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Location: Ohio | I spend 90% of my time bass fishing and never really targeted muskies before but got the urge for some reason. Thought it might be cool to get my first muskie on a bait I made. So I came up with a 5” 2.9” squarebill crankbait (my inner bass fisherman). Dives to about 7-8” on a cast in my kayak. My first muskie trip before sunlight I toss it a few feet from the shore to test the action and see a nice muskie through the light of my headlamp follow and hit it a foot from the beach. Tossed it again and it hit one more time but didn’t connect. That was enough to get me hooked.
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Location: Moses Lake, WA | Nice bait! The muskie may not have gotten hooked but you sure are now. Keep on building. |
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| And so it begins. That's awesome! Nice work! |
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Location: Blaine, MN | Sweet Bait... Take those hook protectors off, and your hook up % will sky rocket!!!! |
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| I started out just making jigs, then I took a half inch dowel and cut it on angles about 2" long put a couple of hooke on and on the very first cast I caught a sm bass now 20 years I am still making lures, hook, line and sinker its got me love it.
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Location: Ohio | Thanks a lot guys. Been out a couple times since with no luck just saw a few surfacing. I made a 6” vertical jigging bait that I broke off on my first trip. Got it unstuck from some submerged trees a few time and an anchor rope once with the 44mag but it must have gotten wrapped around a branch and the 44mag snapped the line. Next bait is going to be a 6” glider then some inline spinners for the first time. I’m all in on getting my first musky on a homemade this fall.
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Location: Ohio | 6” glider |
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| That bait looks SWEET!! Muskie candy. Love those big eyez!! Not many muskies around where I'm at, but I love making the baits!!
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