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Location: Chicago | A black and silver giant jackpot and a Mepp's musky killer in squirrel with a gold blade, I've caught ski's on both and still have them both I bought them back in 1987. |
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Location: Bloomington, IL | Sure do. I bought a couple on my way to Canada for my first muskie fishing trip. I bought a 6" Hi Fin Trophy Minnow (Orange Tiger), a Cisco Topper ((Brown/White), and a one or two Mepps. I bought them from a bait shop in Hermantown, MN (can't remember the name).
That Trophy Minnow was magic on that first trip. Not only did I catch my first muskie on it (35") that first day of muskie fishing, but caught 3 that first day. I wound up catching 9 that trip, 7 of which were on the Trophy Minnow, capped off by a 44" the second to last day of the trip.
I still have the lure, but it was retired during the battle when the lip broke off. That 44" is the thrid largest 'ski I've caught.
Needless to say, that first trip hooked me on muskies for life!!!
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Location: Bloomington, MN | In about 1974 I bought a Marathon Muskie Houn at Klien's Sports at Evergreen Plaza in Chicago. I hated the white and red parrot head weight, so I cut it off. The lure also had weed guards and the dullest chrome plated hooks ever manufactured. I dressed it up with a tail made from cutting up a white bathing cap. Never caught a fish on that bait! On a side note, my friend caught an undersize (?25"?) on an original Bomber yellow w/ the black "arrows" crank bait. Another friend instantly declared that as a "Lunge Lure"! His turrets syndrome over that weekend enforced that bait was a "Lunge Lure". My friend (w/o the Turrets) passed away about 18 years later, and I inherited his tackle. I was on Pelican in 1995, the year of his passing, and decided to make some memory casts with his baits. When I came up to the east end of Indian Point, I knew what bait to toss. The "Lunge Lure" was snapped on, and I caught a 34" muskie, and a 24.5" walleye in two casts. That was the best back to back casts I've ever made, or will ever make. The lure will never be used again.
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Location: Eagan, MN | A red & white swim whizz and a chartreuse buchertail in 1992. I remember getting that buchertail stuck about 15' up in a tree w/ no branches on Moose Lake, WI. I had caught my first muskie on it a few weeks prior to that trip, and there was no way in hell that I was leaving it behind. As luck would have it our rented cabin had a ladder inside, so I was able to reclaim my little green cherry-buster.
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| Silver blade, purple body Mepps #5 Musky Killer bucktail |
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Location: FORT ATKINSON | Black Creeper |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | MY dad bought me two lures when I was 7. (1979) We were near the Chip and he got me a Billy Finn Bucktail and a Black Suick. I still have the hair, but my dad ended up giving the lumber to my neighbors kid in '92. I visited their cabin last summer and they had it hanging on their mantle. I came close to stealing it back.
The first lure I ever paid was a Tallywhacker when I was about 11. It has since been lost.
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Location: Southern W.Va. | My first was a lure given to me by my uncle, a "Mustang Minnow" back in about 1971 or 72. Fishing the Hughes River here in W.Va., I hung it up on a log and had to swim out to get it back. The 1st that I bought for musky was a 7" Redfin but it wasn't my 1st musky bait that I owned.
