Hey guys, been reading this site for about a year now mostly to see those monster bass you catch, but also to keep an eye on the latest swimbaits that you are using. I'm from Indiana and used to fish for trophy bass (some of you may remember me from Fish Chris's site as micropterus salmoides rex....if not the posts, maybe the name at least. After his forum went away it took me a while to find this one.) Well, I finally switched my game to pursue those toothy muskies when I realized how good the waters are in this state and have been doing fairly well for a couple of years. Not quite as well as SWMB8R (How do you get two fifties in one year!) but decent for Indiana waters where big trophy fish are a little harder to find. Anyway, the past few months I've been fishing the 16 ROF huddleston from time to time and finally figured out how to catch muskies on it. I've caught three fish in the last few weeks on the hudd with many many follows as well. This is one great bait and I figure that even if it gets chewed up from one fish, it is well worth it. Another funny thing is that since I've started fishing for muskies I've noticed that I still catch about the same numbers of lunker bass on muskie lures as I did when I targeted bass only. (Most of the big bass my brother and I catch are on a big six inch crankbait called the ss shad.) In one day we caught three bass that went 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5 pounds on that bait. (Weird spread on the weights, I know, but it's the truth.) The ss shad is a flat bodied balsa crankbait that dives to one foot and moves a ton of water and is a superb muskie bait as well. Anyway, just thought you might want to know of a muskie bait that seems to be pretty good at catching big bass. There are a couple others that do well too from time to time. It's funny to see a five pound bass hit a lure that is 12" long, but it happens quite a bit. Anyway, thought I would share the pic of my biggest hudd fish (42") and finally post something on here.

Best wishes and big fishes,

Toad

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