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Location: Centeral Wisco | I'm heading to lotw for the first time what colors and baits should I have in my box. To catch some fish. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Depends where. LOTW is huge. But I have had success with Black cowgirls w/ nickel blades. Large 10" weighted perch suicks,
and have had plenty of fish take walleye colored bulldawgs. |
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| i use double tens and double eights copper blades with black, red, and green skirts. my favorite jerkbaits are suicks and reef hawgs white, orange, and walleye patterns and then i love ten inch jakes, grammas, and believers. topwaters cant go wrong with top raiders. any color pattern will work its all about what you have faith in. |
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Location: NE PA | I agree with HANS79. It is more important to have a variety of techniques and colors/baits that you have confidence in. There are a ton of fish in that place and if you fish hard you WILL contact them. If you are going with people, work as a team. One person throw blades, one throw a jerkbait, ect... switch things up until you start moving fish. |
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Location: Centeral Wisco | Thanks for the info. Just getting back into musky fishing after some time away from fishing. This will be my first trip to LOTW. Any help is great. |
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| Don't go up there without blk/org Mepps Muskie Killer Tandem, and blk/org and blk/nickel Bucher 700 series bucktails. I know they aren't glamorous baits, but just sayin'. |
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| Agree with the suggestion of packing some smaller bucktails. Double 10's and 9's are generally very productive, but if you are having trouble getting fish to eat, try downsizing. I also like the Bucher 700 series under those circumstances.
Color-wise for bucktails, my general rule of thumb is to use unpainted blades (nickel, gold, copper) over black in sunny conditions and painted blades (orange, chart., green) in overcast or low-light conditions. There are exceptions, year-to-year. Last summer for instance, gold blades (9's) over red flash was particularly productive regardless of sky conditions. Otherwise, black nickel (smoke) blades over black flash seems to work well under most conditions and is a good all-around choice. |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Natural colours have been good for me the last couple years. Crank baits in perch and perch variations.
Black skirt, nickel blades always a good option. Baby loon topwaters are never a bad idea.
Otherwise, contrast and flash are your friends. Black/orange....something with prism tape, etc. |
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Going to LOTW