casting

[Guest]

Whats the best lure to use for casting? I've use lots of different types. Whats the best?Thanks for your replies!

[AaronM]

If I was ever forced to only have two lures in my tackle box, I would take any type of Frenzy lure and a Smithwick Super Rouge. These are the two lures Ive had the most success with.

fishingfrenzy

[This message has been edited by fishingfrenzy (edited 05-08-2002).]

[Steve Foss]

Well, this came out of a fishing magazine 20 years ago. You take a large floating Rapala (I don't know the size, but it's about 8-10 inches long to start), cut off the back end leaving about an inch of the body behind the second treble hook. Paint red nail polish in a strip on the bottom/sides of the bait along the rear inch or so. Meant to mimic a minnow with its tail bitten off. Twenty years ago I made three of them: Black/gold, blue/silver, perch. I still have them and they still are hugely hot baits for pike and bass. Steady retrieve or twitch them or work them like jerkbaits. Depends on how active the fish are. I've had by far the most pike on the perch pattern. Toss 'em out there and hang on!

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[Guest]

If we're still focussing on pike and muskies, I'd have to throw bucktails and big spinner baits.

Altho intended to target pike and muskies, I have taken some very nice walleyes doing this. In fact, I've only caught one walleye bigger than my accidental eyes when I've been fishing walleyes on purpose. (That's an awkward sentence -- hope it makes sense.)

[DUCKJ]

FOR ME IT WOULD BE A BLK/WHT POE'S
NUTTIN LIKE TOP WATER.

HAPPY HUNTING
DUCK

[delmuts]

i'm partial to a spinner bait or a weedless spoon. ( i spend alot of time working weed edges!) just use what you like to throw and have confidence in. del

[Steve Foss]

Another good technique I use an awful lot is to pull bass-sized spinnerbaits tipped with sucker minnows. Chartreuse color, usually. I use bass sizes because big pike will hit them, but they're small enough to appeal when pike are shut down and I'm slow rolling them through deep cabbage or off rocky breaks. They'll hit these when I'm just getting follows on other lures. Stinger hook sometimes needed on the spinnerbait if they're really striking short, but I try to avoid that in the weeds.