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11-30-2007, 06:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Sitting in Stan Gibbs basement when I was a youngster and watching him might have had something to do with it, maybe.
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Why even try......... 
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11-30-2007, 08:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Southern Connecticut
Posts: 194
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The yellow eyed demons got me into plug building by getting eveything I had one year.
I had all the tools already as a woodworker. I cant't believe that I didnt get started sooner!
Least favorite part is all the sanding.
Favorite part is painting. (not counting field testing or R&D)
Rock-For someone who doesnt like to paint, you sure do some masterpieces!!!
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11-30-2007, 12:23 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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My first plug was built in early 1970. A mackeral Striper-swiper style. Didn't build another until 2003 after a breakfast at Leo's where I met Tagger, Newell Guy  , and other. MAC brought some of his new plugs, I kinda said "Oh, yeah.." to myself. |
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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11-30-2007, 01:08 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Kentucky
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Guess I've always tinkered with lures in some form or another. Started fly tying in the mid 70's. Jigs came soon after that. From there, spinnerbaits, buzz baits, spinners, etc. Made my first couple of plugs around 94-95. Pocket knife and a piece of scrap pine shelving. Made two small (1/4 oz) poppers for sunfish. Pain in the butt to make them, but they worked. Didn't attempt any other plugs until 2001. Basically saw the cool stuff that the guys on the other site were making and decided I needed to give it a shot.
Favorite part: beating the snot out of them  Also enjoy hearing about others doing well on a plug I gave them. As far as the building part, I like tinkering with designs. Basic R&D to get something to work how I want and in the conditions I need to fish it. Nothing like getting back from a day of fishing and trying to figure out how to better imitate the bait I was seeing that day.
Least favorite part: the time between when I finish a plug and when I get to fish it  Probably wiring and drilling are my least favorite parts of building.
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11-30-2007, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
Sitting in Stan Gibbs basement when I was a youngster and watching him might have had something to do with it, maybe.
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Lucky bastage!!!
When i was a kid i use to carve crude lures and fish a freshwater pond.Did not really take it up seriously until 2002/2003 when i got tired of losing and paying for pencil poppers.One day i snapped and said wth i'll make my own.Had a woodshop in my garage already and it gave me an excuse to get a wood lathe and an airbrush.my least favorite thing is epoxying.Favorite thing is painting and testing and the smile on someones face when they tell me they did well on one of my plugs. |
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11-30-2007, 04:30 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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I made some stuff earlier .. pre internet.. broom stick popper ... dowel teaser.. Cut up alot of silver ware ,, (make shift hopkins)... I don't count that.. I was a plug forum lurker about 2 yrs. over sol ..I think I started (for real) 5 maybe 6 yrs. ago .. When ever Newell Guy did .. We made a bunch of crap and thought it was great . Kind of a comedy of errors..Not too much sharing info in those days .. Capesams took Newell guy and me under his wing . We went over his house and he showed us amazing plug skillz. I gotta give Capesams props for my early plug devlopement .. I was taught something by just about everyone on the boards and I'm still being schooled.. I attended plug college and had again Capesams,,Flap,,Numbskull,,Vineyard Blues,, Carl Johanson and Stan Kuzia as professors,,, Not too shabby .. Lately its been Bernzy,,G2,,Lu and always Numby .. I guess what I enjoy the most is fishing the plugs ,, tweaking,, and the other people who build .. I hate buying bandsaw blades ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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11-30-2007, 04:33 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
Sitting in Stan Gibbs basement when I was a youngster and watching him might have had something to do with it, maybe.
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I was burning my toys and killing bugs ..  |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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11-30-2007, 05:08 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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What got you into it?
Was working 330-midnight tues-f and 8am-5pm saturdays and had class 745am-2 m-f . Every chance I had free time I was fishing. The girl I was ummm dating yeah.. at the times dad had invited me out on his boat for 2 or 3 years and I pretty much always declined.. I just did my thing. I finally went one day and yup old man had a twin screw 25 hydra sport that was mint with every possible option.. And no one to fish with, sweetness!! I miss fishing with her dad a TON learned a lot about Block Island, boatwise shore it’s a lot more challenging moving around wise, I like block boat shore, I’d take shore.. I don’t really ever find myself wondering hows shes doing, I usually think more hmmmm I wonder if he’s out fishing. That first trip started a fishing run that pretty much consisted of come home from work, straight to the dock to fish block island, bang out the homework quick quick on lunch at work, and keep going as many days in a row as possible. We went through a LOT of eels fishing block at night and always threw poppers at first light, one thing lead to another and for some strange reason in the middle of the 02 winter I decided hey I can make these… so I made some poppers.. ugly gawd… were they ugly.. so I started checking out stuff online, and I found some Japanese techniques, so I made some stuff for largemouf still have some in progress… kept searching online and I found the other place, then saltheart mentioned that you all here were having a get together and I attended and I haven’t been banned yet…and well here I am, I build when I have free time and I’m a burn the candle at both ends person, so free time becomes rarer and rarer..
I enjoy knowing that I made that block of wood do that, dive wobble snake in an S like a danny should… etc. It makes me chuckle inside wood is like this super primitive thing, and I work with like super ultra, nasa super uber technology so it’s a nice change of pace. I don’t like the plug wars aspect of it, I dunno I’m kinda of a total simpleton in the fact that I think that why cant people just act right?? You know live and let live?? Do what you’re supposed to do etc.. you know stuff like that or some junk…
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Domination takes full concentration..
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12-03-2007, 08:42 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,749
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
Sitting in Stan Gibbs basement when I was a youngster and watching him might have had something to do with it, maybe.
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That would do it for me! Hard to have a better tutor than that! |
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03-02-2009, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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well spoken joe
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