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Christmas is here! Freebies from Fishcraze

2010-12-07T09:02:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the length of time blog post,not much fishing and a ton of real life has got in the way. But, I hope to get better(go fishing more) next year:)

The reason for this post is to let you know what I'm doing this year for Christmas.

If you have or know of a kid that loves to fish email me your mailing address and the childs name. I'll send him/her a pack of Jigheads.

Weedhead

Go to http://www.fishcraze.com click on weedheads on the left side to see more.
email me at fishcrazelures at gmail dot com. or get the addy off of fishcraze.com

Hope everyone will have a great Christmas and very HAPPY Holidays!

Fish on
Danny

Tools/websites to help your fishing trips!

2010-04-21T11:20:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have not blogged lately:( been busy in life and work.
Did get out Monday evening for a couple of hours on the Warrior river. Caught a dozen between 2 of us. Nothing large but lots of fun. Most were spots coming off floating worms and brushhogs. Hope to get out again in a day or 2.

The main reason for this post is to show some of the sites I use to help me plan my fishing trips, Tournaments, etc..

1- WaterWatch. The "Real-time streamflow" map tracks short-term changes (over several hours) in rivers and streams. Although the general appearance of the map changes very little from one hour to the next, individual sites may change rapidly in response to major rain events or to reservoir releases.
The map depicts streamflow conditions as computed at USGS streamgages

2-Barometric Pressure and weather patterns.
Awesome weather data for the whole county

3- angling-technologies Mapping site that is angler friendly.

4-Free online Topo maps.
I use this one alot also.

I'll leave you with a hog caught last june. right at 10, hit a Bandit flatmax in a foot of water. mucho fun. Can't wait to beat that one this year.

From Fishcraze Pictures

Fish on
Danny

Happy Easter and good fishing!

2010-04-04T08:52:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter to all my fishing friends!
Sorry haven't updated in a while. Mostly work but some fishing and some other things fishcrazed and I can't wait to tell everyone.

I'm heading out shortly for a afternoon of Bass hunting. I hope I have some worth a pic or 2. Will post report soon.

Fish on
Danny

Alabama Senator Richard Shelby on the Red Snapper fishing in Alabama

2010-03-10T11:48:00.000-08:00

Here's a Video of my Favorite Senator Richard Shelby on the issue of Red Snapper fishing off the Alabama gulf coast.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorRichardShelby

Please take the time to let your local politicians know how you feel.

Keep our fishing free and available.
Danny

tuesday thoughts and beautiful talented fisher girl

2010-03-09T12:51:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Tuesday's Thoughts.

First thought, wishin I was fishin. Guess I could start every blog post with that one:)

Second thought, I'm very happy that we spring forward this coming Saturday night. I'm a very much sun,warm,daylight loving guy. Matter of fact, I have no doubt if I lived anywhere much north than where I do now, I would MOVE :) heck, I think I'm too far north as it is now in central Alabama.

Third thought, I'm thinking even though the water temps are still a little cool for this time of the year the bass will start to move up this weekend with the new moon.I'll be there on the water to find out for sure:) I'll let you know what I find out.

Fishing Thoughts, trips. This past Sunday(3-7-10)I went down to Lake Lu in Livingston to fish a little and see if I could find any big girls biting. I didn't, I did catch 4, 1 on a rattlebait, 1 on a yumdinger and 2 dinks on a shakyhead.
Beats about anything else I can think of that requires cloths :)

Last thought, saving the best for last. I have met a female that is Beautiful, loves to fish,and is good at it. Smart, lawyer smart, funny and a great person. Want to meet her too :)
/Go Here and see for yourself. She's got it going on and I know you'll enjoy following her blog and keep up with the big fish she catches.
She's the Fisherbabe and I'm happy to call her a good friend. Stop by and say hi!

I'll leave ya'll with a pic I took Sunday afternoon since I had no pics of fish how about a nice southern sunset pic.

Life's short, hug those you love and get outside!
Danny

How Kevin Van Dam fishes the Red Eye Shad

2010-03-01T08:52:00.000-08:00

The Bassmaster Classic winner shows how he fishes the Strike king red eye rattlebait.

Yesterday DJ(son) and myself went fishing for a little while. He kicked my butt fishing a rattlebait. This was his first time to really fish this type of lure and I think he's hooked:) He caught 4, lost 2(one of those we saw and was a solid 3lb fish)
I had 1 maybe 2 bites:(
Now I have to hear about that for a week or so until we go again.
Good going son:)

fish on
Danny

The Complete Angler

2010-02-26T10:10:00.000-08:00

This is a series of videos, I think there's 7 in total. I just watch them all and completely enjoyed and will watch them over and over.
I know most all anglers will enjoy this also.

Now I'm wanting to go and read The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

Hopefully I'll get to fish Sunday, first full moon of the spring. The big toads should be up. I'll post my results.

Fish on
Danny

Saturday 2-20-10 Lake Lu

2010-02-22T11:31:00.000-08:00

I started at daylight on lake lu, the first fish of the day was around 3lbs caught on a spotremover with a yumdinger. It came on a underwater point next to the boat area. I missed one other bite and moved down the lake to the ballfield creek where I know some big fish live.
The next fish I caught was this one.

