Most miners only support stratum so they can't directly connect to the daemon. It's best to set up your own mining pool software such as node-cryptonote-pool, point it to your daemon and mine to it.
node-cryptonote-pool indeed did the trick without too much hassle:
http://shrani.si/f/1y/8H/4BHqvxZm/mining.pngGood bye high pool fees

To say thank you feel free to post your FBF address and I'll match you an airdrop ammount.
