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| If you were bringing one topwater bait with you on your week long musky trip. What style would it be? WTD or prop bait? Something else? |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | If I did that it prolly meant my wife packed my baits for me. m |
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Location: Not where I want to be! | No doubt a tail rotating bait or a globe, unless you like short hits. |
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Location: SE, WI. | You can have the tail rotating bait. My preference…A Globe or my custom Headbanger! JD |
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Location: S.W. WI | Tail rotating. Probably a TopRaider |
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| Depends on time of year, but since I don’t have that info I’ll go WTD, more I think about I’d probably pick that anytime if I only get one, I can always bulge a bucktail, when I want to throw my tail baits… Too many reluctant fish have ate wtd going back on them to not have one in the tool bag. |
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| August 3-10 on LOTW |
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| lake x cannonball jr. loon color
got my pb on one |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Pflueger Globe! the knock offs don't have the same sound. (and not many around anymore) Also try a Thunder head to eliminate the short hits. |
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| I'm with IA Justin on this one. You can use a bucktail to (somewhat) mimic the tail rotating topwater. But the WTD topwater will certainly show fish that wouldn't otherwise respond to other presentations.
That said, under what circumstances would you only be able to bring 1 topwater bait style? |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Besides the one we use to cover water, a second slow moving (flaptail, creeper) rigged on second rod for a toss back.
Again so many great choices out there on both types. |
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| The best prop bait I have used is Lee Lures XL Chopper. It doesn't roll over even at high speed and works in everything from flat calm to big waves have caught piles of fish on them
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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| Interesting topic. I don't know if I am alone in this but while I probably move more fish with a WTD than any other bait in my box, my hookups are not so hot. Lots of swings and miss. Fish coming completely out of the water and missing. For me, a Fat B***** has much better success at catching fish. Maybe I don't let it sit long enough between pulls? |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | IAJustin - 7/25/2024 9:40 PM
Depends on time of year, but since I don’t have that info I’ll go WTD, more I think about I’d probably pick that anytime if I only get one, I can always bulge a bucktail, when I want to throw my tail baits… Too many reluctant fish have ate wtd going back on them to not have one in the tool bag.
^This. WTD can be the ultimate cast-back bait. And fish do crazy things with them. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | As a teenager I found a box of muskie lures in my grandpa's garage and latched on to them (I still have them) Including old Pflueger Globes, Cisco Kid Toppers, Injured Minnow, and a Burmek B-2. The Burmek B-2 is a topper style top water with props like a Cisco Kid, the B-1 is the famous jointed plug and just found out today there's a B-3 witch is a Flaptail version.
The great thing about surface lures we can catch fish out of madness (fish that are not feeding but don't like the noise)
Fish miss them, don't get hooked and so on. I think they hook better going slow or using a smaller size. and yes folks catch Muskies going fast and in large sizes so that works too. These things catch large fish too.
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