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| If the muskie cant see the top of a lure, why hinder the optical presention by angler by painting it black.
I like black baits, but I would use them more often if they had a white stripe down the back. An angler would be able to see the lure most of the retrieve. With glide baits this can be very helpful. So why would anyone like a black stripe on the back of a bait?. |
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| I put a white, Chartruese, or florescent orange stripe on top of most of my jerk/glide baits. It makes it so much easier to follow your bait, and like you said, the fish can't see the top of the bait anyway.
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| Jason, you make a great point. I would guess it is mostly done to make the bait look "pretty" for the user. I agree with you about the visual aspect and often select lure patterns with that in mind.... however many of my BEST producing lures actually roll onto their backs several times throughout the retrieve.... and the black back is great contrast when this happens.
jlong |
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| Jason,
Unfortunately many of the colour patterns out there are more for the angler than the fish. I've never really understood why some manufacturers paint ornate colour patterns on the back of a bait that the fish will never see... and leave the sides plain. If it were up to me, it would be a strip of white, charteuse, orange or luminous tape on the back.
Muskies can only strike up or laterally, not down. So any colour pattern on the back of a bait is there to catch you (the angler), not a muskie.
Steve Wickens |
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| Thanks, just gave me an idea..... put a luminus strip on the top of that topwater bait, especially for extremely dark nights.....anyone tried that before I contact the patent office? [:praise:] |
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| I hear what you are saying. My friend purchased a Tallywacker years ago. Green belly, black top. Go figure. It was quickly turned around with the top being painted a phosphoresent for night fishing. Sorry Sponge Bog, thought of that one a while back, but I didnt patent it. I may have been smoking my dudely cells away. Dang that dude thing is catching. But yes I usually do put some type of sight manager on certain lures for night fishing. Never hurt the fishing, and it never hurt me. Ecspecially some of my blind partners who cannot see a lure coming back to boat in day or night conditions. |
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| Hi,
As a bait manufacturer friend says 'doesn't matter how many muskies a bait will eventually catch - it will never get the chance unless it catches one sucker first.'
I put light or bright dots, stripes or splotches on a lot of baits use in dark water. Helps me see them and work them better. Some of my favorite baits have been repainted so many times they look like an industrial accident at a paint factory, and fish don't seem to care.
If it works, it works, but it might not sell, and that's what has to happen first...
Cheers,
RK |
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| RK, that is the TRUTH!! |
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| Great insight boys... I was just just trying to prove a point to some lure manufactuers out there. That the muskie world would like to be able to see there baits..
You see that Bill Schwartz!![:bigsmile:] |
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| I have to agree with RK. The bait has to be sold first! Like George Wahl from Eagle Tail told me years ago, PRETTY sells! If no one buys the bait no one will catch fish on it. |
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