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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | What lure in the arsenal gets the most leader time for you? I'm curious if it's a regional thing more related to the waters fished, or a personal choice more related to 'comfort zone'.
I would guess last year it was a Violent Strike Mag Willow, because I spent so much time fishing slop and shallow reeds. Close second would be a Weagle/Wabull, depending on how hard I felt like working. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne, Indiana | The two lures I threw a lot this past year were, a weagle and a crusher bucktail. They both put fish in the boat and I threw them tons. |
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Location: On your favorite spot | Gotta go with the dawg - first and last fish of the year and a few in between - personal confidence thing for me - I'd throw it anywhere but central Minnesota likes it's dawgs!
Edited by Marc J 2/15/2007 6:48 PM
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Location: Kentucky | custom pacemaker, small bucktails. |
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| Dawgs for me. |
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Location: Cohasset, MN | Weagle. I like working WTD lures. There's also something I like about flying muskies ! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | mostly gliders, although I try to not stick with one catagory. It's hard to switch when most of the fish you contact with that season all came on gliders. Blame K-bob for getting me hooked on them and ShaneW for making awesome ones. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Mostly spinnerbaits. Both Violent Strike and Rad Dogs.
I think they were the only lures that I got more than one fish on.
S. |
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Location: So. Illinois | I didn't get out much last year but the baits I used most were:
Super Shad Rap
Slopmaster and Llugen spinner baits
Jointed Believer
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Location: Wausau/Phillips WI | Our lake seemed turned off June and July with me tossing my usual assortment of topwaters and some A&L custom bucktails he made me. My daughter still only throws her "lucky" pacemaker and had steady action but it seemed I couldn't find a fish until the end of July when I started throwing a Shallow Invader, a couple differant spinnerbaits and a Hellraiser Bearclaw. Action on all of them but the Bearclaw was hot! most of August and September.
Buddy |
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Location: oswego, il | This fall I rediscovered twitching. I have a highly modified grandma with 28 fish and about 8 more hookups on it. The Cranky Nitros are seeing alot of time for me as is the EZ Riser from lakeshore lure co. I have the new Zam jerkbaits too and Ican't wait o try them! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | XXs, weagles, violent strike spinnerbaits, perkettes, mepps mariboos, suzy suckers, topraiders, bombers.....
or did you just want the one that gets the MOST time? any of the above, depending on the day/time/place..... |
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Location: Medford, WI | Last summer the sucker colored red-hot suick followed by Black Shumway Flasher and then next in line the good ol' Jackpot.
Bulldawgs are probably right in the middle of all of these! Way too many great baits to choose from!!!
-Jake |
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| prolly a suick, can't give up on old faithful, but usually a minnow bait of some sort, jake\grandma, very versatile baits.
But, it all comes down to the water and what "feels" good for the day, obviously matching conditions, surroundings and mood of fish, but yeah, its gotta feel right.
ask my partner, He'll laugh, I'll put a bait on, make a cast, take it off, do the same for a few other baits till I find the one, and then wham, there she is! 
makes me sick how many baits we buy on impulse of what they look like on the shelf, and where they end up? on display in the boat, and most of them never get used,
never enough time on the water to experiment. never............ |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | #1 Mepps Marabou
#2 Top Raider |
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| For the 2006 season:
1.XX
2.Face Raker
3.Mag Dawg
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I'm going to work more crankbaits this year and hope my percentages rise. Gene's will be some of the first outta the box, along with a new Guides Choice I got last weekend. m |
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Location: Wausau | Northern WI
Dawgs
DDD
DepthRaider |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Extremely clear waters... a 6 inch gold prism tape perch grandma, twitched over cover. |
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | #1)Llungen Tail
#2)Mag Stomper
#3)Pat's Jig w/Salt Shaker
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Location: north central wisconsin | Seasonally dependant really, and each year has its own wierdness too. But when casting... the ole standbys remain so year in year out... In reality I have more of a top 10 as one or two just doesn't cover it, but the lure below has gotten more leader time than any other in the past 3 years.
