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Location: Appleton, WI | Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I know what you're saying. Another one of those cliche: "What is your favorite bait threads."
But I'm very curious what most trollers consider their best bait as far as trolling applications. Also what type of water are you using your favorite weapon of choice? Lakes? Rivers? Impoundments?
thanks and I'll catch ya later,
Krappie
Edited by Krappie 2/23/2003 5:36 PM
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Location: oswego, il | Krapppie, these are the baits we caught fish trolling with last year. Mirror lure deep divers, slammer deep divers, depth raiders, G&M shads, monster shads, javelins, lindy big m's, jakes, mann's magnums, deep diving grandmas, shallow raiders, bucktails. Caught some on spinnerbaits trolling shalow. I think that is all of them.
Edited by ToddM 2/23/2003 5:54 PM
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | First, Legend 13" Plow in Durst Secret Color! Second, Wishmaster 14" Little Wish in Black & Gold Sucker Color. Third,Hi-Fin Jtd Trophy Diver 9" in Black w/Hot Pink Belly. Fourth, 9" Depthraider Jtd in Sucker Color.
The four crankbaits have produced a total of 67 Musky over 50" for me and my Clients,the order of lineup changes with water temprature.
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Bread and butter would have to be a spinnerbait. I fish mosly rivers but do spend some time every year on a lake or two. They work for me from June through October.
Edited by Trophymuskie 2/23/2003 6:20 PM
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Location: Kawartha Lakes, Ontario | I fish natural lakes with diverse habitats including shallow weedy flats, 100 foot basins, rocky shoals, and steep drop-offs. My preferred trolling weapon is the 10" straight Believer. I like it because it has a big profile and can be trolled in a variety of habitats and depths. A shallow eyelet allows the bait to be trolled 6 feet deep, which can be deadly along weedlines, rock shoals, and over deeper weedbeds. The deep eyelet will allow you to get the Believer down to 22 feet, reaching fish holding on deep humps, sunken islands, or suspended off dropoffs or shallow structure. It will also bounce off most rocks without getting hung up. The versatility of this lure is what makes it my #1 trolling bait. It can be fished almost anywhere under virtually any conditions. The Believer just plain catches fish!
Jakes also produce well for me.
Keep Your Hooks Sharp. |
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Location: Chicago, IL | I have 3 trolling baits that are my tops:
- Hooker G&M Shads
- Terminator's/Wiley's
- Lil' Ernies
I pretty much only troll smaller baits, but these continue to produce and take a beating.
-Phil C.
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Location: Davenport, IA | I'm by far no expert at trolling, but I really like the believer. There are 3 sizes and all can be worked deep and shallow, slow and fast. They usually rune true and dont' require much tuning. |
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Location: Bemidji, MN- | Most of my trolling success has been with a jointed 8" Beliver in perch and a black and white spinnerbait that I have dubbed "The Skunk." In late fall, a 10" "Purple Haze" Jake.
Edited by Otter 2/23/2003 7:57 PM
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Location: Warroad, Mn | 10" Jakes, and a few 10" believers. All most all my trolling is done in the fall on Canadian shield lakes during the time that tullibees get ready to spawn. Doug Johnson
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Location: Sheldon, IA | I like to troll with spinnerbaits and with a 10inch Jake in the prop wash.
Trolling spinnerbaits is my favorite even though I only caught my first one last year this way. A 42" breaking a four year dry spell. The only problem I have is I break quite a few spinnerbaits this way. But the strike and the sight of the fish coming out of the water behind the boat more then makes up for the lost lures. |
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Location: Brainerd,MN | Big Jakes and Grandmas are my go to baits. |
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| Jake Baits and Grandma Baits in the spring and fall. Also troll bucktails in the summer.
David Swenson
http://muskieguide.homestead.com/ |
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Location: Belgium | swim whizz
supershadrap
JP-6 crankbait, shallow |
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | I fish lakes and my go too's are 7" Slammers, shad raps (you would be surprised at how many big fish come on such a small bait), depth reaiders,
grandmas, I've even been known to troll a suick or two. |
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| Have to go with the Grandmas, both 7 1/2" and 9" in the orange tiger. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | i dont troll much, but i like a 2oz. spinnerbait over weeds, jointed swim whiz or musky stalker elsewhere |
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| Anyone ever try the 6" Poagy Tail? The biggest 'ski I ever hooked/saw (at least 50") was on a red head/white body w/ a 1 oz. jig head off a weedline. We were trolling for rockfish w/ planer boards and initially thought we were hung; unfortunately the hook pulled about 3 ft. from the boat. They can be cast easily around rocks and stuff too w/ few hang ups. |
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Location: Willoughby, Ohio | Tuff Shads are my first choice with folowed by Grandmas, Jakes, Ernies, and Depth Raiders in that order. I haven't tried a Plow yet. Once I take out a second mortgage, I'll buy one. |
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| bobbie and suicks have worked well for me as well have bucktails. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | I don't troll nearly as much as some of the other veterans on this post, but this is what has worked for me ther past two or three seasons since I've been dabbling in it a bit more. Jointed depth Raiders, Jointed Trophy Divers, 10" Jakes. |
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Location: Appleton, WI | Thanks guys for all your responses. I've just started to do some trolling myself and have found that some baits troll great while others are a little tough to keep from blowing out. For the short time of doing it I've found out that the 10" Jakes and Believers troll nicely. There's some baits that you can move at a pretty good clip while others you can't give her the berries. I see that there's a few others that I need to add to the battle chest.
I see alot of guys do prefer the jointed baits vs. the straights. Do you feel that jointed baits are more successful for all water types(dirty/clean)? Or do you determine the body type to certain water conditions?
catch ya later,
Krappie |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Krappie, I like the jointed lures because I troll a very dark dirty lake for the most part, and the joint gives that much more vibration and noise. I can also troll them very slowly and the jointed bait gives that illusion of speed. |
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Location: Northern IL | We use spoonplugs. The are designed to run at exact depths and can be run at all speeds. Great way of locating the school. 
I also like Jakes 8"s n 10"s & Ernie's. Last season I pulled a Hi Fin (I think that's what it's called) off a hang and ran that in the wash and caught a couple of good fish, it ran pretty straight until the lip came loose. |
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| without a dobt, the top 2 trolling baits over the past few years have been the tuff shad and lil ernie. Lots of numbers and several big fish. i also have luck at St. Clair on these, but i tend to pull wileys/terminators/ and lokes more there. |
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Trollers, What's your bread and butter bait?