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04-08-2008, 08:55 AM
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Registered Papa
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: "Da Cape"
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Cuttyhunk Popper Copy
Here is my first try at copying this plug. Thanks to Biteme for lending me one to copy.  No thru wire just thru-pins to hold the swivels like the original. |
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles"
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04-08-2008, 08:56 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South Shore MA
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very nice and clean. I like the shape. Nice work
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04-08-2008, 09:07 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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Looks right on
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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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04-08-2008, 09:25 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Thats Perfect... |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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04-08-2008, 11:07 AM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
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My favorite plug to build. Nice job |
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04-08-2008, 12:08 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Like it. Seems as if the old timers used big poppers as much as swimmers. I'll bet we've gotten too smug about them for our own good.
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04-08-2008, 12:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hard aground
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04-08-2008, 12:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
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One of the old timers that helps steer me in the right direction told me all he used was big atom poppers.Was the caretaker of a famous light house in RI for alot of years.Has pictures of him holding up some large he caught them on.Some good stuff right there.Wish I could build lures.
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04-08-2008, 02:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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That plug looks great. Very nice paint job.
Never disregard poppers as big fish catchers. A few years ago, I was fishing a well known rip from the boat and we could see lots of big bass swimming deep underneath the boat. Other boats were jigging and trolling wire and leadcore and not catching anything. We decided to stop fishing and eat a sandwich. I'm sitting there watching other boats trolling with no luck, when I thought I saw a swirl in a rip line about 50 feet behind our boat. I grabbed a rod from the rocket launcher with a big yellow polaris and cast it out. A big bass came up and nailed it. My dad then did the same with a big blue and white popper and we realized that even though the fish were deep, they were coming up to the surface to feed. We did great with big fish that day, while none of the other boats did anything.
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04-08-2008, 03:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Centerville
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Wow looks great, I hope you made a couple.........  |
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04-08-2008, 03:29 PM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
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I'm not sure how far back you need to go to be an old timer but: I fished the rocks of Maine in the 60's. We caught most all of our big fish right in the false dawn on poppers. In those days that meant; Atom Striper Swipers, Gibbs pencils and polaris. Another way to tell that was a while back, The Gibbs Cast-A-Lure plugs were $2.95 each.
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04-08-2008, 07:11 PM
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And the search goes on
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: cape cod
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how long is it , Id like to make one, and how wide
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04-08-2008, 07:23 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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Originally Posted by numbskull
Like it. Seems as if the old timers used big poppers as much as swimmers. I'll bet we've gotten too smug about them for our own good.
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I love Poppers
Nice work on that Cutty popper, that's my goto color too |
Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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04-08-2008, 08:11 PM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
Posts: 1,159
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very nice looking popper |
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.....pursue those."
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04-09-2008, 04:22 AM
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Registered Papa
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: "Da Cape"
Posts: 368
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Moosh,
It is 6 1/2" long. 1.55 inches around at the widest and weighs in at 2.4oz without the hooks. It is not thru wired but instead the three swivels are held in place with three pins, one in tail, one in belly ( that hole is drilled at an angle forward to back), and one pin is located behind eyes. There is no additional weighting to it. The one I turned was from a piece of cedar that I had taken down in the yard a few years ago.
To everyone else thanks.
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles"
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04-09-2008, 09:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: North Fork
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Nice plug, clean nice colors.
Al,  |
"What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"
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04-13-2008, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
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looks really nice, spot on |
60 % of the time, it works every time.
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