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| How do you do it, especially this time of the year. I'm new to fishing the cold fall months for the chance at a monster.
Big lures slow?
Topwaters if the water is still a certain temperature?
Big Blades? Big Plastics?
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Location: Metro | gear my friend |
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| winter gear + live bait + heater in boat |
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| Pounders, monster dussas, big blades, big cranks, big glide baits and meat. |
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| cold beer venision sausage a warm fire. st clairs messed up. |
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| Proper gear will keep you warm--Suckers will do the rest --that is if it's too Cold to cast---But now is just about right for casting and dangling a Sucker---Heading up in 10 days myself and I hope it actually cools down a bit more. |
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| Suckers, pounders, big suicks, phantoms, supermodels, cranks |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Warm clothing, good boots, and keep casting (because we can't troll here yet)...wear your life vest!
I like gliders in the colder water because I can make 'em dance and let them sit still quite a bit in the same cast.
5" crank baits just reeled in middle speed can be great. Still toss a Weagle and hair until ice up. I rarely fish suckers because if I do I will break the law, which won't be an issue next year.
If you don't toss a Creature, you should. |
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Location: SE, WI. | SW, Sir; What the heck is a Creature??? From the black lagoon??? :)
Edited by jdsplasher 10/4/2014 5:56 PM
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Location: Minnesota. | I'll do Suicks and when I'm tired of pitching my two favs. I'll switch to a less fav. Suick!
A 10 incher maybe?? Yep....!
Good luck and stay safe in the cold weather.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | jd,
The young know not what they are missing. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | sworrall - 10/5/2014 4:53 PM
jd,
The young know not what they are missing.
does Curtis make that creature?  |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Don't think so....that was a copy of Jimmy Cairnes's and my Super Creature with a spinner attached to half the tail. Walt Fox out of Rockford was the first to make one of those, made one with the spinner in front too.....:)
I use Fliptail Lizard/Reaper tail handmade and the Fliptail Creature most of the time. Fliptail is back in business. Good to see them on the market again, I was almost out. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | sworrall - 10/5/2014 5:21 PM
Don't think so....that was a copy of Jimmy Cairnes's and my Super Creature with a spinner attached to half the tail. Walt Fox out of Rockford was the first to make one of those, made one with the spinner in front too.....:)
I used Fliptail Lizard/Reaper tail handmade and the Fliptail Creature most of the time. Fliptail is back in business. Good to see them on the market again.
ah.. gotcha. |
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Steve, you and I will never run out of creatures...got you covered:) Why you like the lizard/reaper tail, over the paddle? or don't you? Would the thump of the paddle-tail Have more advantages for water displacement / sound, versus the reaper tail? OR, does the reaper tail come through weeds better? JD
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I like the paddle tails when I go to the big 1 ounce swimmer jigs in a couple weeks on the rocks, and the twist type tails with the 1/4 to 3/8 ounce diamond head stand up jigs on the weedlines because they sink slower with less glide and fish better in the weeds.
JD makes some seriously good creatures.
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| And all creature colors are great as long as it's black.
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| "I use Fliptail Lizard/Reaper tail handmade and the Fliptail Creature most of the time. Fliptail is back in business. Good to see them on the market again, I was almost out."
Could you post a picture of these or provide a link to a picture? I am familiar with the Curtis Creature, but not these. |
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| Found it: http://shop.fliptail-lures.com/Fliptail-Creature_c5.htm
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| Steve,
What types of location are you keying on for this presentation, post turnover? Are you working them deep or shallow? Those seem like an interesting idea, I'm just curious how they've worked for you and whether or not they'd be applicable to the stuff I'm fishing here in the metro.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Weedlines, rock edges and dropoffs, and abrupt break lines of any type where Muskies reside.
Short article form 2005, I think:
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/11.11.2005/982/Of.Jigs.and... |
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Location: SE, WI. | A few of my hand poured basement morsels The bubble or spot in the paddle tails is cork, to give a dead stick approach. JD
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| If these work well, it makes me wonder if a live mud puppy wouldn't be dynamite.
I'm sure it's been tried a million times already and I am very late to the idea. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Brian, a lot of methods for catching fish are recycled. it is the craze of the bulldwag and dbl 10's right now. Old patterns will still work. I use them just about every outing. I once got my butt kicked in a musky tourney by a guy using night crawlers . Application and timing is everything. JD |
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| Curtis who? That guy was amazing in his determination using relatively small creatures in deep water for tanker fish.
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Location: SE, WI. | Ranger, Sometimes I get a a little carried away with ideas..some successfull, some flops:) 3 or 4 guys from this site are kicking some serious butt on my creatures...nice to hear that a few guys got the hang of creature fishing! Gene and a few other very good jig fisherman used to do very well on those Vilas county lakes with jigs. But, I know they used to fish the creatures all day long because that was their confidence bait. The problem with the young jig fisherman today is they just don't stick with it long enough to get confidence in the presentation. All presentations can be fined tuned for success . JD
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