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which is better and why

Wood!

Big difference in price between wood and injected plastic punkers. You can only buy "silent" wood punkers and the paint job is fantastic. Injected plastic punkers come in "silent" or "rattles" and don't have the fantastic paint job. I have all three types.

To me, the wooden ones can be tossed a llittle further and appear to sit higher in the water.

I like to use "rattle" punkers for stripers.

You can add rattles to the wooden ones.

Doesn't matter........

wood is definately better...the plastic one doesnt walk as good...

i do notice a huge price difference and quite an investment. rbass, how do you add rattles to the wood ones?

You call Jeremy and have him do it.....and if your looking for stripers and worried about the chuck of wood as an investment then you better get the plastic.......Or better yet maybe I'll post a picture of the damage a big striper can afflict on your investment.

Yeah the big stripers do like to tear the wood ones up. I have one with hook holders going in a variety of directions

I prefer the wood over the plastic, myself, but agree with Justin, not sure it matters.

personally, I fish the plastic when there's less then 2 feet of water covering the weed beds, and my favorite, the wooden punker everywhere else. Go silent, GO BIG!

Dan

i purchased the wooden lunker punker jr from the oakland tackle shop off 880 about 5 weeks ago ... since, i've caught my PB @ 31# on it and , well.... its deadly ...plastic has produced a few biggins as well this year but the wood walks a lot better ... thing gets beat up bad quick though, looks like i threw it in a blender already lol ...

wood vs plastic... i go with wood ... the fish for whatever reason cannot let it get back to the boat safely lol... its all about what the fish wants at the current time ... fast n loud, or slow n subtle

Wood period for the big one's.....Stripers will chew them up, just tells you that they like them, spliters and all....I have white Plastics (was) that are know bone color from being smashed.

They both work fine.

Rich Thiel

Installing a rattle in a wood punker will not have the noise that a chambered plastic bait will. So if I want noise (windy day, after dark) plastic, and I go wood on calm days.

all you guys are just killing me! you want me to spend a fortune on punkers

sy wrote:all you guys are just killing me! you want me to spend a fortune on punkers

all you need ....

2 -6" plastic LP- 20$ a pop

1 LPjr wood- 50$

hooks n split rings - 20$

start chuckin and hold on!

delta shad or white

White has been my go to punker color for striper.

925_Angler wrote:

sy wrote:all you guys are just killing me! you want me to spend a fortune on punkers

all you need ....

2 -6" plastic LP- 20$ a pop

1 LPjr wood- 50$

hooks n split rings - 20$

start chuckin and hold on!

Dude you pay 20 bucks for split rings and hooks??? Your def getting screwed!

both are good colors but you cant go wrong with white!

ugly stick wrote:

925_Angler wrote:

sy wrote:all you guys are just killing me! you want me to spend a fortune on punkers

all you need ....

2 -6" plastic LP- 20$ a pop

1 LPjr wood- 50$

hooks n split rings - 20$

start chuckin and hold on!

Dude you pay 20 bucks for split rings and hooks??? Your def getting screwed!

hmmm , really ?? well 1/0 x4 owners , though i have seen em on sale for 5.99 at certain places, last i checked retail was 8 or 9.99 for a pack of six , ... and i guess if you decide to go cheapo with split rings (under 2$) then your not paying the 5-6-7$ for the owner split rings ... + tax, you do the math ...

anyway, was just trying to throw the guy a ball park price

I won't argue with success. Over 100 stripers on topwater to 20#, 15 plus blacks to 7.5# and still going. Well Barely. Wood, trout, Punker. And you have to change the hooks and split rings on these lures or say goodbye to the big boys. I don't know why for $50 they can't put some good hooks and rings on them.

wow fish trap looks like u caught many black dogs!!! they chewed ur punker up....i saw a video on youtube and his was worst....

Jared Litner's Punker is know 40% paint/60% wood (Splinter's) and he still catch's fish with it.

RichThiel wrote:Jared Litner's Punker is know 40% paint/60% wood (Splinter's) and he still catch's fish with it.

Think your talkin bout matt newman!