Hi-Mar Striper Fishing Club fishing flea market

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need some crab traps or bunker cages?

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Met a new plug builder today. His name is Russ, he's out of Piscataway. Somehow I always screw up the plugbuilder shots because I'm in too much of a hurry.

A little background on Russ: He's only been doing this awhile, but he learned from one of the best in the business! He told me Tony Spina took him under his wing, and taught him a lot of what he knows.

Every show I go to, I meet more and more people who know or have a debt of gratitude to Tony Spina (also a Hi-Mar member) One of these days I'm gonna run into Tony himself!

In the meantime, I don't know anything about Lures4you, how they swim, or if they catch fish.

I did see a bunch of nice pics Russ had and was proudly displaying, of all the fish that were caught on his plugs. He says they go over great down South, where they are used offshore for more aggressive fish, and they are just starting to catch on here in the Northeast.

They look like decent plugs, some come dressed with bucktail, and he's selling them for a decent price, around $16, which seems very reasonable for a custom plug.

He won't be at the Asbury show, and doesn't have a website yet. He will be at some more area shows. If you want to find out more about his plugs, how they swim, if they can take a beating on the rocks, just ask him.

He seems like a pretty personable guy, and I got the sense that he takes great pride in his work.

Some pics:






fish caught on his plugs

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used rods and reels for sale

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trolling eels

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Kugler's lures - met Vinnie and his son?, these guys had an avalanche of teasers, flies, tubes, sandeels, jigs, and spoons









father and son

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50/50 was won by Joe Petrucha?, of Joe Petrucha's Rod Builders. Nice haul, man!