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Location: oswego, il | Mine is a custom 9" Grandma with a long curved metal lip made by Raze1 who was a regular on this site years ago. It's foiled and clear coated. The long lip makes it slightly sink and it's very erratic jerking and twitching. I have another just like it but with a shorter straight metal lip and floats. Has a traditional action and not such a crazy way. 33 Muskies on it and has held up really well.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Still, after all these years, a Creature. |
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| I have a viper and a 10" phantom softy that account for likely 50-60% of my fish over 40". I am not sure how many on each as I don't keep track but I would guess around 20 to 30. I want/need to retire the viper but I cant find replacements and I believe they stopped producing them.
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Location: Duluth | Black and Silver double showgirl. |
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| Torn between worms or minnows. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | A very old black, wood Pacemaker. It's been beaten to heck and back and I have no idea how many times the hooks have needed to be replaced but it keeps delivering.
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Location: northern indiana | I've got a modivator with over 60 fish on it. Still almost looks new. After I got my pb 51" on it I semi-retired it and not it only swims during tournaments. |
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| I have a customized Cordell Redfin with well over a 100 muskies and tigers. Black and chrome (was now mostly white). |
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Location: Vilas | perch jointed DR |
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Location: NE Ohio | 4" BAKER........... mic drop! |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Muskie Treats of various color patterns. Sledges are in second place.
I see Raze every once and a while, one of my early mentors. m
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| Just like Mikie, the Musky Treats |
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| I have 1- 10" Weighted Suick with 78 Musky on it. Most of any 1 single lure that I own.
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Just an FYI, this is a list of the top 10 baits listed on the muskies Inc Lunge Log:
Top 20 Lures
No. Number Type, Name/Description
1 12,604 Jerk Bait / Suick
2 11,852 Crank Bait / Wiley Crank
3 11,502 Crank Bait / Crank Bait
4 11,286 Crank Bait / Tuff Shad
5 9,578 Crank Bait / Grandma Crank
6 9,327 Live Bait / Sucker, Quick Set
7 8,994 Buck Tail / Homemade Bucktail
8 8,180 Buck Tail / Mepps
9 7,907 Crank Bait / Bagley Crank
10 7,710 Buck Tail / Cowgirl/Double Cowgirl
11 7,631 Crank Bait / Jake
12 6,804 Live Bait / Sucker
13 6,709 Jerk Bait / Bull Dawg Jerk
14 6,233 Jerk Bait / Reef Hawg
15 6,092 Buck Tail / Buck Tail
16 5,999 Crank Bait / Crane Bait
17 5,813 Crank Bait / Rapala Crank
18 5,414 Buck Tail / Buck Tail
19 5,391 Surface / Top Raider
20 5,361 Crank Bait / Bucher Depth Raider
The information on Muskie Treats, well, I thought there'd be more since I've got 38 of these:
Lure Description Type Largest Released
Muskie Treats Jerk Bait 49.00 101
My PB was 48, on a Treats. m
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| I have a Skunk colored Believer that's got over 50 fish, and an old Bobbie Bait that I custom weighted that has almost as many. |
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| 8 8,180 Buck Tail / Mepps |
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Location: S.W. WI | Likely a Jr Cowgirl,
or maybe a
Mag Bulldawg |
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| I fish a river a lot that has a lot of vegetation and I wouldn't go without a Rad Dog spinnerbait. I've probably caught more muskies on that bait than any other. Obviously I've caught more on bucktails, but it would be a variety of bucktails, not one specific one. |
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| Suzie Sucker and/or Spring Dawg. I fish rivers and rarely fish large baits. |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | Musky Candie- Sniper
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| Can a person still buy the Muskie Treats lure?
If not does any one have a pic of one?
I have heard of the lures but have never seen one. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Here are some of mine. The McPerch on the far left got me my 48.And no, Shawn doesn't make them any more. I've been blessed with being given some over the years and built up quite a collection now.m
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/K1jyZ6b3/01-05-2011-009.jpg[/img]
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Location: SW Ohio | Most (90%) have come on a crank bait. No one brand or model in particular. They run from Duckett’s squarebill to KVD 8.0 to Depthraiders. 2”-8”.
Rubber has accounted for only a handful and blades slightly more. |
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Location: West Central WI | Slopmaster, including a 50.75" muskie in 2019 on LOTW. I'm never in my boat without one pole rigged with a Slopmaster. All of mine are modified with a snap swivel to quickly swap blades, and I use an 8" Kalins grub. |
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| Kind of boring ... but a 9" black suick. Probably because I fished this lure for 40 years |
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| I’ve rebuilt a double ten probably close to a dozen times that definitely has the most fish. The skirt is just a mess of twisted flashabou, it’s probably like a 1/3 of its original volume. I’ve even built a replacement for it that I’ll give to friends to fish, with the same bead/weight placement, same blades and same colors in the skirt. It’s seen a handful of follows while the OG continues to produce. 100% convinced it has to do with the confidence and attention I give it when it’s in the water at this point. Someday, something will happen to the OG that’lol force me to use the imposter and I’m sure it’ll start producing. |
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| 10" walleye mattlock |
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Location: Perryville, MO | My first thought was the same as Shroomskie's, but for me then it would without doubt be crickets. However, in the spirit of the Todd's intention I would certainly say a Nutbuster.
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| This is going to sound stupid, but..... In all of my years, I have little doubt that the Mepps Giant Killer, all chartreusse, has put more fish into my net than any other one bait in one color.
I had forgotten about that thing until 2 years ago. Put it on, caught a musky in 10 minutes. I don't know what it is about that single blade, single treble bait, but fish eat it.
And it has been many of those baits, in that same color. It wasn't just one "lucky" Giant Killer. It's crazy. |
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Location: E. Tenn | vegas492 - 3/29/2021 1:57 PM
This is going to sound stupid, but..... In all of my years, I have little doubt that the Mepps Giant Killer, all chartreusse, has put more fish into my net than any other one bait in one color.
Let's not leave out it's diminutive sibling the Mepps #5.. very effective postfrontal, clear water, early season.. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I had a cannonball jr with 36 fish and about a 47" avg. It finally broke in half on a cast. |
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| Close race between a white Pearson Grinder and a walleye Savage Gear Burbot. |
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| More Muthsky's have been caught on Bucktail's than any other lure in history! |
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| miket55 - 3/29/2021 2:01 PM
vegas492 - 3/29/2021 1:57 PM
This is going to sound stupid, but..... In all of my years, I have little doubt that the Mepps Giant Killer, all chartreusse, has put more fish into my net than any other one bait in one color.
Let's not leave out it's diminutive sibling the Mepps #5.. very effective postfrontal, clear water, early season..
God. You are right! I never threw that #5 much, but my old man did and tagged a lot of fish on the #5 Black Fury. Maybe I got to get one of those back in the box, too. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Muthsky - 3/30/2021 12:02 PM
More Muthsky's have been caught on Bucktail's than any other lure in history!
Bucktail's what? |
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| sworrall - 3/30/2021 4:05 PM Muthsky - 3/30/2021 12:02 PM
More Muthsky's have been caught on Bucktail's than any other lure in history! Bucktail's what?
Bucktail's what?....what?
Here is one author's opinion: http://www.steveheiting.com/bucktails-for-muskies/
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| Looks like we need a little punctuation lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M4EDrD3aBQ
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Location: Northern Illinois |
Although, a prerequisite for that would be a grammar lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg |
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| Ace Tandem spinnerbait by far.
Steve |
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What's that one lure you have caught the most fish on?