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Meeting was a hugh success. Standing room only crowd. Even though he rarely speaks to a group- he was great- speaks very well, with humour and full of information. Stuff you do not typically hear
He started out talking for about 25 minutes and took questions for about 45. It was sort of like a MIT professor talking about cold fusion but Bobby was talking about metal lips. He said color does matter, how he tunes plugs ("just because its dark and you feel the plug swimming, does not mean its swimming right"), wood he uses, wire and wraps. No mention of his finish but tips for plug builders. Lip placement why his plugs are build for cut trbeles no split rings. Rigging his plugs- not only one way to do it. Talked about how Steve Campo tested his plugs and gave him ideas. How he first met Danny Pichney and started working for him. Where they got the stainless from for the lips- funny story) Even talked about fishing rigged eels with AL Bentsen. How he was the first to use Blurple on metal lips. Where he fishes different plugs.
Bobby is not just a plug builder he is a good fisherman and gave tips on retrieves. I had the fortune to go to a pier with Bobby and a few other guys before the meeting to swim some protype plugs he had. Not all go into production. One was a jointed slope head conrad that swam amazing like it had a skin on it- and another new kind of fat danny metal lip that he sort of made by accident. Plus a new smaller version of his jointed pikie. He puts so much thought and work into his plugs that is advanced engineering.
No more BM Darters- he said lets have Donny and Steve Musso keep doing that.
Not only that --but he is a very decent guy. Bobby knows a former president of our club who lost his father last year. He was a war hero in WWII on Iwo Jima. Bobby brought him a tribute 40 plug made out of mahogany clear finished with his fathers name on it. He gave a kid at a meeting a danny and donated a bunch of plugs to our club that were raffled off. He gave me one of the prototypes he is working on.
The guy is a class act and you listen to this guy and he has so much knowledge and ideas when it comes plugs. Blows your mind.
But- he said he has not caught a 50 yet- three 49 1/2s I hope he gets one.
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