The good, the bad and what were you thinking?

[Rockfish9]

Last night I was working on a Christmas present for my grandaughter when the return spring to the quill on my drill press broke, I went to the tool box to get a wrench and the draw jammed, forcing me to remove the draw below it... well to my surprise, I found 3 very old plugs, some of the first ones I ever built, some time in the 80's... my wandering mind then dug out some stuff that is no longer in use that I have built ,some were good, some were not so good and there are two that I ask myelf...What were you thinking?

First are a pair of small poppers, Atom knockoffs, no doubt, and a needle fish, no idea where I got the idea, or who's design I plilfered, surely it wasnt my own...

Next are a trio swimmers, made some time in the 90's,fitted with homemade lips, two out of the three have been refinished, the originals all sported bead eyes and were painted with good old rustolium and varnish, they all caught fish, none were fished again after refinishing....

more in the next post...