| |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| StriperTalk! All things Striper |
 |
|
03-27-2023, 08:49 PM
|
#1
|
|
Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
|
So digging through some old plugs…
Found this in a bucket in the basement.
Now it comes back to me losing a nice fish in the ditch a few years ago.
|
May fortune favor the foolish....
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 01:49 AM
|
#2
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
I love darters. Just hate making them. The lip is labor intensive. That looks like a Super Strike. No?
|
No boat, back in the suds.  
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 07:10 AM
|
#3
|
|
Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
|
Sorry for your loss Bob, must have been LARGE
Let me guess, early morning pre dawn
I love that color
done well will green darters that time of day around the turn.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-30-2023, 08:48 AM
|
#4
|
|
Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
Sorry for your loss Bob, must have been LARGE
Let me guess, early morning pre dawn
I love that color
done well will green darters that time of day around the turn.
|
You are the oracle Bruce ! |
May fortune favor the foolish....
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 02:46 PM
|
#5
|
|
Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
I love darters. Just hate making them. The lip is labor intensive. That looks like a Super Strike. No?
|
Yup, but they're a lot easier to produce out of plastic in a mold, the way that (yes it is) Super Strike was made.  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 05:53 PM
|
#6
|
|
Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
|
Darters in a Rip.
Unless the speaker has a NY accent, than it is daughters   |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
|
|
|
|
|
03-30-2023, 08:47 AM
|
#7
|
|
Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
I love darters. Just hate making them. The lip is labor intensive. That looks like a Super Strike. No?
|
Right you are Paul.
Kinda like letting the current do most of the work while I stare at the stars. |
May fortune favor the foolish....
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 07:50 AM
|
#8
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,372
|
Never caught a thing on a darter even in places where I’ve caught many bass. But a lot of people swear by them . Oh well
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 10:11 AM
|
#9
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
|
I once had a small white two ounce Beachmaster darter. Very rare. Amazing plug. One time, a member of this site who I won’t name (Nebe) asked to borrow it so he could try and replicate its awesomeness. I never saw it again. My therapist said it was “ho’d” but to this day 18 years later I’m unsure of what that means.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 11:51 AM
|
#10
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
I once had a small white two ounce Beachmaster darter. Very rare. Amazing plug. One time, a member of this site who I won’t name (Nebe) asked to borrow it so he could try and replicate its awesomeness. I never saw it again. My therapist said it was “ho’d” but to this day 18 years later I’m unsure of what that means.
|
Jeff, I bet he still has it. I have one he made back in the day. |
No boat, back in the suds.
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 06:43 PM
|
#11
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 260
|
A dahtah fish from 7-8 yrs ago on the block. It was a fruitful trip for all of us. Many fish across many guys. I look back on that trip and smile.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2023, 07:23 PM
|
#12
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 260
|
And the plug itself! Taken while having a late night celebration beer with my buds!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-29-2023, 04:34 AM
|
#13
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
I once found a blue and silver SS Darter at Deep Hole. That thing produced for a couple of years till I lost it.
|
No boat, back in the suds.
|
|
|
|
|
03-29-2023, 07:19 AM
|
#14
|
|
GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,547
|
yes, that color, and then there is translucent blue over green when that stops working
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-30-2023, 08:39 AM
|
#15
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,883
|
Not exactly the same, but had my best night ever on Northbar bottle darters in the ditch. I hope to have another night like that someday.
|
No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
|
|
|
|
|
03-30-2023, 03:44 PM
|
#16
|
|
Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
|
I bought a lot of SS darters (also bottle plugs and that great medium sized Polaris style popper) on Long Island before moving to the Cape, and I don't think I ever paid more than $9.99 for one.
Fast forward 11 years when I was trying to clear everything out before moving abroad, and I was shocked at what some of them sold for on eBay.
|
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
|
|
|
|
|
03-30-2023, 05:12 PM
|
#17
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Shore
Posts: 506
|
Grey white darter Quonnie outflow from west side at dawn. Wonderful.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 01:35 AM
|
#18
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by fishgolf
Grey white darter Quonnie outflow from west side at dawn. Wonderful.
|
...and what a great memory. You had to be accessing thru RIMS. |
No boat, back in the suds.
|
|
|
|
|
03-30-2023, 08:27 PM
|
#19
|
|
Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
|
Bubba tells me someone snagged all the SS lures on the wall at Red Top’s sale last weekend.
