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Muskie Fishing -> Lures,Tackle, and Equipment -> Favorite old school jerkbait
 
Favorite old school jerkbait
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9" or 10" Suick
9" Bobbie Bait
8" Eddie Bait
9" Teddy Bait (Lindy Big Jerk) (maple or urethane version)
8" Fudally Reefhawg
8" Smitty

Message Subject: Favorite old school jerkbait
Pike Master
Posted 5/1/2017 7:35 PM (#860310 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada		Bobbie Bait was designed by Bob Vander Velden and the Reefhawg by Tom Fudally.
Pike Master
Posted 5/5/2017 8:19 PM (#860866 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada		No love for Teddy yet...
dickP
Posted 5/6/2017 7:42 AM (#860888 - in reply to #859981)
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Suick for me,Bobbie for my wife.
Standard size Wades Wobbler a very close second.Haven't seen Wade for awhile but agree with 39 degrees that they were around at least by the mid 80s.WWW himself went with our 'group' to the Woods once in awhile back then.(Wade Witt from Whipholt)I recall 2 5 fish days on a 'Red Headed Stepson' there in that time frame.(Wobbler in the classic Bassereno red/white color)Great baits-especially if small spinner blade added to tail.
Wade made a jointed plop plop surface bait with 3 trebles that also was dynamite!Would give a buddies left gonad for one now.If tuned it was the pitter patter of lil feet sound and it hooked and held anything that got close.
true tiger tamer
Posted 5/6/2017 8:46 AM (#860891 - in reply to #859981)
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Wades Wobblers have been out since at least 1987 as I bought a couple from Reeds in Walker the first time I fished Leech Lake. They were great pike baits but I couldn't catch a muskie or even get a follow on them. Eddies were much better for muskie action on Leech for me. In-Fisherman did a muskie show before I began muskie fishing where Larry Dahlberg modified Eddies and Suicks . I bought a Bagleys B Flat at the old Burger Brothers sporting goods in Bloomington around the same time I got the Wades Wobblers at Reeds so they have been around since 1987 at least.
Mojo1269
Posted 5/6/2017 8:52 AM (#860893 - in reply to #859981)
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My first fish came on an all Black Teddy in 1984.... 44 inches...Caught many fish for me back int he day... It hangs in my work shop with anew coat of paint and eyes these days.
Pike Master
Posted 5/6/2017 12:11 PM (#860904 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada		Interesting stuff in those last 3 posts guys!
ksmusky
Posted 5/6/2017 3:44 PM (#860922 - in reply to #859981)
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Saw my Grandpa catch many on Heddon Dawagiac Minnow. Not realy a jerk bait but he used it like one. Way way old school.
ksmusky
Posted 5/6/2017 3:47 PM (#860923 - in reply to #859981)
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Saw my Grandpa catch many on Heddon Dawagiac Minnow. Not realy a jerk bait but he used it like one. Way way old school.
Pike Master
Posted 5/9/2017 8:04 PM (#861230 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada		Anybody know when Randy Shutt started making the Sledge?
bob_harris
Posted 5/10/2017 5:29 PM (#861322 - in reply to #859981)
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Suick gets my vote
Pike Master
Posted 5/15/2017 6:20 PM (#861745 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada		Nobody knows any Sledge history??
sledge51
Posted 5/16/2017 5:58 AM (#861798 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: In the slop!		I know sledge's were available by the middle 90's, how much before that I don't know.
otto
Posted 5/16/2017 6:11 AM (#861799 - in reply to #859981)
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I've got and old(er) Bobbie from the early 70's that is next to magic. The original design had the front more rounded than the current versions much as the older Suicks were more rounded also (approximated for a time by the Hi-Fin Foolers). I miss that those companies got away from that likely to reduced manufacturing steps. I've even used ol' Bob as a "topwater" ripping it down and letting it bob back to surface slowly and sit. Can't fish it fast that way but if you're on a good fish they find it hard to resist.
Pike Master
Posted 5/17/2017 5:47 PM (#861952 - in reply to #861798)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada		Mid 90's eh? I still need to find out more about the Sledge...
bobbie
Posted 5/17/2017 6:20 PM (#861953 - in reply to #861952)
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guess
Larbo
Posted 5/18/2017 11:39 AM (#862036 - in reply to #859981)
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Location: Des Moines IA		I still use a Suick. I have replaced the hooks.
Pike Master
Posted 5/21/2017 6:40 PM (#862353 - in reply to #861953)
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada
bobbie - 5/17/2017 6:20 PM

guess


Hmmm... Bobbie?
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