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| Does anyone have any experience and success casting mattlocks or headlocks? I’ve heard from a few different places and from a podcast with Matt seifert that some have been using them with success. I just saw that supernatural baits have a 8.5” mattlock and I was thinking that the wandering action of these baits might translate into a really good action when ripped and twitched on the cast. In my head I’m thinking it could be a versatile, deep jerkbait. Matt seifert said he puts a long rubber tail on 10” mattlocks and fishes them like pounders, which sounds super interesting. I don’t troll much so never invested in 10 or 12” mattlocks or headlocks but I’m thinking the 8.5” might be a good casting bait. Any thoughts? |
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| Also how hard are these baits to retrieve? I’d imagine they dig pretty hard. |
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Location: SE Wisc | I think I’ve seen the same video, but I’ve talked to him in person on this too. He seems to prefer the Matlock for casting, you can retrieve it slow and it becomes essentially a topwater with an attached rubber tail. Probably an excellent night time lure as well as fall casting bait. The 85 model is certainly easier to cast I would think but I don’t have one to say for certain. |
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Location: SE Wisc | Musky Shop sells a corkscrew wire deal for attaching rubber to baits. It’s what I use to attach a 6” grub tail to my Matlock. |
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| I prefer mattlocks vs headlocks for casting. They do dig fairly hard, and in my experience can't really be worked like a jerkbait (twitching), but instead a retrieve-pause type of swim. And they do get down fairly deep on a straight retrieve, but they are so buoyant they don't stay down very long on a pause. I prefer working em like a topwater with a rubber tail on rear hook. Or a spinner blade. 8.5 mattlock works well casting. Nice thing is you can work it like a topwater over shallow part of structure, and as it gets to the deeper water edge of structure section crank it down. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I have one headlock and it's never seen the water but looking forward to casting it. I like fishing open water with something like a Ernie, Depth Raider, or DDD or move up to something bigger like Large DDD or 10 Slammer deep minnow or full sized Hooker. And if I'm in clear water and find a reef that tops out at 20-22 feet I'd rather cast it then troll it. The things you would do for a 50#. And to think there was a time guy's would talk of hundred pounders! (boy the stuff you hear in bars!) |
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| chuckski - 3/21/2022 12:10 AM
I have one headlock and it's never seen the water but looking forward to casting it. I like fishing open water with something like a Ernie, Depth Raider, or DDD or move up to something bigger like Large DDD or 10 Slammer deep minnow or full sized Hooker. And if I'm in clear water and find a reef that tops out at 20-22 feet I'd rather cast it then troll it. The things you would do for a 50#. And to think there was a time guy's would talk of hundred pounders! (boy the stuff you hear in bars!)
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| Do you guys just slow roll the mattlocks and they work like a topwater wake bait? |
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| Correct. They don't push as much water with the lip as a normal bass wakebait (angle less steep). But yeah, just crawl it slowly. Can mix it up by cranking faster and making it dive too |
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