Starting out the year right

[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by scottw

great thread, all really beautiful stuff....Professor, I'm bending my neck trying to see how you finished the tail wrap and attached the flapper, can you help with a comment or even a tighter shot? thanks so much...
ps... red eyes look awesome on those wonderbread colors

Here you go. I picked this plug more because I thought it would be a challenge to do it. I entered it in the classic category last plugfest. I found out after that it is a really neat plug to fish. It is a top water plug, spookish with a splash. Sits a little under horizontal with the bum under water.
#1 Here is the original hardware. It is all brass with neat hangers and threaded brass end. That is the tail weight there in the picture. It was just a piece of steel not lead 3/8 dia by 1/4 " long. That is the only weight in the whole plug.
#2 and #3 I did it similar but in stainless. I used .062 welding rod , 308. I tried 316 but I couldn't get it threaded, kept busting off. I used an 0-80 die, which was a real bitch in stainless. I then had to make the nuts. I also made my own tail grommet and the part the flap hung on. that part is real important as it gives it a perfect flap and commotion hanging down below the plug like that. It may be the key to the whole plug.
I since figured out a way to do it with a tail wrap as you can see in the picture of the short length of wire. It works pretty good that way but I still like the nuts better. They also used a small nail to hold the flap onto the grommet thingy. I couldn't find any corrosion resistant nails that long and thin so I figured out a way to bend up my own using some small dia. SS wire. Worked great.
Capesams also told me of a way to do it with a bicycle spoke and came down to my work and showed me his version. Pretty nifty way also. You can see the spoke in the picture also.

[ProfessorM]

Andrew I fish mine just like a spook but a little less aggressive than usual. It is a top water plug I am pretty sure. I have not had a lot of experience with the plug. Maybe George will chime in as it was he who has some experience with that plug. Like I said before I just built it cause I was rooting thru Vineyardblues's collection and thought it would be a good challenge. George is the one that later convinced me to fish it after I gave him one at plugfest, and I am glad he did.

[scottw]

wow!...thanks so much!

[numbskull]

I've built and fished a bunch over the years. Most come in like a torpedo, which works surprisingly well with rips and pauses. The point jude was better because it would veer during the retrieve (but I had hook fouling with the flaptail on a 2 hook version). Paul's Lido copy is by far the most versatile. It works much like a Jigman spook, but with a tail splash and flap. So much so, I'm pretty sure you could modify a Jigman spook to do the same thing. I do think the plug is better if it floats, letting it rest then ripping it while it veers and throws its tail drives fish nuts. Dropping the line tie below midline helps the action as well. The flaptail connection below the plug works better than coming straight off the tail wire loop. After seeing Paul's, I changed the flaptail connection from a swivel (first photo) to a bent wire,screw eye, and washer, (second photo) which works better (more tail action and no fouling).

[ProfessorM]

my pleasure. come to plugfest and I will show you it in person.

Thanks George.

[CanarsieSpecial]

love it all!

[Jigman]

A few more. 2 oz pikies and 1 1/2 oz surfsters.



I know a few of you are holding out, lets see what you got

Jigman

[go4broke44]

if I post some of my other stuff, can I get a trade deal for some jigman stuff? haha

[Rockfish9]

I'm in the same boat as everyone else, lots of stuff "in process" very little finished... I finaly got some epoxy on these over the weekend..

[Rockfish9]

a few more. pays haveing a spinner that can handle 24 at once...

now if they would only rif themselves...

Nice stuff guys...Jiggy you've been busy.. Professor.. nice flaptails.. I built my first ones last season.. they fished awesome..

[PNG]

a wooden heddon, swims most pissah

[VTBasser]

These are some Fish Sticks (my interpretation of the Tattoo Walking Stick) I just finished up. 4" X 3/4" and about an ounce when rigged.

Found them to be very versatile. You can fish them like a needle, or a pencil, walk them like a spook on the surface or under the surface, and they will dart when retrieved with a jerky action.

Seem to be very popular with my fishing buddies since I have less then half of them left already.

Also working on some handcarved lexan square lipped crankbaits for the freshwater.

[johnny ducketts]

is that a yuengling beer cap lip...?

[go4broke44]

Originally Posted by johnny ducketts

is that a yuengling beer cap lip...?

why yes, it is! Only the best.

Last night I drew out templates for the frech banana and scaled them down to 3/4 size, which would yield a 5-5/8" long plug, with a 3/8" dia vertical weight slug. (original is 7.5" long with 1/2" slug) I will probably get around to messing with that this week, amongst other things.

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

I wish. Larry your painting skills are second to none. Very nice color combos.

I wa sjust thinking the same thing, Larry , you're freakin' me out!

[Ken_J]

Do the fish in Kentucky have double barrel shotguns slung over their shoulder??

[Slipknot]

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