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| I love throwing bulldawgs and move a lot of fish on them but the pike in my like love to tear them apart and being a college student I can't afford to keep buying new ones. I was wondering if there are any similar baits like the shack attack lures that hold up better? Also I throw the regular sized dawgs and was wondering if the mag dawgs will get less action from the pike? Any other opinions or comments on plastics would be appreciated as well since I'm considering picking up a few more.
Thanks,
Joe
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| I would check out the tacklebooty.com stuff. I dont have personal experience with it but I have heard from a few people worth listening to that its is a bit tougher. Oh yeah and theyre cheaper. I plan to buy a few later this week actually.
Big Joes are a favorite of mine I would recommend some of those too.
Anyway the Mags seem to get just as much attention from the pike in my boat anyways.
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Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | i have a couple of the tacklebooty baits and i would say they are perfect for what you are looking for. The new ones have good plastic as do the shack attack baits. http://www.tacklebooty.com/ |
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| I was looking at the super d's after posting this and they look awesome. One question I have though is being slightly heavier than the bulldawgs do they sink faster? |
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Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | i think they do sink a little faster but it isnt very much faster. If you want a bigger bait to fish shallow go with the 11" curley sue. It is pretty big and heavy but stays high in the water column. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | You have to work mine a little faster as the are heavier. I think they work though.... Two WI teams have won tourneys on them this year so far. Well, one team got one fish (out of two) on a SuperD while the other team got all three on SuperDs. Some 2nd and 3rd places coming in too.
As for a shallow, my buddy Dennis emailed me about 7 weeks ago and convinced me that I should make a full set of shallows so expect those soon and my buddy Rick helped me out on the production side and now I will be making the big boys too!! I hope by fall I will have everything in stock. Molds are done but I am testing out the new harnesses soon for durability (yes, 3rd generation harnesses coming that are even stronger than the 2nd gen. double coil harness). I hope you guys can drive over these lures with a Mac truck soon while keeping the fluid movement of a good soft bait. Keep the emails coming too. I am getting a lot of great feedback from you guys on what you want to see from colors to the tail thickness, etc. Great stuff and it really helps me make a better SuperD. 1 year of making thes lures and I am on generation III production SuperDs already and all from customer feedback. Hope to have 40 plus colors in all sizes soon. I told my wife to get her crap out of her closet by October! 
Thanks,
James
Edited by tacklebooty 6/24/2008 9:35 AM
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| Super D by tackle booty hold up better and have the same if not a better action than bulldawgs and the suzy suckers
You won't regret getting some. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | JoeTC - 6/23/2008 5:11 PM
is being slightly heavier than the bulldawgs do they sink faster?
I used my Super D's pretty hard last weekend for the first time. They were fishing deeper than I wanted them to at the speed I wanted to fish them. They also seemed to have a hopping action, and I was looking for a more subtle gliding action. All I did was bend the bait upwards a little bit. That made the bait fish shallower at a slower speed and also gave it more of a glide rather than a hop and rapid sink. It didn't take much of a bend to get what I wanted, but I found out I could fine tune the depth they fished at by how much I bent them.
The way I bent them up allowed them to fish at a similar depth and speed to the 11 inch Curley Sues.
I caught one fish on both the Mag Super D and the 11 inch Curley Sue. The Super D had a cut in the tail, and a few teeth slashes in it, but everything was reparable to bring the bait back to near new, if not new condition again (durability wise). The Curley Sue had one big slice in the body, but again was easy to melt back together for a 100% usable bait. It looks like both baits should stand up to multiple fish, and almost more importantly, they WILL NOT destruct from merely casting and ripping the baits.
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| I like The Dawgs Too! But to pay that much money for a peice oif crap that rips just from casting the darn thing and lord forbid you get a snag with it. Its ruined for sure then. This industry needs more people like James from Tacklebooty, He builds his lures with the sportsman and the working man in mind. I do not own anything that he has made thus far, But just reading and listening to him and the others on this board, I am convinced that he is all about the satisfaction of his fellow muskie hunters and I will purchase his Plastics only from here on out. I can't wait till he gets shallow versions...DEADLY
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| Hands down Dogs and super D's nothing compares to there durability!! |
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| If your looking for durability try looking at the dunwright lifelike lures.
http://www.dunwrighttackle.com/ |
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| You may also want to check out the Savagear Alien Eels. Similar size to the standard Bulldawg. Pricing is less and so far they seem to be holding up much better than MI Dawgs. They've got some pretty cool colors too that haven't been seen before. |
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| Glad to hear super D is comming out with a super magnum version... I was going to be sending an email requesting that but now I won't have to |
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Location: Ohio | muskie24/7 - 6/26/2008 8:01 AM
I like The Dawgs Too! But to pay that much money for a peice oif crap that rips just from casting the darn thing and lord forbid you get a snag with it. Its ruined for sure then. This industry needs more people like James from Tacklebooty, He builds his lures with the sportsman and the working man in mind. I do not own anything that he has made thus far, But just reading and listening to him and the others on this board, I am convinced that he is all about the satisfaction of his fellow muskie hunters and I will purchase his Plastics only from here on out. I can't wait till he gets shallow versions...DEADLY
Thanks, Brian :)
My feelings exactly! I love casting Dawgs but after the durability problems, plus all the good customer replys he has a new customer. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne, Indiana | I love Shack Attack baits.
I have a few that have held up to 2 fish boated and a few boatside losses and they are in perfect working order. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Check out that Dunwright video's 10" perch slow rolled....wow...I gotta get one of those...that actually looks as close toa real fish as anything I've seen yet....the Dunwright website didn't show the 10" perch model, though. |
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| Just went out tonight and my friend hooked into a 39 incher while trolling with the paddle tale |
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| Hey Guys,
You may also want to check out the Swamp Donkee.
Best,
T |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I touched a few of thsoe Swamp Donkies at Thorne a few weeks ago. TANKS!!!!! Love that tail "swap" configuration too. Those guys did a good job on that lure!
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