Poll Tuff Shads
Tuff Shads
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troll8 Votes - [80%]
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Posted 2/8/2004 7:52 PM (#96312)
Subject: Tuff Shads





Posts: 600


Location: West Bend, WI
How are most of you guy's using these cranks?
Marc_Grattan
Posted 2/8/2004 8:11 PM (#96315 - in reply to #96312)
Subject: RE: Tuff Shads




Posts: 136


Ive been using them for the past 3 years. So far they have prodoced numerous fish in KY and Ohio for my boat, including a 48 and 49". In Canada, we have taken numerous fish on them, including several between 47-53". I would guess in the 3 year sapn, we've boated 125 fish on them.
ToddM
Posted 2/8/2004 8:48 PM (#96322 - in reply to #96312)
Subject: RE: Tuff Shads





Posts: 20213


Location: oswego, il
I have not used my tuff shad cranks yet, but they will be trolled. Got a glider too, won't be trolling that!:-)
Steve Jonesi
Posted 2/8/2004 10:48 PM (#96336 - in reply to #96312)
Subject: RE: Tuff Shads




Posts: 2089


Trolled the 8" and the now defunct 10" last fall and loved them. Caught a few fish, but unfortunatly the water turned hard before they had much boat time. Awesome thump/wobble. Must be the "coffin"lip. Picked up some 5"to troll this year. Steve
mikie
Posted 2/9/2004 6:19 AM (#96349 - in reply to #96336)
Subject: RE: Tuff Shads





Location: Athens, Ohio
I spoke with Chris Hamrick for a while at my Muskies, Inc. chapter meeting Saturday. He's making these baits out of mahogany wood now. I think his paint jobs have improved over the years, too. I really like the shad glider I have and hope to use it a lot this year. m
muskiekid
Posted 2/10/2004 8:33 AM (#96522 - in reply to #96312)
Subject: RE: Tuff Shads




Posts: 585


Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland
I have several Tuff Shads. Some from the maker, others that were painted by Stan Durst. I use the 5" version (as do my friends) for trolling. The perch-colored Durst lures are the best of the bunch. I use them mostly for propwash trolling, my fishing partnter long-lines them. We both catch Tigers with them (lake has Tigers only).