She hit the spotremover and during the fight I saw another fish trying to take the worm, it was even bigger:)
I made a short vid, but can't get into my you tube account. I'll get it up asap.

After catching her, I moved to the upper creek area and caught a 6lb from a underwater island that is know for big fish.
Here's the 6

I got 3 more small fish all were caught on the spotremover and yumdinger. I didn't get a bite on anything else I threw. But it was a great day to say the least :)

DJ(my son) and myself went back on Sunday hoping to get a shot at the one I saw but the wind killed us in those small tin boats. we each caught a dink apiece before we ran out of battery fighting the wind.

I'll be back many times this sping looking for the 15+ I know is there:)

Until then, life's short, fish hard
Danny

Lake LU, Livingston Al

2010-02-22T11:21:00.000-08:00

I thought I would so a quick blog on where I go when I want to chase big bass.
Lake Lu is in Livingston Al. It's a 55 acre lake that is full of big bass and bream.
Here's a map:

The RED marks are where bass over 5-6lbs were caught in the last 3 years
The YELLOW marks are fish over 8
The 1 BLUE mark is the only fish over 10(so for:)
Most of the fish were caught on bottom baits, but 1 9 was caught on a buzzbait and the 10 was a crankbait fish.

I'll post a blog on my trip this past Saturday after this one. I wanted to let everyone to get a idea of Lake LU.
Here's the website Lake Lu

BFL lake Martin 2-14-10

2010-02-16T07:57:00.000-08:00

I spent my Valentines Day doing something I LOVE!
Fishing:)

I fished the FLW/BFL tournament on Lake Martin. I decided to fish when I heard they moved the Tournament a day later due to the weather. This is my first BFL and I'll be fishing the rest hoping to qualify for the regional on Lake Seminole this year.

The day started out cold but clear.

They had almost 100 boats show up. I'm sure the change and the fact it was VD day and moved to Sunday caused several boats to withdraw.

I had to pleasure to fish with boater Bill Hutchison. Bill drives a Nitro Z9 duel center console. Man, what a awesome boat and Bill was a great partner to draw.
(thanks Bill)
Bill and his wife had been up since Friday and fished a good bit in the nasty snow and weather Friday and then spent Saturday fishing after it was moved to Sunday.
Bill said in 2 days he and his wife only got a bite or 2 and the fishing was very tough,cold and muddy. Bill did find some clearer water on Saturday and Sunday it cleared up a little more.

We started fishing up a creek on the northern side where he found a little better water. We started fishing a point with a couple of docks and a seawall.
Since the only thing they got a bite on was a worm, we both pretty much started fishing slow and on the bottom, Bill used a lizard and I started with a yumdinger on a spotremover jighead and also a brushhog.

The boat was frozen,our feet,hands and just about everything was frozen. The net was caught in a storage locker and we couldn't get it opened until about noon. The first few hours our guides kept freezing up and that's a pain to deal with for sure.

We fished the point and then headed down a deeper bank that had some rock and also had the sun hitting it(when the clouds would let it:) I picked up the first keeper in about 6ft deep off the rocks. I thought it was going to be a great start:)

After a little while and no other bites we moved on. The next stop was a sharp rocky point that dropped off to about 18 ft. Bill got his first keeper here, it was really a reaction bite, when he got hung up on the rocks and jerked it off the fish hit.

We fished it for a little while with no other bites and moved across a little bay to a bank with more rocks and deep water.
This bank had a channel swing that hit it and Bill caught his next keeper and I caught a shot or 2:( We had more bites here than anywhere we fished or Bill fished for 3 days. Plus we had 2 more fishers here so it looked like a good place to pick apart and we did.

We fished it pretty hard, Bill caught a nonkeeper and we fished it on down hoping for more bites or signs of action. By this time, the winds started picking up(I'm fishing so the wind must be blowing:) After no more action we went to try some shallow muddy water looking for warmer water. We found it, up to almost 49 degrees but very muddy and we couldn't get anything going at all. so we decided to go back to the point and then our deep bank where we had some bites. The wind made the point almost impossible to fish. By now, we had 15-20 mph winds and fishing was hard anywhere in the wind and our best spot was in the wind. On our 3rd stop on the channel swing Bill caught his 3rd keeper up in about 6 inches of water, I think Bill hit it in the head and the bass was trying to protect itself:) I caught a another small dink:(

We fished here to time to go back and really just try to make one bite by shaking a worm in their face but it didn't happen.

Hindsight, I wished I would have try to go deeper with a crankbait on that channel bend but again that's hindsight and it is what it is.

Got back to the ramp and got ready to weight in. Glad I had something to weight, getting skunked sucks!

In line to weight our fishes.

On stage,at least I got a few points, I finished 55 and Bill finished in 33rd so both of us have a good start to the season.

Bill and myself after the weight in.

Thanks Bill I really enjoyed fishing with you and look forward to seeing you and your wife at the next one.
Stage and after Tournament photos by Carrie Hutchison, Bill's beautiful and sweet wife, oh she a bass fisherperson also:)

Here's the link to FLW site

Standing,

Funny video

2010-02-05T11:57:00.000-08:00

Check out my big Johnson

Very funny, hope everyone enjoys.

