I've been building for about three years. All my plugs have 0.072" x 1" screw eyes, epoxied in with rod building epoxy. I haven't caught any monsters yet but there has been no evidence of the screw eyes being a problem. I counter sink the screw eyes holes making a little "cup" to a depth of about 1/2 eye diameter. I fill the countersunk hole with epoxy then screw in the eye. The epoxy gets drawn into the threads as you're screwing in the eye, and what remains in the cup adds a little extra holding power to the screw eye.
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