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| I'm fully aware of the continued trend towards the larger lures - problem is, they just tire me out!
Anybody still fishing - or care to comment on the sucess of smaller bucktails - eg; the Mepps Musky Killers 3/8 oz, Mepps Giant Killers 1 1/4 oz. - heck - even a Mepps #5.
I'm just curious if these lures have just gone "out of style" and just not used much or if they have been replaced by more effective lures.
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Location: MN | pryan0225 - 1/13/2012 11:34 AM
I'm fully aware of the continued trend towards the larger lures - problem is, they just tire me out!
Anybody still fishing - or care to comment on the sucess of smaller bucktails - eg; the Mepps Musky Killers 3/8 oz, Mepps Giant Killers 1 1/4 oz. - heck - even a Mepps #5.
I'm just curious if these lures have just gone "out of style" and just not used much or if they have been replaced by more effective lures.
Pat
Brookfield, WI
Definitely, small bucktails still are and always will be great lures. I spend almost all of my season on "big fish" water and from June through early October always keep a Plano in the boat loaded with small bucktails, the ones you mentioned will work great. |
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| whats old is new. the smaller lures have always caught fish and still do. i think guys get caught up with chasing the latest greatest lure that they sometimes forget about the old tried and true lures. and the guys that throw the old stand byes still rip it up with them. |
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Location: South-Central PA | I throw small crankbaits almost exclusively on my home waters. Small meaning 5-6". No issues for me.
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Location: Eagan, MN | My biggest fish last year came on a standard sized harrasser. Also did ok on the smaller big game twitchbaits but they get beat up too easily for me. |
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| How can a lure "go out of style"? It either works or it doesn't. The traditional wisdom is to throw small lures in the spring to early summer season. Is it not? Surely the regular Musky Killer and Giant Killer are not too small for the early season. A Giant Killer with a tandem tail probably isn't too small for the entire bucktail season. I would use a regular Musky Killer in spring; and switch to the Magnum Musky Killer at summer. |
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| small lures work throughout summer as well, especially on pressured waters. burning regular mepps musky killers on the inside weedline accounted for many muskies this summer on lakes where people are pounding the deep weedlines with double 10's 24/7. |
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Location: Ontario | Remember what size bait those fish in the 60" range from the St.Lawrence last month were caught on. |
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| ....and what size was that?
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Location: Ontario | 37in with tail extended. |
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| JBush - 1/14/2012 4:39 PM
Remember what size bait those fish in the 60" range from the St.Lawrence last month were caught on.
They where caught on ten inch baits, thats small? |
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Location: Ontario | Umm, yes, yes it is. (If you fish lakes measured in acres and call the newspaper when you crack 40in then ten icnh lures probably will seem outrageously big to you.)
Beleivers come up to 13in...Frankies, Plows, BWBs, Wishmasters etc etc etc. Most guys assume biggest fish are going to be caught on the out-sized/ custom baits 13-20in. Year in and year out small lures 8-10in are the winners. Ten inches seems to be the sweet spot year in and year out. Given that we're talking about sixty pound fish, ten inch lures are miniscule if you ask me, and well below the size most guys assume is needed and probably using. There are areas and times where out-sized stuff is the better option but on average those eight-ten inch lures are in like a dirty shirt way more frequently. Talk to guys like Thorpe, Clark, Collins, Mills, Bristow etc and ask for their big fish numbers running oversized stuff vs 8-10in small stuff. I can think of five fish off the top of my head from this past season over 55 all caught on small baits. Can't think of any taken on baits in the 12in+ range. *The stretched out tail on a bulldawg casting isn't what I'm talking about here either lol.* |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Well, one of the baits that showed me the most fish last year were double 3's. I made them for bass fishing and muskies were coming out of the woodwork.
Remember, just because everyone's throwing something new it doesn't mean that the stuff you threw last year doesn't work anymore. In fact, there's a lot of "old" baits that are "new" in the eyes of a lot of muskies out there since nobody throws them anymore. Just saying. |
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