My Birthday is coming up and I want to get me some more of Dave's plugs. I fish his needles and dannys almost to the exclusion of all others. Fish some keep some. Can be plugs that have been fished.

Would be willing to pay $25 for needles in good shape- $35 for Dannys in good shape and $40 for his darters or pikies or some of his wilder plugs in good shape.

Can also offer plugs in trade.

I like Dave and like his plugs.

He is a freak , want me to call him 4 you ?

Is this the Peter that does not fill out his questionnaires?

I thought he was all cleaned out- but please try.

I have some
I know I can sell you at least a danny and a needle or 2

Any you can spare would be great, Bruce.

I can pay cash or since I am fishing Dave's plugs, I do have some extra
plugs you may like better than cash-

I will send you a PM

where is sYbiL

Is this the Peter that does not fill out his questionnaires?

I thought he was all cleaned out- but please try.


soooooon ,,,,, :rotf2:

Bruce make some cash , if not We will need to call him from a phone both in Fla

Rob

I will take any or all of them you want to sell for cash or I can get up some pictures of some plugs you mentioned when I get home. Rob.

Bruce. I would offer $200 for them which is $30 for each needle and $37.50 for the Dannys and shipping.

I also sent you pictures of Don Musso Wood plugs that you may want in trade I sent them to your family email.

that's too much
I'll email you when I have a moment

Ok-- Check is going out today. Thanks a lot Bruce- exactly what I needed.

Anyone else? - I still can use more.

Christmas is coming up - you may need some extra money.

Let me know.

No Manzis here Borat, but I could use a quick hunski!

I'll PM my Pay Pal info.

Scott- I told him I would hook him up with your sister sYbiL!

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[QUOTE=wader-dad;894799]:eyes: I would offer $200 for them which is $30 for each needle and $37.50 for the Dannys and shipping.

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HEY DAVEY!!!! :rtfm:FIRE up the lathe Dude!!!.. @30 a nerdle and 37fitty for a phatboy danny, you could be building another chopped hog or owning another strat pronto!!!

Borat says that 20 years from now Dave's plugs will be known for the ultimate expression of his plug making Genius.
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cool.. i'v got some of his first's..20 years.. i'll cash them in..then :hihi: :tooth: also have olive needle, that bm said was the "one".. i'll keep that one

Funny if you look back at all his posts ALL his plugs are THE ONE :hee:

His plug bag must weight 4700 lbs :hihi:

I have a bunch of BM dannys. All are new, no hooks and never been fished. If you are interested, I will take some pictures.

Funny if you look back at all his posts ALL his plugs are THE ONE :hee:

His plug bag must weight 4700 lbs :hihi:

Ha Ha that's great. I also have THE ONE. But my ONE has a string on it attached to a big tag that certifies its THE ONE signed by Dave :uhuh:

I have a bunch of BM dannys. All are new, no hooks and never been fished. If you are interested, I will take some pictures.

Absolutely interested in dannys. Will leave them to my two sons one day- all beat up I hope.

Or will include them when I open the Bassmaster Plug Museum some day.

$35 a Danny minimum.

OK. Let me get some pictures. These are all new, unfished. Don't know how many but I see 2 hanging in my office. A burple and a burple and silver.

SSSHHHeeeerrrr you guys are going to wake someone up

And he may want to play ...uuuuggg

hey... you broker & ship them VB, and keep a fiver for every one you sell, win win, right?
;)

Tammy gets 25%


Make sure you pay the gubmint cuz they like auditing for this stupid chit :smash:



I have a bassmaster needle in two pieces I can sell you some epoxy toooooooooooo :rotf2:

I bet I have a danny toooo....optionally cut in half :grins:



hey... you broker & ship them VB, and keep a fiver for every one you sell, win win, right?
;)

I have a bunch of BM dannys. All are new, no hooks and never been fished. If you are interested, I will take some pictures.

