Loaded for Cow

[numbskull]

This is different. For several years now I've wondered why we don't make sinking plugs that swim like a heavy spoon or tin squid. Turns out someone else figured this out years ago. I found this plug in the bottom of a tackle box I used as a kid (35 years ago). I don't know what it is called (if you can identify it please tell us) and I always thought it was a popper that doesn't pop. But it turns out it is not a popper at all, rather it is an ingenious swimmer. It's action is something like a good swimming needlefish, or littleneck popper, though it swimms better than either. Give it a tug and it will lunge to the surface, pause and it drops with a wobble, retrive steady and it sways along flashing its flanks and swinging its tail. I haven't fished it, but I suspect it should be good. I've made a bunch of copies, all bigger, out of pine and maple. They take ALOT of lead, but boy do they look good in the water. Now if i can just learn how to paint 'em.