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08-07-2005, 08:32 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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What Is The Nicest Custom Plug In Your Collection And Who Made It?
Going through my plugs today and I had to ask myself that question......and my answer was a difficult one! I must say that after going through them all.......it is a toss up between......Lab1's swimmers of which I have 2 and the beautiful squid plug Striperhound sent me a week or so ago....the purple one! Just awesome work on both! 
Bet we will see a great deal of diversity on this thread! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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08-07-2005, 08:37 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Whoops! Got to throw one more up to the top.....just found my Canalman polaris popper......what a great specimen!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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08-07-2005, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i'd have to say...
a beautiful yellow danny swimmer i now have ...
has some initials on it 's belly J.P.I.  |
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08-08-2005, 04:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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This is a tough one as I have a bunch of nice customs hanging in the above my desk. But I have to go with this one. It was made by Chumbucket and is named T-1 Terminator.
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08-08-2005, 08:29 AM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
Posts: 1,223
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Naming one particular custom would mean never getting another one from the guys not mentioned........I luv'em all  |
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08-08-2005, 08:49 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Not looking to cause any problems.....I just get so impressed with the quality of everyones work. I was sorting through all my plugs as I will be moving soon (no they are not for sale) and I really had a tough time finding a favorite plug.....I do love them all....thats why they hang in my collection. Its just that a few seem to stand out personally......mostly it is the paint work that impresses me. This thread was not started to demean any one builders work, but just to discuss different styles of the builders I guess. I must have plugs from just about everyone.....and I think they are all fabulous!
Now that I have spread some warm butter on you guys.....send me more plugs please!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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08-08-2005, 01:24 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,349
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Nicest: BassAssasin's (where are you Ken?) knucklehead popper... schweet...
Close second; Christian gold needle...
Caught the most; PIemma swimmer... the pocket at a western spot....  |
Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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08-08-2005, 01:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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It's a three parter. Gibbs turned the basic bodies for me for Flaptails, 25 of them a couple years back using one I had originally shaped by hand from a piece of cedar with a hand rasp and sand paper. So I took one and I shaped the head, drill it, seal it and then Fishingfreak took it and painted it in the flag pattern. It's the most perfect plug I have.
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Why even try......... 
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08-08-2005, 02:08 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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You can't beat a plug thats been "Freaked" out!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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08-08-2005, 03:53 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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all my BFLarry plugs(Ive got a nice stash goin) 
Tagger gave me my first custom anice wonderbread danny(he a good chit) |
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08-08-2005, 04:04 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Slingah....u good chit too..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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08-08-2005, 04:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
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anyone have a PICTURE !  |
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08-08-2005, 04:14 PM
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Dave's Guide Service
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 7,557
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yeah
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Pro Tool Club....
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08-08-2005, 04:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 399
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08-08-2005, 05:48 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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That is so hard to choose because they are all so different and I wouldn't want to bum anyone out by not mentioning them. But even after saying that,  I feel I can safely say it's a toss up between a Mr.Pogie bottle and a chumbucket chumster. Everyone knows those 2 are artists and fanatical about their plug building.
I'll see if I can get a shot of this bottle plug but for now I think I have the chumster
lousy pic but I ain't no photographer |
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08-08-2005, 07:23 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Good answer Slingah.... ....how many plugs do I owe you for that?  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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08-08-2005, 07:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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There are so many great builders these days... Got a ton of Bigfishes, Taggers, and MACs that will never see water, true works of art. Look , I gotta tell ya, all the builders of this era are amazing! We are in a true golden age of plug building. There's never been anything like this and it's growing exponentially! Auctioneers in the future will be tearing their hair out!!! I'm sorry that I can't recall more names right now, it's late and I'm old. But you all are to be commended for your work. Today we set a bar very high, Check out plug night at MSBA if you can, it'll be an eyepopper!!
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08-08-2005, 08:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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I've got a pearl/pink Mac Danny that I really love but my favorite is this one that Slip traded me at plugfest. I have fished this one a few times but I'm mostly sneaking out to fish at night so topwater hasn't been in the cards much for me.
Everytime I look at it I just can't believe it doesn't have a battery.
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08-09-2005, 10:05 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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I don't have no plugs
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08-09-2005, 10:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: .
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The ones I guard very jealously (in no particular order) are my Mr. Pogie bottle plug, my Chumbucket Chumsters, and my Bassmaster needlefish.
Speaking of Chumbucket - where the heck are ya Matt?  |
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08-09-2005, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Central Coastal NJ
Posts: 240
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Nicest would have to be either a Mr. Pogie bottle or a Steve F. plug (any of several, they are all beautys). Brian, thanks for the praise. I may be up your way for a couple days in the fall. I'll be in touch, would love to climb some rocks with you again.
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08-09-2005, 08:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NJ
Posts: 183
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08-10-2005, 05:44 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Its coming...a new favorite for you to fish!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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08-10-2005, 07:42 AM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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my favorite is a PNG blue white surfster that I won at plugfest. So nice, and catches.
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i bent my wookie
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08-10-2005, 10:13 AM
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fishing the pacific
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Posts: 993
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I am holding out for my 'freaked' flag plug
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Keep lines wet and tight in the pacific
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08-10-2005, 03:51 PM
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surfcasting is NOT a crime
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 792
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Well, lets see...it seems everyone is talking nicest looking and if were talking custom, not sold in shops but one of a kind ( basement built )...that's easy , a big Guzzby popper. The only plug given to me that has not ( yet ) been in the water.This was done during his spray can days johnny |
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08-10-2005, 04:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NJ
Posts: 183
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Okay Larry that plug will get alot of hours on it thats all we throw this way in fall swimmers into the peanut bunker but have 2 trips sept montauk first week in oct cape cod  |
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08-10-2005, 04:47 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 34,969
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Jeeez - wouldn't know where to start. I will say that there are only a handful of plugs I won't fish; a Dr Mac & Mr Freak Flag Pikie, a Slip Pat's Danny, A Mr Pogiue Bottle Swimmer. Oh, there is a Eben Vase (as in the shape of a Vase or Vahhzzz)Popper that I'm not sure I could swim  |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-10-2005, 09:09 PM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
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all my BFLarry plugs(Ive got a nice stash goin)
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If I can get my f-n lathe fixed I am going to try and ho 1 of his swimmers from him at Plug Night. |
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08-14-2005, 02:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: too far from the water
Posts: 157
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just one??!!
can't do it.. favorites would be
MAC bunker danny
Mr. Pogie bunker bottle
Tobias Bunker Pencil
Guzz - 2 1/2 oz wonderbread glider
AdamR - jointed swimmer and a copy of the one he caught his 51#er on! |
I might be small.... but I'm slow.
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