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mavmskyb8 |
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Posts: 260 Location: Kentucky | |||
| ddfenner |
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 | I began fishing the Lindy Tiger Tubes last summer and ended up spending many days in fishing just this lure... My experimentation lead me to believe that your imagination will limit you as to how you can fish these lures. I found out that by reeling them back as fast as you can along weed edges or over weed tops, muskies will chase that lure down with a vengeance. Your lure speed will be faster than any of your other lures and this fast speed just triggers muskys when they are in the mood. Flutter them down into pockets and fishing through milfoil type weeds is very weedless if your gentle. Ripping weeds is fun to as you get that dragster explosion for the start and the glide for the end. Pendulum down deep weed edges... Cast out into deep basin waters and let float down to the bottom, using a countdown and line watching method for detecting the free fall drop strikes. Then slowly reel back, twitching the rod to walk the dog down deep. Walk the dog over weeds... Take all your other lure presentations and duplicate with these Lindy Tiger Tubes and you will indeed see their power...  Edited by ddfenner 2/4/2003 5:03 PM | ||
| RAZE1 |
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Posts: 938 Location: NeverNever Lake | |||
| ddfenner |
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| Try and impart your various jerkbait rod actions and you will begin to see the Tube doing your dances. Just remember, it's more responsive... Marabou Bucktails are known for their flaring during retrieve and you can do this too with your retrieve. Just every so often speed up a couple of cranks and then slow down and your flaring your way back to the boat.. What I am using tubes for now is the finishing lure on a spot. If I have fished all the other make sense type of lures and come up with nothing, I fish back through with the tube. My casts cover the slow, medium, and fast retrieve speeds, then impart action, fluttering, illusions of speed and raw speed. Develop a plan on how to fish these tubes and this translates to a number of casts. When done, move to the next spot... | ||
| sworrall |
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Posts: 32884 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | |||
| ddfenner |
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| Hi Steve, I've experimented with Mason soft wire leaders, in the coated and ah natural kind and find the exposed wire to be the most effective for ripping weeds. I've experimented with different poundage and leader lengths to see the effect on both the 6 and 8 inch Lindy Tiger Tubes, probably a hang-over effect from my days of fishing 9 inch Lunker City Sluggos... 45 - 60 pound Mason stranded exposed wire is good enough for most applications. I make my own leaders and tie directly to the eyelet on the tube and then to a barrel swivel attached to the line... Because of being in Minnesota most of the time, I only tried this a couple of times last year during one of my Northwestern Wisconsin trips. But, any time you have a double header on with two in the boat, it's just a fabulous time... What I did was rig up to Lindy tubes with 30 inch leaders, with each having a Thill Musky Slip-Bobber. I experimented with various rubber core sinkers to find the right amount of weight above the barrel to sink the bobber to a 70 percent level. It wasn't so much to try and reduce the bobber resistance, but to have enough weight as to NOT SINK the bobber, but keep the line VERTICAL in the water. Because, I was drifting open basin waters, slow strolling for suspended muskies with the tubes..... Every so often, I would jig the Thill bobber to flare the tube tails... My what the heck experiment netted a 43 and 46 incher within 2 minutes of each other... For you Vilas and Oneiders out there, when you get a good wind blow, drift tubes this way and you won't have to worry about legalizing trolling laws... Edited by ddfenner 2/5/2003 11:08 AM | ||
| spieg |
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 Posts: 131 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | |||
| Luke_Chinewalker |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | |||
| ddfenner |
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| I fish both the 6 and 8 inch tubes. Each has an advantage over the other, depending upon where your fishing. In weeds, when I want to slow my descent, the 6 inch is lighter and the hang time is greater so I try and judge the mood of the musky. I've followed up an 8 inch tube follow with a 6 inch cast back, to have the musky hit that... So, when tubing, a small tube is the toss back... I will second that speed element... If you have to see for yourself before open water, head to the nearest indoor pool... Take your fastest lure - bucktail, spinnerbait - and cast it out and reel back as fast as you can. Now, do the same with a tube and it's like formula one against Nascar... The extra speed will trigger a musky when it's in the mood... When you get them slow, lazy follows, burn a tube back... And, I once thought 3/4 oz Rattle Traps to be fast... The tube is the fastest musky lure except for a jig/reaper or jig/sluggo, but then, we are basically talking the same thing... Enjoy and rip a biggie this year... Edited by ddfenner 2/5/2003 7:51 PM | ||
| Esoxalot |
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| MuskieBum |
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| kly |
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| mavmskyb8 |
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Posts: 260 Location: Kentucky | |||
| ddfenner |
