some heavy swimmers

[Hilo_Kawika]

I'm curious about the plug balancing procedure.

When the plug is at rest, the belly hooks hang more or less vertically and the plug has one center of balance. But when the lure is moving don't the belly hooks now lie against the surface of the lure and shift the center of balance further back?

I don't suppose it matters as long as you have some consistent procedure for weighting that you're comfortable with but I just wondered if anyone else had considered this.

[Diggin Jiggin]

Hilo, while it was interesting to me that the plug was balanced, and I made mine the same way, it did not have to be.

Lots of swimmers are weighted lots of different ways. If you think about a pikie, the weight is up under the chin and almost all its weight is carried forward of its mid point, but they still swim great.

There's a lot of variables to play with, this is just one of em...

[gone fishin]

Just for my two cents...when I used the 40 in rough water many moons ago I modified the plug with a few wraps of lead solder on the rear. It allowed us to tune the plug according to where we used em. They worked great at pips rip....