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07-28-2003, 07:16 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
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Makerel are running!
After another 6 months of redsigning the old darter, here's the new and improved.
Made numerous adjustments to improve casting distance, diving range, digging ability and lure action. Many, Many hours have gone into this model, and I would like to thank those that have helped me along the way with comments - good and bad. To name a few - HABS (it's good to work for the king) , Seawolf, Crazy Alberto, and Iron Mike to name a few.
Here's a school headed west to www.surfcasting-rhodeisland.com |
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07-28-2003, 07:16 PM
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Location: Portsmouth RI
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and a close up...see the fear of getting eaten in this guys eye?  |
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07-28-2003, 07:21 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Wow, very nice craftmanship! I can even see a 40 lb'er persuing that school with mouth a waterin.
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07-28-2003, 07:44 PM
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Needlefish Nazi
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 1,754
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HOLY MACKERAL
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Over the Last Several Years HAB'S NEEDLEFISH Have Caught More "Confirmed" 30, 40, 50, and even 60 pound Striped Bass than any other Wooden Needlefish on the Market today. 2 Over 50lbs. and 1 Over 60lbs. in 2005 alone........... "HOOK UP WITH HAB'S" Your Best Bet For BIG BASS.....
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07-28-2003, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
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Nice stuff!!
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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07-28-2003, 08:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 1,269
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Quote:
Originally posted by JHABS
HOLY MACKERAL
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Ditto 
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07-28-2003, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 842
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thanks for the compliment, ink-man. i'm glad i was able to give advice to you for good product to make it even better! i've had a few of the new ones over the past 6 months and they are just as tattoo says, better casting, swimming, digging, etc. if you do not have one yet, i'd get a few. they go fast! i've never seen an order last more than 2 weeks in a shop. considering how difficult and labor intensive they are to make, don't wait for the second run. get yours now! i believe a order is to be delivered to a few shops very, very soon. i'd pay attention to further posts form the ink-man and get yours now.
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07-28-2003, 08:31 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Unflippin' believable....  |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-28-2003, 08:39 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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WHERE?WHEN?VERY NICE TATTOO!  |
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07-28-2003, 08:48 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Everything about them looks just perfect. |
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07-28-2003, 08:52 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
Location: notsob
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live to fish. fish to live. rod tips high.
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07-28-2003, 08:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Another quality Tattoo lure!
How long does it take a school of macks to cross the bay? (Probably a long time - they look like they don't go anywhere in a straight line.....
Darters will be 19.99 shipping included.....
I'll have mack, yellow & blurple.
I may even have some Habs needles in a couple of weeks....at least that is what the rumor is churning. I should have taken out a home line and ordered 500 of those.....oh well....next time I will.
Also....I now have some of the harder to find Atoms.
I have some Atom 40's, Junior Atoms, Reverse Atoms & the new Baby Atom which also makes a nice eel skin host
http://surfcasting-rhodeisland.com/storepagethree.htm
Bernzy, your Atoms will ship tom....thanks... |
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07-28-2003, 09:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Quote:
Originally posted by Joe
Also....I now have some of the harder to find Atoms.
I have some Atom 40's, Junior Atoms, Reverse Atoms & the new Baby Atom which also makes a nice eel skin host
http://surfcasting-rhodeisland.com/storepagethree.htm
Bernzy, your Atoms will ship tom....thanks...
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Thanks Joe
It's an awesome little plug.
Bernzy |
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07-29-2003, 04:46 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
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Thanks for the kind words.....
MikeP - Hows the front eye loop placement?  
Joe sometime this week....I gotta finish the rest of them..... |
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07-29-2003, 09:40 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 690
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How different are these from the ones you sold last fall?
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07-29-2003, 12:55 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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07-29-2003, 01:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
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Tobias,
The bottom lip is longer to keep the plug in the water in a rip rather than skipping across the top upside down.
The front hook has been moved foward to shift weight to the front of the lure, which helps with getting the lure to start to dig after it initially lands.
