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plugfest - 2010

plugfest--2010

Just want to say thanks to all involved for hosting such a great event. Just got back in and would turn around and drive back if there was more tomorrow. As has been said some incredible stuff being built and it just keeps getting better and more inspireing every year. Being able to just talk "shop" with some of the guys that have forgot more than I know is worth the trip alone. The different jigs by everyone that had them there were fantastic. Didn't get to meet everyone I wanted to again but there is so much going on that you can't see and do everything you want. Steve thank you for the flaptail and I will get that masturelure back in the mail to you ASAP. And thanks to the Rhody crew for the hospitality. Great bunch of people as usual.

Ted

Just getting in and I am pooped. Thanks to everyone who put this event together and all who I got to talk to today and even some I didn't. Last years fest got the juices flowing for me and this event has to be an annual thing for me. I enjoy it too much. Absolutely some awesome work there and love just getting a chance to see and swap with you guys. Congrats to all the winners in the categories and to Chumbucket for winning his own plug.:grins:

I'm just babbling now, good night.

Good times
 

I'm glad I made it down. I got to meet a few new guys and see some, like somebody said, you only see once a year. Thanks to the Greek for really going into some detail on some of his little tricks. Really nice of you to take the time with everything going on. To all who put it together, Great job. It really does seem like it is getting bigger every year. See ya next year. Scott

More pics for those not able to attend...:wavey: one of these years I'll be there, I promise. Looks like a great time.

Mike, nice job on your plugs.:drool: One guess who won your jointed eel plug :)
















that's right - George :D:rotf2: he was all smiles:grins:
I even won the needle, Thanks again.

I'd have pics but when I went to use it there was no memory card:wall:
I hope someone got some shots of the contest plugs.

:http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...eport-pf12.jpg

Now there's yer Kodak Moment right there...

:jump::gh::biglaugh: Awesome!

The superbowl of plug building...:kewl:

Great to see old friends and meet new cant wait till next year.

Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention.
If we had a category for most likely to catch a fish one the first cast, it would have been hands down the BIG STICK by saltydog :grins::rotf2: talk about cheating. :btu:

Somewhere eels are rejoicing. But it doesn't appear it will get any easier for the bass.

One of Back Beach's very first........

pix

Time flies and I have no voice left... we decided to come home instead of staying the night.. compared to some, we live around the corner... Nancy enjoyed her first plugfest and is allready talking about next year.. thanks to all who made this happen.. it is the super bowl of plug building.. but the people make it it fun....

Great time. Bruce, every year you have less and less time to look at stuff!

George, Thanks for the lip slot tip and the purple needle. :drool: It will be fished.

Joe, excellent display of rigging plugs. Mind blowing display you have there.

Larry, nice pluggage as usual.

JohnR, thanks for running the contest and this place. Helps the winter doldrums and is the best out there.

MikeCC, love those painting molds you had and the jigs for drilling everything centered.

Stewie it was nice talking to you outside.

You guys all did Steve proud! :cheers:

Plugfest is awesome. Yesterday was my first but definitely not my last! I am amazed that such an event actually exists. Everyone's generosity (with knowledge) is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Worth ever second of the drive from and back to Vermont! Great time talking to everyone and putting faces with handles (Yea for the name tags!).

Here is my booty haul from trading and what I was trading and the trick it was designed to do - stand on the belly of the tail hook in water with a specific gravity of 1.025.

Contest winners: Rookie, Best of Show, Novelty.

Contest winner: Best Flaptail and Classic.

Secrets of RockFish9 and Slip gets loaded.

Great time once again, Rockfish one of the most passionate guys I have ever met abotu plug building and willing to offer all he can to help anyone beter themselves at this addiction. Greek thanks for all the time sitting down and explaining all your techniques. Slip and the rest thanks again for organizing this. My Grandson spent all night saying "fish, fish".

Contest table and the big Flaptail.

nice job yesterday with everything. thanks! learned a lot by looking and asking questions too. a great group of craftsmen and characters make up one geat day! being new at this i can only tell you i left inspired and determined. been turning all morning! (paul, tip works fine). Big D, thanks for the "trade" that awesomely crafteed lipless swimmer will see some usage this year, at a little spot called montauk i love to fish, i can promise you that! hey, any of you guys i donated plugs too, you better swim'em or burn'em, cuz' they ain't pretty enough to hang on the wall, you got your own for that. here's to next year! thanks everyone.
jeff

great. nice meeting you and thanks for slaving in the kitchen and thank you for the plug

All I can say is AWESOME!!!

