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| What color?
OK - so I finally got my neighbor interested in muskie fishing. Means I'll have some company and another person to help launch, etc.
To make a long story short, he says he isn't "going all in" and wants to start out with a few lures of his own. He went to the Chicago Show and came back bewildered with all the color choices.
My advice would be to start out with basic black if available in a Bulldawg and bucktail, maybe a perch pattern for crankbaits.
This sounds like one of those "if you only had one lure, what would it be questions" but really isn't. Type of lure isn't the question here. What start up color is the question. If color even matters.
What is your advice?
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| Since he will be fishing with you, are there any colors that work better on the lakes you fish? An example would be the chain where I live. Water has a lot of tannin and is very dark. Orange and black colored lures seem to work better than any other, although black is also good. That would be where I would start, what have you found to work best on the waters you fish most? |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Never worried much about colour if you can see it so can a muskie . Timing and location are the most important factors,action and sound signature would be a close third. I remember a story in an old Fishing Facts ( I think ) magazine where Mark Windells would catch a fish on a bucktail take it off and give it to his guide client and then put a totally opposite colour on and continue to catch fish. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Black Works |
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Location: varies | Black lures matter. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Black and its a Suick  |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Nickel black bucktail, walleye dawg, a perch crank/jerk, and a black topwater he should be all set to catch some fish. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I have thrown every color in the book and caught fish on many of them. But when I'm throwing a bunch of random colors all day and don't have action, I end up putting black on and amazingly catch a fish! BLACK |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Kirby Budrow - 2/2/2016 9:07 AM
I have thrown every color in the book and caught fish on many of them. But when I'm throwing a bunch of random colors all day and don't have action, I end up putting black on and amazingly catch a fish! BLACK
Yes, someone posted on MF that their muskie lure collection looked like they were picked by a deranged clown and a stripper...mine too. Is this too black?
Have fun!
Al
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Location: Eastern Ontario | If colour mattered a great deal wouldn't the more colours you had increase the odds of you having the wrong colour on at any given time.
Now if I was selling baits it would be in my interest to convince my customers that they needed every bait in 27 colours. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Regardless of water color I'll usually start with "match the hatch". What's the primary forage, shad, sucker, cisco, perch, bullhead? |
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Location: Palatine, IL | ESOX Maniac - 2/2/2016 10:02 AM
Kirby Budrow - 2/2/2016 9:07 AM
I have thrown every color in the book and caught fish on many of them. But when I'm throwing a bunch of random colors all day and don't have action, I end up putting black on and amazingly catch a fish! BLACK
Yes, someone posted on MF that their muskie lure collection looked like they were picked by a deranged clown and a stripper...mine too. Is this too black?
Have fun!
Al[/QUOTE
There is none more black.] |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Really depends on the water that will be fished. Black rubber works anywhere. If it is a crank...perch. |
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| Looks like Al attended the 7 Islands school of musky fishing... |
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Location: Contrarian Island | for bucktails I throw black/black and chart/black about 90% of the time these days...they work well.  |
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| rodbender - 2/2/2016 8:02 AM
Black lures matter.
How is this not on a shirt, yet? |
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Location: Aurora | backdraft - 2/2/2016 7:10 AM
What color?
OK - so I finally got my neighbor interested in muskie fishing. Means I'll have some company and another person to help launch, etc.
This sounds like one of those "if you only had one lure, what would it be questions" but really isn't. Type of lure isn't the question here. What start up color is the question. If color even matters.
What is your advice?
Backdraft
If you want the person to remain interested, THEY should choose the color(s) because if it doesn't look good to them it'll soon be over.
If they persist on yer input, tell um the truth.
That the only thing you really know for sure is when they're hungry they eat, and you gotta keep throwin if you wanna catch one.
Also, should they see a big follow or land one early on, you're obligated as a fellow addict to warn them of the pitfalls - sudden insufficiency of once sufficient funds, anthropomorphism (this one's for Steve), and divorce, assuming they're hitched.
While traumatic, it's better to learn the truth early on..
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| I usually start with 2 of a certain lure. One in a natural color and one in a bright color. I also like to have two in case something is really working and I break/lose it. Black is great and I would count that as a Natural color. I love Firetiger for the bright color. In the end I do not think it matter that much, I would have him stick with one brand of lure in a few categories. This way you end up not needing to learn how to work 20 different lures and just learning 3-5.
For example; you might say bucktails (dadson 10's); jerkbaits (10" HI suicks); cranks (10" believers); Topwater (Top Raider); and Rubber (TI Super D's). Get one in both a natural color and a bright color and he is set. He could fish just about everything that way. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | esoxaddict - 2/2/2016 12:34 PM
Looks like Al attended the 7 Islands school of musky fishing...
Yes, and a excellent school it was...I paid very strict attention to every word and thought communicated by the teacher!
Same stuff I use on my Aliens. Highest quality components, 170lb surfalon nylon coated seven strand stainless with double barrel crimps, double crimped using commercial crimping tool, super split rings, high quality hooks - Yes, designed by Howie!
I showed the teacher another lure I using the day before class - he looked at it and kept it! Spencer Berman was in class that day too............
Have fun!
Al |
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Location: Minnesota. | Tackle Industries - 2/2/2016 8:48 AM
Black and its a Suick :)
This ^^^^
Really, I've often wondered about color. How many black fish you see swimming around? How about pink...or green....or blue...or you get the pic. And these baits take muskies at various times.
I'm getting that funny buzzing sound again....
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| I really like browns. Blacks are good too. I like a small bright bucktail for burning though, like a red bucktail/flame blade muskie candy. |
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