Sorry for this post. I only have 2 and I am going to keep them. I have a bunch of dannys but they are all RM Smith

No problem. Thanks for looking.

I have 2 needles, and I have another 2 needles that are Manzi blanks and they were painted by Karl F

I'll see if I can dig them out tomorrow and get some picks if your interested

I have 2 needles, and I have another 2 needles that are Manzi blanks and they were painted by Karl F

I'll see if I can dig them out tomorrow and get some picks if your interested

Yes please see if you can dig them out.

I appreciate all of you guys looking through your plugs to help me out.

t-bob and waderdad, this is a pic I took of the 5 BM plugs that I painted, If.. I remember right, t-bob got the top 2... I tried to stay true to a couple of BM's color patterns :)

Dave's plugs dressed up for the ball.

I would like some of them if the current whereabouts can be located.

T-bob's got 2 of them, the other 3 I don't have a clue where they are, they went into a fundraiser, and got nabbed up quick.

Was that the MBBA fund raiser Karl?

yep

Bud you can come to my shed and take what ya want. If you wanna drive up here and if its during the week ill leave the shed open for ya.
I guess u like my junk
:spam:master

Alright Dave!!!!!!!!

The fish like your junk.

This fish banged your Danny. Not the biggest but tasty.

You said to fish em and I fish em.

The search continues. These are some of Dave's plugs I got this winter.

At least 4 different danny shapes. From low fat to fat to extra fat.

can't wait to fish one of those slopeheads and keep the other for the Bassmaster museum.

Any other Bassmaster plugs I can shake loose out there in SB land?

I am going to be selling my entire plug collection soon.. There's quite a few of Dave's plugs in there.. Sold in one lot.
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Rob, if you end up with a duplicate or 2 you don't want, let me know.
Thanks

Eben- I hope you are just selling all of your backups to the backups and you still are going to be out there fishing when you get a chance.

I am interested and maybe if it is too much money for just me, maybe Paul S and I can work together on it.

Eben- I hope you are just selling all of your backups to the backups and you still are going to be out there fishing when you get a chance.

I am interested and maybe if it is too much money for just me, maybe Paul S and I can work together on it.

Selling it all. I am a yak fisherman now and the tube and soft plastic reign supreme with some exceptions.
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Bass masters, cape SAMs, guzz, Tobias, etc. list goes on and on and on. Atoms from the early 50's. Old creek chubs, etc...... :).
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Bass masters, cape SAMs, guzz, Tobias, etc. list goes on and on and on. Atoms from the early 50's. Old creek chubs, etc...... :).
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Intriguing but selling as 1 lot is tough.

I know.
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May have to form a private equity group to invest in the plugs.

Haha!!!
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I listed it all on sol today. A sad moment for me. :(
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Rob, there is this guy named Rich who used to have some. He would be happy to get rid of them if he still has them. HE is out of Fixters though, or so I hear.

I listed it all on sol today. A sad moment for me. :(
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Well that was a wild and crazy thing for me to do. Keeps these plugs in the SB family and away from the SOL's

You are going to have to help me figure out who made some of them.

Rob, there is this guy named Rich who used to have some. He would be happy to get rid of them if he still has them. HE is out of Fixters though, or so I hear.

What's Fixters?

Well that was a wild and crazy thing for me to do. Keeps these plugs in the SB family and away from the SOL's

You are going to have to help me figure out who made some of them.

If you bought them Rob, can I buy my tiger needle from you?
I gave away all of mine

Nice score
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If you bought them Rob, can I buy my tiger needle from you?
I gave away all of mine

Nice score
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That needle was the nicest plug in my collection.
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ya killin me Eben :wall:


Rob, maybe a trade for that needle???

here is all I have left
all the times dave and I made plugs together and fished, this is all i have of his stuff. A one of a kind hand poured rubbah, that actually caught fish, I fish the plugs also like you, just like I fish my gary2 plugs that are worth hundreds of dollars.

pick what you want please
that needle means a lot to me
thanks

I can also help ID a lot of those plugs you scored

sure Bruce- I would love to keep that needle but we can work out a trade. It was hard to tell from the photo of the mother load of plugs Eben posted up but I hope there are a few other Bruce May plugs in there.

