Thanks! I never used (or needed..if ihad i would have used) a crane. Used the b'osins skiff to land the shark...The XO told the deck crew to help me land the fish..a couple "well" placed shots from a m9 made the fish more "stable". I was merely a willing particpant i the melee. Tuna off hawai, unknown fish in the black sea, Unknown fish with grenades in the persian gulf with "indeginous" people. I should be thanking all you guys for paying your taxes on time to let my teammates and myself fish some of the best and worst waters of the world! TANK YOU! Back to the topic...is the white water the best place to fish the big metal lip danny?

No, you want calmer water
they work well near the mouths of breachways, ina bowl on the beach at first light(white) sometimes when smaller fish are around eating stuff like small needles and sluggos, a better fish will come up for a danny and surprise you.

Dannys and whitewater have gotten a ton of press recently (and for good reason) but, in my experience, I think their biggest strength is in enticing reluctant fish to hit in conditions where they would ignore most plugs.....namely calm, good visability, deeper water, day or night. I think the surface wake they make is a big part of this. As it gets rougher this advantage is lost and a subsurface swimmer does better.

i would concur with George, wholeheartedly

and since this seems to be becoming a Danny thread;

something i stumbled on last year that offers a different "twist"
than has been mentioned thus far is to let the Danny hit, super crank it for four or five cranks so as to make the Danny pop-pop, then swim it steady and much slower than the pops.

pop-pop-pause-ssswwwwiiimmm. continue up unto yer feet, from false dawn right into an hour past first light.

~~olive green over creme, yellow over white, white/white ~~ has raised sum goodun's from Gansett to the NShore,,,,,,,,,,,,1'-4' seas gentle rollers, decent visibility, had more than a coupla nice twenties launch themselves at a "wounded" danny.

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Woodghost -

Thank U for your Service Sir....

Ice

woodghost - welcome back to the "right" coast! - have you checked out Zeno's book yet?

yes i have had Zenos book since the spring...it holds a prestigous spot on top of the porciline thrown!

I know it's a longshot but does anybody know where can I get Zenos book in europe? Been surfing the internet for a week now and still can't get it and none of the online sellers from america are shipping to old continent.

Zoran

Good question - maybe one of the resellers here would make an exception if it is legal to do so ;)

I would really apreciate if someone is willing to make an extra effort. We don't have wooden plugs here. Never seen plugs like pencil popper, bottle plug or darter live in action. There are some videos on the net but I believe this book would really help with my building.

Sorry for offtopic.

Zoran

Where do you live and fish, and for what?

Well I live in Slovenia (next to Italy and Austria) and I fish in Adriatic sea. We don't have striped bass where I fish, but we have what we call sea bass. A lot smaller (a 30lber is a catch of a lifetime). As far as I learned these last 6 months since I found couple of Striped Bass forums that their feeding habits are very much alike. I started lurking on these forums cause I wanted to make my own lures. Our bass is active when south wind is very strong and that means that you have to throw your plugs into/against the wind. With lures available in our tackle stores that is imposible. We have sufcast fishing but not surfcast fishing with plugs.
I would like to transfer and adapt the knowledge of surfcasting for striped bass to surfcasting for our sea bass. So I thought if I could learn how different types of plugs are supposted to be fished, when and why I could improve my plug building skills.
And we also have some large blue water fish that grow up to 80lb, and can be caught from shore during summer.

Zoran

Great Thread!
 

I am now educated beyond my intelligence!

Zoja you forgot to mention the beaches are topless for the most part! I am willing to bet if you had room to spare you would have more than afew guys flying your way with a bag full of big wood..so to speak! And 80# fish from shore would only sweetin the deal...I'm thinking topless dark haired, blue eyed maidens asking what your doing is not a bad thing!:kewl:

Ha ha. Yes our beaches are top optional, as far as 80lb fish from shore, it's very rare but it can be done and it already has been done.
But topless beaches and fishing don't mix, I can only work with one stiff rod at a time...:lama:

Zoran