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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | I've been mashing up and tweaking old used up baits, industrial items, shop broom handles, utensils, etc. together with blades, wood, and other junked baits and hardware- Bob Turgeon style for years. My results have ranged from Epic YouTube fail that broke the internet to "#*^@ can you make me one of those?" So what's the craziest bait concoction you've made, seen, and /or used that you or someone else peeed yourself laughing at and then promptly caught a proper musky on?
Please refrain from listing the X-rated style "topwaters" or "Glides" in various complexions. Lol |
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Location: oswego, il | I don't know how crazy but these two spinnerbaits had broken arms I turned them into other baits.
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | Nice one on adding the chatter style blade. Love it. |
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| here is the Baby Shark, made out of a foam football and fidget spinner
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | Nice baby shark. I would not be able to throw that with a dog in the boat! lol |
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| Nothing crazy here, but I re-purposed a top raider that I had laying around. Was going for the Boilermaker design, and when all put together it runs pretty well, havent caught a fish on it yet but a nice cheap alternative to a LL Boilermaker.
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Location: NorthCentral WI | That Topraider Boilermaker design is a great idea really. Baby Shark on the other hand, I hope you're kidding... I'd rather throw a literal chunk of 2x4 with a hook on it.
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Location: oswego, il | That repurposed topraider could be interesting. I am guessing it is hinged at the nose? Let us know how that runs. Now I wonder how blades would work in front of a working topraider! |
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| Used a bucktail wire and its a single wire through the lure. Used a little weigh / epoxy to keep the body of the top raider upright during the retrieve didn't have any body rolling when reeling in which is nice. |
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | I have done many of those boilermaker style ones with multiple different bodies. The possibilities are crazy when you look thru your old old baits that are at the bottom of the box or the bottom of grandpa's box for that matter. There's lots of bodies with different levels of float and can be weighted or not to achieve straight up surface bait or neutral to near surface with tweaking. Depending on length of wire, hook location, etc. a hinged nose didn't work well for me. If hinged The weight of the blade(s) wants to pull down the nose of bait and it is unbalanced and during the cast can tangle in my experience. If hinged you also will have to run the bait much faster then solid straight which you can C-R-A-W-L slowly. Bob Turgeon cut apart a twisted sister for his variation but that made me cover my crotch like when you see someone get hit in the stones because I could not cut apart a $30 plus bait for an experiment Lol. I much more like the idea of cutting apart a $5 swap meet topraider or better yet look thru my old dead lure stash and cut one of those up. Just sayin' |
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | Correction...if I found a $5 swap meet twisted sister however then I may indeed cut it apart. |
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| MartinTD - 4/1/2020 11:29 AM
That Topraider Boilermaker design is a great idea really. Baby Shark on the other hand, I hope you're kidding... I'd rather throw a literal chunk of 2x4 with a hook on it.
You don't think that top fin would draw them in from miles around?  |
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Location: Aurora | I can't believe a perfectly good topraider was sacrificed.
Oh for shame..
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Location: WI | The Squirrely Pig. I cut about 2 1/2 inches off the back of a Pig & put on a huge twister tail. |
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Location: oswego, il | Emptynet - 4/2/2020 7:45 PM
The Squirrely Pig. I cut about 2 1/2 inches off the back of a Pig & put on a huge twister tail.
So you wasted a plastic grub?  |
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | That poor grub. I think I already know the answer but did the Piggy catch a Musky after that tail addition? Or should I say did the grub catch a Muskie? I love the idea tho to try valiantly to get a Pig to produce! Congrats on not doing what most have done with their pigs and that is to put 20 yards of line on their reel and proceed to cast like you were trying to put the pig on the moon. I salute you sir. |
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Location: WI | Todd: Yes I did. Winter boredom & beer make for interesting projects.
It's only seen water once & that was for about a half dozen casts just to see what looked like. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Am I the only one that ever caught a few muskies on a pig? I had an orange one that the tigers in Bryant loved. I still throw an orange pig crankbait with some success. Not saying I want all your dust-gathering pigs, though! |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | ToddM - 4/2/2020 8:18 PM
Emptynet - 4/2/2020 7:45 PM
The Squirrely Pig. I cut about 2 1/2 inches off the back of a Pig & put on a huge twister tail.
So you wasted a plastic grub? : )
This coming from a guy that took a pig I gave him and turned it into a topwater. Did you ever catch anything with it? |
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Location: oswego, il | I did not but it did work. One of my kids still have it. Doesn't make too much noise and rolls if you retrieve it too fast. My earlier comment about the grub was in jest.
The pig crankbaits work well. They are quite erratic when trolled, every model and require weight to keep down. If nothing else the pigs have a great finish and are well built. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | I know it was in jest, as was mine. Too much other serious crap going on. Need a little humor nowdays. |
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Location: WI | My Pig modification was pretty much in jest as well. |
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| rpike - 4/6/2020 9:43 AM
Am I the only one that ever caught a few muskies on a pig? I had an orange one that the tigers in Bryant loved. I still throw an orange pig crankbait with some success. Not saying I want all your dust-gathering pigs, though! No,I have a couple that still get the call on occasion.
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Location: Michigan | 2 topraiders (or whichever topwater you want) connected together in a straight line. Take the back hook off the front bait and replace it with bucktail wire which connects to the nose of the second bait.
If you want to get really crazy, you can make a V shape wire and connect 2 topwater baits side by side! Make sure to check legality with that one for number of hooks allowed. |
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Location: West Central WI | I'll throw a tail on almost anything. Top one is a Bucher Slopmaster spoon and the bottom one a Sloppy Pig. Tails on those change the action from "expected" to EXCITING! And, both are truly weedless for casting slop. Cut or modify any rubber bait as necessary and use superglue. These both had Lunker City Fin-S Muskie-Pike Minnow.
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | Jasonvkop.....Whoa!!! I'm gonna get crazy alright. You gave me a sick idea! I likeeeeeey |
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | Rotorhead.....When I've added plastics like that it deadens the action of the bait is your experience different? Or am I missing something? Just curious how it gets exciting action for you cuz mine don't? Thanks |
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Location: West Central WI | Both wobble like they should but the tails respond with wagging because the baits are wobbling. Actually, the Sloppy Pig probably wobbles more because the tail is moving it side to side. Hard to explain but it works. Any small rubber with a flaptail works too. I bought a big box of those at a sporting show in Virginia Beach last year so I use those those too. I live on a lake so I have a lot of play time off my dock to try some insane ideas. Some work and some are a bust. I like to throw baits into slop so I'm constantly trying ideas to get baits in there while reducing the amount of weeds that my baits pick up. Caught a 50.75" muskie in thick slop last Sept on LOTW on a modified Slopmaster spinner bait. I might add that while you look at it as deadening the action, I think it's really more about the overall appearance of the bait with tail attached that looks like something alive in the water that attracts muskies.
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| I have a "Poppa Doc" weed less spoon that I have hardly used. Just didn't think it had enough action to attract fish in the heavily stained water where I fish. And if you don't have faith in a bait ----. But I think adding a tail would be a great idea. Would still work well in weeds, but have more movement. Will put one together now while waiting for ice and snow to melt so I can start spring clean up. Never thought I would look forward to spring clean up, but I am this year. |
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Location: Neapolitan Chain Of Lakes | Gotcha. Makes perfect sense on the appearance and wagging the bait. Definitely a different action and look. I'll have to try one of those right in the slop. I have plenty of those spoons and have added trailers but just haven't really given them an honest shot in the slop I guess. Can't argue with a 50.75" fact. Lol gonna have to give that approach more time. |
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