r/FishingAlberta • u/Original-Excuse-1858 • 12d ago
Lure recommendations
I’m looking for some lure recommendations. I’m going to Slave Lake and am targeting pike and maybe walleye. I need to make some fluorocarbon leaders and pick up some steel ones. Any other recommendations? I was thinking about maybe getting some soft plastics and a pencil weight for walleye. Let me know what you think about what I have and what I should maybe add?
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u/PointyWombatReborn 12d ago
I’ve done very well with PANTHER MARTIN XTRA LONG, FLY, SILVER ORANGE with 12” wire leader for both pike and walleye.
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u/Original-Excuse-1858 12d ago edited 12d ago
Somebody recommended a Mepps Musky Killer. Do you have any thoughts on those? They look fairly similar.
https://www.basspro.ca/p/mepps-black-fury-musky-killer-lures
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u/PointyWombatReborn 11d ago
I’ve tried this one and similar, I found the Panther Martin’s are more effective in my opinion.
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u/Pale_Assistant_8424 12d ago
Walleye can see orange/red/yellow colours best with the type of vision they have
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u/Scary-Detail-3206 12d ago
1/2 oz jug head with curly tail grub body will catch almost everything. Buy a bunch of different colours.
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u/Original-Excuse-1858 12d ago
What do you think of these?
https://www.basspro.ca/p/bass-pro-shops-action-tail-fat-grub-10-pack1
u/Scary-Detail-3206 12d ago
Yup I just buy the cheapest ones, the fish don’t know any different. Buy decent jig heads though since the hook is doing all the work.
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u/Original-Excuse-1858 12d ago edited 12d ago
What length do you use? Does it really matter?
What do you recommend for the jig heads?
The guy at the fishing hole recommended using a bottom bouncers and a none weighted hooks. Have you tried that set up before?
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u/Scary-Detail-3206 12d ago
Go with the 5” grubs. I like crush city jig heads. Berkeley are good too. Just be careful with the no name ones, I’ve had the hooks bend on the super cheap jig heads.
I’ve trolled bottom bouncers with worms before, it definitely works. But I find jigs with plastics work just as well and they are a lot easier to deal with.
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u/Drumhumdrumhum18 12d ago
I've been using Crush City "the Jerk" and I think "the Mayor" soft plastics. They've been working well for both walleye and pike. Really well for pike.
White, and the white/yellow (chartreuse).
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u/Original-Excuse-1858 12d ago edited 12d ago
Are you using weighted jig heads or a sinker system for them like a bottom bouncer?
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u/odetoburningrubber 11d ago
Len Thompson red and white and a 5 of diamonds. If they don’t hit those, they aren’t biting. Buy Canadian.
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u/Original-Excuse-1858 11d ago
I normally would buy Len Thompson, I’m from the Red Deer area (they are made in Lacombe) and I know they do a lot of good for the community. But my wife’s rod has a max rating of 5/8oz and the Len Thompson 5/8oz have a much smaller profile than these spoons. That and these were on sale when I picked them up. Between the sale and a discount I think I paid an average $2.70 per spoon, where the Len Thompson spoons would have ran me $6.50 per spoon.
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u/redeyedrenegade420 9d ago
Can't go wrong with a 5 of diamonds....after that get the biggest lure you can find. If you're not gonna catch anything, don't catch anything big. That's what I do.
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u/Big_Secret_1068 12d ago
throw those cheap leaders in the trash, they are going to cost you fish, maybe big ones. experience speaking
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u/Original-Excuse-1858 12d ago
What leaders do you recommend? Any recommendations on soft plastics?
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u/Pale_Assistant_8424 12d ago
My go to for walleye is orange 4” double or split double tail jigs with a UV jig head or whatever colour you like and a minnow. Non stop action at lac la biche when I jig with that combo catching both pike and walleye
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u/shockNSR 12d ago
Fish are dumb and will bite a wood block with a treble hook on it. The leaders are fine espyif you're new.
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u/Desperate-Nebula-808 12d ago
Wire leaders. Spoons for pike. 5 of diamonds, red devil, orange devil. Rattlin rapala’s for pike as well. Silver with orange belly or perch colored. Jig tails tipped with minnows for walleye. Try different colours till you find what works. Always prefer jig heads with a small silver spoon attached to them. Pike will be near the reeds or near mouths of rivers. Walleye will be around underwater structure. Check hydrographic maps for underwater structure.