sorta-surfsters - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Young Salt · 10-16-2005, 10:30 AM

that i made with the smaller surfster lips......you may be asking yourself 'why dont the have the slanted head?' while i would like to be able to say it was all part of some well thoughtout plug engineering, i got them all the way to primed before i realized my screwup.

CapeDawg · 10-16-2005, 10:36 AM

Nice plugs YS, I really like the middle one

NIB · 10-16-2005, 11:23 AM

So how do they swim not sure the head cut matters much with that lip..The middle one looks cool some kinda ailienjungle cock feather design.sorta.ur paint is awesome.did u do the gills wit a stencil.or by hand.looks neat.

zacs · 10-16-2005, 12:05 PM

i like the windows on the schoolbus. I think they will swim good. nice siwashes. overall you're the man. please give me one.

ProfessorM · 10-16-2005, 12:37 PM

Very nice job as usual. P.

Tagger · 10-16-2005, 05:19 PM

like mistakes

justplugit · 10-16-2005, 07:43 PM

[QUOTE=Young i got them all the way to primed before i realized my screwup.[/QUOTE]

yup, been there done that.

Real nice YS.

thefishingfreak · 10-16-2005, 09:28 PM

nice nice nice!!!

Jigman · 10-17-2005, 11:30 AM

Look good

Hopefully the mistake will pay off for you

Never know where your next inspiration will come from

Jigman

Young Salt · 10-23-2005, 07:19 AM

thx for the kind words....nib the jungle cock effect does look cool, but thats just an effect from the scanner against the dark back.
i did the gills with some frisket paper, on the top one i didn't clean or let the stencil dry off before doing the last side, giving me that slight smudge.

the plugs have some wiggle to them, but ride high and tend to hydroplane on the surface in any kind of current. all they have is a small amount of belly weight in the thick part. i have one of the large C.C. surfster that seems to not have any weight at all. Do you guys add weight to yours?

I know the bottom one could be called schoolbus or chicken scratch, but i was think of it as yellow submarine

if the plugs dosnt work the way i want it to i may have to toss these to the blue meanies

Jigman · 10-23-2005, 10:04 AM

I don't add weight to my surfsters. The lip adds plenty of weight. You want the nose to be down in the water. Part of the reason for the slope, is that it helps the lip grab in current. At least that is how I've viewed it. You could always add the slope and repaint if they are not working the way that you intended.

The first thing I would do though is remove the weight. If the weight is in the belly, it will cause the nose to come up some rather than dig. This may be one reason that they are rolling out in current.

Jigman