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| i like to fish with a suick and i catch a lot of fish on it.
i also fish with bobbie baits , i never catch any fish on them .How do the work.
please help me mic
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Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | I fish mine the same way I fish my Suicks and do pretty good on them. I will say though all mine are weighted except one which I find way too bouyant and use very rairly except over very shallow water or high weeds.
Good Fishin'
Tim
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| I have about 10 and all are weighted I find them very hard to keep them under water with out 3/4 oz of weight. I also do good with them and fish them like a suick. | |
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| If you're not having any success using them like a suick, try short, sharp reel-turns. This will get them to work in a walk-the-dog motion and give them some added flash. If you have an unweighted version, try putting a small sinker on the front hook, though I've had success with both models. It all depends on what structure you're fishing and what time of year too. | |
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Location: syracuse indiana | i use a alot of them, just use them like a downward pull like you do the suicks. i custom weight alot of mine and have done all kinds of tricks to them. to make them different than others. also quick snaps of the rod and some rear blade tunning you can get them to do alot from walking to gliding , even just cresting the surface like a topwater..
also you should cut the older boobies hooks off them and put new ones on with split rings and "T the hooks, that will greatly up the percentages on that bait for hooking fish....bill | |
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| like a bulldawg, there's no wrong way to work 'em. long pulls, short snaps, reel em' like a crankbait, it's all good! i prefer bobbies over suicks because the tail makes them more versatile. they'll walk the dog like a suick, but can wobble like a crankbait, and that a suick can't do. i own about 30 of them, some weighted and some not- all just tools for a certain job... keep throwing them, you'll get bit! | |
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| Watch Dick Pearson's Muskies on the Shield, and in the scene titled "Prism Bobbie", you'll see how you fish a Bobbie. As well as, how to flinch like a pansy while operating a camera. 
The biggest thing with wooden jerk baits, whether they are Bobbies, Suicks, Wades Wobblers, ect., ect. is often the weight and balance of that weight. You can improve, and destroy, the action of wood lures like these by adding weight at different locations on the bait body. Often times, when you get specific wood jerk bait that doesn't run right or at least how you'd like it to, adding weight can change that. One of the In-fisherman videos, I can't remember which one right off the top of my head, goes into detail about weighting baits to create a particular action. Each bait is fairly unique and very often the action you must impart on each bait is also unique to some degree, especially if you want a Bobbie to run like a Suick and vice-versa. You can’t jerk a bobbie as you do a suick and expect the same result, because they aren’t built the same. It comes down to a question of what you want it to do, because there is more than one way to skin a cat. Otherwise, "if it moves it is food", so just keep chucking it and hope for the best.
Ryan
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Location: syracuse indiana | wizard is right. i have well over 60 musky movies and that fish is the best shot ever in my book. makes my heart pound like the fish that did that to me on a prism phantom that i still have and throw.. not the same bait but the same color. | |
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| I know in the right hands suicks and bobbies are deadly I just can't seem to get it. I was watching an old Linder musky show where Don P was working a suick with the rod close to his side, butt of his rod under is arm, hand on the rods foregrip with the rod pointing down he would give the rod a short pull down about a foot or so and immediately bring the rod back up and then down again almost in a shaking motion all a while realing in, then so far back he would pause it. That is about what the instructions on the package says to do, except Mr. Pursch had a unique style. I talied forth this season determined to catch a muskie on a suick, I wasn't going to take that bait off until I did, I worked with it and worked with it, I had that suick looking sweet, except.....After two 50's and couple of mid 40's from my partner fishing behind me with DC's I could'nt take it no more and put on my trusty weagle (cady version) and slammed a 49" to save the trip. I can raise fish on suicks, some of the biggest fish I have seen on the lake I fish have followed in suicks, I just can't seem to trigger em'. | |
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| KevinG - 8/25/2010 12:25 AM
I know in the right hands suicks and bobbies are deadly I just can't seem to get it. I was watching an old Linder musky show where Don P was working a suick with the rod close to his side, butt of his rod under is arm, hand on the rods foregrip with the rod pointing down he would give the rod a short pull down about a foot or so and immediately bring the rod back up and then down again almost in a shaking motion all a while realing in, then so far back he would pause it. That is about what the instructions on the package says to do, except Mr. Pursch had a unique style. I talied forth this season determined to catch a muskie on a suick, I wasn't going to take that bait off until I did, I worked with it and worked with it, I had that suick looking sweet, except.....After two 50's and couple of mid 40's from my partner fishing behind me with DC's I could'nt take it no more and put on my trusty weagle (cady version) and slammed a 49" to save the trip. I can raise fish on suicks, some of the biggest fish I have seen on the lake I fish have followed in suicks, I just can't seem to trigger em'.
