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| Ok, so I've been seeing a major trent in the success of BullDawgs in my area and I realized that I don't really fish them that much. I think a part of the reason why is that there is an enormous color selection to choose from and i'm not to quite sure which patterns would benefit me the most. So I was just wondering how you guy's go about slecting the patterns you use. Is there some basic concept that I should follow when selecting my colors ? |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | LOTW Perch, White, Black, Black/Orange, Walleye, Orange Tail Walleye, Black/Gold, Black Silver, Holo Bluegill, Holo Walleye ,Cisco, Motor Oil, Purple, Red, all colors that work for us on our home lakes and about anyplace we have tried them. How you work them I think get more fish than color at times. We like to rip them and do well at home other places a steady retrieve is all thats needed on other lakes. |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | What I typically look for in colors when buying any bait is a color that's similar to colors on other baits that I catch a lot of fish on or have confidence in. If it works on one bait in a particular body of water, there's no reason to think it won't work on another bait. After that I tend to look at more natural colors that might imitate forage that the fish are already seeing. That being said, some of the wild off the wall colors can also be very effective. The biggest thing in my opinion is to buy a color(s) that you're going to have the most confidence in when you snap it on the end of your leader.
On Bulldawgs and other swimbaits, I can tell you that anything with some shade of brown as a dominant color should do well. These are some of the better sellers for a reason.
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Location: Wausau, WI | Match the Hatch.......That and use any color that you have done well on. |
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Location: Michigan | I kind of go by the theory of 'match the hatch' and also base it on the water color. If I fish a clear lake with shad or cisco in it I use a white/cisco colored dawg. If I fish a dirty lake with suckers or carp in it I use dawgs with a lot of orange and brown. Or just don't think about it too much and get a black/orange, walleye, creamsicle, and a cisco pattern. If I had to pick one pattern though it would have to be a walleye/sucker pattern as brown seems to work everywhere. |
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Location: big cove tannery pa | I tend to go with "match the hatch also" I fish a riverwith alot of suckers and walleye in it so brown works best for me. also cisco and a black dawg u cant go wrong with. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Perch, Walleye and Sucker. You can't go wrong with any of those colors... solid performers for a reason. |
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| Still having problems with my dawgs falling a part. Had the lead head come out of my new dawg I just bought. What is with the new dawgs? Thought this was fixed. Sent an email off last week to Musky Innovations to get it replaced but no reply yet. Not real happy about my lures or the customer service. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Walleye...but we all know muskies don't eat walleyes so i don't know why thats always at the top of everyones list  |
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| colors have nothing to do with what they are eating or not.
do you ever see a real baitfish swimming with a black body and a orange tail?
good lures colors is a thing,bait fish colors is another thing
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| Hot colors and natural colors. I also look for contrast. What's gonna stand apart from the crowd. Have done really well during the cisco spawn using bright colors and the same goes for the local "shad" lake. I like to "unmatch the hatch" on occasion. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I have tons of dawgs but the ones that seem to get bit the most and in the water the most are:
black/orange tail...great in clear water and in dark water... fish love em
Walleye/white belly/pearl tail....sweet color
holo cisco I think it's called, blueish with sparkles and white tail...great on cisco lakes
golden sucker....mmmm yummy.
those 4 to me and you'd be set in any water w any forage.
how and where it's being presented is more important than color imo..but the ones above i know work...
Edited by BNelson 4/9/2010 1:18 PM
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Consider shades and contrast of color, similar to what Jonesi had to say. The details are for us to grow confidence, but underwater, especially being ripped, it's the shades and contrast that will catch their eye.
Walleye is hard to beat on any water, so is the pearl - I even like jet black! Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think there's a color you could go wrong with by MI. . . Just consider your water clarity and go from there.
Edited by Sam Ubl 4/9/2010 12:14 PM
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