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Stan Gibbs was a better fisherman than I can ever hope to be.
Flap told me that Gibbs said if he could only use one plug it would be a darter. In "Reading the Water" there is mention of Gibbs fishing his darter at Gay Head. That is a very shallow spot full of snags. Flap also said that Gibbs liked his darter at SOH, also a shallow spot.
So one of the best plug fishermen that has lived picks a darter as his favorite plug and fishes it in shallow water? Seemed like something worth considering. So I practiced with the darters I owned until a found a way to fish them shallow and slow....and when I did I quickly realized what a fool I was for not paying attention to Gibbs' advice decades earlier.
One truth I've learned with all this plug building stuff is that if Stan did it, it works.
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