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Location: VA | I just bought a new Holo Hellhound, took it fishing, caught 1 fish with it and realized that one of those big pretty eyes are now missing from the lure. Seems like they are a "stick on" eyes. Anyone know where an exact eye can be had to replace mine? Thanks!
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| Do you think the fish actually care if your lure is missing a stick on eye? |
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Location: VA | Maybe not 2T, but I sure do.
The eye of the hellhound is so large, it has that holographic film around it and the lure sure looks "funny" without it.
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Location: Apple Valley | All my chewed up hellhounds are missing the eyes. Great baits!
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Location: Black Creek, WI | You can get them from Witchcraft or Moores Lures. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | My best baits have 1 or no eyes left whatsoever. Fish don't care. |
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Location: VA | I understand fish dont care and it doesn't matter, but angler confidence DOES matter and I like the big eye the lure has on one side. 
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Location: On the water | Get a patch for the missing eye!!! |
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Location: NW PA/Allegheny River | I called Drifter last week because one of my eyes came off........they shipped 4 of them out for free with 0 hassle. |
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| I've got to second FEVER's idea. Take a sharpie and draw a little pirate eye patch over the missing eye. Then get back out there and catch a fish on it. Think of the confidence you'll have in a personally customized bait vs. the store bought version. Come to think of it I've got a few baits with missing eyes...., where's my sharpie?
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| I like them with one eye missing. The muskies seem to hit them on the blind side.
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| I have hellhounds that have missing eyes and paint, dosn't bother the fish. |
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Location: Illinois | I think the most appealing part of the Hellhound to a musky is the anus. You take away that little red dot, and you might have some problems!!! LOL
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| muskellunged - 11/18/2008 6:20 PM
I think the most appealing part of the Hellhound to a musky is the anus. You take away that little red dot, and you might have some problems!!! LOL
Mike
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I always add a bloody anus to all of my baits...the number one reason I catch fish!!!! MORE AND BIGGER BLOODY ANUS I SAY!!!!!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOONG winter... |
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| A detail MANY bait manufacturers overlook. Thankfully there are custom bait painters out there to get all the necessary details that muskies really go for.
Note to self: pick up some red sharpies next time I'm at the store.
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | This one just came out of surgery.Going to recover just fine.
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| Man it dosn't look that one was in too critical of condition. You gotta change that |
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Location: Illinois | The third eye is a critical addition to the realism of any bait. Muskies feed from beneath their prey- and what's starin' back down at them? You guessed it. The stinkhole. On ultra clear waters, I find the tighter the sphincter the better. Less is more on clear waters. If I'm on dingy waters or fishing in low light, I want an anus that really pops- Drifter Tackle's work comes to mind. I always carry a red marker and some white-out with me so I can tailor my baits anus to the conditions. I'm dead serious. You don't even want to hear what I do to my suckers......
Mike
Edited by muskellunged 11/19/2008 6:25 PM
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | I had the same thing happen to 2 HellHounds. I contacted the folks at ERC (Drifter Tackle Co.) and they quickly sent me a few extra eyes.
Great customer service.
Craig
Edited by cjrich 11/19/2008 6:47 PM
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| I think as long as that HH has hooks it's going to catch fish. Sometimes i hear people complain about painting decoration but fishing with wrong or #*#*ty hooks doesn't seem to be the case for them.... |
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Location: Dixon, IL | Eye fell off....interesting! Clear coating on lure should hold eyes on.......????
Plan to buy some Hellbound for myself at the Chicago Musky Show next month! |
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Location: VA | ILmuskie, no clear coating is over eyes on the HH, Eyes are sticky backed. I added some 2 part epoxy around my HH eyes to prevent future loss(s).
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