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| Looking at one of the videos on the slate today, I was caused to wonder what if any success folks have had with the clown color pattern. When I was just starting out on my lure collection, I purchased an 8" Jake in clown and not long thereafter had a mid-summer fish hit it on a fast troll. (Of course I lost the fish, although it did look sort of neat leaping out of the water in an arc.) Since that summer, I haven't resorted to the clown much. What about others?
Does the clown work at all on Northern Pike? |
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| Clown is a great color. Many fish have come on clown for me, including my biggest to date, and another even bigger that was water released. Bait was a Baby Shallow Raider trolled about a foot from the kicker prop.
Here's a link to that fish. No pics on the work laptop.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=46...
Edited by Shep 1/26/2012 8:29 AM
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Works well when water is muddy from rains and running the colour of choclate milk |
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Location: Money, PA | Certainly a classic pattern that can take on so many variations too. I just think the base color "yellow" is an all around great color in regards to toothy critters.
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| I've had some success on that color in muddy, stained, or pea-soup green water. Clear water? Not so much. But then I tend not to throw bright colors in clear water, so that could be why. |
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Location: The desert | It was a go to color in the river on opener. Though the location was more important than the color. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | I've caught lots of fish on a 9" Grandma Clown in the green colored waters of Melton Hill. Not real sure it's the color, or the fact that I could work the lure through tree tops with out getting snagged, but the fish thought the color was great. Got a couple packed already. I've also done well with clown in a 10" Jake on the LOTWs as a trolling color. The fish in my avatar was caught on a clown Jake. Doug Johnson |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | Pike love clown patterns in both clear and stained water...
Matt |
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| Good information. Thank you. |
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| I've never used a clown color. But my lake gets plenty muddy with any wind, so I'll be picking up a few. Thanks for starting the thread. |
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Everybody loves a clown