new for 2016

**hookset** · 04-09-2016, 04:57 AM

Looking good, Sir.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-09-2016, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by hookset

Looking good, Sir.

TY sir,,,I sure hope it swims and the fish like it.
if anything it sure will get attention.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-09-2016, 11:24 AM

working on my my last build of the season now.
have the base color on,will do the top color later today.

it started out to become a super surfster but,I liked the tail end of a rip-runner more so,it became this.
a cross between a surfster and a rip-runner.
a guy called Kima named it the surf-runner,it has now stuck.
hope the fish like it.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-09-2016, 11:27 AM

a hybrid design,front half is one of my hound dog designs and the back half is a rip-commander design,,,maybe it should be called a rip-dog?

**williehookem** · 04-10-2016, 12:15 PM

Rip dog! Now all you need to do is set it to music! Nice work keep em coming.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-10-2016, 11:52 PM

1-surf-runner.
2-rip-runner.
3-hound dog.
all dressed and ready to go!

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-10-2016, 11:55 PM

1-2 rip-commanders.
2-a new design I almost forgot about.
a Cuban cigar minnow.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-10-2016, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by williehookem

Rip dog! Now all you need to do is set it to music! Nice work keep em coming.

Hi Willie,,,would that music be drag singing?
I'd dig that!
I know of a spot this will work great if it swims like I think it will.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-17-2016, 04:21 PM

this one started out to become a big surfster but,ended up becoming a hybrid design,half surfster,half rip-runner so,it is the surf-runner,the only one made.
decided to forego the spoon lip and made,,,,,something not sure what it is but,I made it.

**hookset** · 04-19-2016, 08:51 PM

Very interesting and unique color choices. Keep up the good work.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-21-2016, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by hookset

Very interesting and unique color choices. Keep up the good work.

I always liked to be different,same holds now.
I have gravitated towards color combos that are not what others are using out there.
same goes for my designs no one is doing anything like what I am doing and that's what drove me to learn how to make my own.
I like being different.
thanks for your kind words.
BTW,pictures tell !

**basshunter** · 04-21-2016, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Rip-Plugger

actually no,I made one bigger late last year,wil test it this coming spring though.
I actually have 3 very large ones jointed and big!
here is a shot of it.
thanks for your kind words.

the blue/grey one is something like 17 inches,the second one is 13 inches and the rest are right around 15-16 inches.

Maybe someone asked this already, apologies if so. How the heck do you cast something that big?
They are beautiful but I am thinking you would have to have an 11 foot rod thick as a pool cue to toss one of those babies out! Your shoulder must be killing you after a night of fishing them. How old are you and to you bring a bottle of Ibuprofen with you each time? respectfully asking this.

**Rip-Plugger** · 04-22-2016, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by basshunter

Maybe someone asked this already, apologies if so. How the heck do you cast something that big?
They are beautiful but I am thinking you would have to have an 11 foot rod thick as a pool cue to toss one of those babies out! Your shoulder must be killing you after a night of fishing them. How old are you and to you bring a bottle of Ibuprofen with you each time? respectfully asking this.

yes someone has asked me the same thing.
well,when it's big fish time these come out and I take one of my 5 bigsticks off the rack.
3 of them are 10 footers and the other 2 are 9 feet the range is from 2-6 or 3-8 oz.,my new pen prevail is rated 1-4 but,it's off it will do 2-6 easy.
most times I cast across the currents and allow the plugs to drift waay out then slow crank them in.
I only fish with winch reels so it is much more easy to control them and the fish.
as for the shoulders hurting,not much if at all as I am not making a large amount of casts, most of the time out OTW my lures are in the water rather than being cast and cranked.
sometime when the moons right I let them hang waay out there swimming from the current and not doing anything but, holding the rod.
since I crank them in slow I am covering tons of water and making good vibrations allowing the fish to hear,hunt and find my plug.
with the slow swimming style the plug seems to unaware it's being hunted so,it helps because the fish thinks it's an easy target,hopefully it does not run away but, slams the hell out of it.
it has worked for me for a long while now.
as for my age,I am in very early 50's and 6 ft 2.
I do use ibuprofen sometimes but, not much,when I do I will take some before heading out if I know it will be action or has been action,if it has been quiet I will leave them alone,don't like to take medications at all.

cheers.