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| Hey guys,
I want to get into making my own bucktails. I'm curious if any of you do this, and what website you order your components from? I've done a few searches and found a couple, but not sure if it's a good deal, and it seems like a lot of sites don't carry the big blades. Appreciate any input you can give me! |
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| google up Lakeland Inc and the Worth Co and rollie&helens and Moores for a great blade and component selection --- jim |
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Location: MN | Moores lures, great prices, great guy. He really knows his stuff. You can tell him what you want to build and he will tell you what you need. I would advise you think about it before you do build your own. I'm sucked in and build more bucktails then I could possibly need. Folks warned me but it happened anyway. |
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| ^ I completely agree with NathanH....If you are getting started Moores is a great place to start. Very friendly, and great customer service. |
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Location: Madtown, WI | Lakeland Inc, lurepartsonline, and Moore's are the three places I order from. Buy long length of throttle cable on amazon or locally rather than pieces, search Throttle Control Universal 72-inch on amazon. IIRC, mustad hooks are cheapest through muskytackleonline. |
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Location: Detroit River | Hagen's, Moore's Lures, Lure Parts Online. Other's have mentioned Lakeland but they no longer take orders from individuals. You will need to be a lure manufacture with a federal ID number if you want to buy from them. I found this out last month. |
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| Awesome, thanks for the suggestions! I'll probably go nuts and build way too many, but I feel like that's part of the fun. |
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| Not sure where your from but Thorne Bros in Blaine, MN has a great tackle making section. I know personally I like to see the products so I can accurately judge sizes and such. Not all size 8 blades are the same . I've discovered that the hard way. |
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Location: oswego, il | You do not need a tax ID to buy stuff from Hagens. I have bought from them for years. All places listed above are good. |
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| Tommy - 7/22/2015 3:08 PM
Awesome, thanks for the suggestions! I'll probably go nuts and build way too many, but I feel like that's part of the fun.
Very intuitive... You will, but it is fun. I get to fish on 2 to 3 trips a year and have close to 30 bucktails of all sizes, built a bunch for friends, and now will be donating some to the auctions on here if they want them. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Fun little hobby and it gets even better when you catch some fish on your own creations too.
Best of all you can build 2 or 3 high quality lures for the price of what it costs to buy 1 lure ($20-30)
I get what I need from walk-ins at Rollie & Helens |
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Location: Aurora | FlyPiker - 7/23/2015 1:12 PM
Not sure where your from but Thorne Bros in Blaine, MN has a great tackle making section.
Not true, they've been outta hollow beads (all colors) & various other components for almost a year now. Wish they'd take it as seriously as they do their fly making area. |
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