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | I remember that day well...was on my way up to Lynn Ann's Campground for a week long stay with my wife at her parent's RV. I never have seen a real live musky but heard there were some in this lake. I borrowed my uncle's musky rod prior to the trip and convinced my wife to stop at the baitshop in Woodruff that used to be in the NE lot on the corner of 51 and 47. I walked in and told the guy I was going to do some musky fishing and could he suggest a couple lures. He set me up with a yellow Mepps#5 and an orange tiger Tallywacker. Upon arrival to camp the 'locals' hooked me up with a guy who knew the lake...he stayed by himself in one of those 'scamp' trailers and stayed all summer fishing. He marked up a map for me showing me some spots to fish. That week I fished the nearby spots from my father-in-law's 15' aluminum tiller. Never did see a fish, but remember my heart pounding in anticipation. I will never forget as darkness was starting to fall and I had to get back to camp as there were no lights on the boat. It was the last night and I threw that topwater over and over as I entered the cove at Lynn Ann's. Never has a blow up, strike, or follow, but I kept throwing that darned bait just one more time, one more time, one more time, convinced that IT was about to happen. Never did that trip but it was the start of a way of life....man, this musky thing has gotten completely out of control for me...and the rest of you too, eh? |
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| Back in 1982 - Hi Fin Fooler picked it up at the local bait shop in Turtle lake WI as it Closed. It was kinda a brn perch pattern
Has not caught a thing, still have it, I had it custom'd by Stan Durst. It is only a matter of time now before we hook up. |
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | I remember probably the first 5 -- A 6" cisco Reef Hawg, A black creeper, a 9" Sucker Suick, a Eagle Tail tied by none other than George Wahl and a Harrasser. I also think I bought a "Muskie Brute" jerkbait at a T.C. MI chapter meeting at Little Jacks Cafe in NE Minneapolis in around 1989/1990.
FYI That Muskie Brute was the most appropriatly named muskie bait ever... Was hard to work. I still tend to bring it along in the boat for old times sake. I think I had a follow on it once 
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Location: Otsego, MN | Poes Giant Jackpot. Caught a few northerns on it before I began muskie fishing. Ended up with my first Muskie ever on it and have been hooked ever since. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | First musky lure was a natural sucker 9" suick my dad and I found stuck to the tip of a log just barely sticking out of the water while canoeing on Escanaba 16 years ago. . . First musky lure purchased was a perch grandma. . . Practiced casting it from shore on Rock Lake (no muskies) in Lake Mills when I was real young, but never used it for musky. My dad bought a couple Mepps #5 Musky Killers (1 bras blade/orange buck & 1 silver blade/black buck) in St. Germain at a gas station while collecting gas for the boat (we were at Fath's Big Woods Resort), and we used those that weekend on my first musky excursion. . . Caught a 34" tiger, then later caught a 42" barred ski with one of those bucktails on a little rod with 6lb. mono and a steal leader.
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Location: New Hope MN | Mepps musky killer, just like everyone else. No musky, but tons and tons of bass & pike. |
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| mepps musky killer or 6" grandma, not sure but one of those two |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Lelure Creeper & a Burt bait on the same day. Still have both. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | I don't remember the first muskie lure I bought, but I do remember the first one I owned. When I was somewhere around 8-10 years old, 1968-1970, I was given my first tackle box as a Christmas present. I had mostly terminal tackle, bobbers, etc, a Bass Oreno, Helin's Flatfish, Lazy Ike, Dardevele and in the bottom of it was an all black 10inch Suick Musky Thriller.
Dad put that lure in there as a joke. We didn't fish muskies we fished panfish. Something for the table. Things were different then. If you had a 10 horse motor that was a big motor. Chances are you rented your boat and didn't own it and the boat was usually wooden, and leaked. Rods were either bamboo canepoles or steel, fiberglass rods were new. Levelwind reels held nylon line, dacron was just coming in. Mono was stiff and like a guitar string.So a 10" suick was truely a joke lure for us. Dad just wanted to see how big my eyes got when I saw that lure.
That Suick laid in the bottom of that tackle box for years. I didn't have a rod to throw it with and no clue as to how to work it. I had no use for it, but there it stayed because I knew that someday I'd use it! Some day I'd catch the fish of my dreams on it. A slight twist there because the fish of my dreams back then were of 30 pound PIKE not muskies. (Still have not caught that pike either, I've got 1/2 way there with a 15 pound pike) Years went by I grew up and still that lure laid in the bottom of my now old tackle box. I had thrown it a couple of times but didn't like it. It just came through the water like a stick. Obviously, I still hadn't learned how to work it.
More years went by. It had come out of the tacklebox now and hung in my bachlors apt. as a decoration. More years went by and I met the love of my life and started her fishing. We found the muskie bug together. So I started buying lures but that old yet new condition Suick hung in my house. A few more years went by and Dad got sick. He was in in 80's by now and hadn't fished in years. (Sorry Dad that I didn't take you more after all the times you took me.) He had cancer.