The shape of the lure has changed a bit to cut down on wind resistance to decrease tumbling like a bananna and increase distance.
Don't get me wrong, the others just as well as these do, but the lure needed some adjustments to make it better than before. Just trying to give the customer the best for there buck. 
If you don't want the old one's can I have them? I only have one left.....and only 2 left of the new ones. |
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07-29-2003, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 690
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I have about 10 of the old ones and only one of those is slightly used (no nicks or pointers, just swam it to check out the action). If you want to trade for new ones, pm me. I also have the white darter you had at the MSBA show from two years ago. Thanks.
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07-29-2003, 07:55 PM
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Dave's Guide Service
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 7,557
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give me them darters chatham and yellow darter= bass give me your darters now fork them over
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Pro Tool Club....
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07-29-2003, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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BM, you a 'ho . . . rest, Doctor's orders.
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07-31-2003, 10:29 AM
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Dave's Guide Service
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Cape Cod
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Im glad to see a quality plug if i could get My hands on one TATTOO!!!!!!!!
A plug that really has R&D as well as time into it and have it evolve into a better plug over time or maybe 2 or 3 years
Im sure alot of man hours went into it along with the testers of the plug and there Time! put into fishing it
From the Day You gave Me that yellow plug I just have to till I get another Fish Catching darter
Its nice to see some people actually dont copy people and actually fish what they make |
Pro Tool Club....
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08-26-2003, 12:46 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
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Mr. Tatto - Very nice!!!!!! |
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08-26-2003, 01:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Outer Banks NC, Charlestown RI
Posts: 1,053
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I'd like to get a few, do any of the local shops carry them?
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08-26-2003, 05:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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wish
I had one of these Sunday night........ the real thing was leapin outa the watah and landin at my feet , I can only imagine one of them plugs bein' thrown into that boilin' mess.....
179, nice avatar, where do you fish? |
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08-26-2003, 05:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 842
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179 - you can hit either the saltwater edge in newport or capt don's in c'town. don's had a few still on the wall a week or so ago.
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08-27-2003, 06:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Outer Banks NC, Charlestown RI
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Thanks for the info, I'll hit Capt. Dons tonight....
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08-27-2003, 03:20 PM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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179... NICE!!
That is what my wife thinks I am after when I go after strippers.I er um mean Stripers.
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08-27-2003, 03:23 PM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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Awesome lures!
Put me down for a new and improved in mack and one in blurple!!
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08-27-2003, 11:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: jerseyshore
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I have five of em. an I don't know what ur talkin bout I tested them in calm water an in the sweepin outgoin current of the river. It didnot come out of the water.It is one of the best swimmin darters Iv'e thrown.they could cast alittle better but thats a even tradeoff.I'm not sure there is a harder lure to mass produce than a darter.I make my own they are the hardest lure to get right,tough to make a good caster that swims good.I have a bunch o gibbs 3 oz darters I screwed around with they weighed about 2.7,2.8 they cast for crap put a shot of lead in em an the cast like a rocket. an swimm better.now I just gotta rewire em One fish will nock the plug outa wack the way the wire comes through the top of them things lots o work for 17.dollars. give me the tatto's any time.Not sure movin the hook foward or makin the front lip longer makes them stay in the water better.Maybe the angle of the lip. like the addage goes up is down an down is up.Or somethin like that.darters are bout balance the constant battle of lip against body.I guess I got lucky as all mine swam good.Man I wish I knew what that finish is. |
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08-27-2003, 11:35 PM
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The Director of Fun
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Long Island, NY (south shore)
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I was on a sand beach 3 weeks ago when I snapped off a white Tattoo darter, you should have seen the faces on the people on the beach when I went swimming for it!!!
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the full moon looks orange sometimes when it rises because the light has to pass through more of the atmosphere then when the moon is higher in the sky. the blue light waves scatter but the red light waves pass through...... if you were wondering.
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