I will take you up on your offer to ID some. Eben and I are going to meet up go through them soon I hope.

There is at least one more of Bruce's plugs in there.. A darter.
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OK Rob
sounds good

unless Eben lost a few of mine, there should be some others maybe a pikie

Could be.... Honestly, there are some that i don't know...
:hidin:

Selling it all. I am a yak fisherman now and the tube and soft plastic reign supreme with some exceptions.
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Live lining Scup is also deadly.

Some nice plugs Rob.......... Now your a collector!
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Some nice plugs Rob.......... Now your a collector!
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Peter-maybe you are right or Maybe I just kind of suck at catching big bass and figure if I find the time and fish enough of Eben's plugs that have some mojo and are proven catchers - I will catch a 40.

Just wondering, what would a Manzi Bassmaster , autographed Blurple Fat Boy bring?

That Dave plug is worth a lot of money to me if in good shape. I have some that I fish and they are beat up would like a new looking one.

How much is a Just PLug It danny from 10 years ago worth? :drool:

sorry Dave I forgot to ask Peter that question. Me forgetful.

I got a beautiful large surfster by Justplugit.

I'll try and post up a few really old large Pikies made by Manziac. They are crude and some of his first ones made. Probably worth millions.

I'll try and post up a few really old large Pikies made by Manziac. They are crude and some of his first ones made. Probably worth millions.
I've got one of those, don't know how old it is but it's crude :rotf2:

-spence

I thought when we are talking about Fatboys those are his fat dannys.

The pikie story I heard was that Bruce May and Manzi started making pikies together under the advice of Mike Fixter and that Bruces pikies where better than Daves then.

This Pikie is supposed to be one of Daves first and actually looks better in the picture than in my hand. Lip is all hand snipped and crude is a kind word. But Dave got much better and I can dig out some later Pikies for pictures that are top of the line pikies.

I need to know all this for as the future curator of the Manzi Plug museum.

I've got this one I'll never use. Flap gave it to me. Its a Manzi Pikie, 8.3", red cedar, very rough (big epoxy sag on the slope which you can see in the picture, re-sawn lip slot, and crude hook holes). Supposedly someone, Manzi maybe, took a massive fish on a similar one. Is signed but I think it would be better fished than hung. I could be open to a trade for it.

I always thought this plug was paranoid with it's little eyes...

-spence

:love:

George-I would be interested in trading for that pikie. I don't know what you may be interested in- but if you can post here or you can send me a PM if you want.

I would be interested in the Fatboy - which I still think is a Danny.

I have some Manzi pikies that must be from his mature period-:)- that are better- even have the red glitter chin a la fixter.

Can you do a NIB plug for it? Never did get one from Tony himself. :rollem:

I got 2 NIB's:alright:

I got my plugs from Dave's shop. I had Flaptail pick them out for me when we met at Dave's house a bunch of years ago. Dave took several plugs from me at plugfest and he told me I could come over and get some of his. Steve told me he would go with me and pick some out for me. Dave had a large collection of Fixters that he would not give up so Flaptail picked the ones he thought were good for catching of course Dave kept saying no on everything we choose. I still think Dave made out better on the deal. He recently tried to friend me on facebook so he is still alive.

Manzi's from the white danny to the blue marble needle.
Far right is red eye flaptail needle and karlf danny.http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/thefishingfreak/20140330_202827_zps53b03e65.jpg
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I think that Dave is the George Ohr of plug makers.

