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Location: Northern Illinois | I've probably watched about a thousand YouTube musky fishing videos in the last year and I've seen maybe two where they were using walk the dog top water lures. Have they gone out of style? Too much work for little or no gain? What do you guys think? |
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Location: E. Tenn | Just cuz it's not all over YouTube doesn't mean they "don't work".. I'd agree with your initial observation that they just went out style, especially with the wane of the Weagle craze.
How many YouTube musky fishing videos out there feature the venerable Mepps Aglia #5? (not the Musky Killers, or Giant Killers) |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I like the Weagle I have two Weagle's in the 8" and one 10" they pull up fish when nothing else is working however the fish miss them and are lousy hookers. I don't use them here at home (Colorado) with low density water if I finally get a hit only to have them miss is a no go. And when I get up North it's late fall I use both Jerkbaits and Crankbaits to walk the dog under the surface and that works well for me. Mepp's Angila #5 I had one as a teenager I caught and kept the last Muskie I would kept in 1979. Caught some under sized Muskie and Northerns on it too plus what ever my grandpa caught on it too. It has Gold blade black blacktail with a red feather and thin wire hook guards. Two of the hook guards broke off and from catching fish and hitting stumps the hooks were too blunt to hold a edge. So it's in a shoe box retired with a Johnsons Silver Minnow my dad caught a caught a large muskie on and my dad's old Paw Paw Frog from when he was a kid. |
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| I missed a hook set on one of Rabskas this year. Absolutely love WTDs still, even if they are tricky on the actual hooking part. |
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