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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I dont fish these things at all..I mean if I make 10 casts every 10 years I'm suprised. I bought a small one this year and a regular the friday before the Kly. I tried the regular for a bit, but have no clue what I'm doing with it...I tried twitching....just cranking it in......pulling up and letting it drop. I'm clueless...what do you BD users do, especially over weed beds?
I believe this has been covered before, but due to this being fall, I dont think it will hurt by covering it again. Besides, I have AADS...so bear with me.
Edited by Gander Mt Guide 11/2/2004 4:01 PM
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I tell clients all the time that as long as its in the water you are working a bulldawg the right way. The presentations are unlimited. The majority of the time in the fall I use a lift and fall retrieve bouncing it all the way back.
I have had luck working them like pull baits, twitching them, and using a straight retrieve. Just last weekend I had a client have a 30#er come screaming in at a shallowdawg he was retrieving at a fairly rapid pace just under the surface.
Just keep them wet and your doing it right! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | If you snap em right, they will work like a glider, I also smoke them up over the tops of weed beds, and crawl them along the bottom. you could just pull em in with long sweeps of the rod. I've caught all my bulldawg fish using these retrieves. You WILL get your confidence level up after your first fish. Also, they dont always smash the bait. Look at the sides of your dawgs while bending them. do you see any slash marks in the plastic? If so, you got a hit and were sleeping on the switch. ANYTHING that feels unatural during the retrieve, SET THE HOOK! I've had some fish on that felt like I was fouled with weeds.
Hope this helps.
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Location: Roscoe IL | nwild - 11/2/2004 4:02 PM
I tell clients all the time that as long as its in the water you are working a bulldawg the right way. The presentations are unlimited. The majority of the time in the fall I use a lift and fall retrieve bouncing it all the way back.
I have had luck working them like pull baits, twitching them, and using a straight retrieve. Just last weekend I had a client have a 30#er come screaming in at a shallowdawg he was retrieving at a fairly rapid pace just under the surface.
Just keep them wet and your doing it right!
How eloquently put!
You rock Norm! |
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| The middle sized Bull Dawg sinks at about a foot a second. THe Mag at a foot and a half per second. I count them down to just above the shallowest weeds and work them in like a jerkbait. Let them sink about 20 ft out from the boat and then rake them up to the boat. Many times a hit feels like extra weight. Set the hook!!!! Even if it isn't a fish it doesn't hurt anything. I have found that they don't work well at under 50 degrees surface temp.(last year anyway) but with all the feedback I''ve read here I'm going to try them again in colder water.
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Location: lansing, il | i throw mostly mag dawgs, they are the most versatile lure out there you can crank em in fast you can jig them, you can slow retreive them. i have my best luck working them fast and furious with lots of snaps and pumps. they will wear ya down but they will reward you also. i also have caught fish jigging it up slowly off of a sand or rock bottom. anywone not happy with their dawgs throw them my way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love em!!!! probablly the #1 bait i own. |
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Location: Chicago | After reading about all of the fish caught on bull dawgs and listening to the winning team at tourneys using bulldawgs. I decided
I would use them a lot this fall. I have had fish up on them, have them hit the back end of the bait leave scrapes in the rubber.
One thing is to set the hook on anything that feels like a bump. I was fishing a new lake and was hitting Rocks and such, we came
to a new area and I thought I hit weeds only to see a muskie holding onto my bait as I was really in my weed clump, I set the hook
and didn;t catch the fish.
I fished them last weekend and had the tail bit off on my new bait.
I think they work, just need to connect!
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Location: Des Moines IA | Fished em for the fist time in Canada last year..... Like he said if it's in the water and it's moving it's working...... Awesome bait!!!! Definately a confidence bait for me! |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | Don't forget a trailer blade on em, make your own, simple to do, more often than not they will eat em and not just follow!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | What's up with the trailer blade? I saw Tuffy1 last weekend at the Kly and he had a BD with a spinner....how's that set up? Anybody got pics? |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Why are you checking my baits out suckaaa!!!  |
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Location: Roscoe IL | One thing I did forget to mention, is to swap out the split rings. I never had a failure but why take the chance, I replace them with Wolverine's just to be sure.
Take a look at the ones that come on a new bait, they just seem a little thin and small for my taste.
Then again I do this to any Mepps bait, and most off the shelf baits I buy. Most of the higher priced custom baits this is not needed.
Just a thing with me... |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Joel....a little hard to miss that big heep of plastic, it was 1/2 the size of your boat!
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Location: Germantown, WI | Gander,
I've just started fishing Bulldawgs this year. I had a hit from small one at boatside and raised a mid to upper 40" class fish this Summer. This Fall I have been fishing the Dawgs a lot. I've boated one musky 31" and several Northerns all on Waukesha county lakes. I've tried fishing them like a crankbait a bit, but I really like them fished like a jerkbait (or pullbait). Unless you are using the Shallowdawg you'll probably have trouble fishing over thick weeds. I've been using them on the deep weed edge as well as on any breaklines, usually 8-10' and deeper. Keep throwing them, especially when nothing else will work. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
TomR
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | I still have a pretty good cache of old style dawgs with the rear treble buried, take a bigger heavier duty spinner rig like one of a large beetle spin, straighten it out, hook it to the buried portion of the rear treble and walla ol Jeds a millionaire!!! Use different blades from 7-8 colorados for slow fall to willows for rippin, colors use your imagination but red blades on that cisco pattern ought to be illegal!!:) For the newer dawgs you could use a twist tie to tie it on once you bury the wire that you use to hook into the dawg, play around a little and get the right fit. There are alot of ways to get em to stay on but that is the key, get em to stay on the bait!! Dave |
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Location: ft wayne, IN | BREAKING NEWS...  ..There is a whole new line of Dawgs coming out this winter w/ new colors/combos/holoform like eyes, etc...look for them at the shows or contact Brad now for orders......pullem, jerk em, whip em, twitch em, whatever you do they can produce for you on a tough day if worked erratically. They do well trolling as well but weight them down! |
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