Site information

What this site is

The Plug Ledger is a reference on wooden surf plugs: what the shapes do, what water each one suits, and how they are built. It is a written record kept by one person who fishes, and every page on it exists to be read.

Every entry describes a type of plug, that is, a shape and the mechanics of that shape. The same shapes are turned by many hands in many places, and it is the shape that the entry is about.

Publisher and contact

This site is published by a private individual, in a personal capacity and not as a business. Corrections, disagreements and additions are genuinely welcome, particularly from people who build plugs or who fish a coastline the register does not describe well.

Write to contact@tattoostackle.com. Messages are read by one person and answered when there is something useful to say. No mailing list is run from this address and it is not used for anything else.

Hosting

The pages are static files served by Cloudflare Pages, a service of Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States.

Privacy

This site is deliberately simple, and that simplicity is the privacy policy:

• There is no analytics script, no tag manager and no advertising code on any page.
• No cookies are set by this site.
• Nothing is loaded from another domain: no remote fonts, no hosted libraries, no embedded video, no social buttons. Every file a page needs comes from this domain.
• There are no forms, no accounts and no comments, so there is nothing here for a visitor to fill in.
• If you send an email to the contact address, the message is used to answer you and nothing else.

The host keeps its own server logs, as any host does. Those are Cloudflare's records and are governed by Cloudflare's terms, not by anything set up here.

How the content is made

The pages are written from fishing practice and from published reference material on wood properties and on fisheries management, and they are revised when something is found to be wrong. Sizes and weights are given as the ranges commonly built for surf tackle, never as measurements of a particular plug. Where a fact varies by state, by season or by builder, the page says so instead of inventing a number.

Photographs and illustrations show a shape or a situation described in the text, so that a reader who has never held one of these plugs can see what the words mean.

Reuse

Text and images here are the work of the publisher. Quote a paragraph with a link to the page it came from and there is no need to ask. For anything longer, or for reuse in print, write first.

Fishing, safety and the law

Fishing regulations differ from state to state and change from season to season. Nothing on this site is legal advice or a substitute for the current published rules of the state you are fishing. Surfcasting also carries real physical risk on rocks, on jetties and in moving water: the notes on reading the surf are a starting point and not a safety course. You are responsible for your own footing, your own tide table and your own decisions.