He fought it as best he could and as his time neared we sat and talked. I asked him if he remember that old black Suick that he'd put in my christmas tackle box alll those years ago? He said he remembered it. I told him that when he was gone, if it was ok with him, I'd like to put that Suick in his casket and bury him with it. He fought back a tear and said yes.
So after he was gone, that's what I did with it. So my first muskie lure rests with my Dad and I have never owned another Suick Muskie Thriller in my life and never will. I thought it was the best way to honor and say Thank You to the man who gave me life and taught me how to live it and how to fish.
I wonder what will become of all my 500+ lures when I'm gone? I don't have any kids to pass them to.
P.S. I still have that old Flatfish. I wonder if it's worth anything now? If you don't know what a flatfish is, ask an old walleye guy.
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| I was 13 and had read a great article in Fishing facts or field and stream (I can't remember) called "the yellow boy" It was about a kid my age in Northern Wisconsin who fished all summer trying to catch a Musky with an old Globe type bait. Great article, wish I could find it again. Of course, I bought a yellow globe and it was the only bait I used one muggy August fishing Virgin Lake (Part of Three lakes Chain) I swear, every time I cast that thing out, something blew up on in. I can still see it now, the bait coming close to the boat and a wide open mouth behind it. It hit right next to the boat and the fight was on! This thing, I remember, came straight out of the water next to the boat like a cruise missil. It was a beautiful bronze color with vivid stripes. It went under the boat and cut my 30# dacron. I was hooked ever since. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Fishpoop- Great story. Makes me think about dad. . . gotta get him out more. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | i think my first musky bait was a bucktail, a black buchertail. |
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| my first bait was a Mepps musky maribou black/white |
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Location: The desert | Does stealing them from your Dad and Grandpa work? |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Sam Ubl:
Thanks for the kind comment. Um, Ubl is a rare last name. I went to school with a Jeff Ubl and his parents were Paul and Martha. Any relation? |
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Location: Iowa | A walleye colored 8" reef hawg was mine...never caught a fish on it or had even a follow...it has been part of my "benchwarmers" box for prolly 3 years now...
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| Swimm Whizz redhead with white body,1975,followed by a Creek Chub Pikie Minnow JtD. 2600 Series in Coach-Dog color with a lip bent with modifications by Niagara River Muskyman Alex Drew.
Capt. Larry D. Jones
www.mostlymuskies.com/reports.htm
Repeatability Is 90% Of The Hunt! |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | A Mepps number 5 gold squirreltail out of that musky hotspot Upper Post Lake!! |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | bucher anniversary bucktail that i recently lost to a snag on a local river :/
at the same time also bought jigs and a pack of manns jellyhoo's for some reason maybe some day ill actually fish them lol |
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Location: Stevens Point | Great stories.
I bought 5 chartruese and firetiger spinnerbaits off of M1 in the spring about 6 years ago. my friends and I caught a couple fish on them on a trip to the TFF that 4th of July. One even in the first couple of casts!
I had caught my first fish the previous august on a barrowed rod from my uncle and a borrowed creeper from a friend.
Caught a 31 and proceeded to loose a low fortys twenty minutes later after while saying "Would it be funny if we(3 rookies with barrowed gear) boat two fish and the other guys don't get any"- unlike that big fish I WAS hooked! |
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Location: Elgin, IL | This is an awesome thread. Beyond what Pointerpride mentioned (stealing baits from Dad and Grandpa), mine was a black Mepps Musky Killer in 1985. Caught my first muskie on it in N. MN. Still have it hanging in the basement somewhere... |
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| An original Ty Sennet Rough Runner from Ray's Landing (St. Germain) in 2002. Funny thing is, when I started throwing it, I called it the hawg wobbler because I just couldn't get over the look of that thing in the water after fishing for bass and walleye my whole life. Little did I know the Hawg Wobbler name was already taken......I still call it the Hawg Wobbler when I throw it though. |
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