"Spinner Plugs"

Made these simple plugs about one year ago , fished them a bit then , but had no strike , though their action would certainly have an appeal on pike .

The black/yellow lure is approx. 2 3/5" long , the other one is a little longer , both are carved out of round pinewood dowels .

The linetie and hookhanger are made of a single piece of wire , bent in a "paperclip" manner(tag ends bent back towards eyelets) , and epoxied into a bore , that leads from the center of the diving plane to about the half of body length .

The longer , silver lure has a simple spinner-harness attached to the hook-eye , in a way that it most likely won't tangle with the treble hook .

Unless the blade's splitring won't slide onto a hookpoint , the tractive force of the spinning blade would always free the wire piece from the hook .

The blade attachement on the black/yellow lure is more elaborate though , but foolproof , and this model works and casts better .

Both lures float up at rest , on retrieve they go down to max. 2 1/2 feet , featuring an irregular wobble and spinning blades .

Their blades must be kept in about "fingernail" size , the centrifugal force of a large blade would cause the baits to lay on their sides and not wobble anymore , a happy compromise between wobble and blade size must be found .

A little oversized hook helps to let lures swim straight , acting as a kind of keel-weight .