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| What small crankbaits do you guys suggest for shallow water casting? Baits that run in the 1-5ft range? Most of my spring river muskies come on 00AC shiners and those continue to catch me fish but am looking to try other baits. I picked up a customX mini x 5" on Tuesday and it caught me a fat little 28" fish already but I didn't think that the mini x cranked very well in current. It kept wanting to lay on it's side and stop wobbling. I have been looking for crane 205s but those are hard to come by right now.
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Location: Eastern Ontario | How about the 6 inch stalker |
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Location: Almost Heaven | Contact Crane. She had some 205 at Ch9 meeting |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | Ss shad is what you want in 5.5" |
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| Big Game's surface twicher is a must. |
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Location: Pewaukee Lake | SS Shads and Custom X Mini X's would be my suggestions. |
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Location: Watersmeet, Michigan | Rapala's Super Shad Rap or Tackle Industries' Super Cisco are both good choices and are reasonably priced.
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Location: Land of the Musky | Yooper Padre - 3/22/2014 7:32 AM
Rapala's Super Shad Rap or Tackle Industries' Super Cisco are both good choices and are reasonably priced.
Fr. K
But we only have 42 colors in the Super Cisco to pick from 
http://www.tackleindustries.com/probassfishinglures.html
Also check out some of Talonz Katz Claw and Little Claw lures. Mike really hit the spot with these lures. I have a few and love them:
http://www.fishall-lures.com/claw.html
Not crankbaits but also think about small swimbaits like our TI MiniD lures. Other good small swimbaits for you to keep shallow might be some of Rubber Hairy tackle and Medussa mini swimbaits. Check them out too.
http://www.rubberhairytackle.com/
http://www.chaostackle.com/
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Location: SE, WI. | Try Muskie trains MF Shad. Great action and good producer. MY wife gets many ski"s on them. A lot more durable than a crane. JD |
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Location: Minneconia | SS Shad |
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| Small Talonz ,and The Bullet ( Gregg Thomas) |
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| Musky Myers Small Gill.
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| X2 Musky Train. Great quality and versatile. My most effective twitch bait in the spring. |
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| Muskie Train MF shad like others mentioned- It is one of my top producers year after year, It has a killer action.
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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| I do agree with the Muskytrain MF shad...it is good. I already mentioned The Big Game line up.... |
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| x5 on the Musky train MF shad, I have caught some real nice fish on them, just ordered 2 more from Rollie's. I like that they are made from cedar they hold up better than balsa baits. |
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Location: mad chain | Muskie Train MF shad. |
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| If you are looking in the Rollie's catalog for the MF Shad there is a misprint in the catalog on page 55. The picture of the MF shad is actually a Diesel and the Diesel picture is the MF shad- pictures are flip flopped. Online catalog has it correctly. Few guys were confused and sent me messages.
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Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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| figure 8 - 3/24/2014 11:33 AM
x5 on the Musky train MF shad, I have caught some real nice fish on them, just ordered 2 more from Rollie's. I like that they are made from cedar they hold up better than balsa baits.
Mike makes a great bait no doubt, but comparing cedar to balsa is like apples to oranges.Yes cedar is more durable, there is nothing that moves like a balsa bait! |
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| I don't agree with that at all. The mf shad moves just as well as any balsa bait I have used and if I'm going to spend $21-$23 on a small twitchbait I want it to hold up to more than 3-4 fish. All balsa baits I have used don't last very long some only catch 1 fish and they are toast. |
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5-5.5" crankbait suggestions