Surf Fishing Plugs

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1 First batch

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...

2 Deep swimmer

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...

3 Bottle plug

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...

4 Small darter

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...

5 Jack Frech replicas

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...

6 Fatty Danny

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...

7 Pencil Popper

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. ...

8 Bomb the BASS

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 ...

9 Wadd Needle

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...

10 Night crew

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...