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Location: Land of the Musky | Got thsi pic yesterday. What other fish do you guys catch using your musky baits when fishing for musky OR fishing for other species? This was a Grouper caught on a Mag Shad in FL.
James
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| I actually bought that exact bait at the Milwaukee show, I think it is just a beauty! |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | I "caught" this bluegill on a 12" suick.
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Location: Waukee, IA | I almost always catch at least 2-3 big walleyes on Leech when I am fishing glide baits and jerk baits in late summer and fall. Makes me wonder if I shouldn't be throwing those specifically for walleyes at times!  |
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Location: Wisconsin | I always catch a handful of 20+ inch SM bass every year throwing topraiders/double 8's on the wisconsin river |
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| I caught a 12 inch bass on a single bladed 12" bucktail. |
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| I didn't catch it but I raised a gar on a phantom |
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| Nearly every time I see a bass tournament going on Pewaukee Lake, I'll clip on double-tens and fish in plain sight of them, if I get a ski...fine, but there is always a great chance to snare a five-pound Largemouth in the shallows. Then I use a loud expletive, and say, "I am just so sick of catching these things!" I guess that makes me sort of an SOB....but the look on their face is (as they say in the Master Card commercials) PRICELESS! |
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Location: oswego, il | besides the usual, big mouth buffalo, gar and dogfish and those buffalo eat musky baits. |
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| I caught a 12" large mouth bass trolling a 5" scuba. It did not pull any drag, just floated on top. It swam off after I released it. It did all it could just to get the rear treble in its mouth.
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| I caught a monster Drum on a warlock. We've caught a few anchor ropes and old minnow buckets too! |
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| Caught a 25" walleye on a northland booty call spinnerbait. Hammered it right above a cabbage flat, pretty cool. |
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| Lots of largemouth. Funny how you can catch a big LMB on a musky lure and be disappointed, but if you caught that same fish while trying for bass it would make your day... |
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| There’s a captain on the gulf coast of Florida who buys my 10” Molly Bait blanks and paints them. He says the tuna love them and catches wahaoo, dolphin, grouper and sharks on them. I need to get down there!
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Caught this smallie with a Depthraider. I had just cut the hooks out of a musky and the strong winds pushed us onto a shallow rocky flat while I changed out the hooks and Abe cleaned up the boat. I throught the bait over the side of the boat into the drink once I got the new hooks one, stood up and gave her a couple rips along the side of the boat to make sure the action was still there and from out of no where under the boat this smallie came up and crushed it! Crazy! Had Fittante work his magic for me..
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| I snagged a big sturgeon trolling a liplock one night
a few summers ago. Came off a 24' hump in 80 feet of water.
I thought "it was the one". The spot owes me big time now. |
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Location: Ontario | Got a 15lb salmon 2 years ago trolling an 8" Grandma in a quiet bay in October. It was cold,and rainy.This fish was full of eggs and had lost its way, or was pulling over for a nights rest. Jumped 3 or 4 times, then she was spent. |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Caught quite a few big smallies on topwater. Strangest was a 23" walleye on topwater in a flooded section. Gotten a couple snagged sturgeon on dawgs they deffinetly get the blood going. Also caught a few walleye and channel cats on dawgs. |
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| When I was fishing the Tackle Industries Osky glider the big smallmouth were all over it!
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Location: Hudson, WI | Buddy of mine caught a rock bass on an 8" weagle. Hooked in the mouth and actually saw it strike way out on the cast. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Caught Plenty of pike on 10s, and 13s ranging anywhere from hammer handle to 43"and fat. I caught a 24" largemouth last year on a topraider at night.
Hooked into and lost a loon 3 years ago (thank god)
Saw a buddy hook and lose a beaver last year. was a super low light period right when it was getting dark, he saw the shadow and brough him through a figure8 thinking it was a huge musky. It hit, we saw what it was and it was gone. I did not want to deal with a beaver AT ALL, Very happy it released itself |
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Location: New Hope MN | A brook Lamprey. snagged him. Nasty!
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| Last fall I "hit the cycle" with a DCG. Started off with LMB, then a 28 inch walleye haning out in between some cabbage and milfoil, a northern and finlly a musky. Made for the oddest 4 hours of fishing in recent memory.
