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03-19-2007, 08:37 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Yep. It's OK, but nothing like Eddy's. I can make it roll, but only at retrieve speeds I wouldn't use. The reason I built it was to test out an idea someone else posted showing a scooped lip. Can't say it made much difference on this plug. Then again, there is a lot about darters I don't understand. I've built plenty of good ones, but only by copying someone else's (Pinchney's) design. Maybe next winter.
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If you play with the darter more...
You might want to extend the slope on the darter farther back, I send mine at least 1/2 way up to about 2/3 back...
Also scoop the lip up to the middle of the face. I do mine on a belt sander. |
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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03-19-2007, 11:28 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JFigliuolo
If you play with the darter more...
You might want to extend the slope on the darter farther back, I send mine at least 1/2 way up to about 2/3 back...
Also scoop the lip up to the middle of the face. I do mine on a belt sander.
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Thanks. I was thinking along the same lines, sorta like a bottle darter without the bottle shape. If you've got a picture please feel free to post it, I'm interested to learn you've got the idea to work. I've always used darters in moving water, but at the end of last year I started experimenting with them in still water, using a slow retrieve and small twitches of the rod tip. Some of them (the older style Gibbs in particular) look very appealing fished like this.......kind of like a needlefish that will dive and swim a bit. I'm also intrigued by the wide variety of freshwater darters sold over the years. I suspect it is a plug design that hasn't been developed very much in saltwater and about which there is still much to be discovered. |
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03-19-2007, 11:34 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Found it
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...4&d=1172194227
Those are the ones that got me interested. Your other plugs looked so serious I was pretty sure your darters were good too. Thanks for showing them, they'll help alot. |
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03-19-2007, 11:52 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,595
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George, would you have an x-ray of this lure?
vb
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03-19-2007, 01:26 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Originally Posted by vineyardblues
George, would you have an x-ray of this lure?
vb
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No, but I think Flap has a similar plug. PM him and check, if he's got it I can probably get an xray. |
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03-20-2007, 09:28 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vineyardblues
George, would you have an x-ray of this lure?
vb
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Don't be showing him that plug.  There is no weight that I can see. Don't you remember you gave me a beater. I made several that were sealed last week. I weighted them a few different ways. Mine are AYC. I think they were pine, light feel. I will tell you how they work if i ever finish them. Don't be trying that plug you will hurt yourself 
Last edited by ProfessorM; 03-20-2007 at 09:33 AM..
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