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I tried doing a search here but didn't discover too much. I am interested in learning about Plugcaster lures. The website for Plugcaster indicates that they are not commercially active at the moment, but that may change.

 

I've seen the pencils, interested in the other forms that were produces, rock caster, and darter for example. 1 poster mentioned a collaboration with Alberto Knie on the darter.

 

Anyone able to shed any light on the builder and the plugs?

 

Thanks in advance for your reply

 

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I have a darter and a smaller pencil. Interested in knowing more about the maker. How many darters were made? Did Alberto have input into the darter design as some have said?

 

Rob, how does that darter swim? Deep, or not so much? Haven't swam the one I have, obviously.

 

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View PostI have a darter and a smaller pencil. Interested in knowing more about the maker.

 

 

The guy who made them was a fella named Rich Karpowicz. If you do a search here for that name, you should find some stuff. You can also go to archive.org, to the "wayback machine," which has an archive of when the site, plugcasterlures dot-com, was active. A Google search of Karpowicz and Plugcaster will give you some reading material from other sites as well.

 

I have 6 or 8 pencils, and like them. I don't know about any of the other lures.

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View PostI have a darter and a smaller pencil. Interested in knowing more about the maker. How many darters were made? Did Alberto have input into the darter design as some have said?

 

Rob, how does that darter swim? Deep, or not so much? Haven't swam the one I have, obviously.

 

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agsurfr, pm me to remind me and i will give you a more comprehensive story later today...(at work now)

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i'll do the best I can.

 

I met Rich in 2004-2005 or so. He introduced his large 9" and medium 7" pencils commercially I believe in 2006. His next introduction was the PeanutCaster 5" ~2oz pencil...awesome little bugger.

 

There are a few polaris style poppers he made, but those are very hard to find.

 

Rich also partnered with BigRock to produce a very small run of "RockCaster" metal lipped swimmers. they were about 6" and 3oz ...and they swam to the nines.

 

As for the dartcaster, Rich partnered with Alberto to come up with Al's ideal darter design, but utilizing Rich's high technology extrusion process to make a bulletproof, unbelievable darter. It is just that, unbelievable. It keeps diving the faster you retrieve, will not kick out, holds in all currents, casts like a bullet. The downside is that the process is very difficult and has some drawbacks.

 

Long story short, Rich loves plug building. Even more than that he loves his family. He was spending every waking moment pumping out plugs, not living his life nor was he making what he would had he stayed at a job in his field. To me this decision was a no brainer, but he labored over it for a long time b/c he had so many people relying on his lures to catch big bass, so he held out making lures for a while longer until finally he decided to make a change and step away from lure making. I still talk to him periodically and he still wishes he could have balanced it all, but it's just not in the cards. You sacrifice a lot to make your passion into your career and as the adage goes, the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.

 

hope this helps.

 

As for your plug, fish it. Rich tested the hell out of his shapes, weights, colors and especially his finish. Once he thought it was perfect he gave it to his ProStaff of DJ Muller, Crazy Alberto and Bob Bott to put it through the torture chamber. We as consumer's never saw a lure until it made it through all that and they were all awesome. They aren't for collecting man, they are for catching bass. I lost one of his pencils last year on my first fish of a blitz and for some demented reason i was happier knowing I threw it and lost it buried in the face of some 30+ lb fish than if I still had it in my bag today. And oddly, I know Rich is happier that way too.

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