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Location: Cheyenne, WY most of the year | Looking if anyone has had success with some larger straight retrieve baits for open water. Sometimes burnt out on blades and just want to cast and reel with low effort. Options other than medusas/Bulldogs/topwaters? TIA |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | 22 long, Poseidon, shadzilla, 50 cal crankbait |
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Location: E. Tenn | Do you feel like you have to burn blades all the time?
A lot of guys anymore quit "bulging" them, in favor of a moderate retrieve, although both have their time and place..
...and there's the stagger blade option..
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| Royal orba |
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Location: NW WI | Really just about any crankbait or swimbait would suit the bill. But if shallow and covering water fast is your criteria, I'd be reaching for a Cat's Tail Flaptail Mouse. It's basically a Musky sized Bassoreno. Ultra slow retrieve it'll function as finesse flaptail, moderate to fast retrieve it'll dive to about 1-2'. |
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| Counterpunch by Rusty's customs. |
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Location: NorthCentral WI | The Swimming Dawg and Big Joe are both perfect for what you describe and have put plenty of fish in my boat. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Open water means two things to me Big and Erratic. |
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Location: PA Angler | Savage gear line thru trout. I just cast and wind in. Phantom softails. I’ve worked them, just let swim deep, or cast in the holes and just let it sink. |
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Location: oswego, il | Swimbaits would be low impact and about your best option. A crankbait would be higher impact. A regular dawg with the add on nose weight would also work. |
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| i dont think there are any production makers, but a musky sized spy bait would fit that bill. There are a few custom builders. I have not personally tried but hope to put one together at some point.
i'd probably go swimbait. there are a lot of good options both from musky and bass markets that would work well.
an old school option would be a Believer on the shallow setting, thats a nice profile and easy to retrive |
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| We tend to work a lot of open water adjacent to humps. Seems like most of the fish tend to hang directly above the hard to soft bottom transition roughly 25 to 30 feet of water. In the warmer months we count down swinmn dogs and pull them up the side of the structure. This past Nov were following bait and on a whim started counting down Hell Hounds. Just worked the bait with the reel handle and did extremely well in the cold water. For this year I picked up a pair of mini grenades and shadzilla and will put them into the mix as well. |
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| big spoon,lasts a lifetime, casts a mile, easy to retrieve, fun to catch fish on a hunk of metal - like a magician. |
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| As someone else mentioned. The Big Joe-
https://teamrhinooutdoors.com/products/musky-innovations-live-action...
is a very good one. It is easy to cast and bring in. Has great action with the 2 tails.
You can just reel it straight in or do hard turns on your reel to get it to hop.
It was one of the first big soft plastics for musky. It came out long before Bulldawgs or Medussa's. Very few guys use these which I'll never understand. They have put hundreds of fish in my boat
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Swim baits and helidawg |
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Location: WI | How about a Swinnin Invader?
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Location: oswego, il | If you want to fish shallow the rapala peto and otus have tremendous belly roll and are very low impact. |
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Location: Western U.P. | ToddM - 2/9/2023 6:58 AM
If you want to fish shallow the rapala peto and otus have tremendous belly roll and are very low impact.
These ^^^. Good search baits, great action, and have put a lot of fish in the boat, including quite a few big Walleye. |
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| Ok. So many rubber baits above. I'll toss some easy options out there. Rapala super shad rap. Jakes. Grandmas. Shallow raider regular or jointed. |
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Location: Mississippi | When tired I like to throw Flap 9's. I have good success with Flap 9's.
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Large low-impact straight retrieve baits for open water