What is your one favorite bait?
knooter
Posted 5/17/2009 6:54 AM (#378739)
Subject: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 531


Location: Hugo, MN
I was thinking about this as I read the post about our favorite types of baits. I think my absolute favorite bait would have to be my old chartreuse bandit Suick. I caught my second musky ever, a fat 46", when I was 18. She crushed what was then my brand new Suick and left some giant teeth marks in its back, almost straightened out one of the split rings and bent the tail straight down. I think it actually runs better with every fish it catches. This fall it was responsible for two fish in the 45-46" range, and a couple smaller ones.
As many fish as I have caught on Bulldawgs and double tens, I just don't think any of them compare, in terms of pure mojo, to the old Suick.
I'll try and post a picture when I get my tackle boxes dug out.


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dfkiii
Posted 5/17/2009 7:30 AM (#378742 - in reply to #378739)
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Location: Sawyer County, WI
Forced to choose "one", I'd probably opt for "one eyed Jack", a black, wood Pacemaker that has caught many muskies over the years including my personal best. It's not very pretty, as it only has one eye left and has serious tooth rash but still is a "go to" bait for me.
Magic8Ball
Posted 5/17/2009 8:31 AM (#378746 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 90


Location: Ohio

knooter - 5/17/2009 7:54 AM I was thinking about this as I read the post about our favorite types of baits. I think my absolute favorite bait would have to be my old chartreuse bandit Suick. I caught my second musky ever, a fat 46", when I was 18. She crushed what was then my brand new Suick and left some giant teeth marks in its back, almost straightened out one of the split rings and bent the tail straight down. I think it actually runs better with every fish it catches. This fall it was responsible for two fish in the 45-46" range, and a couple smaller ones. As many fish as I have caught on Bulldawgs and double tens, I just don't think any of them compare, in terms of pure mojo, to the old Suick. I'll try and post a picture when I get my tackle boxes dug out.

 How do you fish the Suick mostly? I haven't read enough on this site YET, to figure it out.

Strictly a jerk Bait?

619musky
Posted 5/17/2009 8:52 AM (#378754 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 264


Id have to say a Topraider in baby loon color.

Edited by 619musky 5/19/2009 3:18 PM
Joe Cal
Posted 5/17/2009 9:47 AM (#378764 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 294


Location: Bloomer, Wi
topraider, responsible for more muskys in my boat than any other lure.
T bone
Posted 5/17/2009 3:51 PM (#378803 - in reply to #378764)
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Posts: 31


I love my stomper!
Esoxmtk
Posted 5/17/2009 3:59 PM (#378806 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 129


Location: Glenmoore PA
I love my $9 bass super believer.
bulldawg101
Posted 5/17/2009 4:13 PM (#378807 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 53


Location: Stillwater
double cowgirl and depthraider
RIVER MUSKY
Posted 5/17/2009 4:37 PM (#378809 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 731


Location: martinsburg wv
hellhound
AFCHief
Posted 5/17/2009 4:47 PM (#378810 - in reply to #378739)
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Super Shad Rap
Pointerpride102
Posted 5/17/2009 5:25 PM (#378816 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 16632


Location: The desert
The more this question is asked, the more I begin to hate all my baits.
FishingMarshall
Posted 5/17/2009 8:19 PM (#378844 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?





Posts: 219


Location: Ohio
Definitely bulldog or super d style baits. Last year was my first year musky fishing and half of my fish came on them, Including a 45" within my first two hours ever casting.

Edited by FishingMarshall 5/17/2009 8:21 PM
Dave Williamson
Posted 5/17/2009 9:46 PM (#378879 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 203


Location: Alexandria, Minnesota
Glittertails because of its versatile. 3 in one lure.
Sam Ubl
Posted 5/17/2009 9:52 PM (#378883 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?





Location: SE Wisconsin
How come no one said corn?

Just kidding, mine is probably the mainstay for many. . . I like dawgs. I'm also a sucker for blades too.
Top H2O
Posted 5/17/2009 10:04 PM (#378887 - in reply to #378883)
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Posts: 4080


Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion
A Dawg, tipped with Corn...

