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| I live in SW Pennsylvania and the closest good Musky fishing to me is probably Lake Chautauqua in New York. Does anyone out there in "Musky Nation" have some wisdom/thoughts that they could impart to me about who is making the best handmade wooden lures and if anyone has any experience in Lake Chautauqua if there are any sizes, colors, patterns etc. that they have had success with. |
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Location: Canada | The best handmade wooden lures? That's a tough one as everyone has their personal preferences, not only for lure or lure maker but also of style of lure ie. Crankbaits, topwaters, gliders or dive and rise jerkbaits. Have a look here in the basement bait makers forum for only a few of the awesome handmade wooden bait makers around, I know where I live here in Ontario, Canada there are several more that don't post here and assume that is true for all over the rest of Canada and the U.S.A. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | For topwaters Rylure makes some real nice ones. Here are a few. I have some of his dragonfly topwaters and they are a work of art!
http://bigwoodmuskylures.com/lures.php?cat=topwater&make=RyLure
Here are a few of his other baits:
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=40...
For crankbaits I really like my Talonz lures. Mike makes some real nice handmade lures. I could only dream to get my handmade Grunts to look half as good as his when I was making them myself.
http://www.fishall-lures.com/pms.html
Many more to name. Just go to the Basement board. Lots of guys there make small production runs too and are phenomenal painters and bait builders.
James
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Location: Okoboji | Are thrillers handmade.....? If so that be the one for me |
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| I'm here in nw pa and u got plenty of handmade bait right here around u. Wiley, Leo, rozzo baits to name a few. You also have plenty of nice musky waters here in west pa. But if your heading to chatauqua as I am thinking about doing for free fishing this weekend perch is always a good color and usually anything else natural. |
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| Wiley is soooo busy they won't even take an order and I can't find them for sale anywhere else. |
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| There is a baitshop in greenville pa not far from pymatuning that carries quite a bit of them. It's called R n L bait and tackle. Great little store nice people and the biggest lure selection around. I know this might be a little far for you but its an option. |
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| Hoosier Handmade musky baits are great. Don will hook you up. He offers crankbaits, gliders, and topwater styles in some awsome colors. Look him up at hoosierhandmademuskybaits.com |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | American HardWood Lures AHL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| mark - 6/21/2011 4:04 AM
Hoosier Handmade musky baits are great. Don will hook you up. He offers crankbaits, gliders, and topwater styles in some awsome colors. Look him up at hoosierhandmademuskybaits.com
Ditto!!!! awesome baits...I have 8 of his gliders and I would not trade them for anything
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Location: oswego, il | Good mentions above. I will add H2o Tackle in the mix, Roger makes some incredible stuff. |
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| Have to throw Greg Nimmer into the mix. All lures are carved by hand. Works of art that catch fish! |
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| Mark Rottier's (Iron River, MI) Cabbage Ghost jerk baits would get my vote. All hand made/painted and work great in the weeds. Small batches for friends up until now, but they should be available in the next couple of weeks on the Badwater Baits website. |
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Location: 31 | Lots of good manufacturers out there! For top waters, my vote is American Hardwood. I have a bunch of the AHL top waters I'm looking to sell pretty reasonable... even a couple triple jointed wobblers like the one pictured above. Globes and lots of tail baits too. PM if interested.
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Location: Michigan | Another vote for H2O tackle and also check out Fish-all/Talonz lures made by Mike and Michelle King
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Hoosiers |
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Location: Beaver County, Pennsylvania | go with a leo shayla shad or a leo jerkbait......i know for a fact todd crushes big fish there with those 2 baits all of the time. |
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Location: northern indiana | thewal2 - 6/21/2011 7:08 AM
mark - 6/21/2011 4:04 AM
Hoosier Handmade musky baits are great. Don will hook you up. He offers crankbaits, gliders, and topwater styles in some awsome colors. Look him up at hoosierhandmademuskybaits.com
Ditto!!!! awesome baits...I have 8 of his gliders and I would not trade them for anything
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| Without a doubt- All Trueglides. All made with cedar and Joe makes and paints them all by hand.
There is a reason they sell out in the first hour of every show and you still cannot find them for sale second hand.
Really unique styles too. They are pricey and I think he is taking "break" from making lures,but worth it if you can find them.
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Location: syracuse indiana | the one and only hoosier handmade baits, don just plain rocks them out.. i have way too many and i love them all , heck i just bought the same one twice just so no one else can have it. its a newer style of don's and i really love this one and he is making me another one just like it....bill
click the you tube vid's on don's baits
http://youtu.be/zwU8ITpwnu0
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| zach baker makes some outstanding shad style cranks. They are dinamite on chautaqua. |
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| Nimmer Swimmers are pretty dang cool. I bought a huge jointed NS at a bar in the Yoop. His baits were hanging up above the booze. They said he came thru now and then to collect his money and hang more baits. My dad has it now.
