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11-10-2005, 04:53 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Hello. Here is some info to help build a big Nike. I x-rayed one.
The wood is soft, light, reddish and quick growing (big growth rings), probably red cedar.
The weight is only in the tail. It is roughly 7/16 x 13/16 long. It appears to actually be a lead strip wrapped around a narrower lead plug. There is no belly weight.
The plug is not, in fact, through wired. The wire extends in from each end as far as the nearest screw eye which, in turn, passes through a loop in the end of the wire to anchor it. Clever.
The angle of the diving plane appears to be 35 degrees. The plane is 2 1/4 inches long and 1 inch wide. The protrusion on the front of the plug is obviously also 1" dia and projects forward about 1 1/8 inch.
The plug is 7 1/2 " long. It is 1 3/4 ' wide at it's widest, about 3 " from the nose. The last 1 1/4' of the plug is a straight barrell, 3/4 " in diameter.
The tail hook is 2 1/4 from the rear, the front hook is 2 1/2 " from the nose and there is 2 5/8" between them.
I have a smaller Nike, 5 1/4" long that does not seem to be weighted (I haven't xrayed it) but carries large 3/0 or 4/0 hooks instead.
I haven't seen these plugs in the water. If you are interested in a very productive lipless swimmer, I suggest copying the Magna Strike Predator (an out of production plastic plug) I have made several that work well and the dimensions do not seem critical.
Good luck.
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11-10-2005, 05:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,596
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Thanks, and great name 
ANy chance you can post a pic of the x-ray ?
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11-10-2005, 06:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Wow, thanks for the tutorial! And welcome to S-B. Nifty bunch of guys hang around here.  |
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11-10-2005, 07:03 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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WOW ask and you shall receive!!!!!!!! Thanks very informative!!!!!!
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11-10-2005, 07:24 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Thanks for info Numbskull . Name is definately not fitting . I been thing about the Predator too ,, Wich one are you making the big one or the little one .?
Last edited by Tagger; 11-28-2005 at 10:38 PM..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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11-10-2005, 10:11 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Tagger. I've had good luck making a loose copy of the larger Predator. I've made them about an inch longer and a bit wider than the original. I use pine and don't weight them, other than big hooks. The design is very stable in rough water, keeps it's head down when dannys don't, and fishes well, at least from a boat during the day.
Vineyard. Here comes a try at posting a picture of the Nike xray.[IMG]fishpict2.jpg[/IMG]
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11-10-2005, 10:50 PM
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Really Old & Really Grumpy
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: not a clue
Posts: 4,860
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nice ...you beat me to it...the lead on the ones I have look to be poured around the tail wire right up into the loop itself. no hole for the wire to go through.
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BOAT fish do count.
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