Kevin,
Its funny how two people can go out and fish and come the exact opposite thinking. I'm pretty new to muskies, but half and the 'skis I have in the boat came on Suicks, and I hardly ever get followers on Suicks the way I have gotten on cranks. Seems like the vast majority of my Suick hits have been away from the boat, whereas most of my catches with crank baits have been follows that hit at the boat or on the fig 8! There's no telling why I guess. Possibly just a difference in what the fish like in a particular lake, or maybe just what feels like a natural way to work a bait to one person another doesn't like? I guess it all comes down to figuring out what works for you and do that.
I generally fish stained water, I wonder if that could be part of it? I don't have much luck with Suicks the times I have fished them in clear water.
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| One nice thing about the unweighted bobarinos, is rooting fish out of fairly thick weeds or very dark shallow water, but bumping surface now and again and slamming through the cover leaving a bubble trail. A well worked bobbie can be deadly in thick cover, but is painstaking to use at times. Also a great 'in your face' lure that doesn't neccessarily have the hang time of a suick, but doesn't travel as far horizontally between pulls. Just another way to skin the ole kitty. | |
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| I am on a clear water system and me and my partner has discussed this issue of catch rate in the past. I am also on a system which has been historically known for good muskie fishing for many many years and with this I often feel the muskies in the system are conditioned to certain techniquies. I hear about pressured muskies and the difficulties that can arise, but these fish seemed to be plain educated, they don't see many baits anymore, but they have been down that road before. Seriously speaking though, in reality the fish in our system are just tuned in the certain patterns. The musky fishermans mentallity in our area goes back to the old concept of run and gun with bucktails keep moving all a while looking for active fish, so bucktails are the predominent bait being used and rightfully so. When I try to break from this method I generally fail, usually just chalking it up to muskies love bucktails, on this system anyway. Our go to jerkbait is the reef hawg. Doesn't seem to matter as wether it is the small or large one but the fish will eat'em with no problem and generally you will not get follows. Also I am not picking on the suick, we have many other baits such as the manta, hughes river, cobbs ect.. in which the fish act very simular. Problaby operator error with a twisted observation. | |
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Location: Denmark | Makintrax73 - 8/25/2010 9:51 AM
Kevin,
Its funny how two people can go out and fish and come the exact opposite thinking. I'm pretty new to muskies, but half and the 'skis I have in the boat came on Suicks, and I hardly ever get followers on Suicks the way I have gotten on cranks. Seems like the vast majority of my Suick hits have been away from the boat, whereas most of my catches with crank baits have been follows that hit at the boat or on the fig 8! There's no telling why I guess. Possibly just a difference in what the fish like in a particular lake, or maybe just what feels like a natural way to work a bait to one person another doesn't like? I guess it all comes down to figuring out what works for you and do that.
I generally fish stained water, I wonder if that could be part of it? I don't have much luck with Suicks the times I have fished them in clear water.
Hi,
I have fished Suicks in clear water for pikes, and have observed that I am more likely to get immediate clean strikes on Suicks, than with gliders. Actually I have only once had a follower(as far as I know) on a Suick.
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