Hopefully this weekend,I'll be fishing somewhere and will have a blog post up Monday about the fishing.

Saturday the 6th I'll be over at the Acedemy in Tuscaloosa. There'll be several BASS pros there, Boyd Duckett, G Swindle and more.
Come by and see everyone.

till next time, go fish!
Danny

New year and New fishing goals

2010-01-11T10:20:00.000-08:00

Happy New year to everyone.

Roll TIDE Roll for the Number 1 Team in the Nation.(haven't said that in forever, glad I can now:)

My goals this year is the same as every year. Go and try to fish better, learn more and be a better fisherman and person.

Cheers to everyone. I'll be updating this weekend, hopefully my first fishing trip of the new year.

Fish on
Danny

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

2009-12-19T11:10:00.000-08:00

I know I haven't posted much:( But, it's about to be on like a chicken bone. I have HUGE plans for 2010. I plan on chasing down the Alabama State record large mouth bass.
I need to beat 16.8 and that's a giant bass no doubt.
I know where she lives, I know how to catch her, I just need a little fishing luck to fool her into thinking that piece of materiel is lunch:)

I'll post here and on my forums to those that care can follow my plan.

More to come later. First thinks first.
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!
ROLL TIDE all the way this year!
THEN, it's time to get serious about catching that old gal that's out there swimming around and eating anything she wants:)

Fish on
Danny

Fishing trip from long ago but never forgot!

2009-09-30T08:15:00.000-07:00

Many years ago we used to fish a old oxbow lake off the black warrior river near Fosters Al. There was 2 or 3 of these,you had to be a member or have a member with you. I was lucky my friend was as I couldn't and still can't afford their rates:)
The lake we were fishing was full of standing timber,laydowns,weeds, Lilly pads every where, the kind of lake Bill Dance seems to fish often:)
We started our morning throwing buzzbaits,pink floating worms and topwater baits. We prolly caught 20 or so "footballs" these fish were healthy almost as fat as long and dark green color. The water was a tanic color and full of fish.
After fishing around one side and wearing out the bass I decided to go big:) I tied on a 12 inch worm without a weight and swam it among the lillypads. There was a section of pads,prolly around 20'x20' 15 or 20 feet off the bank that we haven't fished yet.

My first cast across the pads, I slowly started swimming the big worm when the whole pad field exploded, and I mean exploded, the wake of it made our 12' boat roll. We both about had a heart attack and thought that had to be a state record of some sort. I miss the biggest strike I've EVER had:(
Well, I reeled up and made another cast same place, I hadn't move the worm 2 feet when the fish hit again, blew a hole about 5 feet and missed my worm. I kept on swimming the worm(now my shakes had put more action to it also:)Bout 5 feet more and again someone threw a cinder block into the pads at my worm, and again it missed:( I was just about to the end of the 20 or so feet of pads when it happened again, this time I dropped my rod and watched my line, this time it started moving and set back with all I had,when I stuck the fish it didnt move, I set it again and this time the fish went ballistic, it pulled our little tin boat about 20-30 feet while I tried to gain control. After about 5 minutes,seemed like 5 hours I had the fish close and told my buddy to get ready to help. We had no net and didnt know what we had yet. When the fish surfaced it was the biggest gar I had ever seen in my life.
I could not lift it out of the water, all I could do was lift it about half way. Thought about keeping it because it was at the time by for my biggest fish of any kind. We both guessed it weight in the area of 60-70 lbs. But really didnt want that thing in a 12' tin boat:)
After talking to a local taxidermist he said it was a alligator gar and he would have mounted it for free since it was so large.
Man I would give anything for at least a picture, but now after catching 100lb tarpon, 50 lb cobia, 30lb red snapper and 10 lb black bass in my life so for that one fish with it's multiple hits and finely boating it is one top of my list of fish caught. I'll never ever forget that day and glad I got to share it here, sorry for the length and grammer,etc...
I fish way better than I write:)

Forums REopened on Fishcraze.com

2009-07-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

I've reopened the forums at Fishcraze.com
I shut it down about a year ago because of spammers and a problem with the board to keep them out I've tried to find a board to use and keep the old one open for the 4-5 years of infomation that's on the old board.
I couldnt find what I wanted, so I reopen the old one. I'm going to try to make it work and hope to keep a grip on the spammers. Wish me and the mods luck on that:)

I hope ya'll stop by we're be adding more stuff and hope to have the cobwebs cleaned out and everything running smooth in a day or so

I'll be back to post about the hog I caught this past saturday morning at lake lu.

fish on
Danny

Happy Indepence day!

2009-07-04T08:22:00.000-07:00

Please think of those that are in harms way today and to those that have servered and to those that have gave the ultimate sacrifice so we can all enjoy the BBQ's,beers, and to be with loved ones!

One of my fav for sure, thank you and SemperFi!

I got this picture from this blog
Great read on the 4th.

I might to go fishing tomorrow, full moon coming up, front coming down, big bass cruising! Could be good :)

Fish on
Danny

New World record bass from Japan

2009-07-03T08:09:00.001-07:00

Here's a video of the massive bass that was caught on july 2 in Biwa lake in Japan.

that's crazy! It looks like it'll Tie with Perry's long held world record bass. It has to be 2 ounces over the current record to be a new record. Whatever!?

