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| What is everyone's favorite spinner bait? This is a style of bait i have not used much up until now. Do you like big blades, little blades, multiple blades? Thanks for your input. |
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Location: NE Ohio | Pearson grinder |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Ace tandems |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Violent strike and Rad Dogs. In expensive but effective. |
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| JAW Baits - no longer available. Been babying my last few, along, but they have gotten pretty ratty. Probably not long for this world. |
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| I don't know for sure but I think I've caught more muskies on Rad Dogs than any other bait I own. |
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| Esox Customs, PSV in tho board used to make them, but no longer.
Glad i bought a bunch of them, when i need to stock on spinnerbaits again, i will most likely make my own, |
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| Esox Customs are amazing! Had to dive to get one back on LOTW this year. Gerry Carroll makes great spinnerbaits too (bigbite on here). |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Old M&G's |
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Location: NE Ohio | Oh yes, Archie from esox customs made the best, so now I have to modify Pearson grinders to run like his. I wish I would have found his sooner so I could have bought many many more. Best wishes my friend! |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | Person Grinders
Rad Dogs
Gerry Carrol makes custom spinners |
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Location: oswego, il | What is the modification, just curious. To me a spinnerbait is a tool for heavy cover. The grinder does a pretty good job getting through it. |
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| I have had great success with Big Tooth Spinner baits. They are well made and really handle heavy cover.
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Location: West Central WI | Slopmasters. I keep a half dozen in my box with different colors/modifications and one on a rod at all times for weeds. The weight design keeps weeds away from the hook as they go through. They work well in open water too. I add a good snap swivel for spinner blades and swap size, style, and color as needed. Smaller blades can be ripped real fast as compared to larger ones. Also add much larger tail such as an 8" Kalin's grub. When the bucktail eventually wears off, I add a new skirt. Throw the bait away only after the hook point has been sharpened where it is too short between point and barb. I've started adding weights for them to run deeper while still reeling fast. |
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Location: 15 miles east of Lake Kinkaid | Llungen Lures Nutbuster: replaceable hooks, quality silicone skirts, several different sizes and styles, 100% made in the USA. |
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Location: KY | CJ's |
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| MuskyMATT7 - 8/23/2018 12:08 PM
Llungen Lures Nutbuster: replaceable hooks, quality silicone skirts, several different sizes and styles, 100% made in the USA.
Ditto |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Violent Strike and Bigtooth.
The VS Double 8 has been a hot one for me for a few years. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Rob Dey mostly found in eastern Ontario |
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Location: Ludington, MI | M/G with gold blades and either brown/yellow or purple/yellow bucktail. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | Llungen and it's not even close. |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Fudallys Stump Hawk !! Hundreds of fish on the Red/ Yellow combination
Best boat side bait EVER !!!, |
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| I second the fudally, but the fudally hawg spin over the stump hawg. |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Sorry Stump Hawg ! |
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Location: NE Ohio | ToddM - 8/23/2018 6:43 AM
What is the modification, just curious. To me a spinnerbait is a tool for heavy cover. The grinder does a pretty good job getting through it.
shorten the arm length from the line tie to the spinner blade attachment. esox's is shorter. |
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Location: North Central IL USA | Where do you get these Fudallys? Did they go belly up? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Ace tandems, Rad Dogs and Big Tooth |
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Location: SE Wisc | Nut busters and rad dogs. I love switching the blades around based on conditions, can’t beat versatility |
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Location: On the water | Nut Buster and Big Tooth, single hook, single willow blade, goes through anything. |
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Location: Tomahawk,Wis | Slop Master and Mepps #5 |
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Location: On the River | 1.Ace
2.M&G
3.Nutbuster |
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| The old Llungen tandem Nut Busters when Scott Donovan used to make them are my favorite  |
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| Definitely M&G |
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Location: MN | Mine is the Big tooth tackle, just a great bait to get through cover and really well priced. I also think Ace Baits are great too. Iuke warm on the others iv tried. |
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| Where we fish down here in central il the fish don't seem to like the huge musky spinnerbaits. I've thrown the rad dogs, mg's, gerry's girls, and a bunch of different big spinnerbaits with very limited success. My best producing spinnerbait hands down has been the tandem slopmaster and I've recently gone even smaller by adding some booyah pikee spinnerbaits to my arsenal and had great results. It seems like when the fish are sitting in thick weeds up shallow they are in a neutral to negative mood. They are not just smashing anything that whizzes by their head. A bite will usually be of the nipping variety so you had better add a trailer hook if you fish either of these baits. The biggest problem with the big spinnerbaits is that they are too heavy and you have to reel them too fast to keep them up outta the real thick weeds. With the slopmaster and pikee you can kinda slow roll your bait through the tops of the weeds without them running down in the thick stuff and getting hung up all the time. For the record most of our weeds are milfoil, not the nice, easier to fish cabbage of the north.
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Location: The desert | Violent strike |
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| Beaver and Rob dey trolling and grinders and rad dog casting |
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| mine are the best |
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Location: WI | Ace Tandems... nice and slow |
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| Bob Todd's Muskie Mo,made in Colorado, the only spinnerbait I've found with 2 Panther Martin style blades, something most muskies never see. Also a great tiger bait. |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | Rad Dogs and Pearson's Grinders. Musky Mayhem Cycos, too. |
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| Handlebarz |
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Favorite Musky Spinnerbait