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05-21-2009, 03:59 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Oh yeah. Of all the plugs you can build, knowing you got a darter right is always special.
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05-22-2009, 06:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12,632
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my little bunker pattern spook has outfished everything in my bag so far, even at midnight last night when all else had failed, worked extremely slowly it produced...
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05-22-2009, 06:23 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Nice catches guys. Some pics from last week. The shallow water, top water fishing was to die for with larger fish each time I went out. The best day I forgot the camera. Anyway my yellow howdy in red cedar is my usual go to plug, thanks John, but had very good luck with the spooks I made over the winter like the red headed one and one in yellow and a green top white bottom one too. Also had real good luck with a yellow howdy that had the bottom flattened like a hawg hunter. Caught pissa but a fish stole it on me. Had a different action, which I liked. Its all about the strike for me . You could take the hooks off and I would still have a ball.
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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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05-23-2009, 01:40 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: new bedford, Ma.
Posts: 651
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you guys are on fire.
even though these will most likely be the only two that I lay to rest for this season it still doesn't make it any easier...first two legal fish on my own wood.
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Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.
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05-23-2009, 12:52 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Way to go, Eskimo.
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05-23-2009, 12:58 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Here are a few from last pm and today.
A fish caught by Earlybird on one of Flap's spooks
A fish caught by a really, really, handsome guy on a skinny danny
A bad picture of a 24.5# that ate a yellow bottle.
Time to go get 'em, guys.
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05-23-2009, 07:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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Nice fish guys. George I threw the big yellow darter I got from you @ plugfest in the bag last night and it caught first cast. My first bluefish of the year...  I really like that one, it's heavier than mine and perfect wieght for the rod I'm using.. I put it back in the bag for tonight.
I fried my cell phone a couple nights ago so I haven't been carrying the camera the past few nights. I'll bring one tomorrow... |
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05-24-2009, 08:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: NY
Posts: 254
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nice fish everyone!!
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05-25-2009, 05:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 135
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Nice way to end a walk.
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05-25-2009, 12:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
 Nice Dave, I think I have one of your darters, a squid colored one, I intend to try it shortly. |
Ya, those came out nice but they have too much action. They are more of a subsurface swimmer than a true darter but they do cast well..
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Originally Posted by numbskull
It is amazing how valuable a home made plug becomes, when it is your only prototype and is working better than anything else in your bag. You start trusting it so much and fishing it so often, surviving the season becomes unlikely.......yet taking it out of the rotation deprives you of your most useful tool. I've gone both ways (got the same dilemma right now with the yellow bottle). What I try to do is measure it, weigh it, get a profile, float it to record its waterline, and record its balance point.........then I keep fishing it and hope for the best. I think you learn more by fishing a plug through its lifespan, than by quitting while you are ahead.
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I decided to retire it and I ended up taking my biggest fish of the year on its replacement last night(28#) but then I hung it up and broke it off, so now I'm glad the good one is safely tucked away in the basement... Boy do I want a 30 on a darter... Funny how learning a new way to catch the same fish makes it interesting all over again.
I didn't make that many good darters and the big batch I made when I finally figured them out got 'oversealed' and were too heavy so they were all sitting in the basement. This morning I took a few of the lightest ones and just spray bombed them black. I think a few will be ok, we'll see. |
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05-28-2009, 01:54 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Nice B. That picture sure wasn't today, I see sun. It was like fishing in November today. I still haven't warmed up.
Oh yeah nice one Matt. You got that on a rubber shad and Larry made you change it.  Tell the truth now.
Just kidding big guy |
"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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06-02-2009, 03:21 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Took a while. Empty am at the canal and boat stuff has been grim, but snotty SW and rain was too good to pass up. A fatty on ProfM's lido clone, and a nice fish on a large (7.5") donny clone. Felt great.
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06-02-2009, 03:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Grafton, Ma
Posts: 505
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Nicely done on some classic looking plugs!
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06-02-2009, 05:09 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Awesome. Hope to see you tomorrow maybe with the tall guy
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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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06-02-2009, 06:11 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Awesome. Hope to see you tomorrow maybe with the tall guy
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This dude? He fishes plastic and is hitting on my dog. Scum. |
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06-02-2009, 06:28 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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That picture is all fuzzy....kind of like that one of Sasquatch!!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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06-03-2009, 03:40 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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From last week. Taken on a DC custom 2.5 oz pencil. It was literally drawing fish to the surface while everything else was failing...no eels yet in 2009.....not sure how much longer I can hold out.....
Pics courtesy of Zeno Hromin
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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06-03-2009, 05:27 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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May the force be with you.
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06-05-2009, 02:55 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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great job and nice seeing you at the canal last week.
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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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06-05-2009, 03:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: norwood pa
Posts: 166
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
great job and nice seeing you at the canal last week.
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Nice to see you again as well. You are some VERY lucky folks to live near such a terrific place to fish. I enjoyed my week there very much. |
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06-05-2009, 07:16 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Poor George. At first you don't succeed try,try again.
Nice fish BillC
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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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06-07-2009, 11:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 784
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Here is one that was about 30 on a prototype cowboy.
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06-07-2009, 11:38 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Nice plug, nice fish.
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06-07-2009, 02:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 784
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A decent one on a pencil from a few weeks back.
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06-07-2009, 02:43 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Nice catch Dan.
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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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06-09-2009, 06:54 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Nothing like the firm "yank" when a nice striper swallows a slow moving swimmer! Only 20 pounds but it was my thrill for today! Can't beat the "Prey"!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-09-2009, 08:17 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Nothing like the firm "yank" when a nice striper swallows a slow moving swimmer! Only 20 pounds but it was my thrill for today! Can't beat the "Prey"! |
IMO best swimmers on the market! |
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06-10-2009, 06:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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Here's a nice fish on one of the darters George gave me at plugfest. It was 28# and took the darter down headfirst, that's the tail of the plug sticking out of the mouth...
That's been one of my 'go to' plugs. I hope it makes it thru the season...
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06-10-2009, 04:13 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Crap! I didn't mean to give away any of the GOOD ones!
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06-10-2009, 02:39 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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nice fish guys. George makes a nice darter and yes Lawrence has a winner.
Speaking of darters I saw Eastend Lu at the canal yesterday and he gave me a bottle darter. Man that has some sweet action and I hope to ruin it some nite.
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