George Ohr in the 1890s was known as the Mad Potter of Biloxi Missisippi. He was very eccentric and dressed in odd clothes and made strange and wierd pieces of pottery with glazes that were not like the other potters of the day. No two pots were alike. He had a shop full of pots but never sold any because he demanded $30 a pot when the going price was 50 cents. He thought his pots were priceless and even sent some to the Smithsonian Museum but they sent them back. Discouraged he packed all of this pots in wooden crates and stopped and never made another piece.

In 1968, an art dealers car broke down in Beloxi and he took it to a gas station that happened to be owned by 2 grandsons of George Ohr. While waiting to get his car fixed the Art Dealer saw a strange tortured looking piece of pottery on a shelf and asked if there were any more like those around. The grandson said yes there were thousands of pots in crates in the shed out in the back and so the pots were discovered.

George Ohr is now considered the genius father of modern art ceramics. One of his pots sold for $80,000, there is a George Ohr museum and they are now in the Smithsonian.

So Dave made plugs that no two are alike and kept all of his plugs in a shed and did not want to sell any and he is kind of Mad :uhuh: and his plugs run the range from crude to genius some with bizzare glazes. And they catch bass.

All of his plugs are interesting to me. Some are unique. I think he put a piece of wood on a lathe and just turned plugs based on whatever came over him.

So is Dave George Ohr? Its the Twilight Zone. Next stop Beloxi.

Maybe I am the crazy one.

So if anyone wants to sell or trade one or more of their Daves plugs I am interested. I have alot of plugs to trade

George I have a NIB that I could part with. But I would want that pikie and one of your musso clone darters. My friend Billy D= first cast with one from you and he caught a nice bass.

I can bring the Tony plug to Too Cold To Fish and you can look at it. No obligation

How much is a Just PLug It danny from 10 years ago worth? :drool:

LOL WD, prolly the cost of the Alaskan Cedar it's made of. :)

This is spooky. This is from a Smithsonian article on George Ohr.

Though just 52, he never threw another pot. Having inherited a comfortable sum when his parents died, he devoted the rest of his life to enhancing his reputation as a loon. He let his beard grow long, and donning a flowing robe for Biloxi’s Mardi Gras, he roamed the streets as Father Time. In his final years, he could be seen racing a motorcycle on the beach, white hair and beard flying.


Motorcycle. Patches!!!!! HA - in Pajamas !!!

I'll bring a few of the pajama wearing motorcycle riding fruitcakes that I would sell to too cold to fish. bring your wallet. A couple are hideous ugly with razor sharp burrs on the lips and it looks like he use a hatchet to cut them from a tin soup can but all Dave for sure. P

My wallet is pretty beat after buying Eben's herd but I will do my best.

Look how good he got at Pikies- see the Fishing Freak's mack pikie. When he was good he was very good. Those plugs are special.

His Blue needle tail wrap does not look like typical wild Manzi wrap.

I'll be kind
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Only Manzi I own that I think he made, not sure what hatch this might match, unless you are fishing on the African Plains:).

Dave has this Avatar picture of a needle with all of this hair sticking out and I thought it was something he made up for his avatar.

But it looks like he made more than one. I think he calls it his freak needle. So you got the freak on.

Another example of why Dave is different.

It's probably a one of a kind, so when your wallet fattens up make me an offer, because right now it's my conversation starter:).

It's probably a one of a kind, so when your wallet fattens up make me an offer, because right now it's my conversation starter:).

I have one just like it Bob, sorry to burst your bubble. I think he made a few for a swap. They certainly are unique.

Got one. Needs a shampoo.

I feel like a Voodoo Priest. I think if i poked this with a pin Dave would say what the f uck.

Thanks Dave.

Got one. Needs a shampoo.

I feel like a Voodoo Priest. I think if i poked this with a pin Dave would say what the f uck.

Thanks Dave.

Now that's dedication... both in a search for the plug as well as remembering this thread when you finally found it!

Good hunt Rob!
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Glad to hear Dave is still alive !!!!!! Dave.......are you still turning ??