Partial Collection and Dancing with the BIG GIRLS!!!!

[STRIPER LOU]

Hi all, and hope everyone's doing well! I was getting pretty bored the other day and thought maybe I should wipe down some of my reels and take some pics. I also went back to some of my photo galleries as it looks like this is as close as I'm going to come to fishing for a while. The weather on the east coast absolutely sucks!

These are a few of the reels that are not mounted on rods.
I was fortunate to acquired most of this stuff before I retired. I worked as a tool maker, tool rm foreman and even ran a gunshop doing gunsmithing for a while. Also worked in R&D building machinery and medical instruments. Boy I really miss having access to the shop. I have been looking at a Smithy which will at least handle some of my projects but its out of reach for now. I have a good friend who is also in the tool business and he wants to buy the machinery and have me work it! Hope it happens!

I was constantly buying, selling, trading, building, ............. ya know its a disease!

I like the penn stuff, jigmasters, squidders, 113h's, tib and accurate frames, newell conversions, yts's and on and on.
Even have a couple of Omoto's I bought from Alan when he first had them available.

Theres also a few pics (Dancin with the BIG GIRLS), Striped Bass have always been my passion for longer than I care to remember. I think there's a 48 and a few 50lb+ big girls.
Mostly fish bucktails, Tube n Worm, and my own big plugs which I've been working on for years. Spent more than 5yrs on a design and got it to consistently catch fish.
There's a pic of the fly tying and plug bench. (messy) and also a plug drier that was made at home on a budget with hand tools. Nothing fancy, just something that works using and old BB grill motor.
Also have a pic of a line winder. Again, nothing fancy, made on a budget with simple hand tools and goodies from Home Depot you could easily make yourself.
The plugs hanging from the ceiling, been working on them for a long time to get them to swim and catch. I have 3 master plugs that I use as models to get all the ones I make to swim the same.

Hope I didn't totally bore you but with NO FISING I just had to let off some steam!!!!
Let s see if all the pictures load? Nothings in order will probably have to do a couple of posts to get everything on as I don't know what I'm doing!!!!

[STRIPER LOU]

Here's a few more!

[STRIPER LOU]

A few more!

[STRIPER LOU]

Last few, I think?
SORRY.

[STRIPER LOU]

This is it!!!!!!!!!!!

[Keta]

Nice strippers, and reels too.

[Bryan Young]

Wow, those are some big stripers.

What a work bench too.

[BMITCH]

Striper Lou, nice photos. Love the plugs. All around it looks like you have it wired! Quick question. On your line winder...what did you use for the motor. Looks like you have it on a foot switch?
Thanks,
Bob

[STRIPER LOU]

Hey BMITCH,
Motor and foot control came from the auction site. There's a bunch of them on there. The one you want is the Heavy duty sewing machine motor and foot pedal. Cost is about $25.
If you cant find it I'll look it up and post it for you here!
...................Lou

[BMITCH]

Thanks Lou! I didn't even think about looking on there. I was fairly sure that the sewing machine motor is what most are using for that build. I already have the measurement wheel. So this will help a bunch. Thanks for the heads up.
Bob

[mike1010]

I like the flies.  Good fluke teasers are they?

[STRIPER LOU]

They are great fluke teasers and I tie larger one's on open eye siwash hooks so you can squeeze them down on jigs or plugs.
The real deal is the fluke stingers I make. All I've mad so far this winter are gone. Here's what they look like:

[mike1010]

Hey, if you make some more I would like to give them a try.  Thanks.

--Mike

[STRIPER LOU]

Hey mike, thanks for the reply. I'll try my very best to make some more. This time is tough now as everyone has plug orders in and I'm working like crazy to get them done.
The fluke stingers are amazing! We tie them on 30lb fluro. Sinker at the bottom, then a 10" long dropper 8" up from the bottom, and then a second 10" dropper up 10 to 12" from the last one.
Put the rigs in a plastic ziplock and add bunker oil and let the whole rig soak over nite. Tip them with smelt and your ready to go.
I couldn't make enough of them last year and as a bonus they killed the seabass on them.

[redsetta]

Impressive fish and reels Lou - thanks for sharing!