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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I work too much, dont fish enough. In the times I cant fish, I ponder stupid thoughts like 'what would be my top 5' or 'if I could only throw ONE lure all year, what would it be".
Personally, I'd go with a 9" cisco kid, probably in shad. Would be a b*tch to run shallow, but I could twitch it to the surface if necessary...then can run it in any other depth either straight retrieving or twitching and even trolling.
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| I would have to say a Hardhead. I usually have one on a pole at all times w/ an assortment of weight inserts in my pocket for fishing different depths. Also, I have caught fish on them from Opening Day till late November. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Helidawg |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | In my short muskie career 90% of my (5) fish have came of the same/same color bucktail it would be hard not to pick that.
But a close second would be a suick, I love the way they look in the water and for some reason have too much confidence in them (a lot of northerns) |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Mag 8 Juice Bucktail! Works all year |
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| HardHead is a good call. or a 7 1/2" standard Phantom. or a Sucker. or..... Good Question. |
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Location: Twin Cities | Double 8 mag bucktail. Can be fished many depths and works all year long. |
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Location: Minnesota | Suick no other baits needed |
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Location: Madison, WI | A mid sized Medussox (medussa with a removable blade attachment) |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Casting Suick (firetiger )
Trolling Hosebait Fatty ( brown perch ) |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | That question is impossible to answer. |
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Location: oswego, il | If you didn't say a dadson you didn't answer the question correctly.:-)
If I had to pick one I will answer incorrectly as well. Modivator. |
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Location: Metro | I would have to say my double cowgirl (black tail, orange blades) or my toothy tickler bucktail (black tail, orange blades). I say this because put simply I have put all of my fish in the boat with these lures.
Still need to put one in the boat late fall to be an all year lure for me though. |
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Location: Gilberts IL/Rhinelander WI | I'd flip a coin ,mag dawg or double #9 blades |
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Location: Wisconsin | One of my Double 8 bucktails, hands down. |
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Location: varies | DADSON!
3 more years and it will be paid off.
good thing they are durable. |
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| Does anyone know a Musky nut that only fishes with one lure all season? |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | 6" phantom softail, walleye (I mean "baitfish") pattern. |
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Location: Oshkosh, WI | Hardhead! Definitely the most versatile bait in my box |
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Location: Barnesville MN | Pearson grinder spinnerbait close second would have to be a black Suick |
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| Trolling a 5" fire tiger tuff shad. |
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Location: NE PA | mag dawg |
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| Bull Dawg. |
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Location: MN | Tough to cover all depths, both trolling and casting, and be able to work thick weeds all with the same lure.
My 1 would be a 10" Believer. A second possibility is a big spinnerbait. |
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Location: Minnesota. | Something that sounds like Swik! Black, black Swik! |
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| pink daredevil. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Brad P - 11/5/2015 3:19 PM
Does anyone know a Musky nut that only fishes with one lure all season?
My Uncle, buys two or three of the same suick in the spring. He'll throw a double cowgirl for about 20 cast and switches back. repeat process maybe 3-4 times a day with a spinner bait as his third. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Will Schultz - 11/5/2015 2:03 PM
That question is impossible to answer.
What he said. Based on the diversity of waters I fish day to day, too tough. Probably a minnow bait, or dive/rise jerk based on versatility, but I'm just as oft throwing something else. |
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| Can I have a second color option? My one lure would be a Super Shad Rap, pearl shad for clear water, orange tiger for stained. Kdawg |
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Location: Contrarian Island | improbable question, but if I was forced to only throw 1 lure all year ... double 9 bucktail... might not work the best in the late fall but I'd suspect it would put the most fish in the boat over the course of the season.... |
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| 9" UNWEIGHTED BRONZE PERCH ROUND BELLY SUICK
WILL CATCH MUSKIES NORTS EYEBALLS AND BASS ALL YEAR |
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| Jig...for all species. |
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| regular sized medusa in natural perch or cisco. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Spankys double-8. Can be fishes from top down to about 12 feet. Having been said, I would feel naked without my boxes. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Cisco colored Mag Double Dawg..... or Double 9 Bucktail.... Bnelson knows Stuff. |
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| jr cowgirl black/nickel |
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Location: IL | Hell hound |
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Location: Tennessee | shallow invader, bounces through obstacles well, can be worked any number of /depths/ways, and trolled |
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| Mag Helidawg for me. Shallow deep slow fast straight reeled or pumped. Does it all. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Creature. 1/3 ounce jig. |
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Location: Iowa | Casting: Tennessee Shad Shadzilla
Trolling: Blue Rice Mattlock |
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| Red October Tube |
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| Magnum bull dawg for sure |
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| A mid-sized floating crankbait that can be cast, trolled, jerked or twitched. Two line ties so the bait can worked from the surface down to 15’. A light density solid body with thu wire construction and an aluminum lip. A bright but natural looking paint job with contrast and flash. Hard epoxy finish |
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Location: Twin Cities | Chicken carcass |
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Location: Contrarian Island | change the poll to what 1 bait would you throw to catch the most with biggest size avg...  my answer stands. |
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Location: West Central WI | Stick with the top 5 and you'll have baits for all situations. The "just one bait" is a non-starter. Already good suggestions here, but one I ALWAYS keep rigged in my boat is a black Bucher Slopmaster with a chrome blade and a white twister tail for contrast. They can be bulged over weeds with the blade just under the surface or popping on the surface like a topwater, ripped through weeds and come out clean, or slowed down and fished deeper. I have several in different colors, but black is my favorite. I replace the blade on one with a smaller blade that I can burn really fast. I also change the blade swivel with a GOOD snap swivel so I can change out blade colors for different sun or water conditions. Cheap snap swivels will open and you'll lose your blade if you like ripping them. I get funny looks from new partners in my boat when I throw it while they're throwing their double 10's (yes I throw those too). Then, they see it work in different situations and they want to borrow one of mine, especially when they're tired of pulling weeds off their hooks with every cast. Weeds are this bait's friend and you know like to hide there. With a single hook, you'd think they would miss fish, but I believe they have as good a hookup percentage as a bait with three treble hooks. And, they're safer and a dream to remove. |
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| Either a double 8 or 9 Bucktail with a reg medussa in close second. |
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Location: Maryland | 9 inch suick |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | Crankbait, probably 9", in a white/baitfish color to work in all water color conditions. Most versatile. Can catch fish from ice out to ice up. Twitched, ripped, straight cranked, trolled, weighted leader, etc. |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | Motivator or hellhound |
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Location: Wisconsin | Walleye regular medusa |
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1 Bait ALL YEAR