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Location: Shakopee Minnesota | This was my first year muskie fishing and i didn't get one yet so i wanted to stock up on more lures and more knowledge over the off season! so i was wondering what lures you would recommend to someone who is just starting out? note: i am 17 and i live in Minnesota. thanks for your help!
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Location: MN | Worry less about lures they don't matter as much as people say. join muskies inc in your area and I'm sure tons of guys wil take you fishing. Buy good release tools. Good luck next year!
Suick
French blade bucktail
Double 8 bucktail
Top water prop bait
Spinnerbait
7"slammer minnow
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| where do you fish? do you troll,cast,,jig. what water system do you fish? |
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| The answer is not more lures. That's part of the fun, but as time goes on you'll find that you use fewer and fewer lures in fewer and fewer colors.
You'll get many answers of different brands and colors to buy. If I had it to do all over again, I'd start with:
Tail Prop (topraider)
Jerk/pull bait (Suick)
Double bladed bucktail (any brand will do)
Walk the dog (Weagle)
Crankbait (depth raider)
Spinnerbait (any brand will do)
Rubber (bulldawg)
The goal is to be able to cover water at all depths and different speeds. Worry about learning how to use a handful of lures and use them well. Figure out what they do and how to trigger fish with them. Work on your figure 8 skills. THEN you can go lure-stupid.
Most of us collect lures. It's fun. But in the course of a normal day, you'll be hard pressed to find a reason to use more than 5-6 lures. You'll catch more fish casting the right lure all day than you ever will changing lures a bunch of times.
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Location: Shakopee Minnesota | i mainly fish minnetonka and i like to cast. |
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Location: Shakopee Minnesota | woodieb8 - 12/28/2016 4:43 PM
where do you fish? do you troll,cast,,jig. what water system do you fish?
i mainly fish lake minnetonka and i cast. |
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| Worry less about lures they don't matter as much as people say. join muskies inc in your area and I'm sure tons of guys wil take you fishing. Buy good release tools. Good luck next year!
Good advice above.
Lures are tools
Pick 12 or so of different types and learn where, when and how to use them most efficiently.
Learn how to read a lake map, follow season movements of fish and join a club
Good Luck
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Location: South Central Wisconsin | Lots of good advice here so far. As said before, learn to use the ones you have (as long as they're black), and learn where the fish live, and feed. One bit of advice is, starting out, fish areas that are shallow with access to deep water very close. Points with dropoffs, rock structures, and weed edges. After you see a few fish, pay attention to where they were, ask yourself why they were there? Wind direction plays a big part. Follow perch fisherman. Muskies love to snack on perch. Don't get caught up in the fanciest / most expensive baits. That'll come later. Lol |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Nickel/black bucktail, black weagle, black topraider, perch phantom softail, walleye bulldawg, sucker depthraider. I could live with those..
Nothing will be more valuable then time on the water though
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| Best advice I can give is watch a bunch of Keyes Outdoors on youtube or maybe order some DVD's from The Musky Hunter (Jim Saric). Study how they fish spots and present lures. I chose these two because they both hit a wide variety of muskie water over the entire season and generally seem to be good fisherman. Good lures will help but only if you know how to present them and only if coupled with quality line, rods and reals. Then good boat control and being on the fish is equally critical. If a good muskie fisherman is willing to take you out then even better.
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Location: Contrarian Island | best advice which is hard to take, is don't go nutso buying tons of lures...back in the day I spent thousands of dollars most of which was wasted on lures... get some double 8s, double 10s, a few medussas and mag dawgs, few gliders, few cranks/minnow baits, some topwaters, and you'll be set, if you primarily fish Tonka, spend your money on hiring guides to learn the water ...that money will be far better spent than buying 200 lures... 
network with the guys in your local club, get on the water as much as you can with the guys that know the lake the best....
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| get to know what your lures are doing. you will find out. the fish will tell you. a tweek here a hard pull,soft pull. . |
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Location: Detroit River | Don't go overboard on buying lures. If I knew then what I know now (which isn't much) I would only own maybe a 10th of the lures I have now. There's no need to buying the large cowgirls & pounder plastics as though will drain your wallet faster & the money could be better spent on a good reel & rod combo. 2 or 3 double 8 bucktails in various colors (black w/nickel, gold w/gold blades or yellow w/gold blades) 1 top water prop bait like a Whopper Plopper or Top Raider. 1 walk the dog top water like a Poe's Jackpot or Weagle. 1 glide bait like a 8" Hell Hound as those are easiest to work. 2 or 3 medium sized soft plastics like a Medusa or U-Boat. 1 or 2 jerk baits like a Jake or Grandma. 1 or more jigging baits like a Bondy Bait (can also cast it). 1 or more dive & rise bait like a Suick. I don't use these on LSC but they work good for me up in Ontario. A tube or paddle tail bait can also be thrown in if your budget allows. For most baits stick to the colors that resemble the bait fish that it's the lake that you'll be fishing the most. Almost forgot, a 8" Storm Kick'n Minnow. |
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| Bigtooth tackle Juice Mini In night fury |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I would second the bigtooth juice mini.
The most important thing you need to do is learn to use any bait to it's full potential. Learn their triggering factors. Anyone can throw a bucktail around a MN lake and get follows and a bite here and there, but once you learn how to make the fish bite, your catches will skyrocket. Be sure to watch a lot of videos that show how to do a good figure 8. Mimic that. Bigtooth has a bunch of Youtube videos that will help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdLF3pbs3v0&t=95s
This will get you started. Notice each turn of the 8 and watch how the fish reacts until it's finally enticed to bite. |
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Location: WI | Check your PM |
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Location: Lake County Illinois | Also get yourself some Crane baits . |
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| I fish in NYS Chautauqua for pure breed and Conesus for tigers. I like the new suspending DepthRaider by Bucker for casting. It can use it as a fairly deep running crankbait or suspending jerkbait. I Like the DDD from ERC for casting runs deep for both crankbaiting and suspending jerkbaiting applications. ERC's DD great for somewhat shallow casting and use as shallower suspending jerkbait as well. I like the 4 play Low Rider from Savage in the largest size as a pull pause bait. One thing that I do that is different than other musky fisherman is I try to match the hatch. If the lake is full of perch I use perch colored baits, if it's full of alewives I use silver.
I also like to bull some large Mepps. These are good warm weather baits for me. |
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| Keep a log book, ever time out the conditions where you fished etc.
You will likely learn more from the days when little happens than you will learn from catching a fish.
patterns and ideas that wont even occur to you now will reveal themselves down the road if you pay attention to details and write them down. DO NOT REALLY on your memory alone!
When it comes to musky fishing, believe half of what you see and none of what you hear!
Good Luck
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| Yes, keep a log. It's not so much referring back to it that provides value for me as it is forcing myself to pay attention to all the environmental factors that come into play. Writing that stuff down cements it into memory. |
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