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Location: Madison WI | Well the season is coming to a close for most of us within the next month or so and I was just wondering what everyone's most productive bait was for them this season. Mine was the 8 inch Bucher Swimming joe (sucker and perch pattern) this bait accounted for 8 of the 16 muskies I have caught so far this year. What has everyone else had good numbers on?
Another year almost over and still I have yet to catch a muskie on any kind of bucktail. My second most productive lure was the 4 inch 1 1/2 oz rattle trap in which I caught 3 including my PB.
Edited by muskyhunter24 11/8/2008 10:20 PM
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| The most productive baits for me in 2008 have been:
#1) Musky Innovations - Shallow Invader - Bumblebee and Walleye patterns
#2) Original Mantas - Pumpkin Perch and Crappie patterns - have not even seen a fish on the hang 10 mantas I throw
#3) Hellhound - ERC - Any color - almost always at least see fish when working the hellhound. My fav - Holo Bluegill
#4) Bucher Jointed Baby Depthraider - Any color - most productive bait in the past 5 years - The one miller perch DR I have has accounted for 11 muskies since 2005 when I started my log. Almost no paint left on it.
What has not been working for me this year:
Not one fish on a bulldawg this year, actually I did have a couple 30" range muskies in the spring on the 6" dawgs but overall disappointing.
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| Fished the Kawarthas in Ontario during September. I caught 12 Muskies on one of John Snow's Crankbaits. That was my hottest bait for the year, all fish came in the propwash with 17 to 36' of line.
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| Ill be the first of I am sure many to say the double cow |
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| Perch DDD |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Wades Wobbler and DDD have served me the best so far. |
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Location: University of Hartford | Depthraider, and then bucktails |
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Location: martinsburg wv | hellhound |
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Location: Medford, WI | Bulldawgs and Curly Sues....probably 80% of my fish, maybe more.
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | A black Pacemaker was my big winner this season. |
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Location: Oregon, IL | Salmo Skinner 15 real gray shiner |
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Location: mpls | Trueglide Tremors- 90% of my fish this year. Hot bait in 2007 as well!! |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I think nearly tied for most productive this year are soft plastics (Super D's and Curly Sues), and Double Cowgirls.
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Another vote for the double cowgirl as being the most productive for me this year. |
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| sennetts small black pacemaker... gotta love topwater!!!!!!! |
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Location: Michigan | Dawgs/SuperDs by far and then DCGs |
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Location: WI | Tanner Wildes Rabid Squirrel dbl 8 bladed bucktail worked good for me this year. Lee's Chopper was good too. Moved a lot of fish on Topper Stoppers, and had some action on Dbl 10's, Rumblers, and small Bobbie baits.
Spent a lot of time trolling through the year with not a single musky caught. My tactics next season will be different. |
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Location: Oshkosh | Shumway Giant Flasher
Peter |
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| Various gliders, and ho-made buzzbaits in the reeds and shallows. I'll be throwing ALOT MORE buzzbaits next year. Working on a few designs this winter. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Topraider, Weagle, and Bulldawgs |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Violent Strike Mag 8/10 spinnerbait, Llungen Nutbuster, Weagle, Rumbler, Creature. |
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| Star baits and Tuff Shads took the majority in my boat |
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| It's probably a dead even tie for me.
The first half of the season goes to the Dunwright Top Dancer (in the perch pattern). That thing is amazing and produced fish when nothing else would do it.
The later part of the season is easily attributed to a topwater, saltwater lure made by Lu Nemanius. He usually makes awesome gliders but his walk the dog, surface, striper lure is the best I've ever used.
Johnny
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Location: Chicago, IL | Rabid Squirrel tail... specifically the new rabid squirrel spinner bait put the most fish in my boat this year. the spinner bait is by far the most versatile lure I threw all season. |
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Location: Twin Cities | Odd year for me, last years #1 isn't even in my top ten.
Bulldawg/curly sue
DCG
Creeper
Manta
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | Red October Dbl 10, Sledge, 9" AP Lure, Rumbler, M&G spinnerbait.
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| Rubber......Big Joes/kickin minnows
Blades..... 8s, 9s, and 10s
Chopper....8 fish on 1 chopper in sept alone |
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Location: Dixon, IL | 7.5" Grandma is great for me for this year! Twitch, jerk, and swimming. Few nice bass on it, too! Sucker and walleye color is best for me. Would try H mother of pearl color on lakes with lot of shad in 2009!
Windel's Harasser is good bucktail for me!
Would try Hellbound, bulldawg and several other in 2009! |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Muskie Treats and Suckers |
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Location: sauk rapids, mn | My best lure was the Slidin' shad from Doug Kloet's Musky Magic Tackle. Most of my fish were caught on these baits. But honorable mention goes to the bullfrog colored topraider.
Bulldawgs, Hellhounds, and Phantoms with tails all were also producers.