Jerome
mnmusky101
Posted 5/17/2009 10:36 PM (#378894 - in reply to #378803)
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Posts: 169


Location: Houlton, WI
topraider, double cow girl- want to try some creepers too
Jsondag
Posted 5/17/2009 10:41 PM (#378898 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?





Posts: 692


Location: Pelican Rapids, MN
The often imitated but never duplicated - Double Cowgirl is my favorite.

However every year, I have one Suick that's a crusher! It's usually a different / new one each year. - Here is the '08 go to Suick. 11 fish, 2 over 50".

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muskie nutt
Posted 5/17/2009 10:49 PM (#378899 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 99


Location: Hartford, Iowa
Love Dawgs or Corn Dawgs, Wades Wide Glides and Wobblers, Curly Sues, Magic Makers, Ect. Ect. Ect.....
woodieb8
Posted 5/18/2009 5:49 AM (#378913 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 1529


9 dollar bass woodie on st clair trolling
deafmuskyhunter
Posted 5/18/2009 6:43 PM (#379053 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 172


thats hard to decide to pick which is my 1 favorite lure, its like asking me what is my favorite sex postion..
but if i had to pick 1 i would pick rad dog
jasonvkop
Posted 5/18/2009 6:52 PM (#379055 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 614


Location: Michigan
Dawg/Super D and Double 10 bucktails. If I could only choose one lure to fish with it would be a dawg/super D as they are probably the most versatile bait out there.
Muskie Pat
Posted 5/18/2009 10:29 PM (#379109 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 284


Location: Fishing the weeds
Musky Innovation Bulldawg and Musky Mayhem Double Cowgirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quackaddict9
Posted 5/19/2009 1:44 AM (#379125 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 123


Location: Bemidji, MN
Too many to choose from, it will be the one when I catch my first muskie!
Tom
Posted 5/19/2009 7:19 AM (#379141 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?


SuperD swimbaits from Tackle Industries!! One of the best priced and durable rubber swimbaits I have ever used! 8 fish boated on one of my Red Tiger magnum SuperDs so far!
Tom
50"skie
Posted 5/19/2009 7:33 AM (#379144 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 425


The New jackpot- the Havana Jack
Also, Cowgirls and Shallow Invaders. The shallow invader was new to my boat last year and I did GREAT on it!!
claud_bahls
Posted 5/19/2009 3:15 PM (#379252 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 49


hell hound
Gander Mt Guide
Posted 5/19/2009 7:37 PM (#379323 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 2515


Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI
Suckers.
Landry
Posted 5/19/2009 7:57 PM (#379328 - in reply to #379323)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 1023


swim jigs and tiger tubes - cause before the jimmy nobody seriously fished this stuff. And these 2 baits just plain work. I fish the tubes when things are slow and scream the jigs when the going is good. My fishing partners laughed at them for a few hours but they usually change their tune after they have grabbed the net a few times:)
Landry
lambeau
Posted 5/19/2009 8:01 PM (#379331 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?


Weagle.
it's fun. catches big fish, too.
Tiger
Posted 5/20/2009 9:58 AM (#379462 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 221


Location: ohio
I like em all ( to bad the fish don't)
Magic8Ball
Posted 5/20/2009 10:07 AM (#379466 - in reply to #379462)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 90


Location: Ohio
I just got a Jointed Believer to try out, hope the fish like it also
greyghost
Posted 5/20/2009 3:08 PM (#379553 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 36


Location: Honor, MI
The particular one I'm using at the time! If I didn't have enough confidence in it I wouldn't waste time throwing it.
agrimm
Posted 5/20/2009 3:19 PM (#379555 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 427


Location: Wausau
My favorite lure to use is a 'Pounder' for many reasons...confidence, lateral line effect, profile, depth control, targeted fish, bait-fish resemblance, calling power, etc.
JBush
Posted 5/20/2009 5:06 PM (#379580 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 311


