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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I have been cleaning up my tackle box. I have many lures I feel like I do not use and just collect. What are the 10 to 15 lures and colors that are a must? I know there has been so old threads on this, but would like to get everyone's most recent opinions.
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Location: Tennessee | My number one shall always be the Shallow Invader. |
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| Black - the only color you'll ever need  |
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| 8's 9's 10's single 6-7 suik rubber phantom shallow raider deep raider whopper plopper spinnerbait, in no order. |
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| If I had to have 10, in no particular order.
1. Hellhound
2. Shallow Invader
3. 10 in. Weighted Suick
4. Mag Bulldawg
5. Spinnerbait
6. Bucktail
7. Top Raider
8. Phantom
9. WTD topwater
10. 10 in. Jake |
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Location: Waukee, IA | In no order.
1. Double 10
2. Double 8
3. Spinnerbait
4. Shallow raider 7"
5. Jig a beast
6. Phantom soft tail 7.5"
7. Weighted suick
8. Bondy
9. Bulldawg (mag)
10. Tail prop |
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Location: Aurora | Hirsch's Ghosttails |
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Posts: 253
Location: On the water | These 10 lures are all I carry and fit into a 3700,
for casting, in no particular order.
Top Raider
Jackpot
Shallow Invader
DDD
Crane Bait
Hellhound
Bucktail
Depth Raider
Mag Bulldawg
Bondy
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Posts: 83
Location: North of Sweden! | my 10 in no particular order:
1. 10" Jointed Believer - "Firetiger" (though any color is good)
2. 8" Swim Whizz - 08 (that is the number of the color, perhaps it is called something like "pumpkin seed"?)
3. Poe's Giant Jackpot - "Perch Tiger" or "Black/Hot Belly"
4. Weighted Suick Thriller - "Red Hot Purple Rage" or ALL BLACK
5. Jerko - ALL BLACK
6. dbl #10s - my own builds, fave being one black+fluo pink bucktail/silver beads/pink blades
7. 12" Custom X - any color
8. Homewrecker
9. "The Pig"
10. Wild Action Wabull
EDIT:
also, I am fine and confident with any choice of color on these lures, but put some colors on a few of them, just because I have had good fishing with those exact colors and/or favorite colors to look at... :D
Also, to be honest, if need be I would be fine with only a Jointed 10" Believer and nothing else (well, a few bell-sinkers in my backpocket in addition to that).
But, if I would get to choose only two lures to bring with me it'd be:
1. 10" Jointed Believer
2. 9" weighted Suick Thriller
any colors would be fine! |
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| #1 defiantly perch colored triple D |
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| I'd take the ten lures I caught the most fish on and call it a day. |
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| 1.Mag Dawg-Black
2.Spanky Double 10-Blk/Smoke
3.Esox Assault single 8-Blk/smoke
4.Countdown Depth Raider-Perch
5.Shumway Heavy Spinnerbait-Traditional Blk/Silver
6.Big Joe-White
7.October Tube- Genson's Color
8.Lee's Chopper-Blk
9.Lee's Flaptail-Black
10.Jointed Big Fork Reef Digger-Walleye
Casting I would be fine anywhere I have ever fished with that crew.
Troy |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Things changed for me this year. I was one of those throwing big blades 95 percent of the time. I'm worn out now so I changed it up, and I love it!
In no order...just tools for the situation.
Bigtooth Juice Mini 8
Klack
Flaptail
Husky Medusa
Baby Beaver
Pounder bulldawg
Mid Medusa
Bigtooth 10s for night time
Sound Science Sonic Boom
Pounder underdawg
I prefer not to burn big blades these days. It's just too much punishment. Obviously, sometimes you just gotta do it. But I try to avoid it. This is what worked for me this year.
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Location: Minnesota. | I'll start w/a Suick. They worked back decades ago and still do.
Muskies haven't had an orig. thought since the Ice Age, nothing much changes.
Does it really make that much diff. exactly what you throw? Just keep at it and at it and at it and...add nauseum.