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | 9 inch weighted fire tiger suick |
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| Foil SS Shads by far...Every fish except three. |
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Location: Sioux Lookout On Canada | The shumway Flasher and baby flasher bucktails. Bucher's topraider loon pattern and cowgirls did the job this summer. Over 40 muskies boated on these lures this year. Still looking for a great fall bait. Walleye pattern Ernie's have worked so far this fall. |
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Location: Michigan | Big Game Twitchbaits, Rabid Squirrel Bucktails and Holcombe Mag Topwalker.
Edited by Slimeball 11/9/2008 7:26 PM
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| DCG & 10" COBB COUNTDOWN |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I had better luck with really small baits this year overall though my two biggest fish came on double Cowgirls. My trusty little chart/purple Slippery Sam Jr. was a killer bait this year followed by a black/orange Pacemaker. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Little black-haired bucktail with a #8 orange fluted indiana I made up....second best weagle and dawg |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Weagle, Pounder/Mag Dawg, and glide baits.........
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| white 8" tiger tube by a mile. |
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Location: New Hope MN | Trueglide Tremors? what the heck is that? Never seen one before. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Supermodels, and weagles. |
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Location: So. Illinois | A black and orange Northland muskie spinnerbait. I had this lure on one of my rods all year long, it would call up fish when nothing else worked. It now has very little hair left on it and it continues to catch fish -- no explaination to why this bait has worked so well. |
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Location: Sioux Lookout On Canada | I have old shumway funky chickens that are like that. old, bent with no feathers or paint but they continue to produce fish. I often think that some lures send certain vibrations or something whereas, brand new baits of the same make or model do not work as well. Any comments? |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | The best of lures for me were, as usual, CJs Spinner baits. It was the second straight year where my boat averaged better than one Muskie per four hours of fishing. (Up from our historic average of one Muskie per six hours.) Sometimes the fish preferred the small tandem skirted CJs, sometimes it was the large Willows hair baits, and sometimes it was the single bladed hait baits. But it was a rare outing we didn't put fish in the boat with one or more CJs.
It seems that the more people we saw throwing the big baits, the better those CJs worked. It sure was fun having guys come over to see the fish we were releasing and couldn't believe what we were throwing.
You don't need big lures. You don't need cool or fancy lures. You just need a good lure in the right place at the right time to catch a nice Muskie.  |
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| There is more than one lure out there? My number one choice this year is by far the bulldawg. It has landed over 70 muskies in my boat this year with the largest being a huge 52.25. The pounder in particular has been hot as always. The new additions to the dawgs both this year and especially the ones that are going to be hitting the market next year such as a harder more durable plastic mixture, US heavy duty split rings and custom made extra sharp hooks. In addition to this they have shifted the nose weight back to it wont pull out. Basically a great lure just got better, so muskies look out. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | SUPER D DAWGS all the way , over 15 muskys for me on the SUPER D DAWG !!!!!!Can't wait for the NEW 09 SUPER D DAWGS. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | TOPRAIDERS in any color and nickel/black double blade mid-sized llungen tails accounted for a good percentage of the muskies in my boat (and a good number of big pike too!) I just checked the log and found 42 muskies this year on these two lures. The killer eel made a strong showing later in the season as well. |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | 1 Super Double Cowgirl, #13 blades aren't that bad
2 Regular Double Cowgirls
3 Suckers |
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| BIG GAME TWITCHBAITS |
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| Tuff shads; gliders and cranks, two PB 49"s
Willey's spinnerbaits
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| The pounder has been my number one bait this year in both follows, figure eight fish, and fish landed. The legend outcast is still holding onto the second spot as my best trolling lure and the huddleston swimbait coming in third but particularly well during the late and early coldwater periods around iceup and out. |
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| Double Cowgirls put the most in my boat again this year. Bulldawgs were second best. I wonder if there is any correlation between throwing only girls and dawgs and those being the lures I caught my fish on? |
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Location: Irvine, KY | believers trolling and bucktails casting |
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Location: thunder bay | shummway flasher,scrmmer,topraider,weagle and trolling jake's 10" |
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| Hands down 2oz. Johnson Silver Spoon,even in the fall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 |
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Location: VA | Black Suick, Hellhound.
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Location: Land of the Musky | Perch Thriller weighted Suick 9".
LOVE THE SUICK!!!!! |
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| This year I have been tearin it up on The Pig, The Pig Jr, and the deep diving Pig in the jointed frog colored model. Ya cant beat it!
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Location: St. Croix River, Mille Lacs, | Just Add Water (JAW Baits) Disco Cisco 2oz Thresher series
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Location: Ohio | Bulldawgs and super D's were my best this year. |
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| Squirkos, Weagle and Killer Eel |
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Location: Bemidji, MN | Double #8 Nail Tail |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | I cant speak for 2008 because we were rebuilding a house So ill just go with all time for us.