I want to catch one that big :)

fish on
Danny

Weekend at lake Lu

2009-06-29T11:44:00.000-07:00

Crossing the dam Lake Lu Saturday 27th of June.

I decided to fight the heat and hit Lake Lu at daylight Saturday morning 6-27-09
3rd cast of the morning with a zara spook in baby bass color.I didnt even work the lure, I didn't see the hit, but I heard it, the cider block hit, it was loud and it was fun.
(I have a vid, that's not too good I'll add at the end of the post of this fish.)

First fish of the day, what a great way to start, cool, calm and explosions at daylight:) There's a tape that goes to 18 inches in the photos, you can tell pretty much how long they are.

another pic of her, over 23 inches and over 8lbs.

I caught 5 bass total Saturday, 3 dinks and another toad of almost 5 lbs. The 5 hit a shakyhead in some brush. It was hot, but those fish made is seem like I was fishing in Alaska :)

Sunday, the lake opens at 1230 or so on Sunday, I wasn't in a hurry to go and sweat so I got there around 230. slight nw wind with some clouds(thank you lord)
Both days the water temp was in the low 90's but it's green that's a good thing.
I started fishing and went a couple of hours with only 2 small fish on a crankbait. around 5 or so, I hit a shallow bar where I've caught some big fish in the past and was bumping the bottom around a bream bed and this fish hit and went crazy, she was around 19 inches and around 5lb

sweet! that's why we fish.

That fish made my day and I was ready to start fishing back to the boat area. I stopped to hit another shallow bar that sits about 15 feet off the bank, I know it's a bream bed,seen the big holes when the water was clear. I started dragging the crank though the holes, feeling it hit then bounce up, on about the 3rd hole I felt the crankbait go away from me, I leaned into the hit and knew I had another solid fish on. It went crazy, I stumbled around for the net,when a 9/10 pounder jumps it's awesome(as long as I'm not in a tourney:)

This fish was over 24 inches long and I know it was close to if not over 10. I didn't weight it, cause it was just too hot to keep it out long, I wish I did weight it. Ohwell it was big toad! Sunday all 4 fish hit a H2O crankbait, was a long slender chartreuse with a green back kind that runs about 4 feet deep.

Both days were hot but fun. 2 over 8 and 2 more around 5. Now that's bass fishing in the south in June :)

Here's video I shot on Saturday of the 8, sorry quality, it's hard to fight the fish and shoot the vid, I'm working on my technique :)

Fish on
Danny

Turtle fight

2009-06-09T11:24:00.000-07:00

Went fishing down on Lake Lu in livingston al. Been going down there about every weekend, hoping the big toads will start their summer feeding patterns. I've done so so. Nothing over 5 or lbs since April but the last couple of weekends the fish have got a little bigger. On may 30th the biggest 5 would have gone about 15 or so. They were sitting on a brush top on a ledge. Crankbait were the ticket. This past weekend, I caught a couple from that brushtop but I found some good fish on another. Past Sunday jump off one over 5 and boated 2 over 4 with some misses. Hot though!

Here's a quick video of a turtle that got a little too close to my crankbait. This is the first of my vids I'll be uploading this summer to my youtube channel. REALfishcraze.

I'll be in north alabama this coming weekend to fish Wheeler lake, I'll blog about it next week. Untill then, follow me on Tweeter :)
Danny

Fishing and Balloon races

2009-06-01T13:03:00.001-07:00

Great morning for flying :)

Been busy working on several things, some of my irons in my fire are toast:) Ohwell, live and learn. I spent the weekend over at Lake Lu. That's a small 55 acre lake on the campus of west Alabama campus in Livingston Alabama. I'm going to do a post on that lake soon so you'll see what the deal is. Big fish is the deal :)

Saturday,got there at sunup, clear sky's light nw winds. The fishing was pretty slow most of the day. Around 12 or so I found some fish on brush near the channel and started catching some nice fish. 4 over 15 inches and a couple more around 12" or so. most came on a Banditt Flatmax(my fav:)

Sunday, went to the balloon race at sunup,see pic, pretty cool, I wanted to fly with them but instead just took some pics. see top!

Sunday, headed to lake lu at 12pm for about 5 hours, started off at the same place, caught 2 nice ones, missed one and thought well I know there here I'll go find more and come back here and really clean up......nope,didnt find them anywhere else and when I got back to the brush on the ledge, caught 1 more about 3. that's it. Fun of course anyhow.That's way we do what we do :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I can't wait untill I'm on the water again.
until then, fish on
Danny

week is about over, wohoo!

