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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I use these quite a bit, and vary the retrieve to match what I feel the fish are doing. Do you move this lure fast or slow? |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | yes and yes and sometimes in between...seems you can't run them wrong. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Actually I used to run mine much too fast for many situations. When I started fishing with my friend Chuck and watched him crack fish with more of that "medium" speed, I soon learned. I did much better then. There are times though that they like em' burned for some reason. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I use them a lot too, I agree with Jason that a medium retrieve is usually best, though sometimes I mix it up with a stop and start retrieve and sometimes give it a quick rip. |
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Location: oswego, il | If you run them too fast they will roll. Different prop style baits run properly at different speeds. The pacemaker for example operates at a much slower pace than a tallywhacker or a topraider. All are good and have their place. I like running them just dast enough to get that deep plop. |
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Location: Big Lake, MN | Have you ever caught one by ripping that style of topwater? I have tried the rip, pause, rip, rip, pause etc. but have had no luck with that technique. Medium seems to work the best for me but too often I find myself working them too fast. Anxious I guess.
Good luck out there. |
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| I like the "just fast enough to get the good plop" speed. I too used to run them too fast with the spray going in all directions and never had much luck. Doing much better now that I have slowed down. I've tried the varied retreive with the rips and pauses and haven't done much.
Scott |
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| Dissolve an Alka Seltzer in a 4oz. Dixie cup, dip the blade in the cup and cast; you'll then have the "plop plop fizz fizz" you are seeking...the fish will bubble w/ excitement...you will bubble w/ excitement...don't leave home w/out it...Speedy, 1969 |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I met one of the few fishermen that I couldn't stomach a few years ago while up at a resort for a week.
He had a 12' aluminum boat with 21'of stuff in it. Three fished(?) out of it with the boat barely seaworthy. That wasn't my issue with this clown, because we all fish out of whatever we can afford to the best of our capabilities.
This guy always had a wad of chewing gum between his cheek and gum, pretending to have chewing tobacco, used a fake southern accent, and claimed that he was going to have a national TV fishing show the next year. He was continually coming up to us claiming all sorts of huge fish up to and in the boat, when everyone else was barely seeing any. His Dad came up to me the third day and apoligized for his son being "such a jerk"!
This guy's S.S. Three Stooges had started on fire on day four. I was out at 4:00 AM and fishing until 10:00 AM trying to find a activity period. I came in for some breakfast and was watching out over the lake while I was eating, when I see Bozoman walk out to the end of the dock to start casting a Tallywacker. He would cast it out and jerk the bait about two feet and retrieve the line and repeat the process. On his second cast he caught a 45"er! He hit it between the eyes with a carpenter's hammer that he carried in his boat, enough to make an indentation about a 1/4" deep. He carried the fish all through the resort to make sure that everyone saw the fish and heard his story, (his Dad later said that it was the biggest muskie he had ever caught by alot) Next the clown took the muskie back to the lake to try to release it! Of course it didn't live.
The point of this story is that the only rule is that there are no rules!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 6/8/2003 10:38 AM
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Location: Northern Illinois | I agree that there are many ways to reel in a Tallywacker and have found that in certain situations 1 way will work better than another. I've had numerous follows reeling the bait in fast and once I slow the retrieve down the fish hits. I don't know, maybe it was just the change up that I threw at the fish that got it to hit. |
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Tallywacker style Lure speed