Larry you fish them in the canal? at slack, or when its running?
Both! Swimmer was with me one day when the current was pushing its hardest and I was catching fish after fish. Lost an early season slob on one in a hard current! They are perfect for the canal! I fish them there almost as much as pencils and spooks and at slack........!
Funny, because I have known them to contain a tailweight. Also, the originals had huge hooks which I THINK served to stabilize the roll. Someone asked me to reweight a few commercially made surfsters, saying that they didn;t cast properly and were prone to rolling out on the retrieve. I put a 00 buck shot a touch behind center and added 5/16 tailweight from M&D, the thing swam much tighter and cast a lot better--the guy was happy with the result--but I have never swam an original so, I don't know.
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Creek chub tail weighted some of thier latter Salt water surfsters... I make some tail weighted, and some of the action is lost, on these models I make the tail thicker... on my standard surfsters, I make the tail thin and chin weight it, I like that tail slapping side to side, weighted this way, they create quite a ruckus....
WOW, THANK YOU ALL for the comments, I got 6 I carved up an sanded an think Ill put a 00 just back from center as suggested it's still all new to me, these will be my first,if they S@%K an don't swim good, Ill give them to the kids on the beach, that"al keep them out of my BAG. THANKS AGAIN Ill post when done.
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) Swims pissah....sick action.
it's still all new to me,
these will be my first,if they S@%K an don't swim good, Ill give them to the kids on the beach, that"al keep them out of my BAG.
THANKS AGAIN Ill post when done.
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