2009-05-01T13:37:00.000-07:00

Hope everyone has a great weekend! If your fishing, catch'em up, if your doing other things, well you should be fishing :)

thanks to everyone that spends a few minutes to read my blog and I hope oneday I'll post something that will help you in your fishing.

also, here's a new color for the fishcraze stickers,

fish on
Danny

weekend fishing, what else is new:)

2009-04-27T12:50:00.000-07:00

I spent most of Saturday and Sunday fishing lake Lu in Livingston Al, both days were pretty tuff fishing, post spawn blues, plus they fertilized the lake on Thursday:(
Normally it takes a few days for them to ajust to that and well they were not this weekend:)
I did catch 2 very nice fishes on sat though. Dont ask about Sunday.
Here's the first nice one, caught on a lizard, guess he/she thought it needed a big meal:)

13" and about a pound and half, one of the biggest shellcrackers I've ever seen or caught.
Then just a little while later while fishing a channel edge with a flat shallow crankbait, this pig just about swallowed it, luckly I got the bait out and she swam around, little sore but kicking :)

22 1/2 inches and right at 7 on my scales, she jumped prolly 5 times, but the bait was so deep it wasnt coming out.
Those 2 fish made the weekend :)

until later, fish on
Danny

More on Guntersville Rally with pics

2009-04-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

I wanted to add a couple of pics from our Tourny day,
Here's Micheal with his 2 toads,

another one,

here's one of mine,

Great morning on Lake Guntersville, we had the 4 we weight in at 11am or so, we caught several shorts, like I said yesterday, should have stayed in our pond and never left without that 5th fish.

thanks and fish on
Danny

Back from Guntersville

2009-04-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

Back at the work place and thinking of the past weekend at lake Guntersville, man what a awesome lake!
We had 2 nights of great food, 2 days of good fishing and a Tourny day that almost was great :)
We came in 3rd, 4 fish for 16.8 lbs, my partner had the 2nd bigfish at 6.8.
Man, if only IF we could have got that last keeper............ohwell, that's fishing.

We found a little round hole on friday, caught a keeper and couple of shorts, it wasnt a big place at all, maybe a acre or so, there was a ton of fish moving in the weeds, friday we were'nt sure if they were bass or not but we added it to our places to fish on Saturday. Found out friday night that there would be about 400 to 500 tourny boats on the lake saturday and decided to go to the round hole first off trying to beat the other boats. We did, and first pass, partner boated a 4 1/2 lber. Good start, on the 3rd pass he boated the 6+ fish and we continuted to circle this small hole.
I finaly got a keeper, then another one. So, about 10 passes in this little circle of water and 4 for about 15lbs.
What to do, go and try to find that last keeper or keep circleing? Well, we went looking, bad, bad! NEVER, NEVER leave fish to find more fish........learn damnit!
If we had stayed we would have got that 5th fish and could have won the darn thing, but you have to learn from your mistakes and I did.
*Should'nt have to learn this one over and over though:(

!8.8 won, 17.5 2nd and our 16.8 3rd. I can't wait to get back to Lake Guntersville :)

I'll post some pics later this week,
fish on
Danny

Guntersville or bust

2009-04-16T08:11:00.000-07:00

I'm about 2 hours from starting the 2 hour drive up to Lake Guntersville for the Bass Boat Central.com southern rally V this saturday. The late week is shaping up nicely, the weather is sorta stable for this time of the year and most bass should be post spawn and those are the ones we're after. I'm going to try to keep everyone updated, at the least check the twitter, I'll be twittering from my Google phone. link is on the side>

hope you all have a great weekend, be carefull and catch'em up

Danny

busy working, about to be busy fishing :)

2009-04-15T10:14:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I haven't updated in a few days. I've been busy here at work and getting ready for the Bass Boat Central.com southern rally V on Lake Guntersville this weekend. I hope to blog a few times from there though the weekend, I know I'll twitter for sure, so Follow! :)

Here's the new logo for fishcraze, it was done by Iquana Grafix Darryl does awesome work, if you need some disign, check him out and tell him fishcraze sent ya.
here's the new logo

Nice uh, I'm digging it, I'll have stickers, hats, shirts, etc...soon as I can. This will rock!

next time from Lake Guntersville
fish on
Danny

Weekend fishing

2009-04-06T12:09:00.000-07:00

Well, after working sat morning, I took off for lake lu for the afternoon. Just 2 days after a cold front and a ton of rain. I knew that some big fish would be caught and wanted to at least be there just in case it was me to catch them :) Well some were caught, one guy got 2, both over 7. There were prolly more caught but I didnt hear about them. If you in the south/west part of Alabama, lake lu is a place you should try to hit. Robby the manager does a great job and the lake is full of big bass, big bullgills and nice shell crackers.
I did throw the big trap some, and also the small mann's bait, didnt catch anything on either and looking back I wished I had thrown the trap more. I ended up with 7 small bass that I gave to some guys fishing for dinner. Robbie wants the unders out and trys to get everyone to take them out and I help :)

Sunday, I wanted to go and check out the blue angels that were in town for the weekend. I didnt go sat because I knew the crowd would be huge, well it was over 125000 came to town, I heard the traffic was very very bad. So my plan was to fish early, get back and go watch some jets. Well at sunrise it was raining and storming. I should have stayed in bed but I'm hard headed and wanted to get down to Bibb county lake another lake that is FULL of big bass but for me thier very hard to catch. But, after sitting in the truck for about 30 mins waiting on the storms to pass, I went out for about 5 hours, 4 small bank runners were all I could get. Caught those on a fluke, one of my go to lures when the fish are in 5ft or less.
It looked like the prefect spring morning, clouldy, rainy, foggy, man it was nice:)
ohwell, that's why it's called fishing not catching. I'll try again as soon as I can that's for sure.

