bassmaster Posted June 26, 2022 Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 While fishing, show some pics... For me a few custom plugs, gibbs , hand made stuff.. Plug Ho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harumph Posted June 26, 2022 Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 Lost a yellow smack it jr, found the exact same plug 12 hours later (not mine). GarbageFish, 55555s and Jettyhound 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DZ Posted June 26, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 Don’t have pics but an old water logged 1 3/4 Oz Gibbs needlefish in Block Island Green. Found on Block and I was the lucky finder. That plug caught so many memorable bass. Another found plug was a Campo merc loaded black Redfin found by my late casting partner Zeke Silva. Also on Block. He would smoke me for many years using that plug. He then passed away and his wife gave it to me in a box of plugs he wanted me to have. Now I get to smoke others with it in his memory. ExcessiveAngler, MAGA, i_like_poppers and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Defyable Posted June 26, 2022 Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 (edited) I don’t know if I “found it” but about 10 years ago I hooked a decent bluefish by tangling a ~5 foot mono leader that had a Magnum Rapala still hooked into the fish, blue Mack pattern. It wasn’t in the greatest shape to begin with but the hooks were recently replaced since they looked fairly new, but I’ve kept it in the bag (fishing from my boat) ever since. After enough toothy critters took a whack at it I filled the pits with some nail polish and sanded it down, then mixed up a few bunker (ish) paints to refinish it. It will continue to be a sweet trolling plug when I’m on the hunt for gators, at least until one of them tries to eat my swivel instead of the plug… Edited June 26, 2022 by Sir Defyable Kones1 and MAGA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitehawk Posted June 26, 2022 Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 Favorite plugs were the 1/2 dozen that “ floated” out of my bag one night on False bar ! t_man7 and GarbageFish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valentine Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Found lots of stuff over the years but most of it was pretty beat up. Never found anything handmade or with any collector value. Some plugs I find aren’t useable and I simply carry them away to place them in the trash. Others get new hooks and then they may find a place in my rotation. Sometimes I just give them away to guys who are plug poor. I don’t even want to think about how many lures I’ve lost in 50 years of fishing. I hope that at least some of my lost cache found it’s way into the hands of a deserving angler. DZ and MAGA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekh Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Found a 5 inch yellow beachmaster danny in a parking lot were Tim Coleman was parked a few hours earlier. He knew i had it, never got a chance to give it back.Still have it. found a second one hanging in powerlines the same year. MAGA, riggler, DZ and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kones1 Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 RP 3 years ago. Killed bluefish on it A Bobby Rice angler management and MAGA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProSkateFisherman Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 You guys are lucky to find this stuff. Best plug (not really a plug, but a soft plastic) was a regular bulldawg I found on the bank while musky fishing. 10 minutes later a guy comes down asking if I've seen a bulldawg. I said yes and gave it back to him and he thanked me. Felt good that I was able to return it, but I still would have liked getting a free bulldawg. The best plug I've found and was able to keep was a Rapala skitter v in red and white, just drifting along in the Chesapeake Bay. Picked it up, cleaned it and gave it new hooks and it works good as new. bassmaster, MAGA and Bwstriper44 3 They were biting before you got here and they’ll bite again after you leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayfish Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Definitely not the best one I've found but what's are the odds of catching a plug like this in the middle of the night. Surfratiam, MAGA, ProSkateFisherman and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickerel92 Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 I snagged this needlefish about 12 years ago at an RI breachway- pulled it up with a tangled mess of about 4 other plugs. This plug was a go-to for years. I’ll never forget it because it really got me into fishing needles. Unfortunately lost it a couple years ago when I messed up and let a teen/low 20s bass put me in a bad spot. DZ, MAGA and t_man7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark d Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Sir Defyable said: I don’t know if I “found it” but about 10 years ago I hooked a decent bluefish by tangling a ~5 foot mono leader that had a Magnum Rapala still hooked into the fish, blue Mack pattern. It wasn’t in the greatest shape to begin with but the hooks were recently replaced since they looked fairly new, but I’ve kept it in the bag (fishing from my boat) ever since. After enough toothy critters took a whack at it I filled the pits with some nail polish and sanded it down, then mixed up a few bunker (ish) paints to refinish it. It will continue to be a sweet trolling plug when I’m on the hunt for gators, at least until one of them tries to eat my swivel instead of the plug… nice restoration. looks great. what is the story on that vise. never seen anything like it. very cool "what good are tractors without violins" ? jose figueres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelSharp Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Somehow while bucktailing a huge rip during a hurricane with winds pushing 60 mph my bucktail came back with a bronze mag darter. It has been the best one yet out of all the ones I own and use. As for my buddy Dave , he has found multiple CCW , GRS , pichney, rg glider, Loki glider, over the last 5 years or so and whatever else he found that was in good fishing condition. I’d say half his bag are found plugs. Weird luck. nchit, Richizzzle and MAGA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richizzzle Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Found a 3oz ice cream GT in montauk few years back. I now own every size shape and color of that lure JimmyBean, GarbageFish and MAGA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowEnd Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Snapped off a Yozuri pencil popper at a local haunt. Found it about a month later tangled in the cat tails in a different part of the cove. MAGA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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