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Location: Rhinelander, Wi | I was just wondering what colors have worked best on the Rumblers |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Blacks the only color I own. |
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Location: Stones throw away...finally!! | What is it with rumblers that make them submarine? Short of holding my rod tip 8 ft. in the air, is there a trick to making these work, especially at the begining of a long cast. I'm about frustrated enough to donate mine to the shore line. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | boelrich2 - 6/18/2008 11:04 PM
I was just wondering what colors have worked best on the Rumblers
As with all topwater baits, I feel sound/vibration is 2ndary to color. Get a good running bait and you will care less about color. Case in point, some of my better baits don't have any color to them anymore. How can this be??? And they still work at catching fish. I even have a great Hawg Wobbler that was perch (grn/blk) and it got the snot chewed out of it. I painted it blk and guess what??? It still gets chewed on. I could paint that bait any color and I will bet I could still catch fish with it. |
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Location: Iowa | Mine broke after hooking a fish close to shore and having the bait come out and hit a rock...bent the wire above anf beow the spinning section...I tired my best to bend it back but it doesn't run the same...anybody know how to fix it...
Big Perc |
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Location: Des Moines IA | It's a wire through top water. Cut the old bent wire out and replace it. |
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| The rumbler is actually not a true thru-wire bait. The front line tie is a screw eye... I had one customer take one out of the package, put it on his snap, and had the front screw eye pull out before he ever even casted it! The wire that runs through the bait is molded in the center of the bait and runs out the back of the bait and cannot be replaced.
Also, the bait dives into waves because it is not buoyant enough to be used in waves. Some of them have more air bubbles in the molded plastic which cause them to float better than others. I have seen some of them sink.
For more on info this and other surface baits, check out my latest article in Esox Angler Magazine titled Topwater From Start To Finish. Should answer quite a few questions regarding surface baits.
Lee Tauchen |
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Location: Contrarian Island | these baits don't seem to be very consistent as others have had some that roll, some sink etc...luckily I got a "good one" that doesn't roll and has a good sound...have caught fish but it is mainly a bait as Lee said that I can only use in fairly calm water as waves will make it want to dive under...good calm water bait though... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I used both of mine this week in rough water, no problems. New models, this year's. |
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Location: WI | Mine was attacked by a hungry musky tonight.  |
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