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| I have never used blades in front of my suckers and I'm wondering if others have found them to increase the effectiveness of their sucker rigs. I use the clip and go rigs and I'm looking for suggestions on how to best add a blade to one of those rigs. Thanks |
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Location: Smith Creek | I have never used a nose gunner, only tail gunners. I use a snap to attach the blade to a hook and stab the hook into their tail. |
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Location: oswego, il | The sucker would have to be moving fairly quick for a blade to spin in front of the sucker. I dont use tail gunners. They would work on big suckers but smaller ones they just tire out the bait. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | For years I used a plain sucker under the boat and one with a blade on a bobber about 20 feet back. Can't say I saw any difference between them. As stated above, probably wasn't moving fast enough to even make the blade spin enough to make any difference. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you need a blade attached to you sucker rigs in MN to be legal. I always have one, but it's just a small one to keep me legal. I prefer the least amount of hardware as possible. |
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| blades in front of flashabou is way better imo. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Kirby Budrow - 9/1/2017 1:49 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you need a blade attached to you sucker rigs in MN to be legal. I always have one, but it's just a small one to keep me legal. I prefer the least amount of hardware as possible.
No blades are necessary in MN. Suckers 12"+ are allowed up to 3 trebles spaced no further than 9" apart total |
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| Hello,
From my experience I feltl it made all the difference in having a blade in front of the sucker.I had one sucker on a bobber about 20 feet down over in open water,another 12-15 feet down closer to the bank.
I was rowing (no trolling live bait) a huge gust of wind came up and pushed the boat closer to the bank so I had to row quickly to keep the suckers from getting snagged.all that action (subtle hard turn) made the blade turned and that bobber disappeared I told my fishing partner to set the hook.
Well, he had a river fishing spinning reel and a medium rod.I told him to set the hook again he did, and a muskie in the neighborhood of 45-48 inch came out of the water like a missle.The fish cut through the water like a hot knife thru butter.
Ended up losing the fish
What had happened the wind aided me in having that fish bite.
If it's windy snap a blade on,it couldn't hurt.
So I still rig a clevis on my line to snap a blade on if the bite gets tuff. |
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Blades in front of suckers?