Johnny Plugs: handmade wooden surfcasting lures | Ghostwave

Johnny Plugs Mini Darter

$40.00
Johnny Plugs Pike Jr.

$40.00
Johnny Plugs Medium Darter

$40.00
Long Island, NY

Johnny has been casting into the Long Island surf for more than 50 years. Somewhere along the way he stopped buying plugs and started turning his own.

What he makes are through-wired wooden surfcasting lures for striped bass. He designs each one, turns it and balances it, seals it against salt water, paints it, coats it in epoxy and puts it together himself. Then he swim tests it. Every plug, one by one.

The plugs with dressed tail hooks carry bucktail teasers with epoxy heads. He ties those by hand too. Nothing but the finest components go into a Johnny Plug.

Ghostwave is for people who never put the thing down. Johnny is one of them: half a century in, still at the bench, still finding out what a piece of wood will do in moving water.

Made in small batches. Prices include shipping and handling. Johnny Plugs ship separately from the rest of your Ghostwave order, within the United States only.
Johnny Plugs Needlefish

$30.00
Johnny Plugs Rocket Fish

$30.00
Johnny Plugs Pencil Popper

$25.00

Johnny Plugs postcards, tags and handmade lures laid out on a dark wood table

Johnny Plugs postcards, tags and handmade lures laid out on a dark wood table