Kind of extreme me thinks
|
May fortune favor the foolish....
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 07:32 AM
|
#20
|
|
Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
|
Love making darters. Who better than a machinist
|
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 09:08 AM
|
#21
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
|
I'm not sure people can consider themselves serious SB fisherman w/o fishing darters.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 09:22 AM
|
#22
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Shore
Posts: 506
|
"...and what a great memory. You had to be accessing thru RIMS."
Yup, grew up up down there and spent lots of time on the beaches and breachways. Still go down, but not until mid-november. Long drive, not enough time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 12:16 PM
|
#23
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulS
I'm not sure people can consider themselves serious SB fisherman w/o fishing darters.
|
Excuse me!! 55 years fishing for stripers and I can count on 1 hand the number of darters I have owned. |
No boat, back in the suds.
|
|
|
|
|
04-01-2023, 08:45 AM
|
#24
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Excuse me!! 55 years fishing for stripers and I can count on 1 hand the number of darters I have owned.
|
You should give them a try. They're very effective especially from shore.I don't fish from a boat so I don't know how effective they would be with shorter casts. Anytime there's moving water it is one of my go to plug lately. If you wanna p m me your address I'll send you one.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
|
|
|
|
|
|
04-02-2023, 02:20 PM
|
#25
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulS
You should give them a try. They're very effective especially from shore.I don't fish from a boat so I don't know how effective they would be with shorter casts. Anytime there's moving water it is one of my go to plug lately. If you wanna p m me your address I'll send you one.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
Paul, I'm good. I make plugs and have made darters. I just much prefer metal lip Dannys and Needles.
I know you realize we were just busting balls.  |
No boat, back in the suds.
|
|
|
|
|
04-02-2023, 03:31 PM
|
#26
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,294
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Paul, I'm good. I make plugs and have made darters. I just much prefer metal lip Dannys and Needles.
I know you realize we were just busting balls. |
No you absolutely take advantage of his offer. His darters out catch any other darter. I have been trying to get my hands on some of his for years after standing next to my fishing partner slaying fish with them and nothing with super strikes. Maybe a bit of the magician aspect but they outwork.
Black and dark green. Short model
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
|
|
|
|
|
|
04-03-2023, 08:26 AM
|
#27
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Paul, I'm good. I make plugs and have made darters. I just much prefer metal lip Dannys and Needles.
I know you realize we were just busting balls. |
No offense at all taken. If Beamie or anyone else wants to try a Superstike Darter send me a PM, I'll be happy to send 1. I won't be able to us all I have in my lifetime.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 11:20 AM
|
#28
|
|
Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
|
Haha. I pretty much fish darters 70% of the time. If you fish them
A lot you will really appreciate a good wooden darter. Plastic SS darters are Like night and day compared to a good wooden darter I know many quality fish have been caught on SS over the years no denying that but I attribute that to the mass amounts of them that are used by so Many fishermen and the scarcity of good modern day wood darters. No one wants to throw a real Musso
Or Pichney darter because of their collectabity. There are a few builders making some good one. Hunt them down. It’s worth it. My 2 cents. P.
|
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 12:26 PM
|
#29
|
|
Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
|
Why can’t all these Paul’s agree. I not going to say if you don’t use darters your a bum but I wouldn’t be caught dead without one or more.
|
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
|
|
|
|
|
03-31-2023, 02:22 PM
|
#30
|
|
Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Why can’t all these Paul’s agree. I not going to say if you don’t use darters your a bum but I wouldn’t be caught dead without one or more.
|
Paul, you fished we me long enough to know what I throw, especially at the Ditch. |
No boat, back in the suds.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:12 AM.
|
| |
Hybrid Mode