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Location: On Lake St Clair Michigan | There is an area that has some weeds that run the completely to the surface. So what are your guys favs for weedly areas?
Thanks Guys
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| Pearsons Grinder.... you can pull them through anything, and fish like em.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Johnsons Silver minnow (Gold color) with a 4" grub trailer.
You can pull this thing thu the thickest slop and still cach a muskie or two,........ If ,....you can keep the Pike and Bass off of it.. A really good "Slop" lure.
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Location: Gilberts IL/Rhinelander WI | Bucher Slopmaster. Add a trailer hook and a Mogombo grub. Comes through nearly weedless. A quick jerk ,and the weeds just fall off. |
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Location: syracuse indiana | plus with the slopmaster you can use it weedless by just tying to it without a leader.. unless you use a florocarbon and a bloodknot...bill
Edited by archerynut36 6/13/2009 8:31 PM
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| What kind of weeds are we talking here Rich?
The Rad Dog by Ruff Tackle is about the most weedless spinnerbait I have used. If this is thick millfoil right up to the surface, you might try a giant slugo with the hook still buried under the pastic. A lot of ways to rig tubes as well. I like the Red October tubes the best.
Edited by kyle@bigwoodmuskylur 6/13/2009 8:38 PM
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Location: On Lake St Clair Michigan | I tried the slugo and it was ok but I think either way there are going to be weeds getting caught on the hook or at the front of the lure. The slugo seemed the best since I could just run it on the surface in the thick areas. |
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| we have a good august shallow weed pattern at our favorite lake. Tried sluggos - fish like em - they hook fish very poorly. Nothing works better for us than swim jigs with shad/thumper type bodies - muskies love em. Nobody fishes them:) They are cheap! Fish them like bucktails. |
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Location: On Lake St Clair Michigan | Actually I was just looking at some today but they seemed small. |
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Location: north west wisconsin | there is a bass bait called a moss boss, I have a couple in musky size but they are extremely hard for ME to work,
it's a top water bait that takes short taps on the rod tip in rhythm, as long as the bait lands the right way (which it does 95% of the time) you can go threw ANYTHING completely weedless, if it lands upside down on the other hand, well you might need a winch to get it in depending on the slop your in, only downfall is it has a single hook so lower hooking %'s
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Location: In a shack in the woods | I have some sizmic 9" toads. They are just like the bass ones just supersized. I've made a couple casts but it's not weed season here yet. They are like $9 or $10 for 2 frogs and one hook. |
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| ditto on the pearson
great fro grinding the weeds |
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Location: SW MI | Anyone tried the Slither by Musky Innovations? It looks like it'd be great for working the thick crap. |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Some baits like Berkley's Hollow Belly Swimbaits have taken over the bass fishing world as of late. Get a similar bait in a bigger size like those made by Hippo Tackle and these can go through some very thick cover when rigged weedless. I haven't tried them myself. But I've talked to some guys that have been doing very well with these when rigged this way.
Whether it's fishing in thick weeds, open water, or anything in between, there's a lot we can learn by paying attention to what people targeting other species are doing.
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Location: Tinley Park. Fish Cen IL. Bass & Vilas Cty.Muskie | Heyyy, Keep dem eyes in your own boat. hehe |
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| I love a 9inch unweighted suick. Tune it so its very erattic on the dive and just give it short small taps and let it float back up. When you jerk it back under it makes a sweet sploosh.
Edited by Muskerboy 6/15/2009 9:24 AM
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| Scugog weedbeater by Mad Maddy Musky-giant weedless jig. |
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Location: MN | Grinders
CJ Spinnerbaits
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| Try a Renagade frog they have worked every place I have used them. Best part is they are almost industructable. May be a bit hard to find but they will run through anything! |
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| Surprised no one has said jig/trailer. JMAC, Jig-A-Beast, Stick 'Em, Bait Rigs, etc. |
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| i did. they rock! |
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| is there a difference between the odyssey sloppy pig and the renegade frog? |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | +1 for Pearsons Grinder. Probably one of my most favorite go-to musky spinnerbaits. |
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Best Lure for thick weeds?