I hope everyone had a great weekend, caught some fish or whatever you were trying to catch:)
I'll be back in the next day or 2 for more :)

Fish on
Danny

More Custom painted lures, wohoo

2009-04-03T10:15:00.000-07:00

I can't wait to get on the water this weekend and give these 2 lures a try,
The first one is a 1oz Trap in Shellcracker(red ear) this is a big fish bite for sure :)

The next one is for the skinny water where this time of the year a lot of Bass will be hanging out, plus they hate bluegills roaming around their area :)
Manns baby minus 1, this will be fun to throw, and I have the prefect place this weekend to try it, I'll have a report on monday or so and let everyone know how it went.

Until next time, fish on
Danny

custom painted crankbaits.

2009-04-01T12:31:00.000-07:00

I wanted to show off a couple of custom painted crankbaits I just got in,
I think they look awesome and will have more coming in soon.
Here's a H20 in Shellcracker(Red ear)
Here's a Rapala Risto Rap in Bluegill
Both look great as I hope can be seen in these big pictures :)

Let me know what you think.
Also, I have Twitter set up, I'll add a link soon, but you can find me by seaching for fishcraze.

thanks and fish on
Danny

Love Spring time Bass fishing!

2009-03-30T12:13:00.001-07:00

Sorry I havent posted much, this computer is giving me some troubles, but I'll work though it.

I am very happy that spring as sprung. The bass and other fishes are shallow and if you take your time, open your mind and go slow you'll find them.

Good luck and here's a pic of pair of toads I caught last march on a shakyhead with yum dinger.
Great lure and great fish :)
This is what I look forward to everytime I get to go bass fishing during the spring.

The BASSmasters are on Wheeler this week, I wish I could go up and see some of them, but will have to hang here and hope to chase green trout :)
Good luck to Boyd Duckett and all the Bama sticks :thumpsup:

Fish on
Danny

posting again

2009-03-12T12:02:00.001-07:00

I'm working on getting this blog back up and looking like I want it too. There'll be some changes and some additions. I feel like it'll make the blog much better. I'll also be blogging all my fishing trips and thoughts.
Look forward to comments and whatnot from any fishers out there.

Fish on
Danny

BACK JACK

2009-03-11T08:39:00.001-07:00

Well, it took some time, but I'm now able to start this blog back.

I'll be updated as much as I can and hope to keep everyone up to date with me and fishcraze.com

visit, leave me a message and fish on
Danny

Press Release for Fishcraze Lures

2007-09-25T12:15:00.001-07:00

Well, that didnt work to well, Here's another way to read it, sorry for the trouble.

Press Release

thanks
Danny

Press Release for Fishcraze Lures

2007-09-25T12:15:00.000-07:00

Thanks Angie :)

Fall is in the air

2007-09-17T14:50:00.000-07:00

Football season is here(ROLL TIDE) and the fishing is about to turn on. I havent been able to go as much as I want/need:) to and I will change that soon. I have a couple of new things I want to play around with. I have several products that I want to get out the winter so I have a ton of stuff to do so I make that goal.

As for as the next great thang, it's the "Weedhead" and it's going to set the jighead world on fire:)
Anyone that wants a couple post here your email addy and I'll be in touch.
Be the first one on your block to own a "Weedhead" :)

fish on
Danny

Day after and still laboring :)

2007-09-04T10:28:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a great labor day. I worked the morning and completly blew off the rest of the day. All weekend I wanted to go fishing but different things kept getting in the way. Next time, I'm just going dang it :)

I'm still working on the prefect shakeyhead jig, it's coming I promise and you'll love it. WHY? Cause it'll help you catch MO fish and frankly that's why we fish, well one of the reasons anyhow :)
It'll be soon, very soon.

Keep fishing and keep reading it'll do everyone good.

Fish on
Danny

Coming Soon........

2007-08-21T08:06:00.000-07:00

Man I can't wait to release this info! It's going to be awesome and every fisherperson will need/want some in thier tackle box. It's the PREFECT jighead :)

stay tuned, it's coming baby

Danny

HOY Summer time fun

2007-06-13T14:05:00.000-07:00

Well, it's about 100 here in central bama. I fished lake wheeler last saturday and didnt do squat. My partner Casey Martin(caseymartin.com) did well, I guess I netted well, I just couldnt get bit. I hate days like that, but sometimes they happen. I have a feeling I was a little too tight, new partner, new trail, new things and it was hard to get my game face on. Hopefully we'll fish together more and I have my bad day out of the way :)
Might be able to fish Wheeler again sat with the BBC guys. If So, I hope to do better and will post the good and bad.

I hope everyone is well and getting to fish as much as possible. REmember my motto......
Life's too short not to fish.

fish on
Danny

BACK!

2007-05-09T13:38:00.000-07:00

After taking a year off, I'm back suckers :)

fish on
Danny

Bassmasters Classic 2006

2006-02-24T12:45:00.000-08:00

Today's the start of the Classic in Florida, lake Toho. Should be some big stringers weighted in and it'll be fun to watch. I'm pulling for Tim Horton he's a bama guy and a dang good stick:)

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Happy Birthday Son

2006-02-22T12:26:00.000-08:00

Todays my sons birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON! :) big 15 wohoo, he's one of the best fisherman that I've ever fished with and I can't wait to fish with him in some tounements soon.

