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10-20-2008, 07:36 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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So, What's Everybody Working on This Winter
Every year there seems to be a plug style that everybody plays with in the Off-season. last year a lot of guy messed around with Eel skin plugs and conrads....year before Roman Nikes seemed to be popping up a lot here.
What's everybody want to try this year while hiding in their Hobbit Hole for the winter.
Myself, I'm gonna mess around with some Cowboys and Dannies.
also gonna try making some SS Bullet knock-offs....and a larger version of the SS needle, make them about the size of a BM Needle.
What say Ye....
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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10-20-2008, 09:00 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I have a few people (one of them is tall) hounding me to make a BigFish Needle.....so I will be working on a design for one and getting the action just right!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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10-20-2008, 09:14 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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BF, how about an eelskin prey swimmer  - Please |
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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10-20-2008, 09:16 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Josh.....let me know where you would like the groove and a few other details and I will make you some special...no problem!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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10-20-2008, 09:35 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Learn how to paint scales and to apply foil
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10-20-2008, 09:50 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Josh.....let me know where you would like the groove and a few other details and I will make you some special...no problem! |
awsome. thanks. i'll send a pm. |
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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10-20-2008, 11:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,744
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I'll be spending a little more time on hand carved bunkers.. the ones I make now work, but I know I can make them better...
Working on another "fat boy" style darter... more suited for calmer water... also going to do a little more with laminated wood, more for weight/action than looks... I've found that west system G-flex epoxy bonds as strong as the original wood and is not effected at all by salt water... one of my test subjects lasted through approx 100-125 fish with only a BLO sealing, no primer or paint...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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10-20-2008, 09:16 AM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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Since this is my first year building, my main goal is just trying to make more of the plugs that have been successful for me so far. I need to learn how to simplify my plug making process. I'd like to do more at the same time. Maybe a duplicator will show up for Christmas??????
I have a lot of requests for darters from friends so I'll be trying those too.
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10-20-2008, 09:38 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Krinkle
Maybe a duplicator will show up for Christmas??????
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If so drop me a PM
I am going to finish up the Conrads that I promised a few people. With an eelskin attached they swam lovely. I am also going to do some smaller, heavier hawgish style top water plugs and some flat lipped med. size goo goo's, and some more Lido falptails. Of course I have more Hawgs and large boat swimming plugs I need to finish. Lots of owesies too. Hell If I just finished what I already have turned I'd be busy for 5 years. |
"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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10-20-2008, 12:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Marblehead, MA
Posts: 864
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I need a new spook shape!
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Fish Rule!
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10-20-2008, 05:55 PM
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><(((°> ><((( °> ><(((°>
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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Changing diapers for the first time  |
60 % of the time, it works every time.
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10-22-2008, 05:33 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by johnny ducketts
Changing diapers for the first time |
Way cool. No other experience in life even comes close. Plugs can wait. |
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10-26-2008, 08:52 AM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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I learned something this week so I will now be focusing on
BIG METAL LIPS!!
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10-20-2008, 06:37 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,418
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
What's everybody want to try this year while hiding in their Hobbit Hole for the winter.
Myself, I'm gonna mess around with some Cowboys and Dannies.
also gonna try making some SS Bullet knock-offs....and a larger version of the SS needle, make them about the size of a BM Needle.
What say Ye....
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I say that you are gonna do some of those wonderbread howdies for me..... a top big water producer. Got a 20# fish on a Saltyric knock off of your knock off Sunday AM. You know where. |
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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10-20-2008, 06:39 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,120
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Skinplugs, needles, spooks like Jiggy's, more pencils, sloped swimmers and pikies, maybe a few howdies too.
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10-20-2008, 06:49 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,418
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I want to get a better casting howdy that will dipsy doodle in big water, and will still be able to go sub-surface in quiet water. Got a lot of weighting questions in that formula....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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10-21-2008, 07:27 AM
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><(((°> ><((( °> ><(((°>
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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More spook type topwaters
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60 % of the time, it works every time.
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10-21-2008, 09:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Lots of owesies is my first priority then maybe i can turn some protos that i have had in my head all year.Also make lotsa bottles again.One other thing i might even make a plug to enter in the plugfest contest.
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Originally Posted by Flaptail
"Throw plugs like we do that will cause them to suffer humility. Pogies make any fisherman look good when bass are around. Bait is easy."
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10-22-2008, 08:21 PM
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Professional dumba$$
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New Bedford Ma
Posts: 541
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My shop is finally dry after repeated floodings so I'm going to take care of the long lost of owsies first. Then I'm working on trolling plugs, poppers, and needles.
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10-26-2008, 08:20 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,442
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More bottle plugs. Thanks to some great input from Lu and numbskull last year I had some decent success with some 1 3/4 oz bottles this year. Need to work on a jig to do the faces on those. Also want to try a smaller version. Probably another hand carved or two as well 
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10-26-2008, 09:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South Shore MA
Posts: 228
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If I can ever get my shop cleaned and organized. big windcheaters, big howdies and I want to try to make some mag darter knockoffs.
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10-26-2008, 09:43 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cranium
If I can ever get my shop cleaned and organized. big windcheaters, big howdies and I want to try to make some mag darter knockoffs.
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your welcome to come over. |
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10-28-2008, 06:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Vineyard Haven
Posts: 413
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I am going to learn the ways of the airbrush. I have a dozen blanks waiting for paint right now..
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10-29-2008, 07:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South Shore MA
Posts: 228
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Thanks for the invite sm36, but if I dont clean it up, I might be living with you permanently.
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10-31-2008, 07:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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My waistline.  |
Why even try......... 
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10-31-2008, 08:15 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
My waistline. |
Planning on "Going Large" are we....
I gotta get focused on that myself.....put a few back on over the summer.... |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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10-31-2008, 12:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
Posts: 2,313
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I got a bunch of BIG WOOD I was givin a while back, an Ive got a DOZ done up not counting the PIKIES I gave away, an got 6 danny plugs drying, getting ready to PAINT, an some RED WOOD, cedar, oak, birch,mahogany, pine  . a couple of plugs to do, for guys from last plug fest . this season Im pushing the rattle can painting to the MAX (for me anyway) 
GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN
almost forgot the osage, after I get it cut !!!!!!! |
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10-31-2008, 01:01 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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Salty...I still got them Polaris Bodies for ya
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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11-05-2008, 09:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 12
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consistecy
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10-21-2008, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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my sanity .....  |
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