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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Let's see if we have any guys that have been musky fishing for 20-50 year plus...
Vote for your personal fave jerkbait out of the ones listed in the poll! |
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Location: Southwest PA | Haven't been fishing that long... can I still vote?! |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | If you have used some of the baits listed vote for your fave for sure! |
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Location: Pine River MN. | For me it's a toss up between Reef Hawgs and Bobbies. |
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Location: oswego, il | You didnt list it wades wobbler. |
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Location: central Wisconsin | Suick no doubt. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Jeff78 - 4/29/2017 7:43 AM
Suick no doubt. Yep! |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | ToddM - 4/28/2017 10:15 PM
You didnt list it wades wobbler.
My apologies. I also left out Windels Hunter now that I think of it... what year were Wades Wobblers first available? Anyone recall? |
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| Eddie bait |
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Location: Minnesota | The suick is still my go to bait on certain bodies of water |
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| I went with Suick as it is the only of these baits that is still in my tackle box. I've owned most, not an Eddie or a Smitty. The Suicks are the only ones still left and they still see some time in the water occasionally. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Suick.
Tek Neek is another one I really liked. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | true tiger tamer - 4/29/2017 9:48 AM
Eddie bait
You need to vote! |
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Location: Aurora | I can't believe the Sleight Bait didn't make the cut;and what about the Wiley?
~hands on face, mouth agape~ |
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Location: Southwest Pa | Suick. Hands down. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Hmmm... I just thought of the Sledge. Anybody know the approx year that Randy Shutt started making the 9" Sledge? If anyone knows the approx time frame that Wade Wobblers came out I would like to know that as well. I was thinking that they weren't nearly as old as the ones I listed in the poll when I made the poll, I would like to know though. |
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Location: Not far enough north! | I've got an old Cobbs that has been in the box at least 20 yrs that has been better than any on the list for me. |
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Location: Delavan, WI | Wades wobbler for me too i wouldnt consider cobbs a jerkbait, more of a glider |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | muskymartin67 - 4/29/2017 9:47 PM
Wades wobbler for me too i wouldnt consider cobbs a jerkbait, more of a glider
Glide baits are one of the main categories of jerkbaits with dive/rise being the other main category. |
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Location: Delavan, WI | Yup you can also call the 9" grandma with the non bent lip a jerkbait but others might call it a crankbait so this is the old potatoe or potato debate |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Fooler - original hard pine version
Pal |
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Location: Not where I want to be! | ToddM - 4/28/2017 10:15 PM You didnt list it wades wobbler. He said Old School. I would consider old school 25 to 30 years back. Not sure wades wobbler was around 25 years ago. 9" Suick for me!! |
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Location: Tomahawk,Wis | 6" suick and 6" Bobbie ... Money in the bank.. |
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Location: oswego, il | wavridr - 4/30/2017 7:45 AM
ToddM - 4/28/2017 10:15 PM You didnt list it wades wobbler. He said Old School. I would consider old school 25 to 30 years back. Not sure wades wobbler was around 25 years ago. 9" Suick for me!!
I would be willing to bet it has been around that long. No website for the bait, did find message board discussions dating back to 2001 but i know the bait is much older than that. One online tackle sbop calls the bait legendary. |
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Location: Delavan, WI | I agree with Todd i think they started being made in the late 70's or early 80's sometime I know I have a couple that I've had since the 90's |
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| Used Suicks for over 35 years and still one of my favorites. |
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| Love suicks. Old Eddie Baits that actually worked were worth Barfighter prices. |
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| 37 years and counting for me. Suick, designed by Frank Suick, Tek Neek, by Clayton Slack, Teddie's bait by Ted Capra, but who designed the Eddie bait? Another old school bait was Bagley's B Flat shiner, was out when I started. Eddie baits, anybody know? Kdawg |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Ed Ostling invented the Eddie Bait in the 50's. I believe he was a guide from Hayward Wisconsin. |
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| If my memory is right, wades wobblers have been around since at least the mid 1980's. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Bobbie Bait was designed by Bob Vander Velden and the Reefhawg by Tom Fudally. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | No love for Teddy yet... |
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| Suick for me,Bobbie for my wife.
Standard size Wades Wobbler a very close second.Haven't seen Wade for awhile but agree with 39 degrees that they were around at least by the mid 80s.WWW himself went with our 'group' to the Woods once in awhile back then.(Wade Witt from Whipholt)I recall 2 5 fish days on a 'Red Headed Stepson' there in that time frame.(Wobbler in the classic Bassereno red/white color)Great baits-especially if small spinner blade added to tail.
Wade made a jointed plop plop surface bait with 3 trebles that also was dynamite!Would give a buddies left gonad for one now.If tuned it was the pitter patter of lil feet sound and it hooked and held anything that got close. |
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| Wades Wobblers have been out since at least 1987 as I bought a couple from Reeds in Walker the first time I fished Leech Lake. They were great pike baits but I couldn't catch a muskie or even get a follow on them. Eddies were much better for muskie action on Leech for me. In-Fisherman did a muskie show before I began muskie fishing where Larry Dahlberg modified Eddies and Suicks . I bought a Bagleys B Flat at the old Burger Brothers sporting goods in Bloomington around the same time I got the Wades Wobblers at Reeds so they have been around since 1987 at least. |
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| My first fish came on an all Black Teddy in 1984.... 44 inches...Caught many fish for me back int he day... It hangs in my work shop with anew coat of paint and eyes these days. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Interesting stuff in those last 3 posts guys! |
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| Saw my Grandpa catch many on Heddon Dawagiac Minnow. Not realy a jerk bait but he used it like one. Way way old school. |
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| Saw my Grandpa catch many on Heddon Dawagiac Minnow. Not realy a jerk bait but he used it like one. Way way old school. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Anybody know when Randy Shutt started making the Sledge? |
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| Suick gets my vote |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Nobody knows any Sledge history?? |
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Location: In the slop! | I know sledge's were available by the middle 90's, how much before that I don't know. |
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| I've got and old(er) Bobbie from the early 70's that is next to magic. The original design had the front more rounded than the current versions much as the older Suicks were more rounded also (approximated for a time by the Hi-Fin Foolers). I miss that those companies got away from that likely to reduced manufacturing steps. I've even used ol' Bob as a "topwater" ripping it down and letting it bob back to surface slowly and sit. Can't fish it fast that way but if you're on a good fish they find it hard to resist. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Mid 90's eh? I still need to find out more about the Sledge... |
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Location: Des Moines IA | I still use a Suick. I have replaced the hooks. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | bobbie - 5/17/2017 6:20 PM
guess
Hmmm... Bobbie?  |
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Favorite old school jerkbait