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Location: Wethersfield, CT | Hi all,
Has anyone used striper lures for muskie fishing? I live on the east coast and do a fair amount of striper fishing. I will be going to LOTW for my first muskie trip this summer. I would think that striper plugs would work well. There are several small manufacturers of high quality, wooden plugs that are approximately the same size, profile, and run at similar depths as the muskie lures that I have seen. Given the high cost of both striper and muskie plugs, I hope that it is possible to get double duty out of the striper lures.
Thanks,
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I guess it is worth a shot. Maybe something they have not seen and will gobble up, but I'd take a bucket full of bucktails & spinners along just in case. With all it will take to make this trip, don't go cheap on the lures. Good luck to ya. m |
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Location: Wethersfield, CT | I hear ya on the bucktails and spinners. You can be sure that I will bring plenty of those and they will get a workout. My favorite pike/smallie technique is burning big tandem spinnerbaits just below the surface and trying to keep the rod from being ripped out of my hands. But since I already have all of this expensive hardware, I figure it would be worth a try. Somebody out there must have given it a shot before.
Thanks for the advice,
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Chris- If you have the room, take them with you. Muskies will hit anything that looks like a reasonable meal, i.e., crippled bait fish. Heck they even eat ducks, muskrats, snakes & other non-piscatorial food items. Hope you have fun on your first trip. Do a few selected searches here on MF and you will find ton's of advice. Check out the "Muskie Research" forum it has some good food for thought. Al Warner "All Water is Zalt Water" http://www.zaltnad.com |
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Location: Hoboken, NJ / North Webster, IN | Definitely!!! I live out East too, and have always gone to the local tackle stores here and picked up "striper" lures to use for the muskies. Don't know if the crank-and-pull like hell poppers(we use in montauk) would work so well, but other than that there are planty of crank baits, and soft plastics I've seen that Muskie would love.
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Location: IL | This wouldnt be the world famous Chris Gatley with the world famous radio fishing show would it?
Folks, keep an eye on this fellow. He just may be the next Al Linder.
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Location: Wethersfield, CT | No, just the world infamous Chris Gilly, happy if I can wet a line every other weekend or so. |
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Location: oswego, il | TTT this thread will get s rise out of sponge! |
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| Many Striper guys are using musky lures now. New Jersey Angler Magazine did a piece not to long ago called cross over lures. So if they can use our lures we can use there's as well. Are they available in the Saltwater catalogs? |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Some striper baits are in the Cabelas and Bass pro saltwater catalogs. |
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Location: Hazard KY | Red fins in both jointed and straight work great they work just right over ther weeds some of your topwaters will work good too.
good fishin
Chris Haley
www.kentuckymuskie.com
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Location: Rockland County, New York | Any of the minnow plugs (Redfins, Long A's, Rebel Minnows, etc) in both shallow and deep divers. Creek Chub Pikies, darters, poppers, etc. Any lure big enough to tempt a decent striper, or tough enough to withstand a bluefish should be able to tackle most any muskie. OTOH, most muskie plugs seem to come equipped with bronze trebles which will rust if brought within 10 miles of the salt. BTW, stripers LOVE spinnerbaits! |
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