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Old 04-10-2008, 01:55 PM   #1
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Cool the rat plug

i've been in discussion with a very good plug maker
on the rat plug design...........

in particular the kind of water commotion device built into it..
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but now on to the reason for this post...

remember when it was said on the jaws movie

by Roy Snyder (sp) "were gonna need a bigger boat.."

well i just came from a farm where they had
goats and sheep and chinchillas
rabbits, chickens, and ducks - alright...
and i looked into this one section and said to my wife
who i knew would be horrified...heh heh heh

check out the rats! and these suckers
were much bigger than squirrels and fatter too!

so for a rat plug! its gotta be... 8 inches long
with a 6 inch tail ....and 3 inches wide.

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Old 04-10-2008, 04:41 PM   #2
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Rago makes them big out west with guys targeting larger trout. Silent scott makes them also but theyre waay to much work. They swim awesome though!

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Old 04-10-2008, 05:48 PM   #3
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took a look

take a look

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Old 04-10-2008, 06:07 PM   #4
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One of the guys on TU makes them. Rats, muskrats, etc. Wood with rabbit fur or some type of fur over top. Look real close to the real thing.

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Old 04-10-2008, 06:11 PM   #5
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t u not familiar with that abbreviation
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Old 04-10-2008, 07:23 PM   #6
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the rat plug is hilarious, do you think there are any guys fishing live or rigged rats? maybe set traps at night and then keep them in a tank in their garage, starve them down a little till they're a good casting weight and skin them occasionally for their rat skin plugs? YIKES?
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Old 04-10-2008, 07:42 PM   #7
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the rat plug is hilarious, do you think there are any guys fishing live or rigged rats? maybe set traps at night and then keep them in a tank in their garage, starve them down a little till they're a good casting weight and skin them occasionally for their rat skin plugs? YIKES?
Got squirrels for that..

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Old 04-10-2008, 08:53 PM   #8
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those rats i saw today

were exactly the size in the above picture

i kid you not....


and i was saying HOLY sh1t

look at them- i was ten feet from them
...they were like

the healthiest rats i've ever seen...

then i thought of the rat plug

and said it would take a one big ole cow
to eat one of them dudes.
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Old 04-10-2008, 09:12 PM   #9
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there's a PETA member somewhere right now all red-faced and shaking over the thought of someone using live or rigged rats and squirrels to catch fish...
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Old 04-10-2008, 09:36 PM   #10
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use the real thing... a circle hook and a couple rubber bands to hold the hook onto the live rat...
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Old 04-11-2008, 04:06 AM   #11
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You do the rubber band thing then put them on a piece of shingle and let them float out into known Muski or Pike water. When they get to an area that seems productive..............yank them off the shingle.

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maybe vb will post the pictures but back in the day there was a tackle company that sold a little vest/harness that was used to fish pinkies.

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Old 04-11-2008, 08:09 AM   #13
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TU -tackle underground ,to me
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:06 AM   #15
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I you think live eels work well, you should try a live rat! They are a sonofabitch to hook ( they will bite you) but once hooked they cast a mile and swim like Mark Spitz on steriods. Bass will run up from 40' to take a live rat. Raven is right, the big ones are the way to go too.


(Let me know how it works for you)
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Old 04-14-2008, 07:28 AM   #16
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I don't have any rats on my property that I know of but skunk season is beginning and I trap plenty of little ones and they come with their own "smelly jelly", also possums, mice , stray cats and bunnies.. but I like them...soooo, I'll keep the bunnies but the rest are fair game, what size hook do you reckon? BTW ...Raven, nice thread, this is funny s%&t...
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