How do you fish a darter

[New_Caster]

I have been seariously looking at the Yozuri mag darters and was wondering how some of you fish them in the surf and in inlets.

[johnny d]

http://www.stripersonline.net/cart/s...D=PUT_SID_HERE

that should get you started. I am not a huge darter guy, but they have their place in my arsenal sometimes

[New_Caster]

So I gather from the up and across or Down and across means if we are holding a rod level to the surf bring the rod tip up to say around to 2 or 10 oclock area and down would be to 5 or 7 oclock

[rwilhelm]

I just reel them in slowly. Those are great lures, I only wish them made a bigger version also maybe 2 ozs. I wonder why Yozuri does not make a lot of bigger lures, most of them top out at 1 ounce?

[Spigola]

Yozuri seems to focus on fresh water, hence the smaller plugs. I for one have e-mailed them requesting SW size mag-darters. I thing it would be a great plug. As it is, I have reqally gotten to like the 1 oz.ers in the inlets.

Spigola

[Ant]

Originally posted by New_Caster:
So I gather from the up and across or Down and across means if we are holding a rod level to the surf bring the rod tip up to say around to 2 or 10 oclock area and down would be to 5 or 7 oclock

New, in reference to down and across etc.. what you want to do is toss the lure to your left/or right, depending on which way the current is moving. If the current is moving from left to right you want to cast your lure aprox. 45deg to the left, and let the current sweep it down and past you while you keep a tight line to it and feel for any strikes. Once it gets past you, you can then begin letting it swing further to your right and almost to the point where it's parallel to the beach. At this point in the cast your lure will be digging in as it works AGAINST the current. Some current is fast enough to experience what I just wote, while sometimes it's not. If you have ever swung streamers in a river you would have an excellent idea of what I'm trying to explain. For me most of the fish hit the plug, fly etc. right as it passes you and begins to speed up, or towards the end as it begins to swing down and IN TOWARDS THE BEACH, rather than OUT AND AWAY. Although under many circumstances where your swinging the plug, over a bar, through a rip line etc, will determine where the fish choose to whack it in regards to where they are holding in the structure.

If theres no noticeable current flow, move to a more current friendly spot. or fan cast the hell out of the spot till you find fish.

Ant

[CHIEF500]

I them. I especially the Yardon school bus darter.
I use them in and around the edges of troughs. From the beach, from a jetty. Has become a go to in my arsenal.

[Pleco]

I em too, especially the blue/black one. Sometimes its the only lure the fish will eat! Oh, and fish em like Ant sez, let the current do the work.

[D.J. Aanensen]

I own them and place them right next to my big wooden plugs on the wall. I have NO luck with them? Same as rigged eels, needlefish and bucktails. All lures guys and gals swear by. Must be something wrong with this fisherman and not the plugs?

I have my secret stash of other lures that produce so I'm sticking with them for now.

D.J.

[Nebe]

lately i have been having luck with them in flat calm water. i'll cast, rip, pause, rip, pause causing the darter to go all over the place like a fleeing herring.

[Rockaway beachboy]

Parrot colored gibbs was my go to last year. Absolutely 'em!

Killed em using a leader rigged with a darter and a red gill.

[BassKid(SI)]

Just get yourself a Gibbs Darter instead...

[New_Caster]

Originally posted by BassKid(SI):
Just get yourself a Gibbs Darter instead...

I was looking at all of them and have come to the conclusion that the Yozuri are a little small for my set up especialy if I am going to hit the Cape cod Canal more this year so the Gibbs are a better choice in the 2 and 3 Oz sizes.

[FishinFEEver]

Originally posted by New_Caster:
I have been seariously looking at the Yozuri mag darters and was wondering how some of you fish them in the surf and in inlets.

OFTEN

[PurpelNoon]

Are you supposed to "FEEL" a darter vibrating at the end of a line like lets say, a bottle plug does? I'm not too confident with a darter because I don't feel anything "going on" at the end. Unless I just don't know what I'm doing?