Studs and Duds...lets see em and hear the stories

[BigFish]

You need a duplicator Mike....I see continuity issues with your hand turned bodies!

You still want that grommetizer??

[O.D. Mike]

Originally Posted by BigFish

You need a duplicator Mike....I see continuity issues with your hand turned bodies!

You still want that grommetizer??

If you don't mind me asking, what is a Grommetizer?

[BigFish]

Its basically just a device a couple of talented guys on here make used to round over belly grommets to fit the contour of the plugs belly!

[O.D. Mike]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Its basically just a device a couple of talented guys on here make used to round over belly grommets to fit the contour of the plugs belly!

Thanks Larry!

[Rockfish9]

I didnt fish plugs as much this season... when I did it was spooks and small ( 6") dannys.. mostly in June in the river, day break highs ...for the most part this year they were fusy little @*&%^%$ and wanted meat... September brought some hungry fish that keyed in on sand eels on the beach ( when the wind allowed) .. that thin Pinkney ispired sand eel was hot for the second year in a row... I need to make more, i gave away most, my second to last trip found large (high twenty to low 30lb) bass hanging behind the moored sail boats on the drop, the trick was to cast the plug tight to the stern, you knew with in 3 casts weather they were there or to move to the next boat, well one particular fish streaked off running up current. in and out of the "fleet" of moored boats... a managed to free her from a few of them, but in the end.. she swims with my last sand eel plug...

as far as the duds... the only one is the small Gibbs inspired darter that the Professor brought by my house...I copied things pretty close... some swim better than others, some play turttle... I've had pretty good luck with darters, but this aint one of them, i need to relive this one a bit..

[GooGoo Man]

Hey Joe,

I was lucky enough to get one of your mackerel sandeels at plugbash & I did quite well on it a few weeks ago in SoCo.

We were getting beat up good by the surf, so pics were impossible.

That plug is definitely a stud!

[chrisjoe13]

These all worked for me this year. I'm not sure I'd call any of them studs, but they're definitely not duds.

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by BigFish

You need a duplicator Mike....I see continuity issues with your hand turned bodies!

You still want that grommetizer??

I made a simple grommetizer out of a trailer hitch and a hydraulic fitting, but thanks for the offer as well as your efforts to get one to me.

I do have a vega duplicator and am just learning how to make templates. I was previously putting master plug bodies directly on the duplicator. Sometimes it worked great, sometimes not so great. If the master moved or spun a little, the resulting bodies would be all effed up as a result.