How exactly do you use your double cowgirls???

[Rebel9921]

Yepper... Yesterday marked my 6th time out on Forest Lake... this time I was out there for a good 6hours, again with no showing/telling for it... Pretty much 95% of the time I used Double Cowgirls... I used three different colored cowgirls... I've burned them quickly and slowly... I've waited various seconds before reeling them in to let them sink... I added some twitches while reeling on few casts... and my first ever muskie is still eluding me... now Im gonna ask you all how exactly do you present your double cowgirls??? What presentation seems to work the best??? or maybe I could make this question more general as in how exactly do you like to present your bucktails???

Thanks again!!!

[Grant Pearson]

For me it depends on the blade on the bucktail. If it's a willowleaf, I like to burn it faster than an indiana blade or colorado. if it's a colorado or indiana, I will burn in, but not as fast as a willow. I have found that having the colorado blades about 6-8 inches below the surface in 5 or less FOW. Bulging also helps. Also, I have found that random pumping of the rod helps too.

[Muskycrazy]

First off Reb let me state I am not an expert but if you toss the same bait for 6 hrs. with no results you might want to change up . Something smaller in a Bucktail or maybe a Jerkbait , crank bait . Something different until you pattern them out . Sometimes it just don't happen . I was up on Mille Lacs yesterday for about 6 hrs. and we could see 50's in the water but nothing was getting them to eat . Big Bucktails ( Silly Girls , Triple X's ) , Smaller Bucktail ( Inhalers , Buchers ) , Cranks , Topwater , Jerks . Nothing made em chomp . But maybe next time the stuff that wouldn't work - will work . Just hang in there and good luck , a little hard work and some patience and it'll happen for ya .

[muskiedreams]

I use the cowgirl 80% of the time and I mainly fish one body of water. at night I will reel them in very slow just fast enough 2 get blades spining. During the day I try to burn them as long as my wrist will hold up. But last week I was out burning all day decided to try slow rolling over weeds and got a mid 40s. great bait !!!!

[castmaster]

Your presentation is going to depend a lot on the structure your fishing.

Burn and bulge 'em over the shallow weeds or wood. That also works at tiems over shallow rock, but you can also fish them in a burn/sink a coule secs, burn/sink couple secs etc

As you get deeper experiment with your speed and amount of sink time throughout the day, if your going to throw them all day. Deeper rocks I like to slow roll them occassionaly speeding it up while raising the rod tip, then letting it free fall for a few seconds and then back to slow rolling.

If you have more than one guy in the boat and you like fishing a Double Cowgirl then change up your color and retrieve while your buddy changes bait styles. One of the best ways to figure out a pattern as it covers all your bases.

[Rebel9921]

Thanks everyone!!! I guess Im doing nothing wrong with the cowgirls... RO said it well... when its my time, its my time... *sigh* I'll be hitting FLake tomorrow morning at 6am... fun fun :-)

[Meat-Run]

I think you over looked another way to fish the cowgirl....trolling. Long line trolling cowgirls can be very effective and often over looked. Try it next time and you may have to at about 3-5 oz balls up from the leader. This too brings up another tip, use about a 36-48 inch leader or longer to keep the ball further up the line and it also "traps" the excess weeks and not fowel hook your lure.

Good Luck,

mr

[Meat-Run]

oops. "weeds"