Bait shops?

[whitewolf6647]

Does anyone kow of any bait shops in the ALex area that sells 9-14 inch suckers? I want to try quick strike rigs this year for ski's when the season opens and no place around here sells the big ones the biggest ones I can get arond here are 6-7 inches MAX. ALso my wife likes to come fishing and she loves slip bobber fishing but doesn't like to cast for 8 hours in a row fishing so I figured what better way to get her her first muskie than on a big sucker and quick strike rig while I cast. Any help would be great thanks.

[barnyard]

You won't find suckers that large for sale in Minn, that's more of a "Wisconsin thing".

Tom B

[guideman]

"Live bait Kills Muskies"

Save a muskie, smoke a sucker...YUMMMMmmmmmy

"Ace"

[currdogg5]

Koeps Bait shop carries very large baits suckers and shiners. Its not to close to Alex maybe 30-40 minutes but they are really helpful.

Oh and they do sell large suckers all over the state of MN. Ive bought them around the park rapids area for many years while fishing muskies in the fall.

[barnyard]

There is another option, if you don't want to use suckers. It sounds stupid, but it works. Rig a Lindy Tiger tube under a slip bobber. The legs dance and undulate.

A friend of mine turned me on to it and last year, whenever my daughter took a break, that's what we tossed out. I'll admit that we didn't catch one, but we had a couple of swirls and one instance where the bobber went down, picked up the rod and it came up.

Brianna's theory is that the way to catch fish with a bobber is to not pay attention to it. We have no idea how long it was down. I looked back and said, "Brianna, where's your bobber?!?!?" Grabbed the rod and up the bobber popped.

This year, we're going to take a piece of Gulp and put it in the power tube for more scent.

Tom B

[Fish On]

in lakeville you can get em "decoy" size a foot or over if you want they say the catfisherman love'em but i have been known to get a muskie or 2 with the 1 footers but in alex i have not been able to get em over 7in in the local shops and that was with the pick and choose method but im willing to bet there may be a supplier up there you could talk to thats how my unlce used to get em