Also, this weekend is the BASSMASTER Classic in Florida. Should be a great fishing event. Wish I knew someone down there that could give us a report. Good luck to all the bama boys fishing

good fishing
Danny

Fishing lay lake Feb 18th

2006-02-20T12:49:00.000-08:00

Sorry it's been a while:( I'm going to make a effort to post more and sorta use this as a fishing log. Not that anyone reads or cares:)

I was running a little late, called to let my partner know and got there about 10 minutes after most fishing the tourny had already left the landing. The weather was cold rainey and getting colder. When I got there it was 44 and it was 34 when we finished at 3pm. It rained on and off all day made for a uncomfortable day to say the least. We started across from Beeswax landing in some cuts with boat houses and docks. First skip with a spotremover w/5" yum dinger got a 2 1/2 lb spot. That got me warmed up somewhat:) then I missed a bite and caught a small keeper. I made another cast and my line started heading right for the boat, I tired to catch up and set the hook, but when that happens and when it's a BIG fish 8lb line sometimes isnt strong enough, it broke:( I knew right then what I did wrong, I should of caught that fish and it would have made a difference for sure. But that's fishing. We then tried some docks, more grass, points but the wind got up and we moved to find something else that would give us some deeper water and block the north wind somewhat. I had found a few north pockets on a map and we headed over to them. The first pocket had a nice tree laydown and I threw my chart/white spinnerbait and slowly worked it down the tree, a nice 2lb largemouth ate it and gave me 3 keepers in the boat. Moved on down the river bank fishing laydowns, grass and whatever we thought might hold a fish or 2. When it's that cold you want get many bites so it's a numbers game, a thousand cast might get you a few bites if your lucky. On down the bank we came across another pocket that had a boat fishing the point, I worked around them slowly and when they left I moved over and fished a concrete seawall, good move:) first pass down the wall I nailed another 2+lb fish on my jigworm, then on the next pass I caught my 5th keeper(woohoo) it's always a major goal to get a limit and I had it then. We worked on down the river and decided it was getting close to time to head back, I wish we would have hit that wall 1 more time but ohwell.
We ran back to the creek where the landing was and started fishing the dock that produced the first 2 fish but didnt find anthing. I wanted to fish a bridge and some rocks before we finished. Good call, I caught one more keeper and it was a largemouth that was the same lenght as my small spotted bass but had a bigger belly and weighted a few ounces more. At the weight in, 12.9 one it, 2nd was 12 and we got third with almost 11lbs. 4th was just 5 ounces behind, that last fish got me in the money:)

Sorry this was a little long, but I had a great time, and can't wait to go fishing again.

untill then, good fishing
Danny

"the biggest fishing invention since the hook"

2005-10-13T09:58:00.000-07:00

This is what ex-owner of Ronco, Ron Popeil said on TV about the pocket fisherman when he released it. The pocket fisherman was inventer by Ron's father Samuel Popeil. The pocket fisherman has now sold over 2 million since it was launched in 1963.

The product debuted at $19.95, and the current improved version is $39.95. For more information, check it out on the Ronco website.

Another underwater cam(ocean reef)

2005-10-12T13:29:00.000-07:00

Here's another fish cam. It's a wreck that is fun to watch. Sometimes you'll see divers around also.

Enjoy
http://www.bonairewebcams.com/BonaireReefCamLarge.php

fishcam

2005-10-07T14:09:00.000-07:00

Found this and thought it was pretty cool :)
http://www.lssu.edu/arl/fishcam.php

Tight lines
Danny

London hit

2005-07-07T11:47:00.000-07:00

My prayers and thoughts go out to those effected in the recent terror bombings in London. There's only one way to deal with these type of people.......I'll leave that for another blog to discuss :)

Good fishing
Danny

Possible World Record Crappie

2005-07-06T10:37:00.000-07:00

This is a "SLAB" http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/1579376.html
I've caught some up to 3lbs and those were huge. Also, some of the best eating that you can find :)

Good fishing
Danny

Saturday morning

2005-07-05T09:59:00.000-07:00

Woke the boy up at 4:30, made coffee, loaded the car and we headed to Livingston Alabama. It's a hour drive down I-20/59 to the exit that carried us to lake Lu on the campus of West Alabama University. It's a small lake with some big fish, http://lakelu.uwa.edu/ A good friend from high school holds the lake record little over 15 lbs. I've had some on that rank up there with the biggest fish I've ever hooked. Biggest I've evered boated was around 7. My son got his biggest so for this past Feb, picture is in one of the post below. Anyhow, got to the lake right at opening time, 6am. I was surprised to be the only ones there, normaly thier several folks getting boats and there to bank fish. But this morning we had the lake all to ourselfs. Very nice way to start the day.
We loaded the boat with enough fishing gear to sink a battleship and headed across the lake. I wanted to start on the bank that the creek channel came close in. From the time we got in the boat we saw fish busting the top, chasing bait, having a good time. I thought we might have a good topwater bait BUT, could not really find the lure they wanted, tried buzzbaits,pop'rs,stick baits and soft jerkbaits but only found a couple of somewhat interested fish. Dj started fishing his "new" bait. He has got the dropshot technique down pretty well and started catching some small throwbacks. I started throwing a carolina rig with a 4 inch yum dinger worm. around 9am we were up on the upper end around the stumps and cover around the creek channel, after a small fish I caught one around 4 1/2 nice fish, miss another bait and then went to a blade and stuck one around 3 and had one try to take my rod, missed him:( Few more bites and a small fish or 2 and we hit the last pocket, battery was dieing and it was getting hotter. I threw the white spinnerbait into the middle of the small pocket and was rewarded with another fish over 4lbs. Those type of fish on a spinnerbait are great, ton of fun.

