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| Any thoeries on what exactly a bulldawg represents to a pike or muskie and why they love them so much???
We started taking Bulldawgs on our pike trips to northern Canada about 5 years ago. Best lure hands down for trophy Northern's. Been to alot of the "trophy" pike lodges and even now not to many guys use or have even seen bulldawgs up there. My brother and I hardly even throw anything else. Some guys say they look like a burbot/eelpout???? Any other guesses? I throw them alot for muskies but if I had to go to canada for pike with one lure, it would be a black spring dawg with an orange tail....about 30 of them for a week.
Just curious what other guys theories or ideas on why they work so well on both species??? |
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| My 3 cents:
1. It moves, just like all their food.
2. It does it at a depth that most lures don't, just like all their food.
3. Fish are stupid.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | I think it look slike an EELPOUT
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Fish will hit a bait for two reasons...because they're tricked into thinking it's food, or because of a reaction to an irritation like a vibration caused by blades. If it irritates them enough, they'll try to kill it so it stops irritating them. Bucktails don't look like bait either, but lots of them get eaten because of the reaction strike. I'm thinking the tail on a dawg makes them more of a reactionary bait than a bait that the fish thinks is food.
Fish don't use logic. Their brain in not developed enough to reason. They eat to eat or eat to kill. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It doesn't look, act, or sound like anything natural. That's one reason it works so well. |
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| Also remember that fish do not have hands so if they are curious about something the only way they can see what it is is by putting it in there mouth. |
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| I'll remember that if I ever get the urge to go skinny dipping, Reelman. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | BWAAAAAAAhahahahahahahaha....you know, Addict, there ARE muskies caught on Night crawlers now and again. Be careful out there.....
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Location: Yahara River Chain | sworrall - 6/12/2007 2:15 PM
BWAAAAAAAhahahahahahahaha....you know, Addict, there ARE muskies caught on Night crawlers now and again. Be careful out there.....
Anthropomorphism is alive and well. ; )
In Addict's case, there are some caught on red worms.  |
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| You guys obviously don't know me very well -- There ain't no muskies caught on anything anywhere in my world! |
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| I think that a bulldawg looks like a giant jig and twister tail! |
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Location: Norway | Check my post down this thread, and you see what they represent
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=31...
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Location: Oregon | It's primarily the tail that gets em. Grubs which are nothing more than a small dawg have fooled bass and dozens of other fresh and saltwater species for a long time.
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| anything moving in the water for a musky is viewed as food! they eat, or they starve or they are eaten...pretty simple |
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| It depends on how you fish it? It is really a giant jig and when jigged imitates a wounded fish. If you simply swim it back to you then it imitates a live fish.
It is best fished with Neversnag hooks size 5/0 or 6/0 and INTO the weeds as its lipless and really can be fished well in the snags when converted. I remove the top hook to prevent snagging in heavy weeds.
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| Do you think that they ever it eat because it just looks so #*^@ easy to catch? I have this stupid theory that they eat them so well because when a BD goes by their head they basically have no other choice but to eat the thing, because it is such an easy meal. The only reason I draw this conclusion is because it seems I get alot less follows on BD's vs. other baits. Maybe because the quiet nature of a BD doesn't draw as many curious fish to it, or when you put one near a fish instead of following it they just eat it.......... |
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Location: Litchfield MN | You know i agree whit The Lengend about why they eate it.
And Pikopath has a grate photo of a "Sea Cat" that resembels a bulldawgn but im pretty sure the Norweigians didint invent that lure because thoose fish live deep and i mean dee 300f and more. BTW thoose fish are mean fu**ers they get to as big as a throphy musky or bigger (dont exactly know) but they can bite a rock to pieces and must be killed before unhooking them because they vill snap your fingers of if your not careful. Heres a link to a photo http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/saltwater/anarhichas_lupus2.jpg .
Huh just saw something messed up the Sue sukker on theyr website is like 30$ or so but in Sweden in Lundgrens sport fiske you can buy them for arround 15$..
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