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[RedCat]

Lets get the sharing started!

I started a few years ago using just the reg round jig head in either chart/orange or chart/green. Then came the Lindy techni-glo jig heads and I used the same colours. I grew as an angler and started using spoons. The spoons I started using were the infamous 'northland buckshot' and also the not so well known ' blue fox tingler'. I got into the Storm jiggin minnow stage and landed some big fish. Then came the lipless crankbait stage, rapala has made some good ones over the years, many designed for open water but great for the ice too. The begginning of the lipless craze was the 'chubby darter' but even it had its predecessor in the 'zipper'. The Koppers Live Target seems to be the big thing here for the last few years. Now I see that northland has come out with a new 'rippin minnow' with some more aggressive colours. I really like the glow that they have added to my arsenal. They seem to work so far but only time will tell.

From what I have seen in the last few years is that sound as well as sight is what catches big eye's. The 'Live Target' got big here because of the sound. Now add in the glow of the newly available lures and we may have have the perfect arsenal. Fishing aggressively is what might get it done. Thats what I do.

What do you do?

[georgianbaydrifter]

i have fished buckshot and darter also but personally take most fish on forage minnow w/ small colorado blade attatched either tipped with a small shiner or a tube over the treble .....set lining with a medium river shiner takes lots of fish too.

[Angler]

I have had good success with the classic round jig head and a gulp minnow.
Northland Buckshot Spoon tipped with a minnow head.
Swedish pimple, Salmo, Rapala Clackin' Rap and Jigging Rapalas.
Nothing works better than a live minnow

[Joeestyles]

I prefer live minnows always