Can't leave without mentioning the Timberwolf and HHMB. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The Coot. That thing rocks. You'll see.... |
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| just wanted to say Don at Hoosier handmade is the man. very quick service. custom made and painted me 4 bait and even though his airbrush broke still did them in 3 weeks. I have dealt with many (most) bait makers out there and Don service is the best i have ever came across. |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Musky Wisdom Seeker - 6/20/2011 6:46 PM
I live in SW Pennsylvania and the closest good Musky fishing to me is probably Lake Chautauqua in New York. Does anyone out there in "Musky Nation" have some wisdom/thoughts that they could impart to me about who is making the best handmade wooden lures and if anyone has any experience in Lake Chautauqua if there are any sizes, colors, patterns etc. that they have had success with.
Chautauqua offers some great fishing,mostly trolling due to lake structure,but casting is decent as well.Weeds are treated every year due to there abundance.I fished that lake every summer when i was a kid,but dad was never "in" to the casting perspective of fishing,so the worm/bobber thing was pretty much my only option,but i knew what was in the lake to be caught.I finally went back last summer and rented a very small boat for two days and caught one,and lost two fish trolling.Was never really able to cast due to no trolling motor and casting platform.Anyway,i believe natural colors and black work the best on Chautauqua and fish will be deep through the summer months (20-30ft) following schools of perch.
As far as best handmade wooden baits,bunch of good ones out there,but my fav is a wood soft-tailed Phantom anyday.. |
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Location: Germantown, WI | Seeker,
I'd recommend stopping by the Fish Education Center in Fombell, PA. Howard Wagner has a great selection of lures. He also guides for musky. He carries all the big name baits as well as most of the locally made lures from the Ellwood City area as well as West Virginia. Howard keeps kind of strange hours at the shop so it is best to call before you head out there 724-452-4464. It's located on Rte 288 between Zelienople and Ellwood City. You'll get your fill of handmade wood baits there. I have had good success with Wiley Lures over the years. Howard usually has a bunch in stock as well as Leos and others.
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| Guys I like to deal with the most are H2O Tackle, Big Game, Innovative Tackle Solutions, Pearson Plugs, and Zach Baker. All of them do great paint and make baits to cover any situation you want. That's one thing I really like about musky baits. |
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| Thanks guys! I got really tired of trying to self promote so I haven't been showing off my plugs lately. I am letting the plugs speak for themselves and have been busier than ever, imagine that? Thanks for supporting hard working guys making baits right here in the good old USA.
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| At the last tourney we had with 150 fisherman, my baits (Baker's) caught a total of 30% of the fish. That number is higher than Wiley's, Perchbaits and Tuffs combined so people are starting to take notice. The Happy Hooker Baitshop on Chautauqua just got another 70 in stock and immediately placed an order for more and told me to get them coming quickly, they said its the only bait they can't keep on the shelves. I am doing a run of Baker Butt-Shakers (rubber tailed ones) and a new color we are calling the Happy Hooker for them. Its a reverse pink perch that looks promising and will be known as the Happy Hooker color. If you want, stop in the store and check them out. Lots of guys make good baits but these baits are catching fish in WI, MI, Ill, OH, PA, LSC and NY. I have some 50" fish photos to prove it! Since you fish the same lake as me- you might want to check them out as they were tested and tweeked on Chautauqua! What makes them different than all the other shad style baits? Horizontally keel weighted (I think I am the only one doing that), square lip for better action, heavy clear coats and the best hardware I can get. I am 100's of baits behind and still have PM's from months ago I haven't opened b/c I can't keep up so stopping into the store is your best bet to get one. Good luck fishing and maybe I'll see you out there! |
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Location: Michigan | In no particular order, and just to name a few...
Cedar Creek(formerly Fishall - Talonz)
Muskie Solutions
Wiley's
Ziggie's
Mojo Wabulls
Lee Lures
Old Sennett Wood Pace Makers
Newman
Pearson Plugs
AHL
Hoosier Handmade
True glide
Super Natural
Big Game
Hughes River (older ones)
Phantom's
Ry-lures
Muskie Magnets
Franky Baits
Old Bikini Bait Company
Old Loke's (RIP...) |
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| MuskieTrain
Musky Magnets
Baker baits
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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wiley
leo
muskellunch |
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Location: VA | Jack Cobb
Smuttly Dog
Amma Bama
Hoosier Handmade
Pearson Plugs
Greg Nimmer
And Local Basement Builders |
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Location: Québec, Canada | hi everibody
Here are some photos of lures that I make
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.147637185281087.28289.143361499041989
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Location: nappanee IN | nobody likes the widowmaker lures that ray hensley used to make?
i've got 3 , a sidewindewer, deadhead, and a t-bone . all in the "magic" color. was dumb and sold all my others. |
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