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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | If you are on new water and looking for muskies in the obvious locations from the map, etc., what bait is each person throwing on a sunny day, and which bait on a cloudy day? |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | My #1 search combo in any type of weather is a Mepps Musky Killer, and a Top Raider, the Top Raider even moreso when overcast. During sun I am not afraid to compliment the bucktail with a quick hop presentation with a Reef Hawg or a Shallow Raider. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | i go with a black bucktail with either a silver or orange blade on a sunny day. and either a pacemaker or super topraider on a cloudy day. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Sunny or Cloudy doesn't matter as much as wind or no wind, IMHO. Bucktail if it's calm Pacemaker for a little wind. |
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Location: New Baden IL | I think most will agree on this one, my #1 search bait is a bucktail, usually a LLungen Tail or Shumway Hot Tail, #2 is some tail spinning topwater, Pacemaker, Lunatic, Topraider, etc. And my new favorite search bait is a quick hopped Hellhound.
I cant seem to quit throwing them.
Rodney LaCaze |
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| Assuming the water temps have been up for a while on sunny days I would start with a big bladed bucktail with either silver, brass, or orange spinner and a black, cola, or brown tail. Clear skies would indicate a high pressure front and may have had a negative effect on the fish. The larger blade would allow for slower presentations and utilize the lures flash and size. I agree with your second choice of a glide bait which seem to work for most anglers on either types of days. On a cloudy day you could mix it up dependant on structure you are fishing but have a bait that is ment for active fish or at least target active fish. Ex: top raiders or topwater baits in general, faster bucktails and crankbaits.
Good question! |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Searching big spots for the first time on a sunny day,Rad Dog or Rylure spinner bait, weighted Hellraiser Bear Paw, or Jmac jig. Very small spot, quick snapped H20 Nitro, Jerko, Reef Hawg, erratically worked Jake or walk the dog topwater(weagle or Rylure).
Dark day, Topraider, Rylure Tapdancer, or Spinner bait on the big spots. Small spot, same as above in addition to a globe(can't get hits in the bright sun on my globes for some unknown).
Things change once I find the good area within the large spot.
This is also assuming I am fishing some sort of structure. Fishing open water or deep spots, the presentation changes somewhat.
Edited by Reef Hawg 6/16/2005 7:29 PM
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Location: oswego, il | On sunny days, I really like fast moving baits in more natural colors. Mostly erratic jerkbaits. On cloudy days, I may use the same baits but will have chartruse on them but it depends on the water clarity. The more murky, the less erratic I want my baits. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I usually start out burning a TM tail or spinnerbait on sunny days to see how active the fish are. I usually throw back a Undertaker, Phantom or similar style bait to pick the area apart. On cloudy days it's almost all topwater for me, Topraiders, Pacemakers, Weagles, and Docs are my favorites. Of course I will even throw topwater on sunny days if nothing else is doing it and have had a fair amount of luck on those days. |
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Location: Bowling Green, Ky | Here in southcentral Ky. we only have musky in the Green and Barren rivers and in a few creeks. The rivers only run between 6'-15' deep so our musky are in relatively shallow water. I have located alot of musky by fishing with a 4" cherryseed lizard. I know, laugh if you want, but my husband and I were fishing a creek for bass. We didn't know that it held musky at all. We were fishing from a small two-man boat and I was tossing that lizard in the shallows. I'd work it slow for a few minutes then retrieve it for another cast. Well I had a musky around 3.5' long follow it to the boat and when I pulled the bait out of the water, he came after it. He jumped out of the water, gills flared, bounced of the gunnel off the boat and back into the water. I think I had to clean my drawers after that.  Since that time I always fish a soft plastic. I've increased in size quite a bit. Now I use those 10 1/2" Old Monster worms in Tequila shad. Have also had alot of luck with countdown rapalas. We usually sight fish for musky and, if you throw a little beyond them and swim the worm right in front of their nose, they just can't seem to resist it.
Edited by Muskiemama 6/17/2005 1:33 PM
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| Bucktails, Pacemaker/Topraider, straightline Mag Dawgs. |
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