Well, fun morning with 3 very nice fish and a bunch of smaller fish to keep us wanting more. Always a great day when I can fish with my son.

God bless and Good fishing
Danny

Back

2005-06-28T11:17:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a few months since I started this blog and I had some life things get in the way of adding to it. BUT, now I'm back. I'll be posting my fishing reports and any fishing news that comes my way.

The BASS master classic is about to get underway in Pittsburg, it'll be interesting to see who catching them. At the moment "IKE" is one of the hottest Bass fishermen on the planet. Also, it's great to see my fishing hero back in the big game. I'll be pulling for Clunn to win it for sure.

Good luck and good fishing
Danny

First lunker

2005-03-15T12:10:00.000-08:00

Here's my son's first fish over 5. It weighted in right at 6 pounds.

This fish was caught pre spawn on a main lake point on a Banditt Flaxx crankbait in pearl.

Fishing this past weekend

2005-03-15T10:59:00.000-08:00

Well, My son and myself went sat to a local lake and the wind just about blew us all over the place. We were using a aluminum boat and it's hard to control it with a trolling motor. After a few hours and 1 small fish we called it aday. It's our 3rd trip to this lake and still haven't put anything together:( I know it's got some big bass because last march 8th(2004) we were there and saw dozens of large bedding bass. This year the water temp is behind what it was last year and we saw none on bed.

Sunday, tried another lake about a hour south that is full of large bass and this is the best time to fish for them. The wind again was a factor and it was hard to control the small boat. We ended up with a handful of small bass, biggest one on a spinner bait about 2lbs. At least we caught a few:) The weather is about to break out down here in Bama and the bass will be in full force in the shallows. I'll be out there all weekend looking for that monster gal. Haven't decided where, might have the boat fixed and if that's the case we'll head to the lake to see if the spotted bass are where they should be this time of the year. I'll let y'all know for sure.

thanks and tight lines
Danny

World record Bass caught clear lake California March 7th 2005

2005-03-09T07:29:00.000-08:00

I have heard a rumor that the world record bass was caugth on Clear lake in California on March
7th 2005. By someone fishing a shiner or some other live bait. As soon as I find out more I will let everyone know.

tight lines
Danny

March 5th at Pickwick lake north alabama

2005-03-08T14:47:00.000-08:00

Got up at 1:45(after hitting the sack at 11:30 and 2 bottles of wine at dinner for my freinds B-day ) headed up to B-ham to meet my partner and continued on for almost 3 more hours and got to the landing at 5:20. We only had 4 boats fish this one(that would hurt me later:) Got put in and went to the first creek right down from the park. Started fishing the ledge in the mouth my partner got a hit right off the bat and landed a 4# sauger that bit his CB in half:) after just a little while I got a nice 2 1/2 LM on a C-rig, spent the next several hours in the creek with a few other boats. Threw CB,SB, and jigs for a while with a couple of shorts to show. The water was pretty clear in this creek so I then went to a light line and spotsticker jig and junebug senko type worm. Pitching it into cover and started getting bit some and got 3 more keepers in the boat, by 10 was looking for that 5th and final fish to make a limit:) We decided to try some other spots up the lake and left, by then we had 20-30 mile per hour wind and that is NO fun in a bassboat, we took one 3ft wave over the bow and it soaked me to the bone, no fun at this time:( After fighting the wind and losing the trollling Batteries we went back to our first creek and found no more than 10-15 boats in it to try to get out of the wind. We then heading back to the landing an started fishing around the boats and boat slips in about 7 ft of water, I got several bites and finaly caught the 5th and 6th keeper(culled) fish for a limit. Weighted in 5 came in second. Becasue of the low boat turnout, we only paid 1 place BUT I had a great time and caught a bunch of fish. I can't say enough about light line(p-line floroclear) with spotsticker and yum dinger worms(MM saw what they do when he was down last year) I really believe I can catch fish just about anywhere and in any condition with it. My partner now knows about them. count for the day, me- 6 keepers, 4-5 throw backs,4 white or hybid bass and one big drum partner-huge sauger, couple throw backs. great day on Pickwick, guess I'll have to wait another day for that first smallmouth:) Can't wait to fish again:)

tight lines Danny

Welcome to FishCraze

2005-03-08T13:06:00.000-08:00

I want to welcome everyone that stumbles onto this little piece of the "net" IF your crazy about fishing let me know and please say hi and enter a fishing report. I'll being adding my fishing reports from each trip to the blog. I hope you enjoy.

thank you and tight lines
Fishcraze