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tundrawalker00
Posted 7/20/2015 4:18 PM (#777014)
Subject: Best shallow bullhead immitation?




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Location: Ludington, MI		What's the lightest 9-11 inch black (or dark brown) soft plastic out there? I want something heavy enough to work near bottom in 5 feet of water, but light enough to get over weeds that come within 6 inches of the surface. I was thinking some kind of soft plastic like a spring dawg or suzy sucker or shallow medussa. Anyone work these in weedy shallows?

We have a lake with quite a bullhead fishery and I'm hearing more and more from bullhead fishermen that they're seeing and landing muskies in the skinny filthy water.
muskie tamer
Posted 7/20/2015 4:21 PM (#777015 - in reply to #777014)
Subject: Re: Best shallow bullhead immitation?





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Location: Waconia,MN		Why not a shallow bulldawg...
tundrawalker00
Posted 7/20/2015 4:46 PM (#777025 - in reply to #777014)
Subject: Re: Best shallow bullhead immitation?




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Location: Ludington, MI		No reason not to, just exploring options.
NathanH
Posted 7/20/2015 5:37 PM (#777032 - in reply to #777025)
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Location: MN		Twisted tullibee... Could that be an option?
lennyg3
Posted 7/20/2015 6:24 PM (#777039 - in reply to #777014)
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Location: NE PA		red October tube
Chemi
Posted 7/20/2015 7:09 PM (#777047 - in reply to #777014)
Subject: RE: Best shallow bullhead immitation?





 You want a small bullhead? 3 oz:

 

Musky Innovations Bullhead

 http://muskyinnovations.com/realfish.htm 

 

tundrawalker00
Posted 7/20/2015 7:30 PM (#777052 - in reply to #777014)
Subject: Re: Best shallow bullhead immitation?




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Location: Ludington, MI		Well, sure, if you wanna get all technical and stuff. Great idea. Thanks!
happy hooker
Posted 7/20/2015 7:35 PM (#777053 - in reply to #777047)
Subject: RE: Best shallow bullhead immitation?




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I know you said soft plastic but a believer in the color 9 dollar bass,,,,is one of the most realistic pegged bulhead imitations you can get, fat with that lazy wobble and it comes in a small size or large with both a shallow and deep setting,,,look at it on the drifter color chart,,,it's a bullhead !!!!!
muddymusky
Posted 7/20/2015 8:22 PM (#777057 - in reply to #777014)
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Not soft plastic but I would get some nightcrawlers or good old American hand dug earth worms and catch a few larger bullheads. I would cut the top and 2 side barbs off and hook them up on a quick strike rig. You could use this while casting your soft plastics and catfish are more durable than suckers. Casting a believer sounds like a good option too.
Clark A
Posted 7/20/2015 9:03 PM (#777066 - in reply to #777014)
Subject: Re: Best shallow bullhead immitation?




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Location: Bloomington, MN		The lake that I fished many moons ago was loaded with Bullheads. This was long before the Big Plastic baits and Double 10's. I used a wood furniture scratch-be-gone pen and my friend did his fancy air brush job on the standard Suick Muskie Thrillers (It's Fun to use the whole name!). Brown with a cream/off-white belly. We at least believed we were onto something, even though that is all we tossed! Mine was named "Homer Fromby" after the furniture Guru and his "Earl Scheib", the $38 any car any color painter. He may have caught a muskie on his. I threw mine exclusively for almost a full season. I caught at least 7 muskies, bunches of nice northerns, and my biggest walleye. Water clarity is more of a factor when choosing a lure, not what you think/know what they are eating, but where. Maybe Mr. Worrall can expound on this statement that Bullhead munching muskies don't put up much of a tussle until the second hook set. I have experienced docile fish to the net. They are accustomed to the spines stuck in their yaps. God Bless Ludington, MI.! I had the best weekend there well over 10 years ago. I arrived on the S.S. Badger after the roughest crossing per the the crew, had a fantastic evening, and bought a wooden boat the next next day and then put it on a BIGGER boat! That has been the biggest mistake my life. Well, it would be much better if the X-Wife was rotting on a trailer 54 miles NW of the cities !


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jdsplasher
Posted 7/20/2015 10:52 PM (#777076 - in reply to #777066)
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Location: SE, WI.

Hellkats with cork have excellent hang time. This is the easiest plastic to keep high in the water column .Mark does custom pours in any color you want. 

 JD

Fishysam
Posted 7/20/2015 11:24 PM (#777080 - in reply to #777014)
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Bucherbaits swiming raider. I burn them 8" down and roll them 10'
tundrawalker00
Posted 7/21/2015 3:59 PM (#777203 - in reply to #777014)
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Location: Ludington, MI		Thanks for the responses. I'll be trying a few suggested baits.
bryantukkah
Posted 7/23/2015 11:29 AM (#777488 - in reply to #777076)
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jdsplasher - 7/20/2015 11:52 PM

Hellkats with cork have excellent hang time. This is the easiest plastic to keep high in the water column .Mark does custom pours in any color you want. 

 JD



^^^ these things will hang forever!
Zib
Posted 7/23/2015 11:34 AM (#777490 - in reply to #777014)
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Location: Detroit River		The 9" Storm Thunderbeast works great over the top of weeds. The bait is no longer made but there's still online fishing shops & Ebay that sell them. I like the thunderbeast better than the bulldawg because the hook ups are far better.
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