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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | if you had to pick one bait to throw all day under an early fall cold front what would it be????? |
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| I'm probably going to be laughed off of this site. But here it goes. Windell's Muskysnack in the shallow runner. I have caught more fish on that little bugger. Cast twitch twitch let it rest. Twitch twitch let it rest. I know its sound simple and it is. Some of the coolest strikes come on the bait breaking the surface on the rise. That is what I've been doing for years and its kind of fun to watch. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | A Pounder Bulldawg,
Shallow or deep and worked 10 different ways, always puts fish in the boat.
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | i agree nothing beats a big dawg during a cold front!!!!! any other advice??? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A Creature. And a Wabull. |
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Location: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin | hellhound glider |
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| i have found that the first early fall cold front really gets em going - anyone else? It can be like a warning that they better get busy before winter gets here. Then again, patterning muskie is just plain frustrating - which is why it is so fun.
Landry
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| Burn a small sized bucktail as fast as you can reel. |
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Location: Musky Country | da pounder  |
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| Live Action's Big Joe on weed edges gets in their face and stays there makes them eat.
Jeff Hanson
Madisonmuskyguide.com |
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| Squirko all day. Has worked for me |
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Location: Minnesota | MANTA |
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Location: mad chain | I have to agree with Jeff, Live Action Big Joe. |
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| I'd have to agree with Muskie03 - I like my mantas. Not as erratic as a HH or wabull but they sure catch fish. |
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| Big Games Twitch bait. Reason: there's a lot of options on how to retrieve it. When worked with short, slow twitches, it's almost a towater. I can pull a little harder and get it just under the surface most of the time. I can use a straight retrieve, fast or slow. Well...you get it. While a lot of fish may get negative after a cold front moves in, not all of them will. If I'm limited to just one bait, I want one that can give me several options. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Curly Sues, Wabulls and 10" Suicks.
Oh yeah, and don't forget topwaters, awesome baits when the waters start to cool back down. |
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| I'd recommend anything that you can get right in front of them, and anything you can work SLOW. Erratic gliders, walk the dog surface baits, soft plastics... I'll still throw bucktails just to see if I can find a hungry one, but more often than not, slow presentations seem to be best. I still struggle with slow, especially when you throw in 2-3 second pauses, but that seems to be what it takes some days.
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| >if you had to pick one bait to throw all day under an early fall cold front what would it be?????<
Well, that's the beauty of owning multiple lures, now isn't it? We don't have to pick just one. |
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| Lee Lure Chopper was the hot bait this weekend. Went through all of the baits in my boxes and that one accounted for all the muskies minus one active fish that I got on the Creepenstein. |
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| Standard bulldawg.
If that's not working I prefer a nice tall bar stool with a ice cold tap of Mich Golden and an order of hot wings |
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| Umh,
Yeah I want to change my dumb answer to stcroixmusky's. At least the the second part about the beer and the wings. |
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Location: Uxbridge Ontario | 10" weighted suicks... realistic patterns. The pause is key |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Suckers |
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Location: MPLS, MN | Hunter4 - 9/8/2010 8:01 AM
Umh,
Yeah I want to change my dumb answer to stcroixmusky's. At least the the second part about the beer and the wings.
Yeah, except for the Mich Golden, yuck, give me a Sam Adams or a Sapparo with my hot wings. |
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| I would have to say a small bladed bait or bulldog! |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Suicks of both the weighted and un-weighted variety. |
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| If water temps are in the mid 60's and it's before/during the front I'd be throwing a Topraider. If it's post-front and clearing I'd go with the dawg. |
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| Black Bondy Bait, fished down some deeper breaks. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Small tandem CJs spinner baits. Catch rate has been one fish every 2.5 hours for the past month with much of the time in cold front conditions. |
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