Bobby Beachmaster- May 2 CT Surfcasters meeting

[wader-dad]

Thrilled to report that Bobby Glauda- co-owner of Beachmaster Lures has agreed to speak at the May 2 CT Surfcasters meetoing in Madison. He will talk about his Plugs and answer questions,

Maybe his first talk at a Surf Club meeting.

Rare opportunity to meet him. He is a very interesting and knowlegeable guy.

Show up. Don't have to be a member, don't have to pay, don't have to talk to anyone.

[Monarca]

Very interesting, I might want to check this meeting out. What time does this meeting start?

[cow tamer]

Any free samples ?

[chefchris401]

dont want this to get buried, this is a special chance to get to meet and talk to a well known plug builder and meet some great guys that run the CSA.

This should be a great meeting.

[wader-dad]

Thanks Chris. This is some other info i put together on the May 2nd meeting.-

Beachmaster lures have been highly sought after by Striper Fisherman for 25 years. They don't advertise and not much is known about the owners. Bobby Glauda is the co-owner and has agreed to come to the CT Surfcasters Club monthy meeting on May 2nd. He is going to talk about how Beachmaster Lures got started, how to fish and rig his plugs, colors and how there is a lot of what he thinks is false information about fishing metal lip plugs. He will also talk about what is coming next in production.

In addition to being a master plug maker, he was one of the New York Crew of Surfcasters that fished Long Island, Montauk, Block Island and other places in the 80's and 90's and still is out there when he can. He told me he was on Block the morning after Tim Coleman caught his 67. Steve Campo was one of his plug testers.

Bobby does not do many public appearances and this is a rare opportunity to learn from a legend about metal lips and how to fish them. He will do a talk and a question and answer.

The meeting is at the Madison CT Town Surf Club builidng at 87 Surf Club Road Madison CT and starts at 7 pm.

He is a very interesting and fascinating guy.

[wader-dad]

This Wednesday. He has some fascinating opinions on plugs and colors.

[snake slinger]

I would be so cool if Zeno and Surfcastersjournal would go and cover it

[cow tamer]

Couldn't make it.
So what did I miss ?

[wader-dad]

Meeting was a hugh success. Standing room only crowd. Even though he rarely speaks to a group- he was great- speaks very well, with humour and full of information. Stuff you do not typically hear

He started out talking for about 25 minutes and took questions for about 45. It was sort of like a MIT professor talking about cold fusion but Bobby was talking about metal lips. He said color does matter, how he tunes plugs ("just because its dark and you feel the plug swimming, does not mean its swimming right"), wood he uses, wire and wraps. No mention of his finish but tips for plug builders. Lip placement why his plugs are build for cut trbeles no split rings. Rigging his plugs- not only one way to do it. Talked about how Steve Campo tested his plugs and gave him ideas. How he first met Danny Pichney and started working for him. Where they got the stainless from for the lips- funny story) Even talked about fishing rigged eels with AL Bentsen. How he was the first to use Blurple on metal lips. Where he fishes different plugs.

Bobby is not just a plug builder he is a good fisherman and gave tips on retrieves. I had the fortune to go to a pier with Bobby and a few other guys before the meeting to swim some protype plugs he had. Not all go into production. One was a jointed slope head conrad that swam amazing like it had a skin on it- and another new kind of fat danny metal lip that he sort of made by accident. Plus a new smaller version of his jointed pikie. He puts so much thought and work into his plugs that is advanced engineering.

No more BM Darters- he said lets have Donny and Steve Musso keep doing that.

Not only that --but he is a very decent guy. Bobby knows a former president of our club who lost his father last year. He was a war hero in WWII on Iwo Jima. Bobby brought him a tribute 40 plug made out of mahogany clear finished with his fathers name on it. He gave a kid at a meeting a danny and donated a bunch of plugs to our club that were raffled off. He gave me one of the prototypes he is working on.

The guy is a class act and you listen to this guy and he has so much knowledge and ideas when it comes plugs. Blows your mind.

But- he said he has not caught a 50 yet- three 49 1/2s I hope he gets one.