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Location: Appleton,WI | Ive been useing a few small bass size crankbaits for ski's in cold front conditions.
What kind do you like and why?
Actuall what is a good 4-5" bass crank for ski's? |
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Location: Northwoods | Check out the HawgSeekers lineup. They've got their stuff down to 4".
The four inch HawgTeasers are supposed to be the bomb.
Scott
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Location: oswego, il | Goofy as it sounds, I bought one of those gimmick crankbaits that emmits an electrical sound when it hits water. I found a large sized one about 4" long with a big profile. I could care less about the sound but it is thru wire and catches muskies! |
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| Bill Norman DD22. Don't need any other. Great profile, good weight, large lip, good thump.
I suppose you might think about the Luhr Jensen Timber ____ (name escapes me but folks do pretty good with these down here in IL). |
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Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin | Timber Tiger I think is what it is called. |
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| I cleaned out a sales bin that had a lot of Poes 3+" baits.
Bagley BD3's and 4's are always good.
Storm Mag Warts....pre-Rapala.
Wally Divers too.
Change the hooks and split rings.
I've got some original Big-O's that are almost 4" and have a heavy "knocker" in them. They have a nice wiggle and don't run too deep. I use them in the spring.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Storm thundersticks. |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Sissons outfish all other lures combined in some Ohio lakes...
WARNING... this lure MUST be modified (lip pinned,upgraded rings/hooks) before targeting muskies
http://tackleboxohio.com/tboItemDisplay.cfm?cid=15&CFID=1070369&CFT... |
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | I have had good luck with "Thundersticks"
"Risto raps" and the
magnum "Wally divers".
"Ace" 
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | I'm a big fan of the 5" Tuff Shads. Nice tight wiggle and they're proven to catch big fish. |
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Location: Barrington, Il | I like Rapala Husky Jerks. The new large size X-rap should also be good. Mann's 1-minus and AC shiners for trolling in the spring.
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| I dont often use "baby" baits (probably one of my faults), but a few I do like Super Shad Raps, and Baby Depth and Shallow Raiders if I am looking for something smaller...which is hardly ever
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Keith was kicking my behind at a Sabaskong MUskieFIRST trip a couple years ago, and I found he was using bass sized cranks to get the job done. They were averaging 5 fish per day on the things. I have always thrown them for multi specie, and have a heck of a selection as a result. I have a bunch of Berkeley Frenzie cranks that have scored a few for me, and the big Pike eat 'em. |
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Location: menasha wi 54952 | Steve -
On my 1999 Sab. Bay trip I cleaned up in the back of the boat on a Miller Perch jointed Baby DepthRaider. On a weeklong trip I boated 27 skis and many large pike. The lure was/is in really bad shape but it held up!!!
The only other "small" bait I have had success with is a 3/4 oz. Rattlin Rapala.
MR |
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Location: Racine, Wi | We use quite a few smaller baits down here. Most of them Beav has mentioned, but the Bagley DB03's 04's, Husky Jerks, Poes cranks, and anything that looks like a blue gill. Mike Koepp can show you that a small bait can catch some giants. |
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Poe's 400 is the real deal. I have a couple painted in a Largemouth Bass pattern and a couple in Chart./blue back. Pretty good fish catchers. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | sworrall - 11/30/2005 10:26 AM
I have a bunch of Berkeley Frenzie cranks that have scored a few for me, and the big Pike eat 'em.
My single best bait for tigers has been a Fenzy, but I have not been using them as much since I've seen the hooks pull out of them on smallmouth a couple of times. They're not exactly a sturdy bait, but they do get bit. Rapala makes a good bait in smaller sizes (J-13, HJ-14, Husky floater, Shad Rap 9s, etc.). I have done OK on the Walley Divers. Bomber Long A is a good one too.
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| After a cold front in Minoqua this fall, nothing moved fish. I tied on a 5" Rapala X-Rap to see if I could score a smallie and bam! A 38" Tiger smacked it. So far, all my big fish (Pike-36", Walleye 28", SM Bass 19", LM Bass 19", Crappie 17" Rainbow trout, 18", Striped bass, 24") this year have fallen to the X-Rap. |
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| Hmmm, seems like I had a fellow throwing a sisson in my boat, and he told me that they were a great Ohio bait.
I asked about the construction, ohhh, good he said, and shortly thereafter he brought back in just a LIP!!!!!!
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Location: Appleton,WI | Who makes a good shallow fat bass crankbait that runs around 2 feet deep?something with thru wire. |
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| Hi all,
As you may know Todd Minor is a great guy and a hell of lure maker. After meeting Todd one night he made me some of his spinners and tails but I requested that he scale the size down. Those little buggers caught more fish this year than Carter has pills. I've always been a Husky Jerk man but Todd's inovations with rubber, colors, and blades really made a huge difference in my approach to entire season fishing. One of the craziest patterns I kept going back to this season when the bite slowed down was this. I would start out with small rubber tail spinner of Todd''s not more than 4 1/2" a small colorado blade in silver and the tube in a natural color. I would work this extremely slow. As a result I would get some very neutral fish to follow and then would follow up with either a 6" Phantom or a 5 1/2" Cobbs. Twelve fish saw the bottom of the net doing this and I really feel the difference was the ability to located these fish with a small spinner covering more water than you could if you were using a small glide bait or topwater bait.
Thanks
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| The new xraps work well there jointed and about 5 or 6 inches. Caught a nice 44 1/2 on it in shelbyville this fall. 3rd cast i ever made with the bait
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| RistoRaps for sure. But they stopped making them a few years ago, so if you come across one, grab it, just to try. On of the very best trollers for pike, plum color outfishing all other colors 3:1. A couple of mine have big bite holes in them, very cool. They catch walleye, too. But I wonder how strong the bait's eye is, the way it is set in the plastic lip.
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Hawgseekers - Bassnatcher
Poes 400's
Bagley DB 3&4's
Husky Jerks
Bass sized spinner baits
All have a time and place in the musky arsenal. |
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| I like Mann's 20+, larger 1 Minus, stretch 1 Minus, Rat-l-Traps....
I also like the larger Lucky Crafts jerkbaits. Pointer 128, Flashminnow 130, and Sammy 128 which allow me to cover 5 ft, 2 ft, and top water.
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Bass size crankbaits for ski's...