Posted 2/7/2007 2:20 PM (#236993 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 427
Location: Wausau
Turmoil or Believer on Kinkaid at the end of March.
WI S - jig and creature, baby depth raider - worked last year.
WI N - tried smaller lures and saw a dozen or more follows - may try the "wake-um up" idea and go big...
Posted 2/7/2007 2:29 PM (#236998 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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LMAO!
I don't know where I'll be fishing or exactly when. Nor do I know what the water temperature will be or what the weather will be, I can only give this answer:
I will choose a lure before I throw my first cast.
Posted 2/7/2007 5:19 PM (#237039 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 484
Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON
LOTW....a Buchertail 500 series sunset pattern, then a Crane bait.
Crow Lake...a red and silver #5 Mepps or Buchertail 500 in red/silver with a white split tailed grub trailer.
Posted 2/7/2007 6:26 PM (#237070 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 2112
Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water
My new 10" Timberwolves, by Shane West. A little big, yeah. But they are going into the game. Here is a pic off what I got so far. Getting the last two this weekend.
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Posted 2/7/2007 11:33 PM (#237134 - in reply to #237071) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water
DM - 2/7/2007 6:47 PM
Those look a little like a crane jerk bait. They look good.
Look a little? sure, from the pic.
Act anything like anyting ever made? NOT EVEN CLOSE, brother. These babies are 10" of pure toothache to a musky, and big smiles, pics, High fives, and a "victory dance" (shnort of hard stuff, or a fine cigar, you pick) for you. Alot of baits look similar. do they work the same? nope. The Musky beotch slapping me in my pic is just one of 3 that fell to the bait (and I got my first bait in late october).
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muskyboy
Posted 2/7/2007 11:46 PM (#237136 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
I have multiple IL muskies already this year caught on my Crane 207, my 9 inch Holoform Grandma, and my 8 inch H2O Cranky Nitro. Had my biggest musky of the year so far swipe twice at the awesome new 10 inch EZ E Riser jerk bait I was testing for PFL
Posted 2/8/2007 8:32 AM (#237169 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 3518
Location: north central wisconsin
It will be river level/current velocity dependant, but usually a 6" Reef Hawg or Nitro with a Jack Attack spinner(similar to Rizzo Whiz), Jake(all sizes), and G-Log(walk the dog topwater) somewhere in the mix. If things are heated up a bit, will go right to a GP Thumper spinnerbait, large. Last year in the calm water, I really liked Greg Thems T-Turn.
Posted 2/8/2007 5:45 PM (#237340 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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My first throw will be with my custom made lure from Hoosier Handmade muskie baits called, fittingly, the Hang Toad. I wanted a big husky jerk type bait and got exactly what I wanted. Ten inches and it just hangs when you stop it. We tried it out in a pool, but I can't wait to get it out on the water for muskies.
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Posted 2/8/2007 7:28 PM (#237406 - in reply to #237068) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 3242
Location: Racine, Wi
Man, it's kinda early for this question already. For the Wisco opener, I think I'm gonna throw a flyrod for a while. I haven't caught one on a fly in a couple of years, so That shoud be fun. First time I hit the water, probably a Manta.
Dacron + Dip
Posted 2/9/2007 8:20 AM (#237648 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Sick looking bait, Toad, real nice job!! Be a winner trolled I imagine too.
Upnorth1
Posted 2/9/2007 7:06 PM (#237826 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
6 inch Crane twitched over the new Green Cabbage in the warmest water on the lake I can find. Has been successful the last few season's so I am sticking with it.
Posted 2/9/2007 7:42 PM (#237833 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 137
I didn't make that lure Dacron, but I'm sure Don Slagle of Hoosier Handmade baits appreciates your praise. I just told him what I wanted and he went and made me it. Good guy, good lures. (Plus it rattles)
Posted 2/10/2007 3:47 PM (#237950 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 350
Location: WESTERN WI
All my off season purchases!!! Then old reliable in the spring... drop belly glider.
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Posted 2/10/2007 10:33 PM (#238003 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Holoform cranes, mepps magnums and number 5 tandems, grinders, smaller prop baits, baby docs, 7 inch grandmas, small gliders-smuttly dogs, magic makers, (old reliable 9 inch suicks), orange rattle traps. Baby cranks too! Few! To many to list! Out of these the best or first bait I toss out of the box is a mepps magnum single or tandemed tail, and fish shallow around sand and weed edges! Thats key!
Posted 2/11/2007 2:08 AM (#238015 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 1504
Location: Oregon
Hey Matt........that was cool, looks like you have it pretty much covered for spring, good for you!! That fist bait made by Joe was awesome!
jed v.
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Dacron + Dip
Posted 2/11/2007 11:45 AM (#238061 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Same baits that stay on all summer. 10 inch Suick/Bobbie, ten inch bootail/bucktail, surface bait, jointed Believer. Got some great ideas on re-rigging Bulldawgs from you guys, 07's the year of the Dawg for me. If it will run the way I've got it rigged I'm going to use it and use it and use it. Early July was good last year, looking fwd to it in 07.
Posted 2/11/2007 2:08 PM (#238079 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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Location: Iowa
Matt, that is a new a innovative way to show off yours baits...I think more people should do that if they had the capabilities...gets more to a personal level...just a bit more for people to recognize you...
Posted 2/11/2007 2:50 PM (#238087 - in reply to #238079) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 324
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Thanks,
I used a webcam that I got for a class I took in Instructional Technology...Cost me 99.00 bucks...not too bad...You can also use it to for video chat as well...As far as using it here, video posting would be pretty cool...like you said, folks could get to know each other better...Take care, Matt..........
Posted 2/11/2007 3:32 PM (#238101 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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SS Shad by Smoker Tackle, (most likely the shad pattern, as this is the predominant forage at Kinkaid) fished with a slow crank and occasional twitch, in the north end bays (like Sharp Rock, Dunhouse, or around Allen Island.) Crank, crank, crank, twitch, BANG!!! Well, that's how it goes in my daydream, anyway!!
Al Nutty
Kinkaid Lake Guide Service
Been Nutty all my life, the insanity is a recent affliction!!
Posted 2/14/2007 1:55 AM (#238682 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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I try to be on the water the night before opener and throw the first cast at midnight, just so I can say I did. So, Hirsch's Original in black perch for way shallow and a blck/silver Raddog for anything deeper.
Posted 2/14/2007 1:24 PM (#238785 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 129
Location: Milwaukee Wi
Ill try a Burt than a smaller bucktail At a slow speed or a medium blade dancer Ohhhh maybe the blaze or my custom painted perch suick or a molly bait i have alot of them and last but not least my Homer simpson lure!!!!!! And if that dont work ill throw????????
Posted 2/17/2007 3:39 PM (#239557 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
Posts: 2686
Location: Hayward, WI
Matt, I thought that video was pretty neat too! For me, Probably some Mepps Musky Marabous, maybe a Phantom or 9" Suick, might also try some Pacemakers or weagles (providing I buy some Pacemakers or Weagles to try before opener).
Posted 2/17/2007 6:40 PM (#239598 - in reply to #236963) Subject: RE: your first bait in the water on opening day...
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My first and next bait to hit the water in '07 will be a jig/6" Kalins grub. Shortly after will be mostly rattle baits I'm sure The Nate's swimbaits will be mixed in as well
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