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07-08-2007, 02:33 PM
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Bottle Plug with metal Lip
In reference to another thread about bottle plugs I thought I'd post a few photos of a Gibbs Bottle customized with a lip from an Atom Junior. Lip was shaped by using cutting snips and grinding. It is attached to the Bottle Plug with a brass screw just below the wire loop. Plug actually swims better and more stable than with the original lip.
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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07-08-2007, 02:35 PM
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Different angles:
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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07-08-2007, 03:57 PM
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Wouldn't it cast better than a metal lip swimmer?
-spence
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07-08-2007, 03:58 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
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Maybe pattern pending Tagger darter bumper ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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07-08-2007, 04:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
I don't get it Dennis. Why not just make it a straight metal lip swimmer, why go to all the work of making the lipless swimmer face and then add the lip on there? I understand you wanting to make the lip stronger for rocks etc but it looks like what you actually have made is more of a metal lipped darter than a lipless swimmer?
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Salty,
Making a straight metal lipped swimmer means having just another metal lipped swimmer which we all know are "generally" not the best casting plug. A bottle plug with a well designed metal lip still casts like a rocket. In this instance my friend modified this bottle because the original lip had worn down from using it in rocky environments. Instead of throwing away bottles with worn down lips we would modify them as shown making them last virtually forever. I just wanted to show other builders a novel idea - something outside the box. I'm sure some of the talented builders here will take the idea and run with it.
Tagger - great idea with the darter. That is another wood plug that takes a beating in rocks. Once the face of a darter starts to get beat-up and chipped it doesn't swim as well. |
DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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07-08-2007, 05:25 PM
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Needlefish Nazi
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A metal insert Could be stamped out to fit over the front of the Bottle Plug and fit Perfect ,But I think its Over Kill.
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07-08-2007, 06:53 PM
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Uncle Remus
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Good idea, now you got me thinking  |
"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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07-09-2007, 04:20 AM
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:)
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Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Good idea, now you got me thinking |
i smell wood burning !  |
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07-10-2007, 09:43 AM
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It's about respect baby!
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Dennis,
Seems like a lot of work for a blewfish to chomp off..
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Domination takes full concentration..
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10-21-2020, 09:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DZ
In reference to another thread about bottle plugs I thought I'd post a few photos of a Gibbs Bottle customized with a lip from an Atom Junior. Lip was shaped by using cutting snips and grinding. It is attached to the Bottle Plug with a brass screw just below the wire loop. Plug actually swims better and more stable than with the original lip.
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The weight of the metal lip might also stabilize the plug a little bit better. |
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