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Location: West of the metro, MN | I'm spending my morning reading older musky hunter and the next bite from when I first started fishing these beasts (about 10 yrs ago) and there is quite a bit of talk about throw back baits. A separate rod and reel setup for pitching back to a fish that had just followed. I haven't read anything about it in a magazine for a long time. My question is, does anyone use this technique anymore? |
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Location: Appleton, WI | I always have a tube handy for a toss back. Either a red October tube or a jimmy. Both great baits for a follow up toss. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Yeah, Red October tubes are good, but so is a Top H20 lure by Lee Tauchen. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Oh yeah! I like having a tube or a hawg wobbler ready to go. Doesn't always work, but sometimes it does! |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Absolutely still use it...
I used to use Rubber a lot but lately have been using a twitched Crank Bait more often then not. Sometimes if you get action on a bucktail you can also go completely opposite from what the fish came in on...comes in on a small one, immediately give it a look at a Double 10. Comes in on a Double 10, throw back a small bucktail and burn it...
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Location: Appleton, WI | This year I think I am going to use a squirko as I always have that on one rod on the boat. |
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| I've always got a few rods rigged up with various types of lures. Mostly its because I'm lazy and would rather set down a rod and pick up another without having to fart around. But it does come in handy when you bring up a fish that clearly doesn't want what you're throwing. |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Do it all the time bull dawg, bondy or a top water or just leave her a lone untill she's real aggressive |
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Location: Bloomington,MN | weagle or hawg wobblers. also have had success throwing a jimmy |
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| I tend to think if she doesnt eat on a fallow their was somthin just alittle wrong with the presentation. I usually switch it totally up say slow to fast, fast to slow. Speep can most often be a great trigger but ya have to read the fish. Dont throw the box at her as "Steve" sas and save some "tools" for later on. |
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Location: one foot over the line | I have a 9 inch fluke ready to go at all times. |
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Location: Northern New Jersey | beerforthemuskygods - 5/5/2013 10:27 AM
I have a 9 inch fluke ready to go at all times.
where do you get 9 inch flukes? biggest i have seen is the 7 inch mag. i have been looking for something similar for a while. would definitely be a great pitch back bait or just a regular casting back in high pressure/clear water lakes |
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Location: one foot over the line | I believe that I got them from John at Ross's sport shop in Phillips, WI. Bought a few bags last time i saw them, because, like you said, they were hard to come by.
Edited by beerforthemuskygods 5/5/2013 11:12 AM
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Location: Ontario | Poppa Dawg www.franticbaits.com best throw back lure I've ever used you can do alot with it |
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Location: north metro, MN | I don't typically have something set up just as a throwback option. I do however have multiple rods set up at all times, so I have used many lure as a throwbacks before, just depends on what I have set up on a rod at the time. Pretty much all of them have at least brought the fish back to the boat a second or third time for me, but a couple of my favorites would be a jerkbait or topwater. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | What ever is on the other rods. Hopefully a Bull Dawg or Bondy bait... |
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