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02-11-2007, 05:31 PM
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looking great George...why no belly hook on the small needle?..
or, do I just not see it?
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02-11-2007, 05:40 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
looking great George...why no belly hook on the small needle?..
or, do I just not see it?
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Like everyone else, I had to try a pocket rocket.....again (I've made them before but never had much faith in them, Tim Coleman aside, and they're too light for the tackle I use). That little bugger has 3" of 7/32 through wire weight in it. Weighs about 1.4 oz with a 5/0 siwash. Still lighter than I like. |
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02-11-2007, 05:42 PM
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I'd still throw a belly treble on that.. I've seen it done, and it works well...
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02-11-2007, 05:49 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
I'd still throw a belly treble on that.. I've seen it done, and it works well...
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Probably should. It would add a little more weight. Needles are strange creatures, weight 'em level and they go deep, weight 'em in the butt and they plane right to the top. I'm finding bottles are even more mysterious. So much to learn, so much to screw up.  |
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02-11-2007, 05:56 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
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It looks like a Pocket Rocket, Nice color to
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02-12-2007, 01:12 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
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Here are a few more. The brown one was supposed to be a squid color, but looks more like a turd.  |
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02-12-2007, 01:19 PM
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George, for the bottle darters or even on a regular bottle swimmer, how do you shape the front lip ? I'm guessing you start on a band saw but how do you round the sides ??
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02-12-2007, 01:21 PM
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Back in my youth, antything resembeling a turd in the Merrimack river got devoured... looking at the shape/design of those plugs... the color probably wont matter.... they will be eaten happily anyways...
looking foreward to seeing them in person.
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