Chrome plug

[2kidsfishing]

Has anyone had success with this lure. I think its a Mo plug. I have never used it, but have heard it is very good for Mahi. Thanks!!!!

[zar2754]

Has anyone had success with this lure. I think its a Mo plug. I have never used it, but have heard it is very good for Mahi. Thanks!!!!
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looks like a mahi magnent, how much does it retail for?

i wouldnt pay more for it that a regular redhead white body cedar plug which is deadly on mahi too.

[Capt. Brian Daley]

I'll take the action of a regular cedar plug any day, for 6 bucks
the more there chewd up the better. all freyed and sweet bubbles bring in more fish

[lpf]

I have pulled a lure similar to that on a friends boat, picked up a mahi or two, blackfin, and false albacore, if you find the fish and troll it in front of them properly rigged, they will hit it.

lpf

[Captain Fred Archer]

I believe that plug is plastic and if it's the wrong kind, just like the cedar plug, which is a great wahoo lure too down south, 'hoo bite it, their teeth will probably sink into the plastic, like they do on a real cedar plug, and they take off, chawing on the lure to bite it in half, like everything else that they eat, the drags screams, the mono stretches and the wahoo say's, "hey, this thing ain't doing the right thing" and spitooey, he spits it and it's another missed or snagged fish. The same thing happens with kings.

There are some metal cedar plug versions around that have good action that because of the hard and slippery metal they are made with, slide right thru a wahoo's strong and tough jaws when he grabs it and they get stuck well and good virtually every time. Remember, the lure has to move in order for the hook to stick 'em. They are more expensive than the cedars, but they last forever and don't wear out or break. Good stuff that some might want to look into.

Because of that "strong jaws and powerful bite" thing, we run our surface wahoo lures on what we call "Dacron Hammers", which are simply the reverse of a regular topshot with the braid (Dacron in our case) underneath and the mono the topshot. With the Hammers the topshot is Dacron, which doesn't stretch like mono does, so it moves that lure through a wahoo's jaws and hooks him RIGHT NOW. We only make them a bit longer than the most line we wahoo troll with, so they don't take up a lot of room on the reel and it can be used for conventional fishing with a mono topshot. We connect them to the running line with spliced loops and cat's paw them so that they are easy to connect or remove and stow if we aren't wahoo fishing.

[2kidsfishing]

This may be a different picture than what I was trying to find info on. I do know that the plug he had was metal or aluminum. It had no wood in it. Does anyone know what it is called or who makes the plug. Thanks!!!

[sportfishingusa]

This may be a different picture than what I was trying to find info on. I do know that the plug he had was metal or aluminum. It had no wood in it. Does anyone know what it is called or who makes the plug. Thanks!!!

i believe chaos lures make them and also maybe mp lures!?

they are aluminum and they can anodize them in like 1000 different colors..

they look nice and run good in a loop chain.. but other than that.. they are pretty much useless

[Captain Fred Archer]

SFUSA,

I suppose it's like a lot of lures and techniques. In the case of the lures, unless you have fished them a lot, it's tough to know how good they are, or aren't. We tested the original prototypes for what I believe was the first company to make them and we did so at the request of a friend of theirs and mine, the Accurate Reel guys, so we gave them an extensive workout down in Cabo - as in nearly every day for much of a year - and they worked very well indeed, especially for the 'hoos, which are a very special fish to me that I just hate missing. Damned if I can remember the name of that company right now and I don't even know if they are still in business, but if it comes to me I'll post it and in the meantime I'll ask the Accurate guys about that. They made them in a lot of different sizes and as you pointed out, colors.

We even ran them behind our SuperBars as chasebaits and they worked very well there, too. We mostly ran them as singles with very small hollow squids rigged a foot in front of them, short. My guess is that they might make very good planer lures.

Cabo marlin often jump on cedar plugs and we found the same "slide through the mouth and stick 'em good" thing with the marlin too. We used to miss more than a few that pounced on the wooden cedar plugs, which I started using fifty-two years ago. It doesn't seem to matter on the tunas because they are engulf feeders with softer mouths than the marlin and wahoo.

With all due respect, and as it is with so many new things, I hate to see a good product or technique get put down if it hasn't gotten a fair shake, meaning that it hasn't been worked hard and long.

By-the-way, I have no stake whatsoever in these lures and I do not sell them.

[Squidnation]

If it is a real Mo plug then it is metal. I have not run them much but I will relay one quick story. Joe Riley on the muff diver was murdering the yellowfins in the washington one day. I watched him catch 8 before I was ready to put a hole in my boat. He calls me on the radio and tells me to get right in his wash cause they are all over the back of his boat. Well that did it. All that did was get me closer to his boat to watch him catch 4 more. I was ready to take up drawing or something. Then he called me again and asked me if I had any mo plugs and never said another word. We I did - still in the package but I pulled it out rigged it and put it on the flat line. No sooner then I could say that is the ugliest piece of Sh$t non-running ZAP POW ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZfish on. Ended up catching 5 on the mo plug before some yahoo redeployed it with the drag set on full. Not five minutes later we received a visit from that famous ancient philospher Zing Pow. Never got another bite all day.

It is hard to change up from things that work day in day out. I get so frustrated sometimes on those carolina charter boats who won't troll anything but a Blue and White sea witch with a med ballyhoo on 7 lines and not get a bite. That day taught me that if others are catching and you are not then it is time to experiment or hope you have a good friend like capt riley that will drop you a hint.

[Henrique38]

I've been pulling cedar plugs for years. I've never been able to get the aluminum plugs to swim very well. They always spin and that's no good. I take the cheap natural cedar plugs and dill them out so the center hole is exactly in the midline of the lead head of the plug. I also drill to tail of the plug. I try not to have the hook pull the plug. I put a crimp a couple of inches in front of the hook so the plug gets pulled from the head of the plug, not by the eye of the hook. These "tweeked" plugs swim very well with a real slow side to side action. BFT and YFT eat them up. I could never get the metal plugs to swim as well.