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Location: New Jersey | Yesturday i was out all day. A good day by musky standards as i raised 4 fish, one being a fat 47-48" fish. Well, I was raising fish on a suick but could not get them to hit. They were lazy, but right on the bait.
My question is....... If you are raising fish on a particular type of bait, do you switch to a different bait??? I tried other lures, but the confidence bait was the suick. Maybe i should have downsized to the 9"???
NOTE: I didnt see a fish on a dawg, DR or a DDD.
I was fishing what is left of the weeds and they were coming out, which limited me to the baits i could actually throw.
What would you have done???
Thanks for the input, Rob |
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Location: Sioux Lookout On Canada | Put split shot on the split rings so the bait will slow sink and wobble. A slow spiral has worked good for me in the past. Equal weights on the ends and a heavier one in the middle, or, equal weights on the middle and rear with a heavier one on the front. Tip a hook with a piece of pork fat like bass fisherman use. Try this.
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Location: Marshfield, WI | muskynorth - 10/18/2008 12:08 PM
Put split shot on the split rings so the bait will slow sink and wobble.
Neil Michelin
It might be easier to use bell sinkers instead of split shots on the split rings. Easier to put on and remove. |
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Location: Sioux Lookout On Canada | Good point. they work too. I find split shot are faster. I have stuffed the split shot into the circle of the ring before... they may fall out but this works really fast. |
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| It sounds like you're fishing fairly shallow water, so I'd toss a s-l-o-w side to side topwater like a weagle.
I absolutely despised the things originally because I absolutely cannot stand hype. Just drives me nuts. However, I've seen way too many days where weagles, and weagle type surface baits will produce strikes when nothing else will.
For whatever reason, that slow swooshing action just eventually is too much for neutral and even negative fish to handle and they can't help themselves. Lots of times they'll come cartwheeling out of the water and just completely miss these type baits, but if what you're using isn't making things happen, you've got to try something, and a strike means at least a chance at a fish. No strike means zero chance. |
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| Since its fall, I would suggest to keep throwing that suick but have a sucker over the side of the boat. Many times artificials bring them up to the boat but they will grab the sucker instead. Kdawg |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Pitch a jig at 'em, too.
Sometimes what folks think is 'hype' is what's actually happening. The Weagle is an example. If they are looking at the Suick, but a slow and low I'd for sure come back to those fish during a minor or major. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Two words: Death Rise |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | I guess I'm the oddball, I'd throw a spinnerbaitbut being that the follows were slow and low. I'd throw a more standard size bait and stay away from the "hubcaps" everyone seems to be throwing . Try a double bladed #7 or #8 colorado bladed 7" or 8" bucktail fished a little slower and lower Plenty of flash and vibration and with the twin blades you can still kinda slowroll this bait.
For what it's worth
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Location: Medford, WI | Rob, this happened to me this past weekend as well...suick was really moving them. Had a few follows on a curly sue (and one on a 2-pounder that was about a whopping 30-inches!!!); but anyways, I threw the weagle when it was calm and had a strike. The fish actually came back on it twice after missing. Weighting the suick may be a good idea or even changing colors. Colors have seemed to be a big thing for us this fall. On a lake where natural colors are usually the only ticket, this fall, almost everything has been on bright colors (orange, firetiger, etc).
And yes, a sucker is always a good idea if you can have multiple rods out. Just keep plugging away and you'll figure them out.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | A lot of good suggestions, here, and a lot of them I've tried. My first thought is to always wait until a significant weather change. The most ovious one is sunset. Come back to these non-eaters in the low-light situation, and their mood changes dramatically. Reading the attitude of the fish is a must. If the fish actually took even a small swipe at the lure, change to a lure that has a totally different presentation that you just threw. I just had this experience on 10/18/2008. A high 30's snapped a few times at my bucktail, then turned away. I had my brother throw his Shallow Invader with excessive twitching. The fish slammed it. |
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| I would try throwing a Lunker City Slug-Go (9in) in the color of your choice. I like the weedless idea for these conditions and I am onboard with the sucker idea as well. |
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