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12-04-2009, 09:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,749
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My home made lathe..
once I got past using broom handles and small dowels to make poppers and needle fish.. I made this lathe.. using an old 1/2" drill and some good old yankee inginuity... originaly I used another drill and a bit to attempt carving as the plug as well as regular wood chilsels.. the lst and most sucessfull tool was the roto zip...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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12-04-2009, 09:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,442
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Some of mine.
Early stuff. The small popper on the top was mid 90s, pre internet learning. Used a pocket knife and sandpaper. Wood was some pine left over from making some shelves. Vinal jig paint, no clear. An ultra-light plug that I used for bluegill. Did well with that one, but only made a couple. The bottom one was my first post-internet one, late 2001. Again, carved with a pocket knife and sandpaper. Second one down is the first freshie plug that really worked well for me. Poplar dowel on the lead, no sealer, rattle cans. Smallies ate it well. Third one down is from around 02 or 03 from a swap on the other site.
Some from this year:
The multi-jointed swimbait has done pretty well on larger smallmouth this year. The jerkbait bait below that, foiled, also a good smallie bait. Those two are "handcarved". Rest are lathe turned plugs. Spook, pikie, bottle, and off-center plug. All have done well for stripers and bluefish.
Jigman
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12-05-2009, 08:40 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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This was one of the very first. Made as a young teenager....@1970 while waiting for opening day. It didn't work.
Soon after.....@ 1975-1979 I built loads of bluefish fodder. First plugs I through wired. This one worked big time.
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12-05-2009, 08:50 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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After a hiatus from fishing for a while (training, marriage, new job, first kid), I got back at it in the mid 80's.........at which time danny style surface swimmers where briefly unavailable so I started building my own. The whites and black were my very first and all caught fish. The top one was 8.5" and carries 5/0's.
The next year I got fancier....but only the big one was successful. All are before you could buy lips.
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12-05-2009, 08:56 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Once I could get BM (then Gibbs) I stopped building dannys. But still fooled with copying older stuff in the late 80's. The flaptail, larger jointed, and predator were very successful plugs. Still pre-grommets/stamped lips. The darter was built around 90-91 when I could no longer get the BM version.
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12-05-2009, 09:07 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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I quit building for the most part in the early 90's, and spent a decade mostly flyfishing/chasing tuna/coaching and driving kids/etc until the early 2000's when I came back to plugging. Flap told me about this site and @ 2005, after looking at what Eddy, Mac, Bruce, and others were building I dug up some old Frech articles and got back at it big time. This was the first of the internet age for me.
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12-05-2009, 09:12 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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We are glad you came along George! You sure make people think! Your work is amazing!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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