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say rac37......let me know how the eel swims......i made the same thing a year or so and i just dosent swim at all.... i even took the tail off and it still dont wobbel  i even bent the lip up/down.....i gave up and figured id get to it....im clueless  ........i like the rubber tail as well..........im useing a bill hurley rubber sand eel...........but eel or no eel i just cant get'r to swim.................wad up salt any ideas

Handy those things swim nice. Did you put too thick of a clear on it or something? Bending the lip up is going to make it dive more, down is going to keep it on top. And I would assume you know not to tie direct it needs a loop on the front. Those things are pretty much hard to frig up?

im useing the small lefty  7/8x9/16.....i have the belly weight in the center of the plug and just behind the belly weight is a 2/0 hook   and the plug is 1.5oz

im heading to the ceeement pond to give it a go with the loop.....the rappala loop right..............man salt thanks for the quick responce  ill let u know    ciao!

ah! didnt work..........im gona start from scratch.......its been a long time so i couldnt tell u what i did..........thanks for the input salty

wait a minute what lure are you talking about?

look at the pics that rac37 posted  the center pic  has a eel looking head with rubber tail on it  scroll back a page

that's a tallywhacker swimmer. Doesn't take a lefty 1 lip it takes a pikie 3 lip...you got WAY too small of a lip on there.

handyman i just took the tallywhacker and the pikiezilla down to the creek for a swim.the tally was draging tail till i took the finishing nail out,its the tailend of a 12" sluggo i think the nail gives it more action,not so for the tallywhacker,swam great once i removed the nail.i really like the way the pikie swam.i'm going to try both on the open beach once things clear up around here.

OH! thanks salty thats what i thought i needed  to cup more water..... nice.....tallyho to the lathe   thanks for you help

thanks rac37.5.......yea years ago i tried to copy a tattoo eel swimmer but ommitted half the body and added a large rubber grub in black but the thing never swam  and when i saw that nice pic of that tallywacker  i headed to my bone yard and pic up that same plug and headed to the ceeeement pond to see if it worked.........but thanks to you guys im on the road to recovery.........i just might have some of those lips around    bill hurley tails are nice salty has them on his site ..........im heading out in the A.M. at the ungodly hour 3:30 AM....some reports of some monster blue fish in the surf in seaside park nj  in  Island Beach State Park   caio!

Can we please just call it a Tallywhacker?

you been tallywhacking

say shrub your daughter paints pretty good  and dose nice work on scales ..............those tallywacker are sweet   nice work