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Instead of making a wire hook hanger, you can use barrel swivels for hook hangers, as shown in Fig. 38. They have two eyes; the eye inside the body of the plug is caught by the wire and the eye outside the plug holds the hook. To attach the hooks you must either obtain treble hooks which can be opened at the eye or cut the eye with strong cutting pliers or hacksaw. You can also attach the hook to the barrel swivel eye by first forcing on a split ring, then attaching the hook to this ring. If you use brass split rings you can solder them so that they can't open. Another strong way to attach a treble hook to a wooden plug is to drill holes in the belly and tail of the plug to take hook hangers. Then drill smaller-diameter holes from one side of the plug body to the other. Care must be taken here to meet the larger hole. Then insert the hook hanger, or barrel swivel with treble hook, into the big hole. Finally, drive a brass or copper pin through the small hole to catch the hook hanger or barrel swivel eye. Another large popper which you can make is shown in Fig. 39. This has a tapered body about 7 in. long and a diameter of 1 in. at the head. The head is cupped or gouged out to create a commotion and splash in the water when the plug is jerked. This plug can have three 5/0 or 6/0 treble hooks, two at the belly and one at the tail. They can be attached by any of the methods described above. The plug can be loaded at the belly or tail with lead, if you want.
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