Six Lures to Get?

[tylerflom89]

I'm an avid pike fisherman, but new to muskie, and while I have around half a dozen baits, I'd like to get another six, to start filling up my hanging bait box. What would be your guy's top six baits and colors? I AM a fisherman, and I know that picking six baits is hard, but I'd like to hear your guy's favorite lure choices. Thanks, and good fishing.

[Random guy]

1)Bucktail(silver blade/black hair).

2)Prop style topwater- topraider, thunderhead or stomper(Black).

3)Walk the dog topwater- weagle, jackpot or viper(black).

4)glide/jerk bait- phantom, true glide, or majic maker(anything that looks like a ciscoe or bluegill) .

5) Crank bait- depth raider, rapala magnum, or jake(anything that looks like a walleye or ciscoe).

6) Big ol jig- jmac and a handful of plastic tails(black/white).

Go to Thorne Bros. in Fridley and check out the selection. I bet you will leave with more then six baits.

[JohnMickish]

Jon's got it nailed pretty good, but maybe add a Suick or Bobby bait in sucker.

[catman71]

you only need 2 baits. A big yellow safety pin style spinner bait (way better in the weeds than a bucktail) and a bright orange 10" reef hawg. now don't tell anyone else.......

[i got carps]

SS Shad

[RK]

Hiya,

If any of us were smart at all, we'd pick our six lures and leave the rest at home. Probably catch more fish

My list would be:

2 single spin Rad Dog spinnerbaits, one light colored, one dark colored. Can fish them top to bottom, search lure, slow roll, any kind of cover. You could quit here and make a pretty good living.

1 topwater. Make it one with a wide speed range that hooks well and works well with a little wind. Maybe a Musky Buster Topwalker. My choice would probably be a Topper Stopper.

1 jerkbait. Has to be versatile, fish well in weeds, and hook well. I'd choose either a Squirrley Burt or a weighted sledge. Both are sort of dive/rise glider hybrids, and both fish well in weeds. If I could only have one it'd be a sledge since you can troll them well too.

1 8" believer. Cast or troll multiple depth ranges, fishes through weeds better than you'd think, and most importantly, fish just like to eat the things. If it were big fish water, I may say a 10", but 8s are a little more versatile.

1 speed bucktail. Say a Lily Tail, Vibrax or Jacobson Burner. Good go-fast seaarch lure, and a better cold front bait than most people realize.

I'd feel pretty comfortable with that list just about anywhere...

Cheers,

RK

[Cooter]

Hey Tyler - Don't believe anything that Jon P. tells you. His above list is totally fabricated as he never mentioned RED! JK. My list would look like this:

-silver blade/black hair bucktail

-flour.(orange or green) blade/black spinnerbait for stained water or

silver blade/white spinnerbait for clear water

-baby loon color TopRaider(black/white more or less)

-black Husky sized HawgWobbler

-Miller Perch colored Bucher BabyShallowraider

-firetiger type pattern Bobbie Bait, 9"

However, you will NOT be able to stop at only 6 lures

[tylerflom89]

Trust me, I know. The whole reason I'm asking this is to stock my new musky tackle box, I had to get a new because my old one is full!

[Down to Earth]

I offer this bit of advice to everyone who asks about what lures to buy as a new musky fisherman.

Do you know what lake/lakes you will be targeting? If you do it will help you out a ton as to what to buy. True there are many good stand by lures/color patterns you can buy and be successful with, but if you know that say Minnetonka is one of your target lakes, you can get 6 proven lures that will work on the waters you mainly fish.

With musky baits being so expensive if you can cut out useless purchases it can help out a lot.

[TomWehler]

Good mix of things here.

Way cool.

Away like a good info sharing post like this.

Wrote some humorus stuff about this very thing a while back.

Never hit the public but will be online soon.

Simple is best.

Dump the Junk.

Try to tell people who ask me this stuff to try and limit what you bring to the boat.

Men make up all the rules, not the fish sort a speak.

You do have to adjust to their game plane now and again as it is never something that easy to figure out and they are the home team EVERY GAME.

Fish school, but I doubt go to school and could careless about little fins on lures, fine detail and fancy super human art work....

Keeping things simple and light really dose cut way back on the amount of time you spend changing lures and stressing out about what color or pattern or size to use...Bla, bla, bla...

Get real good at working a Dirty Dozen lures and you need not go to the lure shop until you wear them out.

Save the money to buy more GA$ or something nice for the special women in yer life or your Mom.

For me on the one large body I fish / work on being simple rules.

High, low, fast, slow, light, dark, loud, freaky...

So it might not be six, but I never been good at my Goesintas.

1) Bluefox Dinnerbell doublebuck can do a ton > Black /silver & Black / Chartruse? #5 blade trips a trigger when #6 won't. Can use this doing many things and have good results. Toss it all day.

2) Depthraider also a wonderful lure with many uses. Bump rock shallow or deep, troll, work deep and shallow weeds, just under surface, bunches of stuff. Maybe Perch, Shiner?

3) Large Spinnerbait, M & G, VooDootail, Grinder, Grim Reaper in maybe Black / Silver & Yellow / Gold can do many, many things. Use them deep & middle, in weeds, over rocks, in wood, along docks, on surface and so on...

4) Topwaters > well their are any number of good ones out now you might favor most. Black is good as any color / pattern most days.

Topraider type tail clunkers can go in waves, in calm water, night or day. Many to chose from.

5) Glider like a Phantom can do many things also.

Cisco, Crappie, Sunfish...Slow and effective, fast and crazy.

6) Maybe go with a larger 10" Jake or Believer as these can be worked on surface, DEEP, midrange and slow, to fast, even deadly twitched and just let sit.

Perch, or something.

I mostly just spray mine a mix of colors and they do get chewed.

Should help one get started.

Some of us read this stuff simular, others not so much, but it never hurts to ask and shoot from da hip.

Add a few things here and their for SHOCK and Noise and yer good ta go.

Take less, use less, keep them in the water longer and you will do fine.

Could add a 8" Reef Hawg they do get bit and a Harrasser Doublebuck. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm CHOMP!!!

Good luck.

Tommy

[Random guy]

Once again well said Tom. I would like to get a copy of that text. I have relized through the years that I go to eight lures, the rest come out when things are slow and I get bored.

[tylerflom89]

Those are some great lists, thanks guys. I figure I'll mainly fish White Bear and Tonka, I already fish the former for crappies, so I know the lay out, and the later IS Tonka, so you gotta fish it!