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| Does anyone have any insight on some must have lures for LOTW? I'll be fishing Stevens bay (part of Sabaskong) the first week of September and want to make sure I am all geared up. Will be casting most of the time. Generally I throw a lot or bucktails, rubber and cranks and have been trying to get better at working gliders. Any must have colors, sizes, etc.?
Last year the guys told me that basically nobody out of their resort throws rubber because they focus on smaller lures and have more numbers. Should I take that as a hint that I should be doing that? |
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Location: Becker MN | Rubber works, just have to fish it.
I use a lot of double 10's, prop baits, shallow invaders and jakes, and will throw rubber. I like the shallow rubber as easier to keep above the rocks. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | everyone has a different style of fishing. I really don't like taking the time it takes to slowly fish rubber on a lake like LOTW that has a million spots where anyone can have an active big fish. And if you don't have the shallow Dogs you are going to spend more time taking care of snags rather than fishing.
In cold front situations I usually turn to cranks, suicks and shallow invaders. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Bright colored suicks! |
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Location: S.W. WI | Cowgirls, LowRiders, Big Minnow baits. All I ever needed on LOW. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | LOTW September, one week:
Silver Blades/Black double ten
Orange/blk dots weighted Suick
Walleye Shallow Invader
Black Weagle
Black Pacemaker
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | BigMo - 7/21/2015 10:10 AM
LOTW September, one week:
Silver Blades/Black double ten
Orange/blk dots weighted Suick
Walleye Shallow Invader
Black Weagle
Black Pacemaker
pretty solid list
I also might suggest a Lemonhead Suick, a white w/blck stripes Crane, and a couple different colors to toss at them on the blades...black/chart, black/smoke, gold/gold |
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| It's funny since we'll always bring a few tackle boxes full of baits with us, but very rarely do we throw anything other than these:
-10's in black/nickel on sunny days, black/chart cloudy or low-light
-9's in the same colors
-Wades Wobbler 7" unweighted
-Topraider
-crane 207
-jackpot
-hellhound
-Mag Dawg
That's really about all you'll need. |
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| I'd happily go up to the woods with nothing on Matt and Brian's list, not that its wrong.. its what everyone throws up there..... Give me crank baits that will run at least 7-10' deep on the cast...Any month of the year, and I'm happy (and catching big fish).. something to think about  |
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| Spanky's LOTW pack
https://www.spankybaits.com/index.php?categoryID=12
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Location: Contrarian Island | good lists..I'd add a slow moving topwater can sure entice some biggies when other stuff doesn't.. hawg wobbler type stuff...
as others have said, I bet I 'could' do just fine taking 25 lures up there...but have about 300 in the boat...  one 4 day trip I landed 13 and 12 of them were on 1 bucktail... a couple 8s, some 9s, a few 10s, a few topwaters, a few cranks, a glider, and a dawg/dussa and you are set....
Edited by BNelson 7/23/2015 9:19 AM
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Location: Waukee, IA | I caught 6 of my 7 on a Larson's perch double 8 spankys with copper/black. Varying the retrieve speed multiple times during the cast got me my bites. |
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Location: NE PA | Everyone will have a different list. Take baits that you have confidence in and put some time in with them. They will produce. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Anything goes..... but don't forget the downsizers. For instance a couple summers ago my hot lure was a gold/crystal flashabou with magnum #8 blades in pink metallic color. Weirdest color combo ever to me but it was catching and raising fish for a whole week and I couldn't put it down. What was so good about it? Don't know........ Fishing it since here and it hasn't scored any action......
Then the next year for me it was a weighted lemonhead suick in original wood. It caught fish for much of that week in a coldfront scenario and resulted in my PB for the lake. Who knows what could be next but once you think you have established a pattern and have a lure the fish are interested in and responding to, that's the one I'd be using most often.
Edited by AndrewR 7/24/2015 6:28 PM
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