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10-30-2008, 02:14 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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Originally Posted by stripercrazy
seen needles going for 30 and dannys 35...wow...great plugs and a great place that sells them...but holy cow 3 plugs for a 100 plus where do we go from here half a hundred  I thought fly fishing was expensive..nothing against anyone but I won't be buying any of these at those prices, lots of great plugs in the 20-25 dollar range. to me its getting nuts...at what price don't you fish a lure...to lose a 20 dollar plug so what... but a forty...I'm still fishing Mac's plugs...I'm not a collector...I can't see myself droping 35 beans..I'm just shocked |
You make rocking plugs. Why would you ever need to buy wood? |
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10-31-2008, 10:02 PM
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Hernia Pikie Maker
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: e. prov r.i.
Posts: 1,176
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ha ha ha
eric,there like potato chips...I can't just have one  |
its no ones fault
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11-01-2008, 12:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Connecticut/Rhody Shore
Posts: 280
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Hey stripercrazy------ the plug sale industry is going to need a bailout soon. that why i bought everything and making my own,and is way easier with the help of Mr.vega.
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11-01-2008, 03:26 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,825
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OK! I admit it. I have been stockpiling BMs and Smiths like crazy. Anyone who has a 401K knows that they have lost more than half their value with this &^%#$ mess in the financial sector. So I am investing in my retirement. I'm 61 and don't have time for "in it for the long haul". Plugs are a much better investment than the stockmarket right now. I am not ashamed of it either!!!  |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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11-01-2008, 06:12 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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I'm a bit skeptical about the investment value of plugs. It seems to me that plug collecting, particularly of recent vintage stuff, has been a fad being driven by the large numbers of people, flush with disposable income, who have taken up surf fishing lately. Most will likely move on to other hobbies. Bandwagon collecting has a way of petering out as fast as it arrives. Now if eels become protected, bunker scarce, and the size limit on scup raised further, things might change. We'll see.
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11-01-2008, 09:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: newport
Posts: 1,136
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Get 5 Pt Jude tins for the price of 1 beachmaster...and they're blooofish proof!  |
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11-21-2008, 11:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 369
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Pete, you think you will be getting more Beachmaster Danny's?
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11-22-2008, 12:24 AM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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10 min with a cast net, more bait then you know what to do with!! Hook swivel sinker you good to go!
I bet I don't own 5 plugs and I can't even tell you when i used one last?
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"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS 
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11-22-2008, 01:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 13
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well, there are only so many collectors out there. if they want to spend their hard earned money, good for them. that being said, desire will die down in time. i doubt these plugs will hold value over time for example like a pre-war lionel train. do you think an rm smith or bm plug will be on antiques road show 50 yrs. from now? not to mention, the newer generations are losing interest in the outdoors so who will show demand in the future? thanks to outfits like Salty's plugs and kits, the avg. fisherman today can still afford some fishing wood.
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11-22-2008, 09:48 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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Quote:
Originally Posted by macojoe
10 min with a cast net, more bait then you know what to do with!! Hook swivel sinker you good to go!
I bet I don't own 5 plugs and I can't even tell you when i used one last?
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Now that is a smart man...... |
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10-19-2008, 04:34 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,825
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The collector market is nuts. I saw on another site 60 BM plugs for $2500. That's over $41.50 per plug in bulk. Absolutely crazy but it's an investment for the future. I guess they will be worth $100 each in a few years.
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No boat, back in the suds.
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10-19-2008, 07:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,316
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Quote:
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
PLUGS DONT HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE.
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10-19-2008, 07:45 PM
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stuck in a desert :(
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Im a little lost right now
Posts: 243
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Its not that crazy to pay 40 bucks for a plug when you have the money or if you're really into it. You get what you pay for. Look at a plug from wal-mart for 8 bucks and then take a look at the finish of a Gary Soldarti plug. The GRS big water lures definitiely has the best paintjob i've seen so far.
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10-19-2008, 11:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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Originally Posted by Fish-Addict
Its not that crazy to pay 40 bucks for a plug when you have the money or if you're really into it. You get what you pay for. Look at a plug from wal-mart for 8 bucks and then take a look at the finish of a Gary Soldarti plug. The GRS big water lures definitiely has the best paintjob i've seen so far.
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Maybe the best paint job, but my $7 Mambo Minnow has clocked a few 36+" stripers this year. |
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10-20-2008, 06:43 AM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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even gibbs are expensive!
Plug kits are a GREAT option! My winter project is to pick up some plug kits and have fun with the kids.
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10-20-2008, 06:50 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,272
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lurch
even gibbs are expensive!
Plug kits are a GREAT option! My winter project is to pick up some plug kits and have fun with the kids.
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Good idea - crank out some plug kits with my son ! |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
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10-20-2008, 07:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: R.I.
Posts: 31
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Quote:
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
PLUGS DONT HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE.
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 My all time favorite plug is only $15 and regularly catches more and bigger fish than the more expensive stuff out there.Live and Learn |
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10-20-2008, 08:49 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,825
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Quote:
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
PLUGS DONT HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE.
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I have been to "Mecca". I have see the master's handy work.
Scottt, thanks for the tour. You have the most impressive shop I have see and I have been to Gibb, John's old shop and a few others.
Congratulations on a shop anyone would be proud of.
And you do make some of the most affordable wooden "gems" on the market! |
No boat, back in the suds.
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10-29-2008, 08:31 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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I've never realy paid attention to the "market".. I'm not your average plug junkie, I dont collect or fish anyone elses plug.. my own creations catch enough fish to keep me happy.... back in the day, when I had 4 mouths to feed, I couldnt justify spending $10 on goo-goo eyes .. that drove me to make my own...How things have changed...
bottom line is, an artificial of any type is made to fool a fat lazy bass into thinking that ,that, hunk of wood is the next meal, so, I'll keep fishing my own stuff and admire the work/ctaftsman ship of the greats from afar....and let the "investors" create the market...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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10-29-2008, 08:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Attleboro, MA
Posts: 453
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I agree with the prices being rediculous.......but, dabbling in plug building mysef I know how hard it is to prefect the art with the small set-up I have. Each plug is unique and different in one way or another......If I were to calculate my time and money I spent on everything I bought for the dam hobby, I'd have to charge $100+ a plug to break even!!!!! I don't sell nor ever wish to sell.....seeing my plug hanging out of a fishes mouth is all the satisfaction I need.
As for the Non-hobbyists who do it for a living, all the power to ya...I can't say a handmade plug is not worth $30 though....as I think for the most part they are. I just can't afford a plug bags worth.
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10-29-2008, 10:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Jesus was a plug builder?
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"Come with me and be fishers of plugs." |
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10-30-2008, 05:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
"Come with me and be fishers of plugs."
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You will find that quote in the new book "The latest Testament ( not to be confused with the New Testament") in "The Gospel of Flaptail", Chapter two, verse three, "His sermon to the eel and bunker fishers of Rhode Island" where I walked out onto the waters of Narragansett Bay and bade them to put down thier loathsome and laviscious ways and follow me to find the kingdom of bass fishing and the way there is to take up the plug and it's purity of soul.
For that is the way, the truth and the light. |
Why even try......... 
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