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Surf Fishing Plugs #3: Bottle plug
This is
part 3
in a
14 part
series:
Surf Fishing Plugs
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 be extremely aerodynamic and cast like a rocket. I can’t wait to find out tomorrow morning! I hope it swims. ;-)
I finished this one with epoxy and it makes the whole thing look 10 times more professional.
Losing fingers since 1969
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These things should have gone extinct many, many years ago.
—Madts.
Tor and Odin are the greatest of gods.
Well, from an evolutionary standpoint, you’re correct, because this one doesn’t swim. It’s weighted totally wrong and now I get to wreck it to figure it how to do it properly. Lessons to learn. Next one will be better looking and swim properly. There is a secret science to these things that can not be found readily or easily on the interwebs.
Losing fingers since 1969
Version 2.0. Still not swimming properly, although a huge improvement over the first one. Someone on my fishing website posted some very articulate information about the mouth shape and I think I know where I went wrong. I’m not sure of this one is salvageable or not. Version 3 will be hopefully an even bigger improvement.
Losing fingers since 1969
