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numbskull · 06-13-2013, 10:32 AM

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.

06-13-2013, 10:32 AM	#12
numbskull Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: over the hill Posts: 6,682	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.