Musky spinners

[mellowyellow]

sitting here bored and shopping for a few Musky<br />spinners on ebay. always had great luck with mepps,<br />but they seem a bit pricey on ebay??? what do they<br />cost at retail store? like $10ea? (musky killer)<br />who else makes a good/big musky spinner?<br />thanks,<br />M.Y.

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

just answered 1 ? myself...mepps $8.99 at cabela's<br />

<br />any other recomendations?

 

[roscoe]

Re: Musky spinners

Blue Fox makes some decent ones. www.Bluefox.com<br /><br />

<br /><br />They are $3.99-$5.99 at Bass Pro.<br /> http://www.basspro-shops.com/servle...arClassCode=6&hvarSubCode=3&hvarTarget=browse <br /><br />In my experience, most new lures are cheaper to buy at a discount sporting goods dealer than on ebay. People get a little bid crazy on lures, new and used.

 

[bubbakat]

Re: Musky spinners

Mellow try mepps sight they have grab bag deals this time of year for 9.98 and well worth it.<br />I ordered two bags and got eight big various baits. will post one here in a few<br /><br />

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

thanks gang <br />folks is holdin back here (JB, gonefishin, musky1)<br />gotta b a few more?

 

[aspeck]

Re: Musky spinners

Haven't used spinners for gators - exclusively Swim Wiz and rapala (and occasionally a Weldon Wobbler - you can find them). That is all I am saying.

 

[JB]

Re: Musky spinners

When you have a Ferrari and a Mercedes 600, why shop around for others??<br /><br />I have and use a variety of Esox Doom, Mepps and Blue Fox Vibrax inline spinners. The modified Mepps in Bubbakat's photo looks like a Esox Doom.<br /><br />I prefer the lighter, up to 1oz. lures because I can cast them all day, day after day. If I want heavier spinners I use the tandem Mepps Musky Killers and tandem Vibrax, like the one in Roscoe's photo, but a couple of hours of casting them wear me out.

 

[bubbakat]

Re: Musky spinners

You have a good eye on you JB. I have a few of those tandems but as you said I do believe after this year I will have to drop some throwing weight to.

 

[gonfishn]

Re: Musky spinners

Ok MellowYellow here is my .02 cents worth. The smaller lures you are talking about are good for the 30 to 40 inch class which to most folks are ok with.<br /><br />But when you are going for that 50" plus class you need something bigger than a snack when trolling or casting. I'm with JB our old arms can't take eight hours or more of throwing. So a smaller wt. lure will get an occasional trophy. More by luck than any thing else.<br /><br />If you are into the warriortrolling is becoming a more popular method. You can cover more ground and with speed control can pretty much do same things as in casting.<br /><br />If you were a fifty lb. gator would you hit a small spinner or hit a ten inch rig as it zooms past you at 4 to 5 MPH. Muskys don't hit normally cause then are hungry. They get mighty upset when one invades their territory

 

[gonfishn]

Re: Musky spinners

Hit the wrong button before I was finished. Many of you have seen the lures I use. Yes they are expensive but thats what comes with what class you are going for.<br /><br />In the next couple of months MellowYellow and Bubbakat are hooking up with me to do some huntn.<br />I am by no means a pro here but I will show you a whole different approach when it comes to the warrior. Now whether you can land one will depend on your male attaction to the female. I promise to put you onem . The rest is up to you.

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

thanks musky some of these spinners are pretty<br />big (8-12") and seems like a good idea to have a<br />few in my box along with some big trollin sticks<br />like grandma's and rapala's.

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Musky spinners

ooooh MY now thats pretty. Two skirts is better than one, I always say. <br /><br />Looks like it would annihilate pike or muskie.

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

just bought 3 for $25 delivered.<br />I'm a sucker for ebay

 

[gonfishn]

Re: Musky spinners

I have just one question here..those look like some fine lures and I have many that look just like that. Except that the trebs are double in size.<br /><br />Picture a 35 to forty lb. Gator coming up and nailing it. Other than having an accident in your drawrs what do you think what will happen to such a small treb. For the forty or fifty inch class with about 35 to 45 Lb pull this is what I am talkn about

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

hard 2 c the size of trebs in small pic, but they<br />are about 2" long GF. (bigger pic.)<br />

 

[gonfishn]

Re: Musky spinners

There you go MellowYellow..You be talkn my kind of gator..Only problem is catching a fifty plus..<br />Biggest yet for me is a 46"..Some go entire life and not one even take a liken to ones pole..<br /><br />You are now allowed to come and fish out of my boat MY..lol..we may not have any bragging right but we will have an adventure i am sure..Its bubbakat I am worring about. Going to fish with him in Tenn and on the river where dueling banjos is still the #1 hit on the chart..

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

that's why I got 3 musky <br />leaning towards the brown one on end with gold sp,<br />but the firetiger one looks good too...<br />which one u wanna pitch?<br />bubba will end up with the one niether one of us<br />wants, and land the biggest one prob <br /><br />ps. MY biggest is about 28"... few big snakes though.

 

[gonfishn]

Re: Musky spinners

You are gettn me all pumped up here..My hunt begins March 5th after I pull boat out and do some Pm on her..I will be the one on the lake that will be dressed like an Eskimo. I normally start at dam and work the humps or throw six inch suckers out and let them freelance over the humps. Then will hit the feeders that come out from the coves..

 

[mellowyellow]

Re: Musky spinners

2 poles u can do both buddy! <br />not a sucker, but a lil perch...

 

[JB]

Re: Musky spinners

I wouldn't mind a 50" or even a 50lb esox masquinongy, guys, but I get to fish them one week a year.<br /><br />I would rather boat half a dozen 40+" fish than not boat a 55".<br /><br />My "dinky" 1oz. spinners also catch a bunch of hawg smallies and walleye, which I also get to fish once a year. I once caught 5 smallies over 4lb, 6 walleyes up to 6lb, uncountable snakes in the 25-30" range and 2 muskys over 35" all on the same day. . . and all on the same #5 Black Fury/fire tiger Esox Doom. Like the one in Gonfishn's pic.<br /><br />With the decline in testosterone that is as good as it can get for me. I don't think a single 50+" musky would have been nearly as satisfying.<br /><br />BTW, that first musky on the Zebco 808 combo turned me every way but loose. It was 29".