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05-11-2005, 08:11 PM
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Location: North shore
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Spring Bombers
Thought I'd take a stab at some home brew bomber type swimmers. My apologoes to NJT for the re-engineered lips... :-) Big ones are almost 7 " long. The smaller ones are are just over 5" long. The big ones have a belly weight right at the thickest part of the wood.
Black over purple first...
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05-11-2005, 08:13 PM
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second set...
Parrot....
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05-11-2005, 08:19 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
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very nice  |
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05-11-2005, 08:50 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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Real nice SH.  Awesome shape on the 5 inch in the first pic  |
" Choose Life "
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05-11-2005, 09:20 PM
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Good Stuff... question, does the thru wire go thru the lips on 1,2, and 3?
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05-12-2005, 04:41 AM
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No. Those are just epoxied in place. I was thinking about that and once I get the right lip profile, I that's one way to be sure the lip doesn't fall out. Either that or some small screws.
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05-12-2005, 05:07 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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liquid nails... holds metal to wood...extremely well...
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05-12-2005, 05:33 AM
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WTF
Join Date: May 2004
Location: wareham
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they look good. how do they swim? |
 diamondbanger
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05-12-2005, 12:02 PM
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If I can make time, they'll get hooks and a test swim this evening... Otherwise, next week.
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05-12-2005, 02:43 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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Great looking plugs ..
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05-21-2005, 03:20 PM
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swim test
Swam the parrot plugs today... The little one worked great. Got a few swrils behind it by some twinkies... The big one came in in a loose spiral :-( The lip is fairly narrow and pointy form the front. Was thinking I may need to widen it a bit. The plug is alos unwighted. Maybe a touch of weight near the nose? Any thoughts/suggestions anyone???
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05-22-2005, 06:43 AM
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Went out under the lights last night with a bigger lip. Stabalized the spiral on the big one. Sinks like a stone. nose first. I rememberd that this one was made of maple. The idea being to help it swim deep. Will try a bigger lip. Then may move to the front of the plug with "conventional" lip or swap ends and make it into a pencil style plug..
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05-22-2005, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: jerseyshore
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Just try bending the lip down.even it heavy it should swim from what I can tell from the pic.seems like ur gettin it.One mistake at a time the best way to learn.
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05-22-2005, 07:39 PM
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I've put a cut down big pikie lip on th parrot one. Will try that later tonight. Also made another body out of red cedar. put a big cut down Lefty lip on it and that seems to be getting me in th right direction. I ended bending it down like you mentioned NIB. That got me a nice tight subsurface wiggle in heavy current.
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