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new cowboys
 

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Who made those Casting Swimmers....:drool:

I've been messin w/ those in the Man Cave.....almost there :kewl:

Face it Ross, You are responsible for quite a few Souls lost on Striped-Bass.

gibbs and super strike.

i got something you don't have

luds, very impressive

do any of your plugs ever get wet?

they look like they are all pristine

many of them are mint and have never hit the water. you can only fish so many. as I buy them I always tell myself that there will be a time for each. at the same time this camera seems to refurbish them. many of them have dings and multiple fish to their credit but like you said look like they never hit the water. with the exception of the r.m. smith swimmers and some others picture I haven't taken that many fish on metal lips but to me there is nothing better than watching a fish hit a swimmer on top. i do better with them each season. i'd say for me that needles out fish metal lip swimmers 10 to 1.

Amen :uhuh:

pencil
 

Unfortunately for me I think the 10 to 1 is a result of user error with the swimmers. it's amazing how match damage you can do with a metal lip when you figure out how to fish it in the given conditions. i got embarrassed by one of my fishing partners on BI this fall. i was fishing the same plug but fishing it wrong. he cleaned up. i got a couple hits.

bob,

sent you a pm about the pencil popper.

Leftovers. Waiting to be fished.

George your f%ckin' killing me you know. Holdin' out on me like that especially the blue mottled Lupo Danny and that seven inch Beachmaster in green/silver. I'm gonna come over and make you see all the stuff you have stashed. Hidin that stuff like a squirrel! You bastage! yer killing me, freakin killing me.:shocked:

George .. look who's calling you a squirrel .. Those no eye, bm dannys are raking it in now ..

A bit hard to understand. I've spent thousands of hours (no exaggeration) fishing midsized Dannys over the last 20 years. I've used them almost exclusively day after day all season long year after year plugging from my boat for bass. The friend I fish with has even more time retrieving them. There are LOTS of days when a white Gibbs Danny will outfish every Lupo and Beachmaster I own, and I own a lot. You can also modify a Gibbs, by adding weight and changing hook size, to do anything a Beachmaster can do. The Beachmasters are the nicest made of the bunch, so if you like to hang your plugs they are what you want, but if you plan to fish them...they all work (or can be made to work) just fine. Now darters, needles, atoms, and cowboys........there Beachmaster is worth paying more for in my experience. By the way, rumor has it BM is planning a run of no eye Dannys in both sizes for next year.

Hey Flap, here's some more Beachmaster green and silver for ya. I think the top one is rare. It is made of unweighted pine, not maple. Weighs 2 oz as opposed to the usual three. Swims nearer the surface. I'm not sure if it was a manufacturing mistake, or whether he actually had a line of pine darters for special order.

And Eddy, some eyeless eelees from way back

I agree, and the white gibbs work well from the beaches also.

If any of you guys want to part with your older Gibbs dannies let me know.:uhuh:

There was actually 4 sizes of Gibbs Danny plugs as illustrated here plus jointeds and deep divers ( not shown here)

More Gibbs pics please.........
 

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New Year's Gibbs Pics?:skulz: