Bonus Pichney

[Pete F.]

Look at Bassdozers site you can figure it out

[numbskull]

The blue one is the common surface swimmer. Pichney-Lupo-BM-Gibbs- (and apparently Alou as well?) all build/built it. The white one is a "bootleg" Pichney (what Pichney called it I don't know). It looks to be a cross between a Conrad and surface swimmer. The lip slot is above center, the line tie only slightly below center, the lip has a longer vertical section. The head is narrower and the body widest further back, the weight moved back to float it level and deeper than the surface swimmer (same weight, less wood). Because of the high line tie it will likely go deeper, because of the shape and rearward weight it should cast better. I'll probably build one tomorrow and see what it does. Bassdozer's article claims it was a medium diver and useful from beaches and in "medium flows".

[Flaptail]

I actually made a a couple of those but modified them for one belly hook. They swim great and go down several feet in fast water. Unfortunately I had paint adhesion problems on that batch. Gibbs actually made a version too as an experiment.

In the picture is the Gibbs version, mine and a blank I have left and for comparison a Rainbow Lupo medium Danny.