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| I'm Looking for a bait less than 2 oz. which I can striaght retrieve for trophy fish? I've recently had an injury that only allows me to work small baits. I"ll be fishing over 50lb fish. It possible for a big fish to take down a small bait this time of year?
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Location: Chicagoland | This time of year, sure. Late fall, sure. Although you will get more looks on larger baits as the water temps cool and the bigguns begin looking for huge baitfish. I think a Shallow Invader is around 2.5 oz. That bait has a lot of big fish appeal. I'm sure I could tell you more if I thought hard enough, but I am not a lure index.
Soak a sucker too, see what that gets.
Good luck
Edited by Live2Fish 9/18/2008 10:27 PM
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| Jig a Fuzzy Duzzit in the smaller model and by the end of the day you will be suprised! Musky's love these baits in the fall coupled by a few suckers swimming around them. Very easy on the body to work, put your forehand on the front cork and use the other to push down the butt of the rod and hold it paralell to your stomach as you sit perpendicular to the side of the boat.
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| An 8" Believer is about 2oz, and heck even the 10"er is I think a little over 3oz. and the best part is all you have to do is reel them in and let them do the action. There have been just a couple big fish caught on them over the years, so 50 lbs is probably as attainable with this bait as any. This is the bait I always end up throwing at the end of the week when my fingers have gone numb and my forearms are throbbing. There made by Drifter Tackle and available just about anywhere muskie baits are.
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| I looked at driftertackle.com and the 10" is 3.63 oz, not 3oz, but an 8" Jake is 2.63oz. I know these are all over the 2oz that you'd mentioned, but not by a whole lot compared to their track records.
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Location: Elk River, MN | Why not try trolling? Then you can use big baits! |
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Dumb question but if you are going to be limited to 2 oz. baits how is the injury going to be working a 50lb fish? My suggetion would be a Rapala Shad bait. Not very big, but easy to use with nice action. There will be one on the lines almost all times out on the bay this fall. The other that gets a good look and produces well is the Shallow Invaders. That rubber tail really kicks nice in the water. Good luck and hope for a speedy recovery. |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | SLOW-rolled DCG. |
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Location: So. Illinois | Try the Rapala Super SHad Rap. Great profile, nice wobble, easy to work (straight retrieve, use as a twitch bait or slow retrieve as a top water0> They only weight 1 and 5/8 oz. Another recommendations is a 9" Drifter Super Stalker. Weight is 1.8 oz.
Other options are Baby Depth Raiders, large spinner baits, top raiders or rumblers (easy to cast and retrieve). Mepps Musky Marabous. You can find a lot of niec baits that are close to 2oz.
J |
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| You could try a jig and shad or reaper tail. Had some luck with them in the past. |
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| Heddon Megnum Tadpolly. Awesome fall bait. |
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| 6" Big Game. |
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| I tried to post this two days ago, but it didn't stick.
If you like a hard bait, why not try the 7" Grandma. This lure is easy to cast and retrieve, comes in a wide variety of finishes, and has a good history. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | I caught one of my biggest in November a few years back on a Windel's Muskie Snack crankbait. They're like six bucks and you could throw them with a bass rod. Very easy to retrieve. |
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| I to suggest a shallow invader!!! |
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