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Originally Posted by numbskull
Much about these has been posted previously. Here are some details on the 6" Musso pine I measured (but no longer have). If you are interested in the big swimmers pm me, or better yet come by Falmouth this week and I can show you what I know.
Here are the details on the pine jr I sent ******. The size of weight is in there.
The junior musso I measured was a pine.
it is 6 1/8" long
.85" at the nose
.5" at the tail
widest spot was 3" from the nose and measured 1.3" wide
the weight was also 3" from the nose and is 3/8" diameter and 3/4" height....drilled through
first hook is 1.25" from nose, second hook 4"
diameter 2" from either end is 1.2" (it is 1.11" at the first hook)
The lip slot is above center on the plug I saw. about .34" from the top of the plug to the slot.
The plug weighed 2.5oz, but I don't recall if this was rigged or not
I suspect the lower lip slot position that appears to be used on some plugs I've seen on line (I've never actually inspected one) was a later change and used primarily in surface swimmers (which I have not built in the Jr size).
The pine uses a high slot lefty 2 lip
The ss presumably uses the mid slot lip
I've not xrayed a maple jr....the maple sr carries a much smaller weight than the pine or ss. I think he just weighted them to float level and low.
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Thanks George thats plenty to get me started. I'm not sure what I will do with the shape. I will have to try some normal ones that go by the specs, but I'm tossing around the idea of doing some lipless stuff like the nike uses. When I was picking up wood around thanksgiving I got some maple for darters and they did not have any 5/4 so I ended up with 6/4 and it started me thinking maybe I could try and make some heavy swimmers that go down a bit. I had a lot of luck with the darters last year but I don't make any swimmers that go deep. I think a lot of guys built conrads for this purpose last year, but I really like the shape of the musso.