

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Old 04-03-2007, 12:03 PM   #19
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Can I just opt for fresh sand eels... I could use those 75% of the time...
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Old 04-03-2007, 12:03 PM   #20
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Small yellow/white Carlezon pencil. My deserted isle plug.
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Old 04-03-2007, 12:06 PM   #21
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I'd go foe a white canal special.

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Old 04-03-2007, 12:09 PM   #22
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Hmmmm Yellow Red Head Pencil or White Spook...

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Old 04-03-2007, 02:22 PM   #23
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1.Pencil-red/white
2.needle-white

Used hard and put away dirty....
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Old 04-03-2007, 02:50 PM   #24
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If 2:
Pencil Popper during the day
School Bus bomber at night.

If 1:
School Bus bomber
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Old 04-03-2007, 03:07 PM   #25
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This question reminds me of my striper swiper addiction which thousands of hours on the internet and 2 crates full of custom plugs and rubber can't break me of. Sad but true. White 1 1/4 striper swiper. Because its second nature, and there are lots of ways to make it dance.
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Old 04-03-2007, 03:13 PM   #26
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well thats a tough one
hmmmmmm have to be a olive needle will work all the time !

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Old 04-03-2007, 03:50 PM   #27
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1)pencils
2)needles
3)bombers

Just like the diverse ways I can work me pencils.
Color is a tuffy, but I think white is the most versatile.

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Just 1?

School bus bomber would probably be the one.

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