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Location: Southern W.Va. | For thoses who fish in the cold water of early spring, what is your "go to" lure?
Mauser |
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Posts: 1310
Location: Washington, PA | Jig, or a shallow dawg. |
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Posts: 222
Location: Hartland, WI | I have had good luck on the regular Manta.
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Banana Sledge, worked SLOW. m |
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Posts: 2014
| Small Jerkbaits 4.5 - 6" |
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| sledge worked slow? Right.
For me, spring dawg, Large Bass spinners, Charlie baits |
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Posts: 2024
| Caught one last Sunday in 37.9 degree water on a Rattletrap. That or SS Shads. Will be using more Rapala Husky Jerks early season, too. |
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Posts: 208
Location: North East PA , 20 mins from Chautauqua | vibrax #5 spinner with a custom tinsel tail
THE FERD |
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| SS Shads
CJ's Spinnerbaits
Rapala Husky Jerks
Jig/Creatures
Spring Dawgs
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| 6 inch Wades Wobblers. |
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| 9 inch grandma... |
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Posts: 686
Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | A small tube bucktail and or a minnow bait like a baby shallow or depth raider, you do want to catch fish right??? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Small minnowbaits twitched slow...single treble vibrax with the big fluted blade, Rizzo Whiz I think there called as well
6" reef hawgs, shallow dawgs
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Posts: 32
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | Ratt-L Traps and rattling shad are good bets. Crawdad is a good color. |
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Posts: 358
| In past years, I have good success with Rapala Husky Jerks twitched over newly emerging weed growth. Last year, I had especially good results twitching Molly baits (pre-spawn fish.) 41 degree water + 10" Molly = 43" Musky! Post spawn, I like using the 7" Molly, #206 Crane baits, and small bucktails.
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Posts: 1046
| 6" weighted Reef-Hawg, anywhere,anytime and any color. Good for multipal fish days! |
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| We don't open until 3rd Saturday in June, but the pike fishing at this time's good on 5" HJ's, a variety of jigs, Rattle Traps, broad, light spoons, and spinnerbaits with hair/boo. See a lot of skis at this time, throw the other way. |
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Posts: 354
| Husky size hawg wobbler. First fish last spring in 56 degree water. I don't get to start until Wi. N. opener. (May)
It has raised fish consistently the last two springs. |
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Posts: 90
Location: Florence, Wisconsin | I like a baby shallowraider for early season cold water. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have found something interesting for early spring. Baits with very little erratic action, deadsticking as I call it seem to get more action. In other words, baits that that don't do didley when you twitch them had more action, or all the action as compared to a bait that got sideways or some whacky direction when you twitched it. A slower glider with less action seems to do better too. Small spinners also work well. The water is cold and I think the fish are more apt to hit baits with less movement.
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Posts: 2112
Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Bar none, the best 3 opening day lures in no particular order:
Smallest slammer they make (blue back, white belly
Fundally muskycandy (black hair, red blade)
Muskynightmare Tylertail (both black and orange and Firetiger). |
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Posts: 3240
Location: Racine, Wi | Suckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While dragging suckers I throw Undertakers, husky jerks, suicks, pretty much any other minnow bait.
The wife does well on 1/2 oz bass size spinnerbaits.
Like GD said, don't forget about the topwaters. |
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Posts: 466
Location: Pittsburgh, PA | i have to agree with joel, ill go with the undertaker all year long. first fish last year came on hot tiger 2nd week of april |
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Posts: 723
| six inch jake, grandma
jackpot for sure.
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Posts: 626
Location: ashtabula ohio | ill go with the 6" reef hawg, slow and suspending. shallow dawg, and a spinnerbait. and big plastics. |
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Cold Water, early spring lure