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Location: Bloomington,MN | What is the absolute best way to fish these baits?ive only had a couple small follows on them.Ive also heard when a fish hits a bulldawg it almost feels like a bass hitting a plastic worm.Is that true? |
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| By most accounts, there is no wrong way to fish them, but that has been said by people who have actually caught musky on them! I'm with you. How do you work these things? If it ain't pulling or thumpin' like a crankbait or a bucktail, can it really be working? I'd love to consider the 'Dawg one of my confidence baits, but I just can't say it... yet. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Work it like a suick. Long pulls and pauses. Works for me. |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | I am no expert but have caught quite a few fish on the bait. I work them with steady downward pulls, this cause the bait to kind of swing side to side, or very hard snaps horizontally with the rod for when your searching or trying to convert inactive fish. Most of my strikes anyway arent real hard except when Im snapping the rod hard. |
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Location: Chicagoland | Joe, Thats only because there is more tension on the line longer. The muskie are likely taking the bait when it is paused so you pull the tension onto the fish. |
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| I like to work them just like Joe said, Long steady pulls, but when I pull them I like the bait to go straight and not to the side. All the fish I have had hit have been on the pause. |
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Location: st boni, mn | I do a snap pause snap,snap method with a couple of uplifts in the retrieve,also like to troll them with a pumping motion |
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| Is there a wrong way to work the bait? All types of retreives catch fish, do what you are confident with and you will get bit! |
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| I try to picture what the bait is doing underwater... as dorky as that sounds. I would rather the bait be worked a little more erratically than just the same steady pull-reel slack-pull-reel slack. Hard rips, sweeps left then right, hard rips RIGHT at the boat, quick twitches all thrown into the mix are good, IMO. You should be tired from throwing them by the end of the day, even though on a straight retrieve they give little resistance. Your muscles should ache and twinge from the hard rips and funky directional changes you give the bait. |
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| I have caught fish on dogs using various retreive methods from long pulls to short hard snaps and everything in between including a strait swim.I try to change up the retrieve when i first start the day to see if the fish have a preference for a certain retreive.Later in the year when the temps start to drop i get a ton of fish on a strait line sloooow roll,just enough speed to keep the bait from getting fouled .I dont think you can fish a dog wrong period. |
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bulldawgs?