Fish caught on your own plugs? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Tagger · 10-19-2005, 06:31 PM

5 30# few 20# all in Sept most on different size blue and white needles I made.. dropped a cow , would guess around 90# 1 of the 30# was on a blurple 17a bomber.. 1 of the 20# were on small pink and white needle ,fish i stole from Slingah.. Nephew got 30# on my needle too .. Made them a year ago ,,lost the recipe .. Sounds like I killed them this year but I didn't .. just about everytime I went fishing I only caught 1 fish.. 1 good one.. this is nephews fish ... had him with me, only reason I had a camera

castn4bass · 10-19-2005, 06:52 PM

first day I really hammered them was today on my plugs. after catching the first fish on a yellow spook, I snapped it off. this plugs got some serious mojo cause on the next cast with its brother(another spook) I hooked the line and got it back!!! put it back on and managed about 50 fish throuout the day . largest at 40 inches about 25 lbs!!! tell me it wasn't worth it now!!

Jigman · 10-19-2005, 07:19 PM

Pretty much all I've used for the last few years has been my stuff or stuff I've got in swaps from other builders. Have not caught a monster on my stuff yet, but know a few guys who have caught some pretty good ones on them.

Jigman

Diggin Jiggin · 10-19-2005, 07:38 PM

Here's one from my fishing trip at the beginning of the month. These were all caught at night in a nice 3 foot surf on the the S Shore of Nantucket. We were only one em good for 2 nights, but it was a great time.

In the picture is my Dad, Jim (an old family friend) and myself.
Dad and Jim were fishing my slim yellow danny's, I was fishing my larger fat black one.

The fish weren't huge, 33-37", but how many 86 year old guys are still out there fishing the surf. This was a really sweet night. The past few seasons we haven't been able to get Jim onto any good fishing but we kind of lucked out and found some fish near where we could park so he didn't have to walk too far or fish in a crowd. He ended up with 3 keepers, and a few good memories...

RI Popper · 10-19-2005, 07:55 PM

Hey diggin-jiggin, that picture really brought a smile to my face, thanks for sharing it with us. Those are the memories of a life time. And it's also encouraging to us all

Armand

Karl F · 10-19-2005, 08:44 PM

no pics, but, no complaints either....

had some schoolies, some keeper size, and bigger,
and a nice one this year

but no camera on sand for me.
I caught a bunch of blues on my stuff too

Best thing by far this year, was coming home and having a message on the answering maching from one of the kids that got one of the 100 plugs I donated, he, and his dad left me a nice message, telling me of the nice striper the youngster had caught... I still get a charge when I think of finding that on my answering machine

ThrowingTimber · 10-19-2005, 10:45 PM

Johnny the ratt boy/ plum island surfcaster/ kennedy yells over to me that hes going to throw some big wood, launches a pencil I made and hooks up

That felt pretty cool, cept I didnt have another one on me for myself but thats ok

Slipknot · 10-20-2005, 05:57 AM

Nice fish guys

Karl, you should be in the lead for the year-long tourney here on the site with your cow you caught and released

Nice job.

Armand, that is a really large bass on one of your plugs from out of the canal. SWEET!

Sounds like quite a compilation of success stories so far

any more?
thanks