#1 Lokes cranks (7 inch)
#2 Talonz Little Claws
#3 Talonz Slashers
#4 SHumway Flashers ( double #8 blades)
#5 Nils Master Invincibles 10 inch models
#6 Tuff Shads
#7 Mordas Minnows
#8 Crane 205
#9 Cady Weagle
#10 Hoosier 9 inch Gliders
I went by the number of fish caught on each lure type. We used Lokes for many years before I built the Slashers. I have over 400 fish on Lokes but in just two years we have close to 200 on Slashers including our biggest fish a 52 incher from Lake St. Clair.
The best lure is what gets it done in the situation you are in. We do it all, cast ,troll, live bait. Every one of those 10 I mentioned are top of the line in my boat. I have almost zero plastic lures in my boat. I have owned them all and used them all. These are the most productive baits I have used in 12 years of Musky fishing.
There are several others that I give some serious credit to like Grandma lures 13 inch model. I have two muskies caught on them one over 30 pounds. I own four of them. They are the only plastic baits I own.
My own Rippin Shads in 4,5 and the new 7.5 inch models.
Hudson Hoginators ,very nice baits,
BK Chubbies , I am just starting to use these and have high hopes.
My own Dragon Claws and Deepthreats, Many others are doing real well with them. My Michigan fish are just getting big enough to use them myself.
Cow Girls, cant argue with the numbers but my elbow wont take the strain
Kingfisher
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| DCG's, Jr. DCG, and double showgirls. The tails did awsome for us this year... 3 years ago I hated them and was a glidebait fanatic, this year and last I didn't use any gliders past June. Tails RULE!
I also did well on Hawg Wobblers early in the season, times were tough and those along with 8" T. Tubes help put some early fish in the boat... talk about a slow way to fish though! |
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| Caught a lot of fish on these this year...
SpankyBaits double #10
LLUNGEN Nutbuster
SS Shad
Manta
Weagle |
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Location: Pittsburgh, pa | casting= Hellhounds and Trolling = Wileys |
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| our best were woodies on st clair. i have seen many personal best caugt on them. as for colors browns were the hotter color for 08. bucktails from mikeys tackle were also very good when fish were hi in july.. grubbing 9 inchers in august down deep produced some large girls. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Was able to spend time in the boat in a variety of areas this past summer. The best baits I saw were:
Bulldawgs, Mags and Pounders. Just wait 'til they start being used in tournaments, lookout!!! 
Dunwright Reelfish. Great action, definitely have a place.
Cowgirls, they work in WI too!
Legend Perchbait, one of my favs for rowing, scored again this year.
Slammer 6" minnow baits, great when the fish are shallow and need a little more of a trigger. Great twitched.
Tanner Wildes' new spinnerbait looked awesome and caught some real nice fish this summer.
Also, the new Musky Innovations tube/reaper. We tested these this summer and did great on them. Worked great when nothing else did.
JS
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | 1/3 of the fish I caught this year were on Bulldawgs (55 fish). The next closest were double ten VooDooTails that accounted for 26 fish.
Edited by Will Schultz 12/18/2008 10:05 AM
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| Softtail Phantom
Weagle
Big Joe
and I'll 3rd Tanner Wildes long-arm spinnerbait - Tanner you need to come up with a good name for that bait!
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Burmek B-1 for sure! |
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| that nils master invincible is a nice lure MD |
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Location: Janesville | THE RUBBER DUBBER
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| madmusky - 12/19/2008 3:40 PM
Softtail Phantom
Weagle
Big Joe
and I'll 3rd Tanner Wildes long-arm spinnerbait - Tanner you need to come up with a good name for that bait!
I want to have a look at this new spinner bait, anyone have a picture. . . Can't find it on the Monster Lures web site. |
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Location: Chanhassen, MN | Jr. DCG's and Topraiders |
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Location: nationwide | Here is a picture of Tanner's spinnerbaits.
Corey Meyer
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | BOOGERMAN, fish hate em!! |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Musky Magic Slidin' Shad drop belly glide baits
Rubber
Big Blades |
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Location: Toronto, ON | Kickin' Minnow, Perch. Just change out the rings and hooks....and don't expect it to last. But it catches fish. |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Hands down the:
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Runners up with all about equal amounts of fish:
Big Joe
Ernie
10” Warner
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Location: Iowa | My most prductive baits this past year were
1.) X-Rap 13
2.) Squirrely Believer
3.) Jackpot
4.) 10" Weagle in "The Mehsikomer Special"
5.) Old Pinky (double cowgirl)
6.) Shallowraider
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Violent Strike Mag 8/10
Llungen Nut Buster
Weagle
Rumbler
DC 9 or 10
Wabull
Looking forward to 2009!
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Location: On the River | 35 fish caught average size 41 inches slow year numbers and size
11 on suckers
12 DCG
3 Invaders
2 Hellhounds
2 Hawg Wobblers
2 Blue Fox bucktails
2 Pulsators
Mr Automatic Jerk bait
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| Everything on double 10's
Catch one of the 10 I missed on the blasted Weagle and then the guy I was with throws it and hooks one on the first cast. |
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