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| What type of bait have you found to have the most success on the opener for central/southern wisconsin lakes? |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I have to say for action, it's hard to beat a 6" slammer minnow bait on the opener. Puts fish in the boat, and we've even gotten some big females along with those giddy males on them.
However, I definitely have a weagle going from the opener on as well.
This year the fly rod is coming out as well. It's been a few years since I've put it to use for muskies, so it's time to get a few on the fly again.  |
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Location: Contrarian Island | small squirlly phantom put 32 fish in my boat in May of 08.... fish dig em. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | On opening day my three rods are rigged with a 6" Slammer Crankbait, a Slammer Drop Belly Glider, and a DogHouse Bucktail. |
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| Any of my smaller bucktails.
And I like my 6'' jakes.
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| What definetly produced best for us last season was Shallow Invader, 6" Jake, small glide bait, Jackpot (regular version), and a small bucktail (baby girl). Jake |
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| But I can't wait to try my Phantom soft tail, seems like it would be an awesome early season bait. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | 6" Slammer Minnow Baits. . . Can't say it enough. |
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| small polish pike and small squirko although my wife does well with a small black eel. |
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| Monster Medussa and Pounders!
Edited by Anonymous 4/15/2010 11:41 AM
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Phantom soft-tail. |
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Location: Money, PA | 5.5" Wiley Muskie Killer - jointed....For my neck of the woods that is.
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Smithwick Rouge......Slammer bait works. |
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Location: MN | I'm starting with shack attack mamouth sues & 2pounders. I've seen some big roughfish get wacked allready fishing crappies. |
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Location: NW WI | #5 Mepps bucktail or a 6" Grandma |
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| Baby perch Squirko. |
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| Little tip for the 6" Minnow baits...
Make sure that when you pause the bait, the bait rises with the nose pointing up. Most of the time you'll see that it rises tail up, when a bait fish goes up to the surface he's facing up, not down. One tip would be to have a light leader, or put just a tad bit heavier hook on the back. Just play with it.
Just something to consider? |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | mag dawgs have accounted for muskys 3 openers in a row, but also 1 oz spinnerbaits, have worked very well also. |
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Location: Bonduel WI | Ill second the Weagel and also add a Pacemaker for opening weekend too! |
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| HELLHOUND!!!!! No doubt
The Warlock is a close second tho! |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Joe Cal - 4/15/2010 2:14 PM mag dawgs have accounted for muskys 3 openers in a row, but also 1 oz spinnerbaits, have worked very well also. +1 My buddy in Minnesota last year got a nice 47" Tiger on a mag dawg on the opener. While downsizing is pretty typical for the opener, it definitely doesn't have to be the standard. |
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| Don't know about southern Wisc. For western PA. clear water lakes, ex. Conneaut. in May, My favorite is a 1/2 to 3/4 oz jig, dressed with black bucktail and a 7" black plastic lizard. Pork eel is good too. Reapers also. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | 14'' jakes + 13'' believers :D |
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| JakeStCroixSkis - 4/15/2010 6:28 PM
14'' jakes + 13'' believers :D
A live 24 inch pike. |
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Location: NW Wisconsin | #5 mepps is my go-to bait early season... fat raps and jointed-shads I like to throw around too... |
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Location: SE, WI. | SLAMMERS, GLIDERS, JIG & CREATURES, MAYBE A SURFACE BAIT WITH THIS WARMER TYPE SPRING.;) |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Really, whatever works for the day. The northern opener isn't until the very end of May this year, so depending on the weather up to that point, fish could be closer to an early summer pattern than normal. Anyway, I've seen fish on regular sized baits right away. Last year I caught one on opener on a DDD. Year before was on a Depthraider. I've seen fish early on Mag Dawgs and have done well with the large Hardhead. Spinnerbaits fished through the weeds also have worked pretty well.
Sometimes small baits might be the ticket, but I think figuring out where the fish are and how deep you need to run the baits are the most important things.
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | a 6-8"bluegill on a 6/0, its money. |
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| 8 inch lesnar |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Curly, for the northern opener, I'm right there with ya. Last year the Dunright swimbaits, were rock'n as were pounders and topwater. I'm usually throwing big stuff right off the bat up there. If I'm fishing lakes other than Pewaukee down here, we throw normal sized stuff right away as well. But for Pewaukee, it's hard to beat the smaller minnow baits (and gliders for the big mama fish).
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