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Danny's
Hi Steelhead, great Danny's by the way ! Your quite talented. If I may add my 2 cents about Danny action. What I have read about the history of Dan Pinchney's Danny is this. They can wobble or wiggle. Both are good things and add to the versatility of this style plug. The old masters use to like the "roll" of a Danny when they were fishing the "carpet" (I like this term) or that flat foamy water that appears after a wave has broke and flattened out. But, they also liked the "wiggle" from a Danny when they were working the backside of a swell.
With this known, how do you control these factors ? Several ways can give you these 2 different actions. For a shallower, wider wallowing roll bend the eye and /or lip down. For a more wiggling action bend the eye and/or lip up. There are other ways to cause different actions from not only Danny's, but all surface swimmers. We think that the light stuff was only used to make these surface swimmers, but to my surprise was that they use to make them from a variety of wood such as Cedar, Pine, Poplar and even maple and birch. All with different actions and castability potential.
I find the history of the Danny plug and other surface swimmers fascinating and more complex than I ever imagined and understanding there origins has helped not only my plug building hobby, but my fishing tactics as well. If you want to learn more about the masters of surface swimmers namely Pinchney and Musso, do a search for "Surf Plugology" by Russ Bassdozer(great pictures). I hope this helps...Long live the Danny Plug !
MM
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