favorite trolling lure?

[cbrooks]

I don't think this question been ask on here before. I plan to do more trolling this year. I've got a ton of baits for trolling. The only one I've had luck with is life like pike from Dunright lures and a 10 inch beleiver jointed. Whats everybodies go to trolling lure. Whats the biggest lure you troll with? Thanks in advance.

[john skarie]

My go to cranks are an old 10" jake in rainbow trout pattern.

2 10" jointed belivers, mother of pearl and a red one with black dots.

Both have the old little rattles.

JS

[cbrooks]

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Both have the old little rattles.

JS

That was another thing I was wondering about. Do rattles help? That gives all my Gramma's baits a disadvantage over Jakes.

[Esox_Magnum]

Jakes, Beleivers and Depthraiders work fo us the limited amount we troll. If you can find the old wood Bagley DB08's they are great to.

[nater]

I had some luck trolling my 10" straight believer. If you have a crankbait that wanders out of line from time to time you have a good one. My believer does that and seems to trigger them. As for size I trolled my 14" jake on opening weekend and it got slammed. I'll be trolling that this fall for sure.

[HugoBox]

The Slammer has a heckuva nice headshake. I also pump the rod when I use it.

[50inchpig]

my favorite trolling bait will remain unnamed, my 2nd favorite is a jake, and the insanely big crankbait Box made for me will get a bunch of time in the water this fall too.

[cbrooks]

I don't have a slammer or any Bagley baits so I will need to add a couple the next time I order baits. 10 inch jakes seems to be the most popular when it comes to trolling. I do have a 14 inch jake, 13 inch beleivers and 13 inch grammas. I wasn't sure if those baits are too big but nater had some strikes on the 14 incher. I'll give them all a try this fall. Thanks for everyone's imput.

[JRedig]

Custom bucktails!

[RK]

My go to cranks are an old 10" jake in rainbow trout pattern.

2 10" jointed belivers, mother of pearl and a red one with black dots.

Both have the old little rattles.

JS

Skarie - stay out of my tackle box...

Depends on where you troll, whether or not you're bouncing rocks, how deep you need to get.

But 10" Jakes, 8 and 10" Believers (I prefer straight Believers in fall, but that's just me...), Ernies, and Bagleys are all good. Another one I've gotten to like the last couple seasons on LoTWs is a Mag Shad. The big Storm Thundersticks are pretty good too actually.

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Nick Kuhn]

The big magnum sized Rapalas are pretty good trolling lures as well. I don't know what it is, but it catches as many fish as other lures despite having less wobble and no rattle at all. It's size is nothing special either.

[cbrooks]

If I make it up to LOTW this year I'll have to bring some mag raps. Thanks for the feedback everybody.

RK, I just bought one of your books "Pro Tactics" by you and Jack Burns. What a great read. I haven't got to the chapter about trolling yet. Highly recommend this book to any muskie anglerer. You wouldn't have any other books about muskies on the sheild? I have the one with Richard Pearson but is there any other books out there you would recommend? I just started fishing LOTW this year out of the NW angle with so so luck. Looking to do more of it in the future. I figured if anybody had a good book recommendation for LOTW it would be you. Actually I would take any of your advice on sheild muskies your willing to share:)

[mainbutter]

The big magnum sized Rapalas are pretty good trolling lures as well. I don't know what it is, but it catches as many fish as other lures despite having less wobble and no rattle at all. It's size is nothing special either.

I'm at least assuming you mean the rapala magnum, and not the super shad rap, which is also supposed to be great for big esox (though I haven't had much luck)

My dad's first, second, and only muskies of his life came on the rapala magnum, in silver mackerel. We thought it'd be killer for bigger lake trout on a lake in Canada that are partial to blue shad raps as well, but the muskies chomped it pretty good.

[solbes]

Which Rapala Magnum are you guys talking about? Kinda confusing with all the lures Rapala sells now. There is an X-Rap Magnum too. But I'm assuming you are talking about the regular Rapala Magnum. It comes in a few different sizes (11, 14, 18, 22) and countdown (metal lip) and floating (plastic lip).

[john skarie]

I honestly can't think of any other books an angler would need to read than Pearson's and the one Rob and Jack wrote.

Read those and get your lures wet. You'll do just fine on any shield lake.

Back issues of Esox Angler have many great reads in them regarding other lakes and tactics which anglers south of the border can use.

JS

[Nick Kuhn]

I use an FMag18 and a CDMag22. They do make a CDMag26 but I have not seen them anywhere. The FMag18 is a great pike lure, especially along break lines.

[bisonthunder]

Grandma or Jake...

[solbes]

Thanks Nick. Good lures for large pike are my main interest.

[Jmarksman]

I like to go with the 10" Jakes as well, Belivers, and a nice custom D-10's and 14's Walleye & sucker pattern.

[Grunt L]

11" Mag Shads and 6" Super Ciscos.

James