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| I would be interested to hear your thoughts on rods,reels and the presentations of bull dawgs as I am new and dont really understand what I am trying to imitate. |
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Location: lansing, il | not a pro at all but i do have good sucess with dawgs. i use a 7 6 or a 6 9 st croix heavy rod, a c4 reel, i like to keep them tight to the suface as poss. but not on the top. i run them as erratic as possible with lots of snaps and twitches. i use a 12" solid leader most of the time. occasionally i will work them slower and then i use my lower speed reel and a 18" flouro leader. this would be with the mag dawgs, i use them 90% of the time verses the reg dawgs! hope this helps some!! |
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| Just cast em out and crank em back, search out all the different layers of water in front of you.
A slightly over rated bait in my opinion, the are good dont get me wrong but they are used a lot, use most baits frequently and they will produce over a period of time.
Dont worry about trying to imitate anything, spinnerbaits dont look like anything that swims  |
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Location: Florence, Wisconsin | For mag dawgs I like to use Pete Maina's Bass Pro 7'2" live bait/heavy rod. As for presentation I try to use as much as the water column I can in deeper water, and in shallow water I use shallow dawgs with a generally quicker presentation. |
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| If a bulldawg is in the water it is being worked properly. Twitch them, burn them like a bucktail, jig them, slow straight retrieve, jerk them, hang them over the side of the boat dead sticking them like you would a sucker...it's all effective.
The water I fish I won't use them all that much since I've found other stuff that works but they do work. I think that some people do get a little nuts about them but then don't we all get goofy about what our confidence baits are? Most of my fish last year came on a pacemaker but that's what I threw the majority of the time. I think if I would have thrown a bulldawg as much as I threw a pacemaker the results would be about the same but nonetheless bulldawgs have their time and place and are an effective bait. |
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| I use my 6'9" St. Croix Premier Heavy as my Bull Dawg rod, and the BPS 7'2" Heavy rod also works great for Bull Dawgs and Magnum Bull Dawgs. I use a 7'6" St. Croix Premier Medium Heavy rod for the smaller Spring Dawg.
You can cast them out and just slowly jig them back, but I prefer to twitch them and swim them back at a faster pace. I have learned from many people who have been very successful using them that you really need to work them eratically to get the best results.
However, I sometimes more slowly jig them over open water structure |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | 7'6 and 8 footers. X-heavy for the Mag's and Med Heavy for the Mediums. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | 6'9 Heavy Croix Legend ... 6500 C3 with a power handle ...... and Twitch them !!!!!! Just missed my first bulldawg fish Saturday! on Shabbona (IL). All because I didn't figure 8! Whoops!
Edited by MuskieMike 3/28/2005 12:44 PM
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| 7'6" St. Croix Premeire MH, will throw all year dogs, And I switched to the 8' Fig Extreme lasy year and that is really a DO ALL rod for $89.99. One thing though, some of the guys with smaller hands don`t like the handles because they are a little fatter, I think they are perfect! |
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| Thanks for all your replies, you guys are very nice being so free with your info. |
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