What do you guys think...

[djfishes]

Match the forage is the name of the game. Let me ask you thi. Who catches more fish? If it's you then you have your answer. I have yet to buy a custome plug and the worst thing in the world for me last year was watching a guy slig a habbs slammin fish on every other cast while my little #^&#^&#^&#^&'s Sporting goods pulg only caught sea weed.
Stick with what you know. I know that i am changin, because i know that what i have been doing didn't work alot and i am changing LOL

[Notaro]

du, i like to use plugs, custom-made and manufacturekids. both of them work for me. its not a waste of money if it works for you.

[Rockport24]

yeah, hopefully FishEye chimes in because he just wrote about this very issue in one of his articles in the Fisherman. I think the basic idea was that the top of the plug reflects on the surface and fish see this.

[ripitsik]

This is actually a good time to chime in because since I went to both shows I was just in "aw" with so much stuff that is there. specifically wooden plugs. I want to get into timber this year. It would be my first time getting into due to the success that I have heard from others. I actually met with Donny AfterHours and spoke with him for a while (really nice guy). I ended up buying a nice topwater fatboy slider from him. I also bought to 9 inch pencils both in black and eel color that both weigh 3 oz and 3.5 oz. I wanted to ask you guys as a rookie, What type of timber should I buy and what "basic" color should I buy? I would like to buy about 150 bucks worth of timber in different types. I have everything else covered such as tins and rubbah. What do you guys think. Bascially I am trying to figure out what is everyone's "go to plug"

[Notaro]

Originally Posted by ripitsik

This is actually a good time to chime in because since I went to both shows I was just in "aw" with so much stuff that is there. specifically wooden plugs. I want to get into timber this year. It would be my first time getting into due to the success that I have heard from others. I actually met with Donny AfterHours and spoke with him for a while (really nice guy). I ended up buying a nice topwater fatboy slider from him. I also bought to 9 inch pencils both in black and eel color that both weigh 3 oz and 3.5 oz. I wanted to ask you guys as a rookie, What type of timber should I buy and what "basic" color should I buy? I would like to buy about 150 bucks worth of timber in different types. I have everything else covered such as tins and rubbah. What do you guys think. Bascially I am trying to figure out what is everyone's "go to plug"

u shld have gotten his spookster, too. do u want to buy swimming or topwater plugs?

[GattaFish]

It is absolutely true COLOR makes a difference in SOME conditions.

Then there is vibration/action and presentation. Some even say size of the eye,, But I am not convinced on that since I have some plugs with NO eyes that catch.

I have done well sticking to basic colors/patterns. Black, Yellow, White, Eel and never to forget my hot pink HAB's Night and Gale which served me very well last year in a certain spot with 20 kts of wind in my face while others around me caught NOTHING....

As far as custom plugs... Just keep using them because they work.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by ripitsik

I ended up buying a nice topwater fatboy slider from him. I also bought to 9 inch pencils both in black and eel color that both weigh 3 oz and 3.5 oz. I wanted to ask you guys as a rookie, What type of timber should I buy and what "basic" color should I buy? I would like to buy about 150 bucks worth of timber in different types. I have everything else covered such as tins and rubbah. What do you guys think. Bascially I am trying to figure out what is everyone's "go to plug"

150 bucks = about seven wood plugs
If it were me I'd go with:

3 oz pencil popper white (or big spook)
medium danny yellow/white
big danny or A40 in blue/white
medium heavy needle (habs or beachmaster) in black or blurple
medium surface needle (afterhours/#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&/gibbs) in green/silver or white
3 oz blue/white gibbs bottle
3 oz Tatoo darter in yellow (or beachmaster if God loves you)
If you don't deal with moving water, swap out the darter for either a subsurface swimmer (night) or Polaris popper (day)...which ever you fish the most.
Combine those with a teaser and you can cover most situations you'll find yourself in pretty well. Good luck.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Numbskull...
had to check your math.. it didnt sound right 7 x $21.50 though...
damn they add up!

[tynan19]

Originally Posted by ripitsik

Bascially I am trying to figure out what is everyone's "go to plug"

Read the recent thread "If you could only have one" with the poll in it to find what is everyone's go to plug.

[Joe]

It does not matter what anyone thinks. One person could say color matters, one person could say color does not matter, they could go back and forth and at the end of the day neither person would change their opinion and the truths that they have found on their own would still be true - regardless of what other people think or say.
Fishing is an art, and when we start to question how people approach their fishing, we begin wandering into the subjective.