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Location: Lake Geneva, WI | Does anyone use spoons when fishing for muskies, if so what size? |
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| Prior to becoming a "musky addict", I fished LOTW with spoons for pike. We generally used daredevils. We would catch many large pike, and a few musky here and there. Then, when we started fishing the same areas with jackpots, suicks, etc, we started catching many more musky and a few pike. We go up three times a year, so it wasn't just the time of year.
So, in my non expert opinion, I would surmise spoons aren't good for musky. I couldn't tell you why, that is just my experience. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I see no reason in the world that a muskie would not hit a Red Eye Wiggler spoon. m |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | I've caught muskies in Canada on a yellow 5 of diamonds daredevil. I have also caught them on a Miller Wobbler with a squid skirt as a teaser. Mikie, I also have a brass muskie size red eye wiggler that I picked up at a garage sale "Red Eye Muskie" made by Hofshneider Corp- Rochester NY. haven't tried it yet.
I've been eyeballing some big saltwater spoons out in Rhode Island.
Have fun!
Al
Edited by ESOX Maniac 3/13/2006 2:12 PM
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Location: The Yahara Chain | I have had success with the large Dr. Spoon ....early in the season. |
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Location: The desert | First cast with a black and white daredevil right out the package hooked up with a ski just about as the thing hit the water, its like it saw it flying through the air and grabbed it as it hit the surface....nuts!
Mike |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | My goal this year is to boat a fish on a spoon, no reason they should not work. |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Already put a couple in the boat with a spoon this year. |
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Location: MPLS, MN | I've had success on KB Spoons. I was turned on to them by another guy who has caught muskie on KB spoons. |
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Location: Holly, MI | I'll Second the Red Eye Wiggler Spoon. Use the Copper 1 ounce! p.m. musky bob sr from Lake St Clair Michigan and get his take (It is one of the greatist lures in the world). He casts them all the time on St. Clair with amazing results, so I cast them too  |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | I've had good luck eating with spoons. They work especially well with soups, rounded vegetables like peas and niblet corn, breakfast cereals, pudding, and ice cream. Fork eating of these foods requires a steady hand. I find the playing of spoons highly entertaining. I've seen them stuck on foreheads which is also amusing. Certain mentalists can apparently bend them using only the power of their minds. The many different sizes available increases their usefulness. There are plastic spoons, wooden spoons, and slotted spoons. A spoon in the hand an experienced user stirs better than all human powered kitchen utensils with the possible exception of the whisk.
With that many effective applications, I would assume muskies would be interested.
I am skeptical of a spork's value when angling, as they are usually made of cheap plastic, and come in those little plastic packages with a napkin and little salt and pepper packets. They are handy at picnics.
Kevin
Lures are the silverware of my plan.
Edited by MuskyHopeful 3/13/2006 9:45 PM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | And, Hopeful, most Muskies eat spoons too. Sorta like you do... Or is that WITH spoons??
Seriously, I've used spoons for years, and can vouch Muskies hit them just fine. |
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| I am sure you can catch fish on spoons, but while you are throwing them and wondering how long it is going to be between fish, just remember that all baits catch fish, but some baits are better than others. If you were in my boat trying to catch your first musky, I would not let you throw a spoon. I would not be using them myself.
I have a very simple theory about spoons, they don't displace enough water to gain any extra attention, and I think they are purely a visual stimuli in most circumstances. Unless trolling clear water with multiple baits, or jigging in fish barrel lakes with populations of 6 adults per acre, I am not going to use a spoon. |
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