Last sumemr I was out with Brad P on what was one of the buggiest nights i have ever been out on and we were trolling to keep the skeeters off and I popper a 25-27 inch walleye on a 10 inch jake...
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| 23" walleye trolling a 10" grandma |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | 27.5" casting a depth raider
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I've done very well on bigger rubber catching the incidental walleyes. Top photo is a 9" curly sue down the throat of a 26" walleye. 2nd is a 28.5" 8lb even caught on an magnum bulldawg walleye color. This is just to name a few that have hit these baits for me.
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| Heres a good video of mine on the subject LOL
I guess cat fish like BIG baits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEUmZpjEQI |
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Location: Minneapolis | Pretty much always hook into a few bass and northern every time I go out musky fishing. |
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| I caught a 7 pound walleye on a Mepps Marabou in a ~120 acre lake last year.
Here's a hungry bass that ate a double 10.
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Location: Plymouth, MN | Dave - You forgot to mention the rusty crayfish you like catching on LOTW.
Caught my PB largemouth on a Bobbie bait. |
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| Caught a bunch of Snook in the 40" class on Hellhounds and Sebile Stick Shadd and hooked them on figure 8's. Also have targeted Tarpon on Muskie Baits with lots of success. We always catch very big Smallies on prop style baits. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Football sized smallies on Pacemakers more than a few times. |
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| Last weeken I fished a tournament in Iowa, I was cranking a bucktail slow in shallow water, and five minutes into fishing i had caught one! As it came up to the net we found that I had caught about a 10# catfish. Only fish iI caught all day. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | I caught a 22" Largemouth on a Ratman pike shaped lure. Only fish I've ever caught on the thing. Looks great coming through the waster too, you'd think it would have tooth marks, but just a bass.
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| saw a buddy catch a catfish at 2 am on a topper stopper in a local river.
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | caught an 18" walleye on north twin some years ago on a 9 inch firetiger suick. odd thing was.. the fish came up out of 20 feet of water to slam it next to the boat. |
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Location: West of the metro, MN | Caught a 19" large mouth on a super model opening night last year. Another memorable one was a25" walleye on a pikie minnow. |
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Location: Iowa | 23" largemouth on a rabid squirrel bucktail. About 12 pound catfish trolling a large crankbait. 50 plus pound carb on a DDD, but that one was foul hooked. I was upset when I saw what it was. Put up a GREAT fight, and I just knew it was a huge muskie. What else would hit a DDD and fight so hard. Numerous other bass on different baits. I did watch Ty Sennett play with a large snapping turtle once. It was chasing his topwater around. They are faster than I thought they could be. |
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Location: north metro, MN | Coolest catch for me was last year. 26" Walleye on a phantom in the figure 8. |
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| The most unusual two were a giant channel catfish on an 8" Jake and a very large carp on a 7" Believer. In both cases I was trolling and thought I was snagged when the fish first hit. I once had a gar come up to the surface and follow--but not strike--a Topraider. Of course I've had bonus walleye, largemouth bass, and not impressive smallmouth. I've also taken a few bonus pike. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Fishing on Green Bay with my uncle one morning. He had never caught a musky "on purpose," so I took him out fishing. First fish--BIG musky on a perch-colored Jake. He lost it before we got to see the whole fish, but the tail was tremendous in size. So now, I'm up. Bang...off goes the rod. 10-pound cat hit that same Jake. Oi vey...
So now he's up again. 30 minutes later, rod goes off again: 54" fat girl, basically swims right to the boat and into the net.
Apparently I'm a great guide, but one of the unluckiest *anglers* out there.
TB
EDIT: Almost forgot... The tail on the 54" musky was not as large as the one my uncle lost an hour before that. No idea how big the fish was, but it put up a much harder fight than the one we caught.
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| 40.5 flat head on a crank bait. Thought I had a giant musky. Here in WV.
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | I've been field testing all my musky baits on the California Delta. So far nothing crazy. Popped one a lil over 6 on a walk the dog top water. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | Over the years we have caught come monster Bass , Walleye and even Dog Fish on Talonz Little claws, Rippin Shads and Crane 205's. Here is a special picture of two bass that ate a rippin shad on Lower Crooked Lake in Michigan. I got a 10 pound Dogfish on a Crane bait and a 7.5 pound Small mouth on a Little claw. This is a pretty cool photo.
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