If you could only use 2 Springtime baits......

[Red Childress]

If you had to choose 1 casting bait and 1 trolling bait for Spring muskies, what would they be?

[harborcreek musky chaser]

i would use 7 to 10 in suckers and or chubs. would use large rapalas retrieving slowly

[esox31]

My first choice for casting early season would have to be a gold blue fox vibrax #5 with a hand tied gold flashabou tail a close second would be a Tuff shad glide bait . My first choice trolling bait for early season would be a muskellunch in a gold/orange pattern but since I can troll two baits at a time the other rod would have a 5 inch Tuff shad on it . With all that being said I normally end up throwing whatever I bought during the winter on the first trip out !

Lance McFeely
"THE FERD"

[allegheny river kid]

Casting would be a 6" grandma probably natural color...Haven't been trolling long enough to give a great answer on a trolling bait but i would probably go with a 5.5in Firetiger Wiley Jtd.

[Trauts]

I guess dynamite and/or nitrogycerine is out? :D

[fish N ski]

without a doubt an an 8" jake in orange tiger for trolling, Since I do not cast much, But if I had to, a Rapala super shad rap in either black/ silver or gold/silver. That is at lake arthur. troll them both, might even get a nice Pike, or 28" walleye.

[Joe M]

I would cast a Perch Hellhound. For trolling I would use a Black Headshaker.

[Red Childress]

Joe,

I just paid for the 10" Newman on eBay so get that thing packed up and sent ASAP. jk

[Red Childress]

If I am only taking 1 casting bait with me for Spring river fishing, it will be a Shallow Mag Dawg (or the like).