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From: John Kelsey, [c-24-147-111-6.hsd1.ma.comcast.net]
Subject: Mountain Plugs
| To Sally's dismay...., I brought along a bunch of my tying and plug making stuff on our annual trip to the Adirondacks. I wanted to try to make gliders and some carves swim baits with plastic lips and experiment with some finishing techniques using foil to create a scale effect on the side of the plug. I'll say right up front that the gliders looked pretty but didn't glide very well. I will need to work on getting their balance and profile right. I converted one to a deep diving swim bait with a small metal lip I had brought along, so all is not lost.... I will end up with some deep swimming plugs. I did have much better success with the swimmers with plastic lips, although it took me the better part of ten days to get them doing what they were supposed to do mostly. And that was a nice tight wiggle, maybe a bit of erratic movement but no rolling out as speed increased or the rod got swept. I had been targeting a running depth of about 4 feet, so that I could bring them over the top of some weed beds that I knew held some nice bass and pike. Maybe work the edges a bit. As it turned out, by the time I got them balanced and a lip that worked, they ended up running at about 8 feet deep. This is going to be real game op lip profiles and lip angles. Much more difficult than turning a round plug and putting a metal lip on the front as it turns out. But I at least have a starting point and I think a couple plugs that will actually catch fish! There's a yellow/olive metal lipped jointed swimmer in the picture that I had made before coming up that was very productive. I'm going to have to make a few mackerel ones. |
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