The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

[ferret]

Test swim my plugs for the first time today, so I got a few questions for you gurus.

Made 2 different types of bottle necks swimmers, Gibbs style and Mr. Porgie style, the Mr. Porgie style swimmer had pretty good action, the Gibbs copies were horrible. Mr. Porgie if your out there can you educate me on the dynamics on a bottle neck swimmer's face, bigger vs smaller, longer lip, steeper angle on the sides, more exention on the top lip? Wondering how I should fix them?

Some of my darters dont dart when I yank hard, have had this issue with Gibbs before. I thought that raising the thru-wire loop higher helped eliminate this problem, but now I'm not so sure. I also might have made too much surface area on the top side of the darter causing erratic motion, is this possible.

I was getting a little roll with on some of the lighter metal lipped swimmers, granted the winds was blows pretty good today, but how much roll is too much, and how do I avoid this in the future other than the obvious belly weights?

The worst result was cracked wood! I must have hammered some belly weights and/or belly grommets in to tight cuz the wood cracked on a couple of plugs in this area. Are they casualties or can I just cover that area up with a new coat of Envirotex Lite and hope for the best?