GP Thumper Spinnerbait
followed by... Rylure Tapdancer(or Globe), 10" Jake, Triple Take, G Log, Nitro, Jerko(or Reef Hawg), Topraider
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Location: Barrington, Il | Steve, what's a Face Raker?
Lungen tales
TopRaider
Slammers |
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| my basic 3-rod setup almost always starts the day as follows:
rod 1) jackpot or viper
rod 2) bucktail (Huntertail or Cowgirl) or blackbird topraider
rod 3) 9" perch Grandma (or depthraider)
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| millsie - 2/16/2007 11:28 AM
Steve, what's a Face Raker?
That's Jonesi-speak for Pacemaker |
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Location: Iowa | For me in '06 it was...
1.) Double Cowgirl
2.) Depthraider
3.) M-9 Grandma
4.) Topraider (Reg or Super...tie between them)
5.) Tremor
In '07 I plan on it being...
1.) Depthraider
2.) Tremor
3.) 6" Shaker
4.) Weagle
5.) Dawg Tail
Big Perc |
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| Threw a lot of spinnerbaits, because just like Sworrall, I found myself fishing shallower, weedier areas more than usual.
Second would have to be my own gliders, with the majority of the time going to the prototypes of the 10"ers that I made and the heavy Perkas.
Fished much less time with a top water last year. Opted for buldging spinnerbaits instead. |
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| XX
Pacemaker/Stomper
Weagle |
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Location: Davenport, IA | Last year it was the hellhound...but it changes every year |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Dawgs followed closely by bucktails (mepps marabou) get the most water time. |
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Location: Il | 1. pacemaker
2. slammer or crane twichbait
3. bucher slopmaster |
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| Ghosttails and Pacemakers get the most leader time. Suicks,CJ's,Flashers, Stillwaters right behind.
Ty |
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| Ty,
What size Ghosttails do you like? I'm thinking about buying some. Thanks |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion |
The Weagle was #1 last year followed by any Bulldawg.
Jerome |
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Location: Plover, WI | For me, last year, was topwaters
Mike |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | suick, cats tail, flasher, topraider, ghost tail, |
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| wakemaker and corey meyer topwaters had the big girls snappin'! ol' reliable bobbie was put on the back burner this year... |
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Location: Hayward, WI | In 2006 I caught most of my fish on three different baits. These "just happened" to be the baits I threw a LOT during the year.
1.) Mepps Musky Marabou.
2.) Stomper (black/orange belly)
3.) Top Cat (walk the dog bait) made by Big Fork lures.
There wasn't much special about THESE lures thought, they're just what I had. More or less any bucktail, tail rotator, and walk the dog bait would have caught me fish.
In 2007 I plan on giving spinnerbaits a real work out, because I fish a lot of stringy weeds in 2.5-5 feet of water. Also want to try Pacemakers and Weagles.
curleytail
Edited by curleytail 2/18/2007 9:53 PM
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Usage time heavily skewed in favor of the following.......
#1. Long Tale Long Shot
#2. Perka
#3. Top Raider
#4. DDD |
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Location: Pound, WI | I mostly threw BS Willy's creepers. I moved a lot of fish with them, but I couldn't seem to get the pins in'em.
Brian |
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Location: Omaha, Nebraska | These were last years most used, but I bet this list will change by midseason this year.
1. AHl Lac Seul Medium
2. 6" Timberwolf
3. Reg. Muskie Treat
4. Shalllow Invader
5. Funky Chicken
6. Triple D
7. Bullseye
8. Jackpot
9. Muskie Machinery Switchbalde
10. KDC Magnum Marabou
In 2007 I want to try more topwter and bucktails.
Edited by DEMolishedyou 2/19/2007 9:09 AM
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | 1) Mepps Musky Marabou (Has put over 150 fish in the boat for over the past 3 years)
2) Top Raider (Bull Frog) |
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Location: Hayward, WI | 1.Phantom
2.XX
3.Countdown DR |
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| my small flashy bucktails
4" Grandma
X-Rap
5" Viper
Edited by MuskyStalker 2/21/2007 10:37 AM
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