Sometimes I wonder why I keep doing this - but I do. |
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Location: lawton, ok | No paticular order
Jake 6"-10"
Crane bait
Double 10
Dream catcher
Phantom soft tail
Triple D
Mag bulldog
Pearson Grinder
Suick
Custom Glider |
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| It seems the list is growing... bigrackhunter, you're in the same boat I am for fishing muskies living in OK! I'm in Little Rock and the closet lake is Kinkaid... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | double 10
weagle
water chopper
medusa
pounder
grandma
depth raider
bondy
shallow invader
suick
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Location: lawton, ok | Headed to lake Fellows next weekend. That's the closest muskie lake to me. Luckily I have in laws that live in Minnesota. So it's a win win situation when its time to "visit" family! |
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Location: MN | Hard to come up with 10 that can cover all scenarios - deep, shallow, casting, trolling fast/slow, jigging, thick weeds, emergent weeds, banging rocks, throwing back at followers, etc. My all-purpose ten would be:
double 10 - black/nickel, 3.5 oz
spinnerbait - black/nickel, 3 oz + selection of blades
Pacemaker - black
8" Weagle - black
10" Suick - firetiger + inserts for screw on weights
Hard Head - walleye
10" Believer jointed - firetiger
10" Jake - walleye
Triple D - hot whitefish
Bondy - black
Like PikePeter, if I had to have only one, without a doubt it would be a 10" jointed Believer. With the help of a few bell sinkers and the two line attachments that thing is the ultimate all purpose bait. It'll do topwater, shallow casting, deep casting, pretty good in the weeds, can troll from the surface down to 25', can hammer it into rocks, good propwash bait, and sick action speed trolling in general. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I fish mainly smaller weedy lakes so my list may be a little different:
1. Mepps Musky Killer - gold blade / black tail
2. Hirsch's Ghost tail (single 8)
3. 7" weighted Suick - bronze perch
4. Bucher Slopmaster spinnerbait - gold blade / perch tail
5. Bucher Baby Depth Raider in perch
6. 9" Wiley or Suick Jerkbait
7. Double 9 - silver blade black tail
8. Hawg Wobbler - black
9. Bulldawg
10. M9 Grandma with foil sides
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Location: Florida | Good list |
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| What lure did you get it on? See how many people had it on there list would be fun |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Banjo minnow. That is all. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | JakeStCroixSkis - 11/1/2016 9:36 AM
Banjo minnow. That is all.
Haha, what an infomercial! I actually caught a lot of smallies on banjos back in the day, can't imagine they'd be great for muskies due to their flimsy nature |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | tkuntz - 11/1/2016 5:58 PM
JakeStCroixSkis - 11/1/2016 9:36 AM
Banjo minnow. That is all.
Haha, what an infomercial! I actually caught a lot of smallies on banjos back in the day, can't imagine they'd be great for muskies due to their flimsy nature
they are the best by far, with no close second. |
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| 1 ) crane bait 7 or 8 inch any color
2) pacemaker dark color
3) smoker tackle ss shad any color
4) warlock glider bluegill
5) mid madussas any color
6) double blade spinner natural color
7) bulldog walleye color
8) rapala husky jerk biggest they make
9) homemade topwater
10) live sucker, duh |
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| No order...
Crane Bait
Top Raider
Slopmaster Spinner Bait
Magnum Shallow Dawg
Husky Hawg Wobbler
Double 8 Bucktail
Bobbie Bait
Phantom Soft Tail
Buchertail 700
Depth Raider
Jaimy |
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Location: North of Sweden! | PikePeter - 10/22/2016 10:57 AM
my 10 in no particular order, and, any color of any of these baits is fine with me:
* 10" Jointed Believer
* Bondy Bait Original
* Poe's Giant Jackpot
* Weighted Suick Thriller
* Jerko - ALL BLACK
* dbl #10s - my own builds, fave being one black+fluo pink bucktail w/ silver beads & pink blades
* 8" Swim Whizz
* Bulldawg Magnum
* "The Pig"
* 12" Custom X
Also, to be honest, if need be I would be fine with only a Jointed 10" Believer and nothing else (well, a few bell-sinkers in my backpocket in addition to that).
But, if I would get to choose only 3 lures to bring with me it'd be:
* 10" Jointed Believer
* Bondy Bait Original (or Jr.)
* 9" weighted Suick Thriller
any colors would be fine!
Realised I'd made a crucial error on my list of ten so I had to go back and revise it a bit...
had completely left out all rubber, and, while I don't feel I really really need to have rubber, it has a VERY good place in any fishermans tacklebox.
Of course it will depend a lot on what kinds of water one fishes in and if you have a boat and so on.