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| Esoxalot... Depends on the depth at which I see baitfish, along with the daily weather conditions. Sunny, warm days, bring everything shallower and darker, rainy days, everything is deeper.. I set the slip-bobber depth at the depth of the baitfish. Learn to measure your line as you move the bobber stop in 1 foot increments... When you have wind, the waves do a lot of jigging for you... With the aid of AquaView, you can see just how much... Thill Slip-Bobber products have taken Bobberintology to scientific levels, but they lag behind in the Musky Size Bobber department. Thill makes a wave style bobber that minimizes the bobber bounce as it has a sliver top to the bobber that extends out of the water, otherwise the rest is below the surface. They need to develop the same style of bobber for musky applications as I have observed too much wave results in too much jigging on those days muskys want to have a more horizontal riding lure... I've drifted tubes off of slip-bobbers as deep as 65 feet... I found that the deeper your set the tube, the closer you want the slip-bobber to the boat. A musky strike on a tube can be very subtle and short-lived fished this way... In only one season fishing this way, all the quirks haven't been figured out... Another adaptation is to fish small chubs off the treble off the tube off the slip-bobber. Now you've got the waves bobbing the slip-bobber, jigging the tube and a small sucker for scent... I've found the small live bait trailer to entice the musky to hang onto the tube longer, especially if you have a short depth setting and have the slip-bobber 20 - 30 feet away from the boat... We have all heard about decoying muskys to a sucker and you can do that when the slip-bobber is next to the boat or away from the boat, by casting/retrieving your artifical where your bobber is... And yes, the same setup presents live bait very effectively too.. And, don't limit these applications to just lakes... Rivers and or moving current is AWESOME!!!!! Where legal, and in cool water situations, I always have a Thill slip-bobber/sucker setup off the transom of the boat. I put the sucker rod in a rod holder that aims the tip to the 11 o'clock position and engage the clicker reel and set my drag very lightly... When I leave the deep weed edge to fish further up into the flat and up to and including the inside weed edge, I hit the free spool on the sucker rod and leave the Thill/Sucker setup outside of the deep weedline.. The line pays out and drapes like a sail boat sail as you move away from the bobber... It's fishing the outside weedline, while you fish the weed flat tops, pockets and inside edge... Now, if your really smart, you left that bobber in a pocket area of the deep weedline edge... I have forgotten how many times, after each cast and figure 8, when I look back at MR. THILL, I have seen it go down... In my boat, tillersville, I engage the transom trolling motor on HIGH as I reel up the slack to where the bobber was and then set the hook.... Sometimes, under negative fish moods, and post-frontal days, you just got to leave that bobber in a pocket area and let SHAMOO look at it for a while... Edited by ddfenner 3/14/2003 1:03 PM | ||
| Krappie |
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Posts: 419 Location: Appleton, WI | |||
| Mark H. |
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| ddfenner |
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| Curly.. Flick Your Bic and melt the cuts back together... And, lets do Rays sometime for lunch... Edited by ddfenner 2/7/2003 1:49 PM | ||
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| Esoxalot |
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| spieg |
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Posts: 131 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | |||
| Don Pfeiffer |
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| ddfenner |
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| For those musky fishing river rats out there... The Lindners, Jim and Al, are using these tube baits more and more and more and more each passing season... Learn to rig the Lindy Tube woodless/weedless and float it with the current on a bobber... You will find yourselves anchored in a boat, covering lanes in the water column/river width, by casting and then letting your free spool give line as this setup floats down river... Tip the tube with small bait/scent, and just get bit... | ||
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| spieg |
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Posts: 131 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | |||
| ddfenner |
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| Actually, I use a 5 inch, salted bass style tube as a grub attachment to the 8 inch Lindy Tube treble hook. I then use Land O'Lakes bucktail scent on this trailer and have found most musky hits bite the trailer/treble... This also adds another 5 inches and now you have the lightest 13 inch musky lure on the market... Picture is worth a thousand words, but I don't have the slightest idea on how to post an attachment out here on muskiefirst... Any ideas? Edited by ddfenner 3/11/2003 4:38 PM | ||
| Esoxalot |
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| ddfenner |
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| Imagine your trigger finger is the head of the 5 inch tube. Imagine impaling a treble hook through your finger from the fingerprint through your finger nail. The head of the tube will position itself in the bend area of the treble and ride in-line with the Lindy Tube. When you walk the dog, the big tube bends one way, the little tube the other... email me at [email protected] and I can email you the .jpeg file I have showing this setup.. To the webmaster of this site, your posting of images to this board is ridiculous...  | ||
| Esoxalot |
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| spieg |
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Posts: 131 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | Here's ddfenners tiger tube mod!  | ||
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