Surf Fishing Plugs

I decided to make plugs for fishing. I live in Long Island, NY and the surf fishing here is legendary. I’m new to it. My son got me into it last ye...

Here’s one I whipped together yesterday. It’s an idea I’ve been kicking around a long time. I’ve seen a couple of things similar to this on the int...

They’re coming out better with a little experience. This one is 2-3/4 oz and lead weighted in the entire bottom behind the treble hook. It should b...

5", 1.9 oz rigged, from 1" poplar dowel. Swims perfectly, which is actually kind of shocking. Everyone says this is a very difficult one to get rig...

Jack Frech was a legendary Long Island surf fisher and plug builder. In the 70s, he wrote a series of articles for a fishing magazine that included...

I made this guy from a small piece of 2×4 I had saved from one of my home renovations. 60 years old and dry as a bone. Extremely buoyant, which I’m...

The top one is a store bought pencil popper. I included in the photo so you get the joke, which is there is a type of lure called a pencil popper. ...

Another oddball. I can’t wait to try it out. The shape is modeled after Little Boy, but the paint is modeled after Fat Man. Carries a lead payload ...

A needle is supposed to present like a needlefish. Long and slender with no real swimming action. Bass go for it, though (even though I’ve never ca...

Night time is the right time for the big ones. Stripers have not awesome vision but they do have very adaptive eyes. I read recently a scientific a...