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Location: Illinois | Taking a week long trip there next summer, most likely July. What are the best lures for that time? PM me if preferred. Thanks. |
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Location: oswego, il | Black and silver bucktail, a good rotating tail topwater, a shallow twitchbait and a shallow jerkbait like a suick. |
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| Depends on where but for most of the northern section, except clearwater bay.
Bucktails - double's or singles - silver for sure, and combo with silver with chartreuse, gold-orange - for tail, I like maribou with some flash in it, black w green, black on black, and a white tail or black. I fish there once a year but have friends who fish it year round. Lots of youtube videos up there, watch them all.
Shallow raider - most people throw this in perch pattern
Super Shad rap - silver
Top raider - loon
Suicks - dont fish them, haven't seen many fish them up there either but I am sure people do, probably catch more than myself as well.
I don't switch baits too often |
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Location: Almond, WI | Odd detail we noticed this year: the week we were up they preferred long, narrow profile bucktails. One of our guys had a 4 fish day on a homemade dbl 7 with an oversized extra long tail, I caught two and lost one on a Ghosttail, another of our guys caught 3 muskies and the biggest pike on a 7/10 stacked blade bucktail. |
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Location: West Central WI | It's always good to have a single hook spinner like a Bucher Slopmaster to throw back into the reeds to pull muskies out. I always have about 5 in my tackle box with me at all times up there because they get chewed so often. Swap out the original tail with something 6-8" long in green or white. I also use them over rocks and around wood if I don't want to catch a treble hook. The biggest muskie my brother ever saw up there (50+) followed a Slopmaster out of thick reeds, but didn't didn't bite. Came back an hour later and pulled it out again but no bite. Pike love them too. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | double 10s, double 9s, zig zag topwater, prop topwaters, minnow baits like 9" big games, spinnerbait or 2 |
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Location: MN | BNelson - 10/19/2018 9:26 AM
double 10s, double 9s, zig zag topwater, prop topwaters, minnow baits like 9" big games, spinnerbait or 2
Will the big game withstand the rocks. I used two other brands this year and knocked the lips out or broke them off. |
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Location: Aurora | NathanH - 10/19/2018 4:39 PM
Will the big game withstand the rocks. I used two other brands this year and knocked the lips out or broke them off.
If memory serves, big game has another line of baits that are molded (not balsa) with circuit board lips. When they first came out, reports from loyal big game users stated you could hammer a nail with them and they'd keep comin back for more. Haven't heard much since and i can't recall if they ever held the coveted "Bait of the Week" status. |
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Location: oswego, il | How is the action compared to say a crane? I had a couple a long time ago and I wasn't impressed. I assume the ones you guys are talking about are different? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | circuit board lips hold up well to the rocks...great action on them. |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | Anyone have pics of the "circuit board" lip Big Games? |
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| Don't go up there without at least a couple Mepps Muskie Killers in black nickle and black orange. Ditto a couple 700 Series Buchertails. |
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