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| I know that many people favor clear water lakes with weeds for Musky fishing. However, I have one favorite lake that is a dark water flowage. Because of the dark water and annual drawdowns, weed growth is minimal. The predominant cover is wood---both lay-downs and standing.
Wondering what might be some of the lure types and colors other people have found to be good producers in these types of waters. Seems like a few that produce well for me are Globe style top waters and twitch baits; in all seasons. Especially ones with some orange in them.
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Location: WI | I like Suicks and Smity baits in bright colors (chart), and topwaters (creepers and prop baits) in black or orange. Bucktails with chart, org, or grn blades always seem to do well in dark water. Pink might be another good color to try.
I hate clear water. : ) |
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| I like to use believers in the wooded areas it seems to come out of the timber nicely. My favorite colors are chart. and orange
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Location: Almond, WI | Bucktails and spinnerbaits. I use more spinnerbaits as years go on, because they're basically snagproof and can be fished from very slow to very fast. Orange is usually best for blade, but chartreuse and flame are good too. Brass or copper can be good on a bright day. I usually like brown, black, black/chartreuse, rust, perch, firetiger, and bright green tails. Purple with brass blades can be a sleeper on bright days. Remember black is always going to show up (it's darker than any water stain, and gives good contrast against the light source above). I'm generally a believer in using contrasting colors (i.e. black/chartreuse, black/orange) because I feel the contrast makes it more visible. Once in a while I'll throw a sunburst pattern on a brighter day. Flowages are great for saving bright days (and pretty good on cloudy ones too)! |
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Location: Twin Cities | Have had good luck with creepers and globes, orange and black. |
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| black or orange crush pacemakers run slow to medium... POW!!!!!! |
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Location: Wausau/Phillips WI | I fish mostly stained water and for topwater a Pacemaker (black) works for me. Bucktail - A&L or Bucher perch colors with a hammered or fluted brass blade. Black w/orange or red blade would be my second choice. For some reason on this lake the chartreuse patterns in any type lure have not been as successful for me except for a black bulldawg w/chart. tail. And yes, pink was hot at times in 08. |
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| Lime green doughballs. There might be an archived chat on here discussing the dough ball phenomenon. |
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| theres not much better than 'hot' dark water doughball bite |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I love fishing dark water flowages, mostly because I find big fish shallow. Wood creates a challenge getting through it with some lures, but there are plenty of baits that 'back up' when you stop them, like a properly tuned Suick. I use a big Violent Strike Mag Willow quite a bit, and do very well pitching to the very back of the stumps reaching all the cover. My top producer on sunny days is chartreuse with white/chartreuse, with black and orange a close second. Cloudy days it's black and red or any dark colored lure. Topwater, Weagle and Rumbler, black. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i love the dark water too and like to fish the river channel pieces so the "deepest" water if you will. sometimes this is only 10 - 15' or so but i tend to do best with topwater and approach it with a wide variety of sounds, speeds and movements. other baits i've done well with are jointed crank-baits and swim whizzes. bucktails although i throw them around haven't been as successful at least for me as on top or slow wobbling the crank baits. if i could only pick two baits to fish this pattern it would be a firetiger swim whiz and a black weagle. |
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Posts: 159
Location: Stevens Point, WI | TOPRAIDERS!!, and black/nickel bucktails. |
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Posts: 909
| BUCHER 700 bucktail in the color SUNSET!!!! Work it at a steady medium speed with a twitch here and there! All the colors the other guys mentioned are on this one bucktail. And they are all correct, It works in dark water!
Brian Gilmore
Edited by muskie24/7 3/2/2009 11:37 AM
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| muskie24/7 - 3/2/2009 12:34 PM
BUCHER 700 bucktail in the color SUNSET!!!! Work it at a steady medium speed with a twitch here and there! All the colors the other guys mentioned are on this one bucktail. And they are all correct, It works in dark water!
Brian Gilmore
Someone has fished Tamerack I see..... ;-). It's funny ask anyone what the color is on that lake and they swear by sunset!
Jacob |
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| I'm the one who told you about the sunset bucher on tamerak! It takes a long time to figure out bodies of water! I wouldn't announce it to the whole world though! you have to keep some things under your hat! On a small lake like tamerak it won't take long to condition those fish to where they won't even look at one! just trying to help and you can believe what you want!
Brian |
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| one thing nobody mentioned is get a good lure retriever. With a good lure retriever you can fish any lure you want in the wood! what happens when the fish aren't hitting bucktails topwater or spinnerbaits????? lure retrievers are the best piece of equipment you cna have in your boat when fishing timber.... |
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Posts: 720
| Another great top water for dark water flowages is a Hawg Wobbler orange with black dots. Jerkbaits like the Sand Cat by Big Fork Tackle are a great bait to throw as well with heavy weed cover. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | along the lines of having a lure retriever is having a telescoping, duck-foot push pole ... sometimes you can't just spin off of a stump and it's nice to have something you can use to push off if you do get hung up. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | My favorite water is the clear dark water waters. I use both the 6" & 8" Slammer Crankbaits in some version of orange and golds, or reds. The 6'' tend to stay above the problems and the 8"'s lips tend to back out of trouble.
This color of water tends to reduce any negative effects of sunshine of the fish and my attitude! |
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