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| With the WI opener quickly approaching im wondering what is going to be the first bait to fly for you? Im thinking a slippery sam  |
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| The original Baby Perch Squirko |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | 4" [custom] Phantom Softail |
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| Top Raider or Rad dog |
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| 4" squirrley ss shad |
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| homemade bucktails
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Location: New Hope MN | leech lake strain - 4/28/2011 9:10 PM
homemade bucktails
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| Sewer lure baby! |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Shoosh! Craig! |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Baby squirko or gonna try one of those muskie train cranks and twich away...
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Location: Sycamore, IL | sucker |
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| undertaker, steady pace of slight pulls will get them to go |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | my lucky Reef Hawg, soaked over night
Edited by Sam Ubl 4/29/2011 9:36 AM
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| Muskie Train Diesel.
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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| pounder ..... lol MD I'd go twitch bait, but then again I always go twitch bait. |
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Location: Birchwood, WI. | REEF HAWG !! Sam Abl, When your Hawgs start taking in water dip them in clear coat to seal them up. Now they will be consistent for you & will protect the bait from cracking & rotting out
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 9" Suick. |
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| jerken jimi - 4/30/2011 7:37 AM
REEF HAWG !! Sam Abl, When your Hawgs start taking in water dip them in clear coat to seal them up. Now they will be consistent for you & will protect the bait from cracking & rotting out
From what I always understood on here people like when they crack and getting water logged. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | A Slammer Drop belly glider in a custom bluegill pattern. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Shallow Raider & a Sucker. And it worked! Bagged 2. |
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| My trusty TopRaider that's put produced on the opener at least 4 years in a row. |
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| Light brown Coot!! got one this past musky show and have just been dreaming of throwing it!
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| the way the temp is here in Minn probably a swedish pimple |
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Location: Germantown, WI | It will be between a Chaos Tackle Mini Medussa and a 6" Jake. |
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Location: Madison WI | Since I will start the season at 12:01 am on Saturday weather permitting I will most likely being throwing a topwater, have it narrowed down to whopper plopper or big mama. |
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| top raider, then probably mepps musky killer or mini d, probably throw a dbl 8 in there somewhere |
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Location: N.FIB | trap,or a glider,or a mini dawg or dussa,not sure |
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| Crane Bait workrd over some shallow green weeds near spawning areas. Works for every early season trip. |
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| I will be starting off with a small WTD glider. Most likley a Manta or softtail Phantom. I will however be throwing a top water bait at some point. I have never hooked up with a musky on topwater, and I know I am less of a man because of this. I would like to resolve this in 2011. I missed a pig while fishing with Ty Sennet last fall, something he continues to remind me about.
Best of luck to everyone!
David
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Location: Contrarian Island | lindy rig and a redtail chub....going north for eyes.... |
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Location: S.Wisconsin | For the wisconsin opener I think I will take my first cast with a shhhhhhh flaptail. From there rabid squirrel spinnerbait and probly one of my gliders with a 7" big game thrown in for good measure. Have a safe one and let's see some pics. Oh by the way maybe I will stick one in IL tonight on one of my gliders |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | little one - 5/3/2011 10:31 AM For the wisconsin opener I think I will take my first cast with a shhhhhhh flaptail. From there rabid squirrel spinnerbait and probly one of my gliders with a 7" big game thrown in for good measure. Have a safe one and let's see some pics. Oh by the way maybe I will stick one in IL tonight on one of my gliders Good luck, Matt!! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Suckers and Baby Squirkos. |
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| Mike -
Could you teach me something?
How do you work a Squirko?
Thanks,
David |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | judging by the weather today....a sucker, yikes
( 55 degrees right now in Dryden, 39 in Pewaukee....really?!?!)
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Location: Seymour, WI | Mepps #5, shallow raider, suick. |
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| I’ll be throwing a walleye MDR Chopper and a jointed perch Molly Bait. My GF will be throwing a double #6 gold bladed marabou “perch” flavour and then a black, purple and yellow one that she made over the winter. |
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Location: WESTERN WI | Tylers Basement Creations Crabkbait 7" |
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Location: Uxbridge Ontario | sworrall - 4/29/2011 11:19 PM
9" Suick.
Me too... Perch pattern, weighted |
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Location: sun prairie,wi | 4.5" timberwolfs and 7" twitchbaits....and acouple prototype twitchbaits
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Does depend on if we stop shoveling snow out of the boat by then, but...this year I have so many good "spring offerings" earmarked I am culling to see what not only gets a boat ride by what even goes into the tow vehicle! Several new twitchbaits from Tylersbasement creations, a couple small gliders, one is a timberwolf from Tyler also. Roger from H2O sent a "ripper 7" version" that is prelim testing really looks great in the water. I don't even want to start on some of the topwater baits. I have a couple home made WAKE baits too that show allot of promise. Several modified suicks & reef hawgs, and yes finally I have all my reef hawgs rated by depth level and ID'd!!! Hey it only took me 30 years to get that done!! |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | After going through my tackle last night and separating my early-season baits, I don't have a whole lot of stuff for early season use but I'm confident in what I do have - and I guess that's all that matters, right?
I've got a few solid Mepps Musky Killer bucktails.
And if I really want to downsize, I've got a few Mepps #5.
Also, have a few 3/4oz. and 1oz. spinnerbaits.
I've got new the custom Bluegill jerkbait thanks to Matt!
I've got the all-new 4" Phantom softail jerkbait.
I've got the new Timberwolf softail jerkbait/glider and a new custom 6" Timberwolf glider thanks to Tyler!
And that's basically all I'm bringing with me. I'm not even bringing my big soft-sided Flambeau tackle box because more than half of it, I ain't even throwin' this weekend.
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Location: Oshkosh | I will also be using a 9 in Suick for my first bait of the year.
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| WI Skis - 5/6/2011 6:53 PM
I will also be using a 9 in Suick for my first bait of the year.
Peter
Thats what you think Might beat you to it! |
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Location: Oshkosh | Already on the rod from tuning today..........
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | Hawg Wobbler if conditions allow. If conditions aren't right could be any number of new baits I'd like to gain confidence with right away this season! |
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Location: S.Wisconsin | Good luck Scott. Hope you stick a big fatty on the bluegill |
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Location: Canada | Still not sure where my partner and I are headed for opener in a few weeks. Hopefully somewhere that we can predominantly cast instead of troll as I have a bunch of gliders I want to throw, mainly Modivators and one from YG Lures. |
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Location: north metro, MN | 6 inch jakes, top water and the small jimmy up on vermillion |
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Location: Shawano, WI | phantom softail, walleye and/or canadian crush, perch baby shallowraider, mepps MK prolly white, def some gliders, jerks, cattails spinnerbait, rabid squirrel, maybe some small crane twitch baits??? Who knows??? see what happens when the time comes
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Location: St. Lawrence River | rad dog spinnerbait, weagle, topraider |
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Location: Shawano, WI | happy hooker - 5/2/2011 12:12 PM
the way the temp is here in Minn probably a swedish pimple
BAHAHA you got that right |
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Location: Plymouth, MN | ditto - homemade bucktails |
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Location: Contrarian Island | hit the water for ski's last nite for the 1st time this season...the musky gods were good to us w 3 in the bag...1st bait of the season was a custom sq. twitch bait that nabbed a 40.5"er in the 8 |
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First bait of the season