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Posts: 138
Location: Utah | ....truly an interesting thought by me and I ponder each new season...one year a several lures, color scheme, straight and/or jointed are hot the whole season casting and trolling...then next season one can't catch a cold with them...what gives with that...purchasing a new lure for the leap of faith...argh how long do you work a lure for confidence in the lure...how long does it take for a seasons past proven lure to end up hanging on the wall of lure shame (WOS) or does it ever end up on the WOS???
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Location: Eastern Ontario | My favourite casting lure is a firetiger suick and it has been for over 25 years . Most of my casting is done with my suick on one rod and a Rob Dey spinnerbait on another. I still carry other lures but they see limited use there just show ponies |
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Posts: 441
| I got caught up in the "hype" of a lot of lures. I know there is a reason for the hype, but if I don't work them right, or have confidence in them, I'm not going to be successful. Also each lake is different, as far as baits, and how they are worked. I used to fish quite a few different waters, but now I only fish one, or two.
This year, I'm going to only use four or five different baits, that I have had success with, and a couple of new ones that a guide I hired, told me about.
That said, I have a couple hundred lures that I'm going sell, when I get up north.
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Posts: 1023
| I have thinned the herd a bit after about 7 years of hardcore musky fishing.
I still have too many but I only have lures that I can fish confidently now. I have a few topwaters that I never use. I always say I will throw them a ton next year and then I wimp out and throw mostly rubber. I too quickly turn back to my standards. I am hooked on the following baits:
Dawgs
Tubes
Swim jigs
Bondies
Tuff shad
DCG
Super stalkers
Modivators
Hard/bucket heads (on their way:)
I sold all my other bait brands as they were just decoration. I am sure I sold some great baits that others treasure.
Landry
Edited by Landry 4/20/2013 10:13 PM
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Posts: 2326
Location: Chisholm, MN | I have confidence in a bunch of baits. I think the challenge for me is to build confidence in more baits every year. Having more presentations that i am comfortable with using will ultimately help me catch fish in more situations. |
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Posts: 1184
Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I also have alot but most are just different colors/sized of only a select few confident types of baits.... |
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Posts: 383
Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | seems like I gain confidence in a new bait or two each year. But if all else fails just give me a magnum bulldawg. |
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Posts: 365
| 1) 8" long Single Bladed #12 Fluted Magnum Blade (nickle) with a black or a yellow/gold tinsel tail (single 8/0 treble)
2) 9" weighted Suick in the "Bronze Perch" color pattern -- with 3/0 short-shank round-bend Mustad treble hooks ---- |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | I agree one year's hot bait might not be the next. But I would hope they wouldn't get hung on the dreaded wall of shame. You've already proven they're not " show ponies ". Could very well be subtle environmental changes from year to year. I'm as guilty as any when it comes to trying and beating the new hot bait to death . The key is to bring back your old staples when the new ones aren't happening. The old proven baits may be old,but the key is they're proven. |
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| I seem to remember Joe Bucher (many, many, many years ago) at the Milwaukee Sentinely Sport's Show saying, "They make all those different colors and fancy paint jobs for the fisherman." Must be cuz you don't see many musky in the aisles buying the baits. Now, don't get me wrong, totally new baits such as the Bull Dawg and the Double Cowgirl were legit innovations that really changed the game...at least for a while. Still, when I practice my hopeless and unfruitful addiction of chasing after a tournament trophy, I see a lot in what my fellow anglers do. More striking than anything is the few baits you see on the deck on tournament days. You also don't see that tell-tale sight of the angler bent over his bait box every ten or twelve casts searching for a silver bullet. One of the best anglers I know, when asked if "that's all he brought" replied, "If I can't fish a week in Canada with what's in these two trays--I can't fish period!" Marty Forman |
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Posts: 1529
| i start with my chewys. early season starts are dictated from mother nature.
i will put out a few loud georgie joints hi and shallow at 3.5mph. |
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Posts: 166
Location: Alexandria, MN | When the going gets tough, I find myself going back to what I consider the "basic" colored baits - Black, Brown, orange, chrome, perch, walleye, or cisco. Black and silver Rad Dog always seems to produce a follow when I need one most. One thing I am going to try this upcoming season is throwing "odd" colors (pink, purple, blue) when I know the fish are going - just to see if they produce more of a "reaction" type strike, and maybe build confidence in throwing those types more often. It's hard not to fish "memories" sometimes, though. |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | The hot bait can change from year to year and I think mother nature plays the biggest role in that. Some years are awesome topwater, some the bucktail rules, and when all else fails I go for rubber. The last couple seasons I've mixed in some jerks and gliders wich have there place but I like a variety of baits that I've learned to work well because you never know what curveball you might be thrown. |
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Posts: 192
| Lure quality=Lure confidence period
When i go to the river I bring 6 baits
A spinner bait
Double 8
Hardhead
Crankbait
Glider
And a American hardwood mini
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Posts: 994
Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Ha ha this is a good post, brings back memories. I used to fish with a guy that had a bobbie, two reef hawgs a couple suicks and two bucktails that had so little hair left it was a wonder how he called them black! I though he was rich at the time I had a topwater, a bucktail and a reef hawg. We caught fish, but now I have baits to cover top to bottom and sideways even. I just was tuning some repair baits yesterday and the question came up how many twitch baits I had...my answer was simple but serious, "not enough" |
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