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Location: Cedar Falls, IA | I think I'm set guys (been buying baits).... had a little to much fun... but once you have the baits, you have them.  Suggestions for any other baits or colors? thanks!
Picked up some here, Ebay, and from Muskietackle...
Suicks (10" black, 10" black w/white belly, 8" perch)
Believers (7" Jailbird, 8" Jailbird... got'em cheap on Ebay thus the 2)
8" twitch'n minnow Hi Fin (orange/black)
Drifter Stalker 6 1/2" Mud Puppy Pattern (COOL looking, hope it works)
Mason Madison Muskie Killer Green Perch
Reaction Strike fat Boy Perch
Drifter Stalker 6 1/2 Silver Carp
Bucher Top Raider - Blackbird, Stink Pickle and Firetiger
Weagle - Cash and Jailbird w/red head
ERC Persons Grinder spinner White/Chartreuse
Back to fishing after about a 10 year layoff... Mainly fish for bass and pike... will start fishing a few Muskie lakes now too. I've got a bunch of other tackle already, just needed a reason to get a few more things. 
Thanks guys! Looking forward to catchin my first Muskie shortly... had my first follow last week. The ONE time I didn't do the little figure 8 thingy... I pulled the bait straight up out of the water and saw and heard a big WHOOOSH as he/she left my boat side.... sigh... live and learn. Man, I'm already hooked! | |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Assume you already have a proper net and proper release tools..... I would add some mag dawgs and double 10's to the list... | |
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Location: Cedar Falls, IA | Yep... I have all the other stuff, I just need to catch a Muskie. Thanks for the heads up though... good stuff. I have a net that would work, but a new larger net is on the list before my next trip to the lake this week. Thanks!! | |
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Location: Storm Lake, IA | what lakes are you fishing? | |
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| Don't get too buried in buying a million lures. You'll wind up using half of them, and catching fish on 10% of the half you use. Best bet starting out is what I wish I would have done:
- walk the dog
- tail prop
- suick
- glider
- soft plastic
- double 10 bucktail
- double 8 bucktail
- spinnerbait
- grandma
- depth raider
one each, all black. Learn to be proficient with 10 lures. Learn what they do and how. Learn when and where to use them, figure out how to trigger fish with them, and start to develop your own style. THEN you can go stupid and buy gobs and gobs of stuff, because you will be buying it for a reason - for situations you have encountered, places you fish, areas where you have seen and caught fish. You will slowly learn the oddities of the waters you fish, like what colors seem to produce and what colors do not, what lures are effective at different times of the year. The actual brand and color of lure is not as important as we all like to think. Some lures work wonders for some people, and others work wonders for other people. It all comes down to what you actually do with the lure and how that makes the difference. I have a friend who catches fish consistently on Burts, for example. I've got half a dozen others who couldn't buy a fish on one to save their lives. It's whatever he does with them that is key. In the hands of someone else? Just not effective. Until you develop your style, and have the time on the water under your belt to really make each lure effective? More lures just creates more uncertainty.
I think I can speak for everyone here in saying that about 1 in 20 lures I've ever bought in my life have actually turned out to be consistent producers.
Nobody wants to hear that. I sure didn't. But if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved thousands of dollars that is now sitting in my basement and doesn't even go along on trips. | |
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| Double Showgirls
6" Phantoms
Reg/Mag Bulldawgs | |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | You don't "need" anything else...just put on that black suick and don't take it off until ice up!
Spend your cash on a big net and beer...
Matt | |
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| anything from tackleindustries
http://www.tackleindustries.com
awsome prices and great customer service. love the rod too! | |
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Location: Cedar Falls, IA | Doonan - 10/18/2011 8:27 AM
what lakes are you fishing?
Hey Doonan... I'm about 90 minuts from Bushy & Clear Lake... about 45 minuts from Pleasant. | |
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Location: Cedar Falls, IA | esoxaddict - 10/18/2011 12:22 PM
Don't get too buried in buying a million lures. You'll wind up using half of them, and catching fish on 10% of the half you use. Best bet starting out is what I wish I would have done:
- walk the dog
- tail prop
- suick
- glider
- soft plastic
- double 10 bucktail
- double 8 bucktail
- spinnerbait
- grandma
- depth raider
one each, all black. Learn to be proficient with 10 lures. Learn what they do and how. Learn when and where to use them, figure out how to trigger fish with them, and start to develop your own style. THEN you can go stupid and buy gobs and gobs of stuff, because you will be buying it for a reason - for situations you have encountered, places you fish, areas where you have seen and caught fish. You will slowly learn the oddities of the waters you fish, like what colors seem to produce and what colors do not, what lures are effective at different times of the year. The actual brand and color of lure is not as important as we all like to think. Some lures work wonders for some people, and others work wonders for other people. It all comes down to what you actually do with the lure and how that makes the difference. I have a friend who catches fish consistently on Burts, for example. I've got half a dozen others who couldn't buy a fish on one to save their lives. It's whatever he does with them that is key. In the hands of someone else? Just not effective. Until you develop your style, and have the time on the water under your belt to really make each lure effective? More lures just creates more uncertainty.
I think I can speak for everyone here in saying that about 1 in 20 lures I've ever bought in my life have actually turned out to be consistent producers.
Nobody wants to hear that. I sure didn't. But if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved thousands of dollars that is now sitting in my basement and doesn't even go along on trips.
Great stuff Esox! This is what I tried to do... EASY to get carried away. I'm pretty much done... but I did hear that regarding black. Some of the stuff I got dirt cheap new from a seller on Ebay. So when things come, I'll re-evaluate and unload any of the extras that I don't think I'll use or need cheap to someone here or flip somewhere else. I won't do a ton of Muskie fishing but I'll be doing some. Thank you!! | |
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| A hell hound is never a bad one to have in the mix | |
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Location: Eagan, MN | MD75 - 10/18/2011 6:42 PM
You don't "need" anything else...just put on that black suick and don't take it off until ice up!
Spend your cash on a big net and beer...
Matt
Between this and Esox's post you have some really good advice. Most guys start out with a just few lures, then buy a lot of lures, and then once they become proficient at catching muskies go back to using just a few lures. | |
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| Keep in mind that different styles of lures of the same type of lures work better than others in certain situations.
For example, I can work a Phantom really fast and erratic, but I can't reproduce that action with a Hellhound. Both catch fish, but I have much more success with Phantoms because I can work them the way I want them to. For myself, Hellhounds are much better worked slower and more rhythmically. Just about any lure type has this same scenario. For example, Musky Mayhem skirts have a flare, while skirts on other bucktails get drug behind and don't do much.
When you're just starting out experiment what types of lures (glidebaits, dive/rise jerkbaits, bucktails, twitch baits, plastics, et cetera) work best for you. When you find a couple styles that produce, then get a variety of other sizes and brands. When it comes down to it, I could fish ice out to ice in with less than a dozen lures. But there are lures that haven't seen the water in years, and this was only my fifth real season. Majority of my lures just come to the lake to keep the ones I actually use company. | |
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| If you have deep water where you are at, musky will use it sooner or later. You probably want a Bondy for that. | |
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Newbie... here are the baits I picked up... suggestions for anything else? & my first sighting :)