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Location: Maryland | I fish a shallow river n creek that of course has a ton of rocks. A couple of my wooden Suicks have some pretty bad chips/chunks out of there noses & have a couple that have the head split and now are used as paper weights. Has anyone had this problem with there suicks and is there a way too fix the chips/chunks n keep it from happening? I mean my hash seeker slow teases take the same abuse n the paint only comes off. |
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| I've used gorilla glue two-part epoxy to fill in the nose of some Suicks that were beat up pretty good. One of them took a couple coats and some sanding in between to get the shape I wanted, but they're holding up strong now for about a year. I have a couple of Wades that are going to get the same treatment soon too. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The Suick moves nose down more than most of the copies which allows one to really make it dance and fish it in pretty heavy cabbage.
Beat the nose of a wood lure on rocks at that angle and (not surprisingly) you will damage it. You could bend the tail so it runs nose up more, but that makes it move less and may not move as many muskies.
Try the Suick HI, it's darned tough. |
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Location: mercer wi | The hi are awesome. They all run true as well. Very minimal tuning. |
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Location: Madison, WI | Has anyone had issues with hook ups on the hi. All my wood ones are really reliable but after two years on LOTW using the hi (and wood), the hi has a hookup ratio at 1:7 now. I didn't really realize it until I went 0-3 this year and thought about last year. My only thought was they were lighter and got pushed more by fish trying the Tbone the bait.
All.hooks razor sharp and T'D as well. Most likely just a coincidence but after this year I started wondering. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I think coincidence, just bad luck. I use them regularly, and have had zero hook up issues. I believe the HI is actually heavier. |
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Location: Aurora | They usually begin to splinter a bit before chunks start to fall out.
I've had good luck letting them dry out once splintered and soaking them in super glue liquid.
Soaks up, gets hard, and water doesn't seem to degrade it much. |
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| If fishing a river a few coats of epoxt over the nose may be a good poactive option as well as a fix. I would also try jbweld to fill chips |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | I put epoxy on mine but I think I might try taking a piece of sheet metal and forming it around the front of the bait. Not the whole thing but just that little lip that always gets busted off. (I know it doesn't have a lip but didn't know what to call that spot) I'll have to try it though, It might effect the action. But if formed well and thin enough it shouldn't be to bad. |
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Location: Maryland | Musky_Mo16 - 7/5/2017 2:26 AM
I put epoxy on mine but I think I might try taking a piece of sheet metal and forming it around the front of the bait. Not the whole thing but just that little lip that always gets busted off. (I know it doesn't have a lip but didn't know what to call that spot) I'll have to try it though, It might effect the action. But if formed well and thin enough it shouldn't be to bad.
I was thinking about doing the same thing. What size sheet metal would be small enough though. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | JB Weld will work well. Basically a putty epoxy. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | Sheet metal? Just use a thin brass bucktail blade attached with screws. The cupping of the blade fits nicely around the nose of the bait, if you use the right size/style. Then, pound those Suicks into rocks all you want. |
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| I've have a Flaming Perch that I've had since they first came out. I have at least 31 fish on that one lure and I find it extremely "sticky". I can't remember a bad hook up on it.
I like that it's a high density plastic, I can slide it through the teeth on a hook set, versus a wood lure where it can bury it's teeth and not allow the bait to slide on a hookset.
Here is a picture of the first fall with it when it was "new" yet Only about 6 fish on it at the time it was this young.
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | BrianF. - 7/5/2017 4:35 PM
Sheet metal? Just use a thin brass bucktail blade attached with screws. The cupping of the blade fits nicely around the nose of the bait, if you use the right size/style. Then, pound those Suicks into rocks all you want.
That would work too, but I have more sheets of metal laying around than I have extra blades |
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