What is everyones 'Go-To' Lure?

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What is everyones 'Go-To' Lure?

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For me it has to be the tried, tested and true. Heddon's Zara Spook. It is my favorite lure bar none. I can always pull up a chunky Bronze Back or Pike on this topwater lure.

My favorite memories with this lure?

The sun was setting on my favorite lake, the water was like a pitch black sheet of glass. I was drifting down a point, and making a slow, tantalizing 'zig....pause...zag' retrieve with my spook.

When all of a sudden this pike, smashes the lure, clears the water a good three feet, its tail still pumping ferociously..than it spashes down a foot away from my lure!!

Or another time, I made a fast return with my spook, than as I lifted the spook from the water to re-cast, this pike from out of nowhere charges my lure! Kicking up a foam, I nearly crap my pants!!

My god, I love my Zara Spook!
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Re: What is everyones 'Go-To' Lure?

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err... double post?
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Pop-R, modified... I buy'em and sand-em down till they are bone-white all over... if they did not have a red-bucktail treble on the end, they get one in my process.. i'll even throw some crystal-flash on there... (been thinking about using maraboo as a tail... )

I'm sure someone makes those standard, but I like modifying em, and I have not seen any in a long while...

I like it in standard size...
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Hookup wrote:Pop-R, modified... I buy'em and sand-em down till they are bone-white all over... if they did not have a red-bucktail treble on the end, they get one in my process.. i'll even throw some crystal-flash on there... (been thinking about using maraboo as a tail... )

I'm sure someone makes those standard, but I like modifying em, and I have not seen any in a long while...

I like it in standard size...
yeah, I used to use the Berkley Frenzie 'Walker'. Basically a Zara Spook, I caught more fish on that than the Original Heddon model.

Hell, I have even caught seagulls on it! (not on purpose of course)

However, I have not seen one in years, and I lost mine to a toothy pike.
I think that Berkley has stopped production of them (I will pay somoene, if you have one!! It HAS to be the 'Ghost' pattern.
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White Spinnerbait

White Big-O

Black Gulp
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white spinnerbait and 4 trout west river
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White Spinnerbait

Super Spook Jr. in Florida Bass pattern

Bass Magnet Flappin' Weasel & Title SHot jig.
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My go to lures depends on the fish targetted,

Eyes-- spinner rig(Worm harness) behind a bottom bouncer.

Pike spinnerbaits.

Large mouth slop -- frog
Large mouth---- spinnerbait
Smallie - senkos
catfish hook and sinker
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Musky

River rat spinner bait - firetiger or brown
Stalker

Walleye

X-rap
grubs

Bass

Big-O
X-rap
Sweet Beaver
creature baits
grubs
Hula popper

Pike

Spinnerbaits
zara spook
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I really like the Rapala X-Rap in the hot steel pattern....i've caught almost every type of game fish in the area on one.
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Post by saskie »

Bass - Senkos, T-rigged Paca Craw, Hula Popper

Pike - Spoons - Any hammered shiney spoon (ie williams), yellow/red 5 of diamonds up north, or Orange/Gold

Walleye - Crawler Harness with leech
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Tube.

Thanks.
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slop wrote:Tube.

Thanks.
Ditto.
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For me, Senko Wacky style for Bass and Spinnerbait for Pike.
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Post by Chevy Champagne »

pike
white spinner bait
super spook
senko wakey rigged
x rap
buzz bait
chatterbait

walleye
a jig head with berkley gulp alive and a leech
sometimes thell hit on my white spinner baits

bass
senko white
x rap
super spook jr.
white spinner bait
chatterbait
buzz bait

thouse couple of lures have never failed me
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