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Plug Building - Got Wood? Got Plug?

 
 
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Old 12-09-2010, 09:04 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by l.i.fish.in.vt View Post
the only way to test a plug is fish it,unless the plug comes in side ways or upside down,or is totally unfishable,
Point taken...but...in this case I was trying to make sure the plugs did what I envisioned when I built them, thus the testing.

Had I not tested them I would have wound up with someting other than what I planned, at least with the surface swimmer. It may have still worked like you say, but in this case I wanted a surface plug which wouldn't have been the outcome had I not tested them and made changes to the weighting.

Another example:

If I made two "identical" surface swimmers, one out of pine and the other from AYC, the amount of weight required would be quite different for each plug. In my case the pine body needs at least .250 in the belly to achieve the same action as an unweighted AYC body of the exact same style. The pine rolls out with no belly weight, but the AYC stays down.

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