Location: Ontario
I remember the 'aqua-phone' findings on the Dawg Andy, and was shocked how these baits rumble down there. I threw mine more last year (one white, one black) and will do it more this year again. I'm thinking the same thing, that bait has awesome presence in the water, like you said, 'calling power.' The last couple years baits without actual rattles but major thump (13" Grandma, 10" Hooker, Plow, 13" beleiver w/no rattles) have been tops. I figure anything remotely close to the Pounder is gonna get called in and I don't see many fish nipping or following this bait, it'll be getting dusted, no questions asked. I'll watch a ten pound laker rise 45 feet under the ice to hit a three inch tube in the winter on the graph..they can feel it coming. And that's in 80 FOW, under 30 inches of ice with a foot of snow on top of that in total darkness. We see it plain as day all winter on the graph. The Pounder will call them in. Last year we had a couple good fish in heavy current in 55 degree water call in on #13's in front of huge bootails that were't shy, I'm thinking they'll hit a Pounder the same way.
Magic8Ball
Posted 5/20/2009 7:11 PM (#379607 - in reply to #379580)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 90


Location: Ohio
Bull Dawgs and Monster Shad for Mr. Muskie but my best all around Lure that has caught me the most fish is a Black & Silver Shad Rap, I have caught everything BUT a Muskie on my Black & Silver Shad Rap
Mauser
Posted 5/20/2009 10:08 PM (#379672 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 724


Location: Southern W.Va.
It's a toss up, #8 double bladed bucktail or a 8" Manta. Both have been good as a confidence bait for me.
Mauser
jimkinner
Posted 5/21/2009 9:15 PM (#379868 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 83


Giant Killer
fishpoop
Posted 5/22/2009 1:06 AM (#379907 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 656


Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
Tough call to pick just one, so I'll cheat. A Believer or Phantom. Then maybe a creeper type just for the fun of fishing them.
fishpoop
Posted 5/22/2009 1:10 AM (#379908 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 656


Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
Tough call to pick just one, so I'll cheat. A Believer or Phantom. Then maybe a creeper type just for the fun of fishing them. I like the believers because they're versitile, cast or troll them. Use them from the surface down to about 20 feet. I like phantoms because I like to work glidebaits. I like to make them dance, get the beat and rythem going, breathe some life into them. Creepers for the same reason, make them come alive as they crawl across the surface and wait for something big to eat them.

Sorry, didn't mean to double post.

Edited by fishpoop 5/22/2009 1:12 AM
Kingfisher
Posted 5/24/2009 11:00 AM (#380123 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 1106


Location: Muskegon Michigan
Well It boils down to my favorite trolling bait and favorite casting bait. I have seen the word versatile used several times here. Remember this A jack of all trades is just a jack. In my many years of Musky and Pike fishing I have found that there is not one single lure that is tops in every department. Not even close. For me the best trolling lure of all time is the 6 inch Loke hands down over any other lure ever built . I have near 400 Muskies caught on Lokes since 1996. The one pictured here took over 70 of them and its still going strong 13 years later. I built my favorite Casting lure by accident trying to make a Crankbait I developed the Little Claw Twitcher. These 4 lures pictured have taken over 200 Muskies combined. The Tan perch one has 63 to its credit and has been recoated twice. I have one fish in my entire life on a Jake, zero on a double 10, 7 fish on Bulldawgs, 2 on Believers, 3 on Grandmas(all 13 inch models) The only Bucktail I have ever done real well with is the double #8 Shumway flasher. If I had to pick one I would cheat and take two. a LITTLE CLAW AND AN OLD LOKE. Kingfisher


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Pointerpride102
Posted 5/24/2009 11:15 AM (#380126 - in reply to #378746)
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Posts: 16632


Location: The desert
Magic8Ball - 5/17/2009 8:31 AM

 How do you fish the Suick mostly? I haven't read enough on this site YET, to figure it out.

Strictly a jerk Bait?



I like to burn mine over weed beds.
shaley
Posted 5/24/2009 11:21 AM (#380127 - in reply to #380126)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?





Posts: 1184


Location: Iowa Great Lakes
Just 1 would be a Wades Wobbler, but the Glittertails may knock that to #2 this year.
Adam
Posted 5/24/2009 1:10 PM (#380134 - in reply to #378739)
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Swimming Joe!!!
thrax_johnson
Posted 5/24/2009 1:11 PM (#380135 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?





Posts: 313


Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion
Nothing better than an all black Hawg Wobbler if/when you can fish it, morning noon night. Awesome bait on Vermilion west end over the tops of shallow weeds. Works great over shallow rocks also. Gotta be patient as it is SLOW but if you know where/how to find active fish they will kill this thing. Many large 53-55 inchers caught in last 2-3 years by myself and others I know. So, can anyone help me figure out how to add a pic or two on here? Gotta downgrade my pics or something, file size always too large?

