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Location: KY | This one is for you guides. What lure do you snap on for a client that has almost no experience fishing? Lets assume they can handle a rod well enough to cast without backlashes and can get a sinking lure moving before it buries itself in weeds. Is there one lure that can’t be fished wrong? Is it a topwater, a bucktail, a spinnerbait, a bulldawg or ___?
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | If the fish are the least bit active the two baits I have clients use the most are bucktails and topwater. They are both very easy baits to work, basically just a straight retrieve. The bucktail is a very high percentage hooker, and the topwater is the best as far as excitement. |
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| Bucktails
Spinnerbaits
Topwaters
All very easy to use and productive  |
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Posts: 32935
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | For easy, nothing beats a Spinnerbait. Basically weedless, can't be worked improperly if it's moving. Just cast and crank no matter the cover, slop, wind, or other variables. |
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Location: Lake St. Clair | I have to go with the spinnerbait too. Inline are a close second. |
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Posts: 1046
| I am not a guide, but will go 100% with the spinnerbait! Very underated tool! |
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| Another vote for a spinnerbait. Inlines gotta be moving fwd to work, and some need a 'jump start' to get the balde working. Even when a spinnerbait's falling it's working for you. Great hookers, far more customizable than an inline (trailers, trailer hooks, blades and skirts all easy to modify). And a spinnerbait runs cleaner all round, too. Spinnerbait's a way better trolling tool than an inline, in my opinion also. Grim Reapers, Fudally, Shumway. |
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Posts: 2515
Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Obviously spinner baits and lipped cranks are going to be your easiest to use right out of the box. Even if you don't "bulge" your spinners or "snap-tug-pause" your crank, you can still catch fish.
Gliders and Jerks is where the technique comes in. Personally, I'm new to gliders, but last season, especially the end of last season, all I threw were glide baits. The easiest glider to use in my opinion???
Wood on the Water Power Probe, the mini especially. All you need to do is turn the crank and she starts swaying like a drunken 16 year old girl on the dance floor! So simple that you won't believe it's runnng right, but it is. |
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Posts: 561
Location: Monee, Illinois | Not a guide but SS Shad cast it and reel it... |
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Posts: 699
Location: Hugo, MN | 1) Spinnerbait
2) Small Bucktail
3) Top Raider
4) Salmo Slider |
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Posts: 663
| One of the best is the 7" Crane in my opinion. Can't goof it up and it's a fish catcher. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I have to agree with GMG, the Power Probe is one of the few baits that will sway by just cranking it in. Another is the Weagle (good luck getting one) if your fishing top water, you can crank in, pause and crank again. Great surface presentation. Cady do you want to sell me some blanks?
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| What time of year and under what conditions do you use the Power Probe? |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | PP's can be used at any time. Early spring, go with the mini. It's a countdown glider so it can be used over weeds and structure at any depth you want. |
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Posts: 1938
Location: Black Creek, WI | For guides to hand a novice client, I would think a topwater such as the Topraider would be the best. The topraider casts well... and floats so backlashes are less of an issue with snags. It is visual so the angler knows what his lure is doing... and where it is.... at all times. The guide can HEAR if the client is using it properly (speed) without having to keep his eye on it.
For times when topwater won't work well enough to make a client happy (cooler water periods?)... the Depthraider/Babyraider is probably a good choice... along with a spinnerbait.
Just a few ideas...
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | Can't go wrong tossing small bucktails and I have yet to have a client that could not master a small twitch bait such as an AC Shiner, I have my 5 year old son throwing various topwaters....... fish on!!!!!!!!! |
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Posts: 332
Location: Neenah, WI | In my opinion I think the bucktail or a spinnerbait are the easiest to use and are good Hookers.
Topwater run a close second (topwaters with rotating tails- Tally wackers and Topraiders) |
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Posts: 1936
Location: Eau Claire, WI | Topwater, spinnerbaits/bucktails, and the easiest to work and catches fish like a mother.... jerkbait has to be the magnum or 8" Slow Tease from Hawgseeker Tackle.
And let's not forget Slammer and Big Game twitch baits... Hardly a right or wrong way to use these.
I guess if they can cast I can usually have them working most baits in short order... It's the ones who have challenges casting that are a bit more entertaining to coach...  |
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| Spinnerbait. One hook easy to see. Doesn't catch a lot of weeds. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Not a guide but I've taken out my share of novices..
Nothing beats a TopRaider or other inline topwater for ease of casting and they usually have fun listening and watching the bait.
If the topwater bite isn't on I'd go with a shallow running crank.
If over deep water where weeds aren't an issue a depth raider or Triple D.
good luck
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Posts: 3518
Location: north central wisconsin | No doubt it would be a tail type topwater. Though I have seen lakes and more so rivers in WI where spinner type lures just did not produce, I have not seen a water where muskies ignore a surface lure. easiest lure for a novice to cast, and as jlong said, one can pick out a lash and the lure is usually right where you left it(or just downstream from). Next in line would be a crane bait or small granny as someone else mentioned, and a spinnerbait would be my third pick.
If I were choosing for MN, it would be a spinnerbait. Those fish eat them more readily over there than on the lakes I fish here for some reason....
Edited by Reef Hawg 2/16/2005 4:28 PM
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What is the easiest lure to use and catch fish?