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Location: Ohio | I just got a Jointed Believer to try out, hope the fish like it also  |
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Location: Honor, MI | The particular one I'm using at the time! If I didn't have enough confidence in it I wouldn't waste time throwing it. |
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Location: Wausau | My favorite lure to use is a 'Pounder' for many reasons...confidence, lateral line effect, profile, depth control, targeted fish, bait-fish resemblance, calling power, etc. |
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Location: Ontario | I remember the 'aqua-phone' findings on the Dawg Andy, and was shocked how these baits rumble down there. I threw mine more last year (one white, one black) and will do it more this year again. I'm thinking the same thing, that bait has awesome presence in the water, like you said, 'calling power.' The last couple years baits without actual rattles but major thump (13" Grandma, 10" Hooker, Plow, 13" beleiver w/no rattles) have been tops. I figure anything remotely close to the Pounder is gonna get called in and I don't see many fish nipping or following this bait, it'll be getting dusted, no questions asked. I'll watch a ten pound laker rise 45 feet under the ice to hit a three inch tube in the winter on the graph..they can feel it coming. And that's in 80 FOW, under 30 inches of ice with a foot of snow on top of that in total darkness. We see it plain as day all winter on the graph. The Pounder will call them in. Last year we had a couple good fish in heavy current in 55 degree water call in on #13's in front of huge bootails that were't shy, I'm thinking they'll hit a Pounder the same way. |
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Location: Ohio | Bull Dawgs and Monster Shad for Mr. Muskie but my best all around Lure that has caught me the most fish is a Black & Silver Shad Rap, I have caught everything BUT a Muskie on my Black & Silver Shad Rap |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | It's a toss up, #8 double bladed bucktail or a 8" Manta. Both have been good as a confidence bait for me.
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Tough call to pick just one, so I'll cheat. A Believer or Phantom. Then maybe a creeper type just for the fun of fishing them. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Tough call to pick just one, so I'll cheat. A Believer or Phantom. Then maybe a creeper type just for the fun of fishing them. I like the believers because they're versitile, cast or troll them. Use them from the surface down to about 20 feet. I like phantoms because I like to work glidebaits. I like to make them dance, get the beat and rythem going, breathe some life into them. Creepers for the same reason, make them come alive as they crawl across the surface and wait for something big to eat them.
Sorry, didn't mean to double post.
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | Well It boils down to my favorite trolling bait and favorite casting bait. I have seen the word versatile used several times here. Remember this A jack of all trades is just a jack. In my many years of Musky and Pike fishing I have found that there is not one single lure that is tops in every department. Not even close. For me the best trolling lure of all time is the 6 inch Loke hands down over any other lure ever built . I have near 400 Muskies caught on Lokes since 1996. The one pictured here took over 70 of them and its still going strong 13 years later. I built my favorite Casting lure by accident trying to make a Crankbait I developed the Little Claw Twitcher. These 4 lures pictured have taken over 200 Muskies combined. The Tan perch one has 63 to its credit and has been recoated twice. I have one fish in my entire life on a Jake, zero on a double 10, 7 fish on Bulldawgs, 2 on Believers, 3 on Grandmas(all 13 inch models) The only Bucktail I have ever done real well with is the double #8 Shumway flasher. If I had to pick one I would cheat and take two. a LITTLE CLAW AND AN OLD LOKE. Kingfisher
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Location: The desert | Magic8Ball - 5/17/2009 8:31 AM
How do you fish the Suick mostly? I haven't read enough on this site YET, to figure it out. Strictly a jerk Bait?
I like to burn mine over weed beds. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Just 1 would be a Wades Wobbler, but the Glittertails may knock that to #2 this year. |
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | Nothing better than an all black Hawg Wobbler if/when you can fish it, morning noon night. Awesome bait on Vermilion west end over the tops of shallow weeds. Works great over shallow rocks also. Gotta be patient as it is SLOW but if you know where/how to find active fish they will kill this thing. Many large 53-55 inchers caught in last 2-3 years by myself and others I know. So, can anyone help me figure out how to add a pic or two on here? Gotta downgrade my pics or something, file size always too large?
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| As a pure favorite, undoubtedly a Gutsch creeper, but I rarely if ever get a chance to use it.
As a clear fish producing choice in a LOT of different conditions, it would be bait X. I almost always go to bait X early in an outing if they are hard to find. I can fish bait X for the whole day and not have any doubts about bait choice. I might change out of boredom but not out of any real sense of urgency, nor the idea that I am upgrading.
Yup, give me bait X, or let me dig through Doug Johnson's tackleboxes until I find something fun! |
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Location: Chicagoland | wow no one has said it: MEPPS! particularly the tandem giant killer |
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Location: Moline,IL | Jointed Depthraiders in both sizes have put the biggest fish in the boat for me. |
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Location: Antioch, IL | Doesn't matter what my favorite is. The fish's opinion in the one I care about. |
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| The Rubber Dubber Baby... its a homemade swim bait that is a 1,000x tougher than a dawg and a fraction of the cost. During the 2007 Musky Alliance tournament in Eagle River the bait out fished any other bait used by all 1,107 contestants. The baits creator won the tournament with 5 fish boated, i took second with four, my father (and teammate) would have won if he would have had the right pole. That weekend alone the Rubber Dubber boated 14 muskies between 3 boats. Its a sweet bait. My favorite part about it is that you can rip it to shreds and glue it right back together and it still swims the same. Its nice!! |
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| Two or three of anything with a lot of alcohol in it.
I like to add a teaser, in the form of paying with those using a $50 bill, and always leave a $2 tip on the bar. |
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| Are Rubber Dubber Lures anywhere online? Curious what they look like. |
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| nclaker - 5/27/2009 10:09 PM
Are Rubber Dubber Lures anywhere online? Curious what they look like.
They aren't online...yet. I will take some photos of the four i just picked up. If you are interested in purchasing them i can give you the contact information of the guy that makes them. They look very similar to a bulldog, different material though. They are softer, and if they do rip, they can be easily glued and repaired to work like new. Did i mention they aren't as expensive as the bulldogs. I through the same bait for 8 fish, for they way they hit plastic, thats pretty good. |
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| Info would be great ... thanks MuksyMike! Would love to see the pic's. |
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Location: Ohio | MuskyMike51 - 5/28/2009 9:38 AM
nclaker - 5/27/2009 10:09 PM
Are Rubber Dubber Lures anywhere online? Curious what they look like.
They aren't online...yet. I will take some photos of the four i just picked up. If you are interested in purchasing them i can give you the contact information of the guy that makes them. They look very similar to a bulldog, different material though. They are softer, and if they do rip, they can be easily glued and repaired to work like new. Did i mention they aren't as expensive as the bulldogs. I through the same bait for 8 fish, for they way they hit plastic, thats pretty good.
I am interested in purchasing info on the Rubber Dubber |
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