Bob Hahn Plugs

[numbskull]

I have a fair amount of Hahn stuff from the early 80's in my basement.
I found it disappointing. It fished well enough, but was poorly constructed, unsealed, and crudely built. The plugs I used all peeled. He sold different style plugs (pikies, dannys, atoms) that all used the same lip made from a bent spinner blade......and hence worked more like a surfster than the shape they copied. Some of them even used un-galvanized steel through wires.

I've enclosed a photo of some. I have (or maybe had) others including some in packages and some bigger stuff like a large light needle and giant jointed pikie that I might be able to find if you are truly interested.

He did build a medium sized "danny" with the spinner blade lip in a brown back, silver side, yellow belly that some guys loved for plugging along the elizabeths. I pulled the black one apart to copy it but lost interest eventually.

[numbskull]

Here is the rest of what I could find.

The black jointed was a later plug (it actually had grommets!). You can see it was unweighted and I had to weight it to get it to work. I cut it to take a skin (before I learned that jointed plugs paradoxically made dull skin plugs).

The brown and yellow was the "hot" Elizabeths plug.......only mine lacked the silver sides.

The needle is cool but very light.

The little swimmer I've saved all these years has a neat color that the photo dilutes.

If somebody wants to copy this stuff you are welcome to borrow it.