Small Goo Goo Eye?

[seabuggy]

Goo Goo Eyes are my favorite plug. I don't think I've seen one as small as that. I have a few originals. I will send you the dimensions if you like. I use them for SB around the Elizabeth Is and Gay Head and they produce very well at night. PM me for the info.

[saltydog]

greek, heres 2 small ones you might likefrom saltwater lure collectors club.I saved. going to TRY to copy
GOOD LUCK GOOD BUILDIN

[blondterror]

What do you guys use for eyes for your Goo Goos. I tried beads with painting the inner surface of clear or colored plastic beads but would prefer a solid eye.

[EricW]

Leo Cooper made a small swimmer that is similar in style to the big daddy and husky dude (8" and 6") plugs. It was originally called the "mini" and later the "small fry". It was 4" long and had a lip similar to the larger swimmers.
It was about 1" in diameter and weighed about 1 ounce. All screw eyes and no weighting. They are great fish catchers. We used to use them in Boston harbor in the 80s. They work great when you can be above the water on a dock/pier or on the bow of a boat, and worked with a jerking motion of the rod tip. This is actually the one plug I was thinking of when I got into plug building. We couldn't get any more of these and they were our favorites. I don't think anyone is making a lip for it. I use one of the pike style lips that Mike at CCBT has before it is bent and is just flat. The bottom curved portion is the exact size you need. I just trace one and cut off the top section, bend it and go from there.
For eyes, Leo used several different types of beads and then moved onto what I would call a doll/craft eye. I have purchased them off Ebay. They are a 9 or 10 mm doll eye. I like the veined ones.
He also made some other small swimmers. I attached a pic of some I recently acquired.

[EricW]

Here is the pic of another style of small swimmer.

[the greek]

EricW thank you. The ones in your first post is exactly what I was looking for.

[numbskull]

Here is a cool little popper he made. Probably the same body as the swimmer. If you want I can bring it to plugfest.

[VTBasser]

Originally Posted by blondterror

What do you guys use for eyes for your Goo Goos. I tried beads with painting the inner surface of clear or colored plastic beads but would prefer a solid eye.

With the few GooGoos I have done I used a pony bead from craft stores.

I made a jig to hold the bead so I could cut it in half using a bandsaw. Just two blocks of wood with a dent drilled into them for the bead to sit in. Then a small piece of poster board as a spacer the thickness of the saw blade to hold the jig open while cutting the bead. Took a couple of tries to get the dents to be the correct depth and even on both halves.

Then sanded the cut surface with really fine paper. Then I filled the hole with PC7 while it was sitting cut side down on wax paper. Tedious but gave a pretty good result.