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Location: Wausau/Phillips WI | My 1st was from Pat Dewitts Bait Bucket in Sayner. My Grandpa took me down there and bought me a Marathon Slim Jim black bucktail. I think it was around 1965. He gave me all his old baits a couple years later when he couldn't musky fish anymore. Pat also gave me a couple baits made by her dad, Joe Froelich. |
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Location: Minneapolis,Mn | Big Black Arbogast Jitterbug ! |
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| M&G spinnerbait and silver Shad rap from Ashland Wisconsin Wallmart Sept 07 |
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Location: mpls | 1978 , I was 10 years old and spent my allowance on a small Perch colored Suick, caught my first Muskie with a couple of days later 
Joe
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Location: Twin Cities | Black top raider, caught my first muskie on it too about two weeks after that. Someday i'll frame it and put it on the wall or something fun like that. |
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| Radke Pike Minnow |
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| 1988 for me - Black/Nickle Super Buchertail (stamped into the blade) - still have it |
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| Musky Hawk. White/red silver blades. |
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| A topraider that i got signed by joe bucher when my dad took me to a seminar of his when I was six. Still one of my go to baits.
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | The first bait I actually bought was a Topraider, the first baits I ever owned are two that are made in my hometown of Antigo. The Mepps Muskie Killer I got from a friend who was the sales rep during that time and a variety of Suicks in all different sizes and colors from Steve Suick himself. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | My first "fishing trip" ever was in my late teens when I was asked to join some friends to head up to wabigoon in sept 1986. None of the team really skilled as far as muskies goes as they were mostly experienced in walleyes smallies and pike. My experience was limited lm bass, perch and bluegills. They offered some tips and I headed over to Hermans sporting goods and picked up a 6.5' fenwick trigger stick, an abu Garcia 6500graphite, some 30# musky master Dacron, and four baits: mepps Muskie killer (natural color), black suick, brown fudally stump hawg and a green perch eddie bait. In retrospect that turned out to be very solid start. No skis that trip but a sweet 45" pike. Only 2 casualties on tv 20+ years since. The eddie bait through heavy use etc split lengthwise and the rod fell victim to a car door. All baits ha e produced muskies in subsequent years and yes my gang has de eloped a much higher level of Muskie skills.
To that group of guys who today still fish together I have to say thanks to the "dotheads"
Edited by KARLOUTDOORS 3/1/2009 11:14 PM
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | About 15+ years ago, I went to a shop in Edwardsburg, Michigan called Lunker's. I had gone out a couple times with my dad and used his equipment. I was young and has some extra cash...about $200+. I walked out of that store spending almost everything I had on 12 muskie baits. The most expensive at that time was a 12" AC Plug in blue/silver/white. Not sure if any of you know what the lure looks like but very interesting and different.
I caught my first muskie on that bait. It hit about every bit of 4 feet from the boat and flew through the air right over the corner of my boat. That is when the addiction started and look at me now...I will be giving a muskie seminar at that very store this weekend. Pretty cool and brings back lots of memories. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | 9" Suick in the grey sucker color. I purchased the bait for a Canadian trip in 1970. The pike absolutely destroyed the bait so I no longer have it.  |
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Location: So. Illinois | I purchased a black mepps muskie killer but with the intention of fishing for large pike. The first bait I purchased with the intention of fishing for Muskie was a Perch colored Rapala Super Shad Rap. At the time, I thought the size was rediculous, now it is one of the smaller baits in my box. |
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Location: Grand Rapids MN | Black/Orange Windel's Musky Harasser with willow blade and single tail. I later bought a brass/yellow of the same thing. Threw these on the Mississippi from shore for years. I still remember my next few lures: 10" Red/white suick, 8" Orange/Yellow Reef Hawg, Jackpot. This is all I used for years. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A Suick. Still have it, somewhere. It was black and white. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Black and Silver Mepps Tandem Musky Killer. |
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| Assorted Daredevil spoons, ie, classic red & white, yellow w/ red five of diamonds, cracklin frog, Red Eye Wigglers, etc, Jitter bugs, several Rapalas, some assorted spinnerbaits, both in-line and safety-pin sytle, of different brands and sizes. Some of which I still have those original baits...others..have made their way from my tackle boxes over the years into the grubby hands of some of my cousins, some lost to snapped lines, etc... |
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Location: Madison, WI | black and orange bulldawg, lost it after my 3rd cast on a backlash... Pretty much summarizes my first few years of musky fishing |
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| I bought A 6" southbend inline spinner I think it was a rizzo tail, silver blade white and silver rubber skirt, never even got a look from ANY fish. Then my dad insisted I get a bait that was shaped like a fish so I got a fire tiger jake 3 trips later with a different bait and a better spot I landed a 30" er. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Fun topic... the memories...
Black Gooch's Tallywacker: First muskie C&R, from a dock at Spider Lake Lodge, Sawyer Co., WI... fishing solo.
The insidious disease stemmed from there. She has grown into a raging beast that can only be tamed by ice and snow.
aNDY
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Location: madison wisconsin | Magruter - 3/2/2009 10:13 AM
black and orange bulldawg, lost it after my 3rd cast on a backlash... Pretty much summarizes my first few years of musky fishing :)
I hear that Magruter. Isn't it funny how that works? |
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| Very cool thread. I'm amazed at how many of us had the Perch Suick! 7" perch in 1975. Still have the bait and rod/reel . 5'3" fenwick Lunkerstik and a Zebco Cardinal 4. Ahhh, simpler times for sure. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | bucher tail |
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Location: Seymour, WI | My Dad was the one who got me interested in musky fishing. I can tell you all of the musky baits that he had in his multi species tackle box. 7" sucker colored Suick, 6" Bobbie Bait, 6" Creek Chub Pikie, Cisco Kid, Mepps muskie killers, silver blade, natural tail. His favorite bait was a # 6 white Rooster tail. All of these baits were thrown with a small Abu bait caster with a light action bass rod & 17lb mono.
He fished out of a small alum boat with a 7 hp johnson.
One of the things that got me hooked on musky fishing was a story he used to tell about casting out the Suick only to get a terrible backlash. He spent a long time getting the backlash picked apart while the Suick floated back to the boat. When finally reeled in all of the slack from the backlash, a musky hit the suick boat side as soon as he moved the bait. He loved to fish N. Twin and we raised and caught some nice muskies there before he lost interest in fishing.
The first musky baits I bought myself we definately Mepps musky killers. Still use them quite a bit today.
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| A Bobbie bait in 1982! Wow,... seems like yesterday. Cught my first legal that day which at that time was 30'' if I recall correctly. Jason |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Poes Giant Jackpot, used to watch Simply Fishing when I was younger and I thought those hits were so cool. It still is working and has taken many fish. Still be best working walk the Dog bait I've ever owned, I've never had a Jackpot like this one. |
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Location: Minneconia | Mepps #5 Musky Killer nickel blade purple hair. Caught my first muskie that day within a half hour, lost another an hour later, then didn't catch another one until the next year. Lost the bait the same day when my Abu backlashed, snapped my 30# Fireline, and sailed into the lake. All in all a very memorable day and I haven't been the same since:) |
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| 9" Perch Grandma
Casted it, casted it, casted it some more. Ripped it, jerked it, straight retrieved it, cranked it down and twitched it. Casted it until I wore moons i the plastic and the paint started to peel off. Then I trolled it a bunch of times. To this day I have not caught a single fish on that stupid lure. Finally sold it at the swap for $5.
That bait was cursed, man. |
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Location: Elgin, IL | Wooden Creek Chub Pikie. Red with white body.
Still fish it. Still works. 
Good thread..........
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