plug roll

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Try a narrower lip

That never crossed my mind George. Will get a few pikey 2's for chits and giggles.
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[Livefreeordie]

New here, and not yet a good plug builder, but....

I had a similar question about roll that I asked on another site's builder's forum, and did not get a decisive answer...

So, I cut out 6 bodies from same piece of poplar dowel, and put 3 different lips on, so that I ended up with 2 with a wide square lip, 2 with narrower flat lip with semi-circle end, and 2 w/narrower lip w/bevel.

The wider square lip definitely had the most roll.

All the bodies were pretty d@mn close in shape, weight placement, etc.

[pbadad]

As what Larry suggested Frank, KEEL weight. One way I tried is to make shallow depth weights. I make them say 1/2 wide X 1/4" deep and 1/2 X 1/8". Lowers the center of gravity.along with hook weight i.e. 6X trebles. Not to get too crazy over roll. Like mentioned above, dying bait fish never swim straight. I do realize this non roll concept is for your own knowledge. We as plug builders sometimes get crazy ideas. That's the fun of building and expirementing.