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12-03-2005, 07:43 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Gone Bananas
Slipknot, Cape Sam, Tagger, et al...........After 10 years away, you guys got me back into my workshop. Thanks.
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12-03-2005, 08:58 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Delaware Co., PA
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NICE!
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12-03-2005, 08:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
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That's SICK!!! Can you give some dimensions, etc.? Looks like you did it freehand.
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12-03-2005, 09:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hard aground
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Cool stuff!
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12-03-2005, 09:22 AM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
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Nice looking lure. What wood?sinking, floating?
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12-03-2005, 09:33 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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Very nice.
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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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12-03-2005, 09:34 AM
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WTF
Join Date: May 2004
Location: wareham
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sweet!
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12-03-2005, 10:33 AM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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Awesome stuff.   |
" Choose Life "
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12-03-2005, 10:42 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Holy S$%#^.. back in the wood shop where you belong,, what a waste,,,now you gotta make up for the down time .. Very interesting shape.. does it have a name ? is it a knock off of something eles ? great work ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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12-03-2005, 12:20 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Originally Posted by Tagger
.. Very interesting shape.. does it have a name ? is it a knock off of something eles ? ..
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It is a "Frech Banana". Jack Frech published a series of plug building articles @1975 (reprinted @ 1989) in " The Fisherman" magazine. This a copy of his final plug. It is pine, 7 1/2" long, heavily loaded, and floats upright even with the surface, sort of a planer-style plug, not unlike the modern sluggo design. I have no idea how well it fishes, and his weighting instructions seemed too much, so I'm not even sure I've got it right. With a bandsaw, spokeshave, and rasp it is not too difficult to build, though some sort of carver's vise/jig is helpful. I think you could also do away with the hand tools and shape it after bandsawing with a rotary sander instead. If anyone has ever fished one of the originals (NIB maybe?), please pm me I'd appreciate any info that would help fine tune the weighting. Thanks. |
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12-03-2005, 02:17 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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http://highhillstriperclub.com/articles_darters.htm Had this article on him.. Don't really know much about him .. thats a pretty neat design ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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12-03-2005, 11:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Awesome Banana Boat!  |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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01-10-2007, 11:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lombardia
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Hi Everyone, I am new to StriperTalk and am looking forward to contributing as I can to the community. At present, however, I am in need of a little help!
It is my friend's birthday this Saturday- he's helped me to learn about how to fish the surf and the bays and to make my own equipment.
I want to give back in some way and came across these pictures of the Frech banana plug- they look alot like one of the plugs my friend had made long ago under the tutelage of HIS mentor. I was thinking it would be a great present to give him the formal schematic for this plug, especially considering that he lost this very plug that he had made as a kid (snapped off at night in late October and he went swimming for it in some heavy surf and couldn't come up with it, by way of illustrating that this was something of real value to him).
If anyone can help direct me to the right place, I would be grateful indeed! I know from researching it that the Fisherman published Frech's articles in 1988, but I haven't had luck so far finding a copy.
Many thanks for your help!
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01-11-2007, 07:02 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Just PM me your address and I'll send it along with some corrections you will need. I won't be able to mail it until tomorrow, however.
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01-11-2007, 08:23 AM
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Location: Lombardia
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01-11-2007, 08:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Just PM me your address and I'll send it along with some corrections you will need. I won't be able to mail it until tomorrow, however.
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You the man!!! |
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01-15-2007, 05:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: cape cod
Posts: 297
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no bananas on my boat...  |
a fifty before I go!!!!!!
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01-15-2007, 09:48 PM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mrstriper
no bananas on my boat... |
no! but there are a couple of fruits. |
BOAT fish do count.
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