Great to see so many folks as obsessed with fishing and plug building as I am, an all around good time, and it is a nice opportunity to talk with old friends and new. I always learn something new, and get fired up for the spring run!

Many thanks to BigFish, Slipknot, and all the rest of you who keep making PlugFest a high water mark on the off-season.

Wow what a day. I was pooped out when I got home. I guess it didn't help missing the 195 exit and almost didn't realize between all the bs'ing about Plugfest to Jeffthe chef we were almost in Lowell. A 1 3/4 hr "detour". What a nice and informative day. Great talking plugs and trading. Nice tip from Mike @ M&D. microwaving epoxy and submerging brush first in epoxy to dissperse bubbles. Thanks to John R, Slip, Larry, Mike & family and all the others behind the scenes that made this a great day.

Mike..your correct in the fact that wire is wire..grommets are grommets....but when I talk about hardware as in lips..no one around can compete with ones made by salty's lure co..keeping personal feelings out of this..and personalities all around...I look for quality first ,price second...no matter who's making or selling, somethings there are just no substitute for if your looking for the best available when your putting all the time into making an item you want to be proud of...I hold no loytaly to anyone place when it comes to spending my money...whoever has what I"M looking for at the time will share in my hard earned wages.
Yes..I missed not having his hardware at the fest...and wonder why he wasn't present along with the other sponcers of sb to sell their wares to plug builders at such a gathering as this one held yesterday.

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...855-x-642-.jpg

i can't quite see behind the diet coke can..
but... was clammer giving rolling lessons there Bruce??

;)

gotta agree with CS, ya can't beat Salty's lips, first rate.

CS that is your opinion. We sell 1,000s of lips a week and have no complaints. I have further invested $$ in vibatory tumbler & media over the past few weeks to buff the edges cleaner and for the luster of the metal. There is always room to get better whether it's adding additional Products or just helping people learn a few new tips.

As far as Salty not coming, I was surprised when he was not there also.
You will have to check with the powers that be, why he was not, it's none of my business & I'm staying out of that.

The powers that be were not contacted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& in regards to his coming. He most certainly would have been welcome as always.

THe powers that be, didn't contact Mike or Scott or NJ (who hasn't replied to a few emails). I'm working round the clock and doing the best I can. If anyone wants to work for free or below minimum wage (what this pays when I have enough nuts to really look at it) let me know and I might just be happy to offload stuff.

I don't do this because I have to but because I want to. I'm sure Slip could have worked on 100 other things he wanted to do or really gone around and spend more time with everyone. Instead, he busted his buttocks trying to put together a good event.

Now I would like to see this conversation move back to what it was, a great event. No sponsor on sponsor crime, insults, or he said she said. Move it back to talking plugs.

Thankyouverrymuch :love:

Thanks...
 

Thanks to everyone who put together Plugfest yesterday. It was my first, but I hope not my last. I had the Olympus working OT taking pics. Awesome stuff to be seen anywhere you looked. I ended up with this plug in the raffle and didn't recognize the builder's name from this site. Is the builder here on S-B?

Ted..if you get to read this..hang onto the masterlure....no need to return it....save your stamps..enjoy...fish it.

that needle is made by Jim, Biteme, the poor guy with the plug whore following him around, Mr. quick fingers, Ernie.

nice talking to Joe ,, good board you have with all the plugs bandsawed and differant methods of hanging hooks is well shown .. Picture tells 1000 words and it was all there ..

Had an awesome time, good food and good people great pluggage, what more could you ask for. A Big thanks to all involved! And a special thanks to chumbucket after winning his own plug in the raffle; and then put it right back in:thanks:....too nice!

Thanks to Joe Figliuolo for sharpening my skews and giving me a tutorial on the correct way to "skew".

just getting in.first chance
to post, it's been said an it all true, it just
keeps getting BETTER ,BETTER, new builders an new plugs, an FANTASTIC paint jobs, I didn't get a chance to meet everyone, just not enought time, but THANK YOU ALL an see you next season, for MORE GREAT PLUG'S:drool::drool: heres my one an only pic, I a chance to take.
GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN:cheers:

Hi all , Just got home a bit ago. Well when somethings good it's good. Plugfest just keeps gettin better every year. Thanks much to those of you that put so much work into puttin it all together.To all the builders damn but some of you sure do some great work.Thanks for the chance to swap with you. Hope my plugs work as good for you as they do for me. Ron