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firstsixfeet
Posted 5/25/2009 7:39 AM (#380212 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 2361


As a pure favorite, undoubtedly a Gutsch creeper, but I rarely if ever get a chance to use it.

As a clear fish producing choice in a LOT of different conditions, it would be bait X. I almost always go to bait X early in an outing if they are hard to find. I can fish bait X for the whole day and not have any doubts about bait choice. I might change out of boredom but not out of any real sense of urgency, nor the idea that I am upgrading.

Yup, give me bait X, or let me dig through Doug Johnson's tackleboxes until I find something fun!
Live2Fish
Posted 5/25/2009 8:33 PM (#380291 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?





Posts: 170


Location: Chicagoland
wow no one has said it: MEPPS! particularly the tandem giant killer
Guest
Posted 5/26/2009 10:20 AM (#380365 - in reply to #378739)
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I gotta agree with the Suick!
GMACK
Posted 5/27/2009 12:09 PM (#380611 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 41


Location: Moline,IL
Jointed Depthraiders in both sizes have put the biggest fish in the boat for me.
Fish and Whistle
Posted 5/27/2009 12:30 PM (#380617 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 462


Location: Antioch, IL
Doesn't matter what my favorite is. The fish's opinion in the one I care about.
MuskyMike51
Posted 5/27/2009 3:14 PM (#380659 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 134


The Rubber Dubber Baby... its a homemade swim bait that is a 1,000x tougher than a dawg and a fraction of the cost. During the 2007 Musky Alliance tournament in Eagle River the bait out fished any other bait used by all 1,107 contestants. The baits creator won the tournament with 5 fish boated, i took second with four, my father (and teammate) would have won if he would have had the right pole. That weekend alone the Rubber Dubber boated 14 muskies between 3 boats. Its a sweet bait. My favorite part about it is that you can rip it to shreds and glue it right back together and it still swims the same. Its nice!!
esoxaddict
Posted 5/27/2009 3:53 PM (#380673 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 8785


Two or three of anything with a lot of alcohol in it.

I like to add a teaser, in the form of paying with those using a $50 bill, and always leave a $2 tip on the bar.
nclaker
Posted 5/27/2009 10:09 PM (#380774 - in reply to #380659)
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Posts: 83


Are Rubber Dubber Lures anywhere online? Curious what they look like.
MuskyMike51
Posted 5/28/2009 8:38 AM (#380835 - in reply to #380774)
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Posts: 134


nclaker - 5/27/2009 10:09 PM

Are Rubber Dubber Lures anywhere online? Curious what they look like.

They aren't online...yet. I will take some photos of the four i just picked up. If you are interested in purchasing them i can give you the contact information of the guy that makes them. They look very similar to a bulldog, different material though. They are softer, and if they do rip, they can be easily glued and repaired to work like new. Did i mention they aren't as expensive as the bulldogs. I through the same bait for 8 fish, for they way they hit plastic, thats pretty good.
nclaker
Posted 5/28/2009 9:09 PM (#380996 - in reply to #378739)
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Posts: 83


Info would be great ... thanks MuksyMike! Would love to see the pic's.
Magic8Ball
Posted 5/28/2009 9:12 PM (#380998 - in reply to #380835)
Subject: Re: What is your one favorite bait?




Posts: 90


Location: Ohio
MuskyMike51 - 5/28/2009 9:38 AM

nclaker - 5/27/2009 10:09 PM

Are Rubber Dubber Lures anywhere online? Curious what they look like.

They aren't online...yet. I will take some photos of the four i just picked up. If you are interested in purchasing them i can give you the contact information of the guy that makes them. They look very similar to a bulldog, different material though. They are softer, and if they do rip, they can be easily glued and repaired to work like new. Did i mention they aren't as expensive as the bulldogs. I through the same bait for 8 fish, for they way they hit plastic, thats pretty good.


I am interested in purchasing info on the Rubber Dubber
musky man
Posted 5/31/2009 4:59 PM (#381456 - in reply to #378739)
Subject: RE: What is your one favorite bait?


the topraider "bullfrog" color!