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Originally Posted by numbskull
I've got another "observation" I stumbled across yesterday. I always assumed that the less weight in a surface swimming plug, the easier it would swim and the slower you could work it. Wrong again. Turns out with those skinny donnys I made, they swim at a much slower retrieve with 14 grams in them they they do with 8 grams. What I think is happening is that when the plug floats higher, some of the force (ie retrieve speed) is used up overcoming it's buoyancy before the plug develops its action. Go too slow and the plug just skims the surface without working. The plug sitting deeper in the surface film can start working sooner. This also explains something that puzzled me for years. The best surface swimmer I ever had was a beat-up Lupo with oversized (3/0) belly trebles. It would waterlog on the first cast, but outfish anything else I owned by a ton. It now occurs to me that it must have been sitting much deeper than my other less beat up Beachmasters, and working at a slower speed. Not sure this is right, but something to try in any case.
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Could be something to that.Tony never sealed his stuff really well.He dipped the whole finished plug.It was finish and sealer all in one.
When they got heavy I actually like em better..
Most of my designs are built with castabilty in mind.Even in my first runs.I would put some pretty big shots of lead in them.As I evolved I started making em fatter trying to compensate for the lead.They swam well but I was not as successful with em.Last spring I used one of my older large Danny types and was pretty happy with the results.This stemmed from you making that thing you made that I am trying to duplicate.
Not sure if it's the size or the action.I do know it is easy to take a big fat pc of wood and make it swim well.There is so much to work with you can make it do anything you want.Like a BM Cowboy for instance. There does appear to be something else to it.I really think have a preference for skinnier designs.
One of the things that hit me when I first saw a Musso plug in person is they are not as large in all dimensions as I imagined.Like he took Danny's dimensions and kept the sand paper on em too long....From my conversations with Donny castabilty is very important.You make this big fat thing and it tumbles and cast's like a wet rag.Even juiced up with lead.There is so much wind resistance.I have learned so much about fishing plugs from making em. I am still learning..