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when a lake is on.. ITS ON!!!!

Deitz Dittrich

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Deitz Dittrich

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So, fished the green horn open on South Center today. My bud and I caught at least 70 fish today.. and weighed a 5 fish bag that went 21.17lbs!!!!

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Now heres the kicker.. we got 2nd.. our big fish was 5.5..

Winning team had 21.21 lbs.. with a 6.2lb kicker..

3rd place had 20.77!!!!!!

And now for the ahhhh moment!!!! 4th place, only paid 3 places keep in mind.. 4th place weighed I believe 19.86lbs.. Are you kidding me!!!! 19+ lbs and not cash a check!!!

KILLER!!!! I do have to admit, I thought it was over and in the bag with 21lbs.. goes to show.. its not over till all the green backs are on the scales!

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As soon as the temps start to drop, out come the buzzbaits for me. Like 'em more in fall than any other time of year frankly. Water temps in the mid-60s down through the low 50s, buzzbaits can be absolute killers. Big fish bait too. I'm heading up to the cabin for a 4-day fall bass/muskie combo platter on Thursday, and I'm picking up some buzzbaits before I go.

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As soon as the temps start to drop, out come the buzzbaits for me. Like 'em more in fall than any other time of year frankly. Water temps in the mid-60s down through the low 50s, buzzbaits can be absolute killers. Big fish bait too. I'm heading up to the cabin for a 4-day fall bass/muskie combo platter on Thursday, and I'm picking up some buzzbaits before I go.

Are they mostly a early morning or low light deal?

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Hiya -

goblue, actually, other than little tiny ones I use for river smallies, I have about 3 to my name - pike bend the bejeezus out of them sometimes and they quit working right, so I need to restock and tune some up before this weekend. smile

craigums, in my experience, the buzzbait thing is totally banker's hours - 10 to 3 midday stuff. That gets more true as the water gets colder. I think fish come out on the flats when the water warms a little, and they'll chase buzzbaits better than they will early and late. They also come up a long ways for them - can fish them in 10-12 feet of water and get hit on a clear lake... It's pretty fun.

RK

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Boy that 5.5 is a beautiful fish! Congrats on placing! 70 fish day must have been a BLAST!

If you haven't already, you really GOTTA try buzzbaits at NIGHT! Nothing like "listening" for your fish to hit.

Plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, KERSPLOOSH!!! Awesome! laugh

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Hiya -

Del, I like the squealers too. (Same with Topper Stoppers for muskies. If I can hear a Topper squeaking from 50 feet away, I'm a happy camper...)

To tune them, I first use a pliers and squeeze the rivet below the blade to the shaft so it can't spin. Then I take a needle nose, and make sure the bottom leaf on the blade where the shaft goes through it is bent at a 90-degree angle, and do the same with the collar on the rivet. I want both those surfaces flat so they make as much contact as possible. Then I take a little hook file and rough up both those surfaces a little bit. Takes about a minute, and makes them a lot more likely to squeal. Still, some do, some don't.

I've tried the car antenna thing, and also parked some in front of a fan for a couple hours. What seems to work best, if you really want to get serious about it, is hold them under the sink under running water for a while. I'm usually not that ambitious though. I just tune the blade and rough up the rivet and call it good. And, like I said, some won't squeak no matter what you do to them.

Cheers,

RK

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RK. What your take/explanation of tuning a buzzbait, other than making sure they run straight? I prefer the squeallers, but got chastised for tying a couple to the antena of the truck that were tight!

I perfer that mine run slightly to one side. That allows you to run them under things and steer them into openings.

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carmike -

Honestly I dunno what it is. I think part of it is purely practical - you can cover a lot of water with a buzzbait so they're an efficient way of getting a bait in front of fish milling around mid-depth flats, and fish will come up a long ways for them, so you can cover a pretty wide band vertically too. So they may not work *better* per se, but they work more efficiently.

That having been said, fish do love the things. I also do like walk the dog topwaters in fall too, but that's probably influenced by my using them for muskies and doing well on them this time of year.

RK

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The other upside to a buzzbait in the Fall is if it's a little cold out you are only dealing with one stout hook on a wire shank vs. 2 trebs on a WTD bait swinging 6 sharp little hooks around your hands. Dexterity drops as the temp drops.

Not that I'm speaking from a bad experience or anything...... blush

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