As for me not owning a boat I completely forgot about the rubbers as that plays a huge part in what I use them for, when on a boat, for vertically jigging deep. And, hands down the Bondy is my no.1 fave in that regard!!! Also I use it a lot while fishing from land when I am around deep areas (often man-made structure with deep steep areas such as docks, bridges and so on).
As said, the Bondy Bait is in high regards with me, absolutely LOVE that bait and it has produced a lot of great fishes for me, not only pike but also lots of other species.
Next season I hope to get to fish a lot for zander and I KNOW the Bondy Bait will be my no.1 choice for that job, no doubt about it! the way zander live/eats, the Bondy will be the best weapon around the places I know of... really looking forward to that!!!
Unfortunately as I live in sweden it is not a common lure to come by, at all...
And, as of now, I am actually using a copy  as I sadly lost my last Bondy Bait at the end of this season... but found a copy in a local store that even was on sale that I bought in a kinda "panic"... feel a bit "dirty" from using a copy :D but, hey, baits have been copied through all of fishing history... still.... I kinda dislike using the copy of this particular bait as Jon Bondy seems like such a stand-up guy I really wanna support only him and not this knock-off brand... but, will stock up on Bondy Baits for next season (and also hopefully have my own boat for that season!!! look out fishes of the deep!!! :D )
kind and icy regards from the north of sweden!!!
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| Thanks Peter for the kind words! And for all others who mentioned the Bondy Bait. We've been popping them good this fall jigging Bondy's. Here are a couple from yesterday. BTW for about the 7th or 8th year, there will be NO price increase on our baits for 2017. Thank you everyone! Jon
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I do love this question:
1. 10" Jake in Tenn Shad
2. Perch Depthraider
3. Blackbird Topraider
4. Black (Cash) Weagle
5. Violent Strike Spinnerbait (black/orange willow blade)
6. Mag Dawg black/orange
7. 6" perch hughey
8. Double 10 in black and smoke/nickel blades
9. Double 9 in a wild color
10. 10" Slammer diver in black sucker.
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Location: Contrarian Island | no particular order
dadson bullet, pick your fav color
dadson 9mm, same
black reg medussa
walleye white tail mag pro dawg
lee lures chopper
6" sq phantom,
10" sq phantom
mega barfighter
weagle/fish stick/one eye willy pick your fav wtd
triple d |
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Location: Michigan | If I had to choose 10 baits in specific colors for any lake/situation, these are what I would pick.
Husky Medussa - Walleye
Pounder - Black
Pro Magdawg - Walleye Whitetip
Double 9 - All Nickel
Double 9 - Black/Chart
Weagle - Black or Perch
DDD - Walleye
Suick/Barfighter - Baby Duck
Shallow Raider - Shimmering Shad
Top Raider - Baby Loon
Hoosier Glide - Carp
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| I would say I could choose 9 of many of the previously listed baits so I'll round out my list with one I can't believe hasn't been posted. The Manta, regular size and or hang10. This bait runs 3rd in total fish for me only behind bucktails and bulldawgs and out fishes phantoms unless yo want to go deep. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Happy New Year everyone, I know this thread has been gone for some time. I wanted to tally up the answers people have given over the time of the thread. Pretty interesting responses by everyone. Thanks again for everyone taking to time to reply to the question.
Number of Replies – What Lure
30 – Bucktails (8’s – 5, 9’s–6 and 10’s–10) (Single 6-2, 7-5 and 8-2) - Most popular color was Black/Nickel. This includes Ghostails, Dreamcatchers and Mepps.
25 – Rubber – 10 replies Magnum Bulldawg, 4 replies Bondy Bait, 3 replies Mid Medusa, 2 replies Regular Medusa, 2 replies Pounder Bulldawg, 1 reply Husky Medusa and 1 reply Pounder Underdawg. Most populare colors black and walleye and walleye whitetip.
