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View Poll Results: On average, how many plugs do you buy each year?
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0. I don't buy plugs. I make them myself.
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7 |
7.37% |
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17.89% |
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5-10
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25.26% |
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22.11% |
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27.37% |
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12-05-2008, 08:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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On average, how many plugs doyou BUY each year?
How bad is your habbit? How many plugs do you buy each year on average?
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12-05-2008, 08:54 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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One or two gibbs pencils for wood.
Lots of rubber, probably 30 or so 9" tsunamis and about the same number of 7" tsunamis.
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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12-05-2008, 08:55 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i am in recovery
it used to be weekly...
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12-05-2008, 08:55 AM
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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 Back Beach
One or two gibbs pencils for wood.
Lots of rubber, probably 30 or so 9" tsunamis and about the same number of 7" tsunamis.
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Have you no soul? |
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12-05-2008, 09:19 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Hmmm.....I would have to saaayyyy........I don't buy any!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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12-05-2008, 09:23 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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I buy probably 3-4 a year....trade a bunch...make a bunch too.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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12-05-2008, 09:49 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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"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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12-05-2008, 10:01 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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I have an addiction, what can I say
I still buy 10 or so a year and make my own too, average 30-40 each year  |
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It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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12-05-2008, 10:21 AM
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#9
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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Maybe a couple plugs each season - mostly plastic models(Super Strikes). Call me frugal but I still use favorite plugs that I purchased 25 years ago. When I lose one - I cry.
DZ
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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12-05-2008, 10:24 AM
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: warwick RI
Posts: 182
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I bought 6 wooden plugs last year. I still have five of them- and that aint bad. I fished mostly eels this summer and only caught on one plug. I only threw plugs when they werent hitting the eels.
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still by the firelight
and purple moonlight
I hear the rusted river's call
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12-05-2008, 10:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: West Sayville. NY
Posts: 37
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I usually end up buying about 10 a year and make round 2-3 dozen over the winter.
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12-05-2008, 10:43 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DZ
Maybe a couple plugs each season - mostly plastic models(Super Strikes). Call me frugal but I still use favorite plugs that I purchased 25 years ago. When I lose one - I cry.
DZ
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You're frugal.
Don't feel bad about it Dennis - after doing a major cleaning in the tackle shack it's abundantly clear that I don't need a lot at this point - just replace favorites that I've lost from time to time.
I like to think of it as one of the upsides to being an old guy... 
Hopefully, I can think of another...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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12-05-2008, 11:15 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Have you no soul?
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The question was how many do you "Buy".
Gifts are quite another story..
I take such great care of my plugs(little usage) that they never wear out. I still have a white pencil I bought at the gibbs household back in the late 80's that rides around in my bag and still catches fish on occasion.
I've also been known to beg, barter, and steal for vintage rebel f-90's. Still trying to butter up TO as he's got a shiny new one still in the box.  |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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12-05-2008, 11:15 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Not to fish though!  Smart ass! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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12-05-2008, 12:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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Probably around 15 to 20 last year. I didn't lose a single plug last season, so it will probably be fewer in 2009. I don't really plan on buying plugs, but if I see one at a show, or something like a Jigsmith become available, I'll buy one. All of my plugs eventually see water, so it's not a collecting thing for me. I also turn a few each year as time permits and have been doing a bunch of Salty's kits.
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12-05-2008, 12:39 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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I think I bought (0) last year...
I stocked up on big stormshads a few years ago...
I'm well stocked on Redfins, I make needles and fish eels most of the time...
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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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12-05-2008, 12:40 PM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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i'd say 10-20 now. used to be more but i've got so many. plus a few guys who make them are nice enough to give me some to try out. that number goes up if i stumble on some yellow/white or blurple a-salt or long bombers on clearance somewhere, because then i might by 10 or 20 on the spot knowing that i'll use them eventrually.
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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12-05-2008, 12:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: N. Shore MA
Posts: 271
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I don't splurge that often. Unless I go somewhere to get breakaways or something and their out. Then I need to make the trip seem worthwhile so I'll buy a $15 or $20 plug. Make sense?
I also take very good care of my plugs and still use some that are 20-30 years old. I even have a few pencils given to my great uncle by stan gibbs when they used to fish together. I would like to take them out of my bag, but they still produce.
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12-05-2008, 01:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: To close to water for my insanity
Posts: 884
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I definatly buy over 20 a year..... I really have it bad, but then again My girl works to pay the bills and I work to support my fishing habbits....lol
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12-05-2008, 02:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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It's getting to the point where I will probably unload a lot of vintage plugs. I like a metal lip or pencil on occasion just to practice casting.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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12-05-2008, 02:39 PM
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#22
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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I recall a few years ago, my wife said to me...you have all these plugs...but you fish eels most of the time. 
I started fishing plugs more in recent years to justify my expenditures in this area  ...make sense to you? |
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12-05-2008, 02:51 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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I buy about 10-15 old beat up plugs a year. I take them apart, learn and rebuild them. I then give them to kids, or guys that can't afford wood.
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12-05-2008, 04:24 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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I probably have at least 50 Hawg Hunters--some still NIP. I brought about 70 Superstrike plugs with me from NY when I moved, along with at least 30 Beachmasters. About the same number of Habs needles, and dozens of plastic swimmers--Bombers, Redfins, Yozuris, Megabaits, etc. Gotta have at least 30 Gibbs Canal Specials alone, plus another 30 of other assorted Gibbs--bottles, Polarises, Stubbies, darters.
Last year I think I bought about 5 of Mike T's CCT pencils and Polarises. That was it. I need more plugs like I need another head.
Now---ask me how much lead and plastic I burn through in a year  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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12-05-2008, 04:39 PM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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12-05-2008, 04:48 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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I honestly want to lose some... the fewer plugs I have, the more it will force me to catch with what I have, and stop switching plugs every 3 casts because I have 25 with me... honestly. Have you read the thread about "what was your hottest plug this season?" You will notice that everyone killed with something different... fish a plug in front of a hungry bass= catch a bass... my 2009 strategy is MINIMIZE # of plugs , MAXIMIZE my confidence in a chosen few.
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12-05-2008, 04:48 PM
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I Had A BLAST!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: I'm from Manhattan, Live in CT., but my heart is in SoCo!
Posts: 1,132
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I bought over 20 this last week alone. It's hard to say, over the course of a year. But I would guess, alot.
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12-05-2008, 04:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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I probably get 5-10 or so a year. I was fortunate and didnt lose any wood this year. Sacrificed a lot of plastic 1 night in RI. ITs worth it for 15lb blues. LAst year is was mostly CCT dannys, i bought about a half dozen, and gave a few away. Gave one to my buddy to give to his kid. First cast he got his first keeper. Best 15 bucks i ever spent.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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12-05-2008, 05:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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I bought so many the past few years I think I'm set until 2012. I will need some more eel hooks though.
-spence
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12-05-2008, 06:04 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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20 +... then the trades , I'm sick ..
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