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Location: Contrarian Island | improbable question, but if I was forced to only throw 1 lure all year ... double 9 bucktail... might not work the best in the late fall but I'd suspect it would put the most fish in the boat over the course of the season.... |
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| 9" UNWEIGHTED BRONZE PERCH ROUND BELLY SUICK
WILL CATCH MUSKIES NORTS EYEBALLS AND BASS ALL YEAR |
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| Jig...for all species. |
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| regular sized medusa in natural perch or cisco. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Spankys double-8. Can be fishes from top down to about 12 feet. Having been said, I would feel naked without my boxes. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Cisco colored Mag Double Dawg..... or Double 9 Bucktail.... Bnelson knows Stuff. |
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| jr cowgirl black/nickel |
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Location: IL | Hell hound |
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Location: Tennessee | shallow invader, bounces through obstacles well, can be worked any number of /depths/ways, and trolled |
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| Mag Helidawg for me. Shallow deep slow fast straight reeled or pumped. Does it all. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Creature. 1/3 ounce jig. |
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Location: Iowa | Casting: Tennessee Shad Shadzilla
Trolling: Blue Rice Mattlock |
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| Red October Tube |
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| Magnum bull dawg for sure |
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| A mid-sized floating crankbait that can be cast, trolled, jerked or twitched. Two line ties so the bait can worked from the surface down to 15’. A light density solid body with thu wire construction and an aluminum lip. A bright but natural looking paint job with contrast and flash. Hard epoxy finish |
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Location: Twin Cities | Chicken carcass |
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Location: Contrarian Island | change the poll to what 1 bait would you throw to catch the most with biggest size avg...  my answer stands. |
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Location: West Central WI | Stick with the top 5 and you'll have baits for all situations. The "just one bait" is a non-starter. Already good suggestions here, but one I ALWAYS keep rigged in my boat is a black Bucher Slopmaster with a chrome blade and a white twister tail for contrast. They can be bulged over weeds with the blade just under the surface or popping on the surface like a topwater, ripped through weeds and come out clean, or slowed down and fished deeper. I have several in different colors, but black is my favorite. I replace the blade on one with a smaller blade that I can burn really fast. I also change the blade swivel with a GOOD snap swivel so I can change out blade colors for different sun or water conditions. Cheap snap swivels will open and you'll lose your blade if you like ripping them. I get funny looks from new partners in my boat when I throw it while they're throwing their double 10's (yes I throw those too). Then, they see it work in different situations and they want to borrow one of mine, especially when they're tired of pulling weeds off their hooks with every cast. Weeds are this bait's friend and you know like to hide there. With a single hook, you'd think they would miss fish, but I believe they have as good a hookup percentage as a bait with three treble hooks. And, they're safer and a dream to remove. |
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| Either a double 8 or 9 Bucktail with a reg medussa in close second. |
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Location: Maryland | 9 inch suick |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | Crankbait, probably 9", in a white/baitfish color to work in all water color conditions. Most versatile. Can catch fish from ice out to ice up. Twitched, ripped, straight cranked, trolled, weighted leader, etc. |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | Motivator or hellhound |
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Location: Wisconsin | Walleye regular medusa |
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