Totally True, Got Old Ironjaw and Old Crafty both within 20 casts using the fishing daily, and avoiding death by using portal from quest mentioned above. Without seeing any posts, the above post is exactly what I did, every single step :P

But the achievement, thanks to these exploits, are not so much of an achievement anymore lol

Confirmed. More like a 1 minute catch for me. I did this with fishing at 450 with a +20 fishingpole, a +75 Shiny Bauble, and +2 fishing gloves and interestingly the baby crock was coming up every single cast. Took me about a dozen casts to catch Old Crafty. Thanks for the tip. :D

As of 12/28/08 The Daily quest trick does not seem to be working.

This worked for me today.  I grabbed the daily, cast about 15-20 lines and got Crafty.  Might have been good odds, but I doubt it.  600+ casts before having the quest and 15-20 with quest says a lot.

Suggested it to a friend who hadn't done much fishing at all since Achievements went live.  She caught it in 30+ casts.

Tried this method. Caught Ol' Crafty on 3rd cast. Stuck around to make sure it was not a fluke. Caught him again on 6th cast, then a 3rd time on cast #15.

My skill is at 310 and I am using Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole (although I suspect skill and pole are not very important.)

Note on O'l Ironjaw:  I fished for him first in IF. After 412 casts of not finding him I went to Ogr to fish up Crafty.  I returned to IF after to continue fishing for Ironjaw and cast another 342 before getting bored and moving on.  I think people who are getting Ironjaw as well are flukes.  It does not have the same results for everyone as fishing for Crafty in Ogr.

this is pure bull, this doesnt work :/

Ya this is BS, been here for about an hour in Org, over 100+ casts... plenty of baby crocs im not looting, but no old crafty

I have the quest Crocolisk in the city, and have been fishing in Org for about an hour.  I have caught about 30 baby crocolisks but didn't loot them.  Still no Old Crafty.  What gives?