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| The Bull Dawg has become a yearround favorite for many anglers here on the CAVE, in fact in almost all areas of muskie country anglers have found the same results. Over the last couple of years DAWGS have taken more big fish than any other single bait, so lets here from you guys.
What is your favorite way to fish the DAWG under the following conditions and which size?
1) Shallow weeds in 3 to 5 feet of water?
2) Deep weed edge from 6 to 10 feet?
3) Open Water
Tony Grant
MuskieFirst Southern Field Editor
KYMUSKIE.COM
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| Any of you guys doctor your DAWGS at all, I've heard of those who cut a a block out of the front to get a larger wobble, and other mods. Any success on the bull dawg w/a teaser?
MJB |
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| My Favorite is when my partner Jim Corbett leaves it in the boat so he does not lose anymore big fish.0723 Bill Ramsey |
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| At the chicago show I saw the guy from muskie innovations vary speed of the bull dawg with a jerky retrieve and make the dawg kinda dart side to side and w/ out any action of the rod. I will have to try it this year. |
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| We caught alot of muskies last year on bulldawgs. Most of the muskies that we caught were suspended over deep water. We like to burn the bulldawg kind of like a bucktail. Keep it fast and high in the water. 9 times out of 10 with this presentation most of your strikes will come right next to the boat when you start your figure 8. We only use the biggest bulldawg, with and without teasers depending on the situation. [:sun:] |
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| Tony, I haven't use them in the shallow 3-5 foot water. I'm assuming weeds in this type of water and the only real effective retrieve would be to burn it in to keep it off the weeds.
Deeper and suspened water I'll do a couple different things. I'll retrieve it like a jerkbait. Varying the pulls and pauses. I'll also count it down and swim it back. 2 or 3 cranks on the reel and pause etc. I'll vary the cranks and pauses to show em something different each time it moves. And last on hard bottom, I'll let it sink to the bottom and then either jig it or swim it back like above.
Scott |
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| anybody tried the shallow dawgs? |
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| Divani, I've been using the shallow invader and have found it to be a good lure! Caught many pike on it and a few muskie. I like it because it can be trolled fast!n Up to 6 mph pretty easy. Great action. |
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| cast&blast, I mean the buldawg that has no weigths inserted. They are called shallow buldawg and are supposed to be great for shallow waters but need to be fished slow. They are expensive here in Belgium/Holland so I need to know if they are worth a try or not (better than the original buldawg or not for shallow waters). I haven't tried the shallow invador. Don't you miss a lot of fish (I mean if pike grab it because we don't have musky here) because these trebles seem to cover only the front part and not the tail. |
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| The hooks only near the head of the Shallow Invader are VERY effective actually. The lure should be twitched and paused, and pike/musky will rarely miss the head when fished in this way, where they always try to grab their prey! Great lure- and you can replace the tail with ANYTHING you want[;)] |
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| Brad at Musky Innovations said they were orginally designed to jig off the bottom on gin clear lakes. I know they had alot of success like this, have any of you down this type of presentation.
Tony Grant |
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| My best luck on the dawg has come with a slow retrieve after a fish has followed. Also in clear lakes as a search tool by casting and reeling off the bottom.
Great follow up bait
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| Shallow water - keep the rod tip up, reel it and twitch it - keeping it up above the weeds. The tail has awesome action even on a straight retrieve.
Deep Weed Edge (6 to 20 feet) - Stay on the edge of the structure and cast parallel or cast out towards deeper water. Pop the dawg up and let it fall, pop it up, let it fall - kind of like jigging. The works incredible when you are fishing a bar or weed edge that has good sloping weeds all the way out to 20 feet of water. Figure eight it like a bucktail if you get a fish that comes to the side of the boat. The tail action will keep the fish interested.
Open Water - I will stick with the pop if the fish are suspended. If the fish are near hard/rock bottom areas, I will bump the dawg into structure - popping it up and down. As the bait is coming up towards the boat, I will agressively jerk/twitch the dawg to try and turn follows into strikes. |
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| Who carries the unweighted Bull Dawg? |
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| I saw them first at Dave Lumb's online tackle store (DL tackle) |
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