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10-20-2008, 07:36 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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So, What's Everybody Working on This Winter
Every year there seems to be a plug style that everybody plays with in the Off-season. last year a lot of guy messed around with Eel skin plugs and conrads....year before Roman Nikes seemed to be popping up a lot here.
What's everybody want to try this year while hiding in their Hobbit Hole for the winter.
Myself, I'm gonna mess around with some Cowboys and Dannies.
also gonna try making some SS Bullet knock-offs....and a larger version of the SS needle, make them about the size of a BM Needle.
What say Ye....
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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10-20-2008, 09:00 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I have a few people (one of them is tall) hounding me to make a BigFish Needle.....so I will be working on a design for one and getting the action just right!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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10-20-2008, 09:14 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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BF, how about an eelskin prey swimmer  - Please |
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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10-20-2008, 09:16 AM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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Since this is my first year building, my main goal is just trying to make more of the plugs that have been successful for me so far. I need to learn how to simplify my plug making process. I'd like to do more at the same time. Maybe a duplicator will show up for Christmas??????
I have a lot of requests for darters from friends so I'll be trying those too.
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10-20-2008, 09:16 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Josh.....let me know where you would like the groove and a few other details and I will make you some special...no problem!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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10-20-2008, 09:35 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Learn how to paint scales and to apply foil
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10-20-2008, 09:38 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Krinkle
Maybe a duplicator will show up for Christmas??????
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If so drop me a PM
I am going to finish up the Conrads that I promised a few people. With an eelskin attached they swam lovely. I am also going to do some smaller, heavier hawgish style top water plugs and some flat lipped med. size goo goo's, and some more Lido falptails. Of course I have more Hawgs and large boat swimming plugs I need to finish. Lots of owesies too. Hell If I just finished what I already have turned I'd be busy for 5 years. |
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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10-20-2008, 09:50 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Josh.....let me know where you would like the groove and a few other details and I will make you some special...no problem! |
awsome. thanks. i'll send a pm. |
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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10-20-2008, 11:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,740
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I'll be spending a little more time on hand carved bunkers.. the ones I make now work, but I know I can make them better...
Working on another "fat boy" style darter... more suited for calmer water... also going to do a little more with laminated wood, more for weight/action than looks... I've found that west system G-flex epoxy bonds as strong as the original wood and is not effected at all by salt water... one of my test subjects lasted through approx 100-125 fish with only a BLO sealing, no primer or paint...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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10-20-2008, 11:57 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
I'll be spending a little more time on hand carved bunkers.. the ones I make now work, but I know I can make them better...
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Like to see those handcarves, thinking about doing some of them myself. |
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10-20-2008, 12:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Marblehead, MA
Posts: 864
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I need a new spook shape!
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Fish Rule!
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10-20-2008, 05:55 PM
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><(((°> ><((( °> ><(((°>
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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Changing diapers for the first time  |
60 % of the time, it works every time.
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10-20-2008, 06:37 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,394
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
What's everybody want to try this year while hiding in their Hobbit Hole for the winter.
Myself, I'm gonna mess around with some Cowboys and Dannies.
also gonna try making some SS Bullet knock-offs....and a larger version of the SS needle, make them about the size of a BM Needle.
What say Ye....
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I say that you are gonna do some of those wonderbread howdies for me..... a top big water producer. Got a 20# fish on a Saltyric knock off of your knock off Sunday AM. You know where. |
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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10-20-2008, 06:39 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,119
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Skinplugs, needles, spooks like Jiggy's, more pencils, sloped swimmers and pikies, maybe a few howdies too.
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10-20-2008, 06:49 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,394
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I want to get a better casting howdy that will dipsy doodle in big water, and will still be able to go sub-surface in quiet water. Got a lot of weighting questions in that formula....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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10-21-2008, 07:27 AM
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><(((°> ><((( °> ><(((°>
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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More spook type topwaters
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60 % of the time, it works every time.
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10-21-2008, 09:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Lots of owesies is my first priority then maybe i can turn some protos that i have had in my head all year.Also make lotsa bottles again.One other thing i might even make a plug to enter in the plugfest contest.
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Originally Posted by Flaptail
"Throw plugs like we do that will cause them to suffer humility. Pogies make any fisherman look good when bass are around. Bait is easy."
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10-21-2008, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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my sanity .....  |
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10-21-2008, 12:51 PM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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I'll have my first manland sometime in december so who knows.  |
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10-21-2008, 01:03 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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Quote:
Originally Posted by luds
I'll have my first manland sometime in december so who knows. |
there ya go...... |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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10-21-2008, 02:24 PM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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Quote:
Originally Posted by luds
I'll have my first manland sometime in december so who knows. |
don't worry, that doesn't sound at all gay   |
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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10-21-2008, 03:06 PM
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Veni, vidi, piscori!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Vermont
Posts: 152
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Being a rookie I just want to get a stock pile going so I have stuff at the ready for plug fests, gifts, trades, and swaps.
I'd like to work up a stash of Walking Stick clones, 5" Dannys, spooks, pencils, and needles.
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Thanks for taking me fishing Grandpa!
SCP - Stephen's Custom Plugs .... (Not a company - just a mindset!)
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10-21-2008, 03:12 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clogston29
don't worry, that doesn't sound at all gay |
That must be the New Amusement park they're opening up in P'Town...
Don't go on The Whip...its not what you think   |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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10-21-2008, 06:16 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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Its fall and its time to fish.   |
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10-22-2008, 03:48 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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this winter i'll make stuff i want to fish .. I need a pile of needles large ,,small.. I want to knockoff a cordell red dot 3.5 oz. 6 1/4" for the canal .Not made anymore ..I want to make a casting flaptail ,, again for the canal .. more predators,, and try more equalizers ... Moms having hip replacement soon ,so list may get smaller ..
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10-22-2008, 11:17 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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Taggage, My MIL had both hips replaced at age 80. She flew through it. Piece of cake, no need to shorten your list!
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10-22-2008, 04:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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With the exception of pencils I'm going deep this winter and everything will look like an eel...
I really got into fishing a lot of big rubber in places where I'd normally fish needles and I did real well with it, but its expensive whn the blues show up so I think I'm going to take the plunge and make some molds and start pouring my own...
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10-22-2008, 04:34 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Charleston
Taggage, My MIL had both hips replaced at age 80. She flew through it. Piece of cake, no need to shorten your list!
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Thanks Bill I needed that ... |
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10-22-2008, 05:33 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by johnny ducketts
Changing diapers for the first time |
Way cool. No other experience in life even comes close. Plugs can wait. |
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10-22-2008, 08:21 PM
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Professional dumba$$
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New Bedford Ma
Posts: 541
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My shop is finally dry after repeated floodings so I'm going to take care of the long lost of owsies first. Then I'm working on trolling plugs, poppers, and needles.
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