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Location: Holly, MI | The most classic pike lure of all time is the red and white Daredevil. Spoons in general come to mind when casting for pike.
How come there is never much discussion on spoons for muskie? Does anyone use them? What do you do with them? Just cast and reel, flutter, reel-twitch..reel twitch ?
I'll be trying two large spoons this year The Williams Wobbler and the Big Doctor spoon. Who else uses them? Good lure? Help! |
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Location: Washington, PA | I've used them, caught a few muskies on them too. Seems I've caught only one pure, two or three tigers on them, don't know if that means anything. What I would do is throw them, straight retrieve a few feet, then a flutter. Actually not a bad bait, use them to flutter through areas of heavy current on the rivers. They give off a lot of flash, which is never a bad thing. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I have used spoons in the month of June when the muskies are comming off the weeds edges and working the flats.
So much water to cover and spoons seem to work for me at this time. I will usually troll multiple spoons in search of cruzin muskies.
I don't use them much but have caught fish on them in the past.
Firetiger was the best color in the large size daredevil. |
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| Read Steve Wickens' article on spoons @:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/strike.zone/Spoons.html
Mr. Wickens uses spoons very successfully in his trolling techniques on Canadian waters. I would also add that they can be equally effective casting. For this approach I highly recommend Johnson's and Rapala weedless spoons in their largest sizes. Straight retrieve, twitched, fluttered, you name it. Add a trailer like pork frogs, zoom worms, mister twister single & twin tails too. Great in slop, cabbage, pads, timber and open water. Add a swivel because they can add twist to your line if fished a little too fast.
My go-to bait for cold-front busting, in bluebird conditions or in current has often been a spoon. My faves are the Silver or Firetiger Johnson's with a zoom worm (yellow/flake) and the Rapala in firetiger with Mr Twister twin tail (black, white or brown/orange). If you're fishing the weedy, stained and shallow flowages of NW Wisconsin like I do, they are a must in your arsenal.
BTW, my thumbnail pic is a spoon musky from '95.
Happy Spoonin'! |
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Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | Lobi, they are too cheap too be an effective Musky lure.They are totally uncool looking, and only a fisherman born before 1950 would even think of using them.Well, I was born before 1950, I,m not cool, and cheap also works for me.First 4 Muskies I boated were caught on burning spoons across the tops of weed beds, years ago, and we have continued to put Muskies in the boat with them.We reel them fairly fast with some change of direction, but never have tried letting them stop and flutter.Five of Diamonds,yellow with the black diamonds has been our top spoon at Sabaskong.Have also done well with them off of points, besides our usual weed beds.If, I sat down, and started adding up what lures produced the most Muskies in our group, I think Spoons are still going to be number one, even though we don,t use them as much ,now days. |
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