9 – Suick – 4 replies weighted, 2 replies 10 inch, 1 reply 9 inch and 1 reply 7 inch (colors of firetiger and perch)
7 – Deep Raider – 1 reply baby
6 – Spinnerbaits – 1 reply Pearson Grinder, 1 reply Violent Strike, 1 reply Shumway Heavy.(colors of Black)
6 – Triple D (perch and hot whitefish)
5 – Soft Phantom - 1 reply 10 inch, 1 reply 7.5 inch, 1 reply 6 inch
5 – Weagle – 1 reply 8 inch (black and perch)
4 – Crain Bait – 1 reply 7 inch and 1 reply 8 inch
4 – Jake - 2 – 10 inch replies, 1 reply 6 inch
4 – Shallow Invader - Most popular color was some type of Perch
4 – Top Raider (baby loon)
3 – Lee’s Water Chopper (black)
2 – Grandma
2 – Hawg Wobbler (black)
2 – Hellhound
2 – Jackpot – 1 reply gaint (perch tiger)
2 – Jointed Believer – 2 – 10 inch replies (firetiger)
2 – Pacemaker (black)
2 - Phantom
2 – Shallow Raider – 1 – 7 inch reply
1 – Baby Beaver
1 – Blackbird Topwater
1 – Big Fork Jointed Reef Digger (walleye)
1- Big Joe
1 – Bobbie Bait
1 – Custom Glider
1 – Custom X – 12 inch
1 – Hard Head (walleye)
1 - Homewrecker
1 – Hoosier Glide (Carp)
1 – Hughey – 6 inch
1 – Jerko (black)
1 – Jig a Beast
1 - Klack
1 – Live Sucker
1 – Lee’s Flaptail (black)
1 – Manta
1 – Mega Barfighter
1- October Tube
1 – The Pig
1 – Rapala Husky
1- Slammer Diver – 1 reply 10 inch
1 – Smoker Tackle SS (shad)
1 – Swim Whizz – 8 inch (pumpkin seed)
1 – Warlock Glider (bluegill)
1 – Whopper Plopper
1 – Wild Action Wabull
1 – WTD Topwater
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| 1. Bigtooth Juice mini any color
2. Pro dawg mag walleye color
3. Big mama psycho sister
4. Medussa black or sucker
5. Suick
6. Bigtooth Klack
7. Blue fox super bou spinnerbait
8. Shadzilla
9. Phantom softail walleye
10. Dadson musky bullet |
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Location: mercer wi | Did you also notice that no lake x lures are up there.
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Location: North Fork, Flambeau River | I did notice that Lake X lures are not listed...interesting...maybe these people don't want to promote that lure so the rest of us don't go out and buy one off the black market for musky lures..  |
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| Might just not have made the list because they're so hard to get, and people don't have them. I didn't post my top 10, but a FB would definitely be on there. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Not to mention they are a couple years in the market. Many of the baits on these lists have been available for some time. |
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Posts: 944
| For casting my list would be:
1. Spanky 99
2. Mag Bulldawg BL
3. Big Joe- Black and yellow
4. 10" Suick Bronze Perch
5. Muskie Train- MF Shad- Perch or crappie
6. One eye willy JR- Black
7. Big Game 7" Twitch
8. Spanky 8 Ball- Bluegill
9. 10" Jake
10. Squirko- F Frog or yellow perch
Trolling-
1. 10" Jake Gold prism
2. Muskie Train MX9- firetiger or bluegill
3. Muskie train MX6- perch
4. Big Game 7.5" Scuba diver- hot perch or firetiger
5. 8" Ziggie- perch
6. Muskie Train Diesel- perch, firetiger or bluegill
7. Muskie Train MX7.5- white
8. 10" Believer- carp
9. Big Game 9" twitch jointed- perch
10. Shallow Invader- firetiger or perch
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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Posts: 770
| 1 small black Bucktail
2 small white bucktail
3 double 10 black Bucktail
4 Double ten white Bucktail
5 Double 8 orange/chartruce
6 tail rotating topwater
7 yellow and black rubber dubber
8 walleye orange tail rubber dubber
9 perch suick
10 shallow invader
I would hate to be limited to ten, but those would be my must haves |
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Location: SE Wisc | Fat Bastard - black n orange
Weagle 8” - cash
Phantom 6” - bee
Suick 9” - firetail
Regular Bulldawg black w/ mag 8 blade attachment (removable)
Mag Bulldawg - Twinkie
Cowgirl - black/nickel
Spanky fireball 8s - Larson perch/ copper
Spanky 99 - black/ copper-chartreuse
Spanky Firefly - White/ chartreuse
Matlock - orange carp
Red October 10” tube - baby muskie
Slammer 8” - perch
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| FlyPiker - 10/19/2016 8:47 AM
Black - the only color you'll ever need ;) im also a fan of black but every time ive got the same problem.im i gonna pay near 200 bucks for a crank with an awesome paint job or im gonna get a black one at the same price. at the end i almost never get the black one because i feel like someone is laughing at me. for me after black firetiger is the most versatile color |
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