Bucktails?
ajschn06
Posted 3/2/2016 6:05 PM (#808246)
Subject: Bucktails?




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Are true bucktails gone from the muskie world? All the hot or talked about baits seem to be the flashbou type material? Anyone still using a lot of real bucktail? What are your favorite models?
beaverbuck1986
Posted 3/2/2016 6:32 PM (#808253 - in reply to #808246)
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eagle tails, harassers, rabid squirrels, musky mepps
JakeStCroixSkis
Posted 3/2/2016 6:38 PM (#808255 - in reply to #808246)
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Location: St. Lawrence River
Rabid squirrels are nice bucktails
muskyroller
Posted 3/2/2016 7:59 PM (#808272 - in reply to #808246)
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Location: North St. Paul, MN
Rabids and ghosttails
NathanH
Posted 3/2/2016 8:29 PM (#808280 - in reply to #808272)
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Location: MN
Lots of hair options I think you cannot go wrong with mepps I'm
Most impressed by Ghosttails and rabid squirrels seem to have a lot of work into them.
Sidejack
Posted 3/2/2016 9:10 PM (#808285 - in reply to #808246)
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Location: Aurora
Hirsch's Ghosttails 600, 700 & 800 series.
Best profiles, patterns & they're hand tied & twisted.
Zinox
Posted 3/3/2016 5:57 AM (#808307 - in reply to #808246)
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Spanky also makes both hair and marabou.
MartinTD
Posted 3/3/2016 6:40 AM (#808315 - in reply to #808246)
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Dreamcatchers
Ross K
Posted 3/3/2016 9:27 AM (#808351 - in reply to #808246)
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X2 on the Dreamcatchers
Jeff Hanson
Posted 3/3/2016 10:53 AM (#808369 - in reply to #808351)
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X3 on Dream catchers caught some nice fish last season on them.
Rabid Squirrels and the Spankys with hair did good for me also.
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com
Pal
Posted 3/3/2016 12:11 PM (#808392 - in reply to #808369)
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Location: Twin Cities, MN
Ghosttails for hair
Flowage Boa's
Elijah for Maribou tails
Llungen for silicon skirts

1VW
Posted 3/3/2016 1:01 PM (#808402 - in reply to #808246)
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The Blue Fox Musky Buck has done well for me. The thin wire up front has always scared me a little, but there's never been an issue.
Sidejack
Posted 3/4/2016 9:06 AM (#808521 - in reply to #808402)
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Location: Aurora
1VW - 3/3/2016 1:01 PM
The Blue Fox Musky Buck has done well for me. The thin wire up front has always scared me a little, but there's never been an issue.


Thin wire can make a bucktail sing.
Much like an instrument, if it's built like a truck, it often sounds like one too.
fishhawk50
Posted 3/4/2016 10:10 AM (#808533 - in reply to #808402)
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Location: oconomowoc, wi
1VW - 3/3/2016 1:01 PM

The Blue Fox Musky Buck has done well for me. The thin wire up front has always scared me a little, but there's never been an issue.

x's2
achotrod
Posted 3/8/2016 11:23 AM (#809015 - in reply to #808246)
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I caught most of my bucktail fish on single bladed hair baits I had custom made by Josh Rabska.
Muskydanno621
Posted 3/8/2016 12:34 PM (#809028 - in reply to #809015)
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Catch a good share of fish on homemade hair bucktails with a single blade. They may not be mainstream anymore but then again thats why i throw them. They still work and are just another tool especially on pressured waters where the fish are seeing double tens every fifteen minutes. Time and place for every tool in the box.
Ross K
Posted 3/8/2016 2:13 PM (#809039 - in reply to #808246)
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I agree with the above. We have had success throwing the standard (single blade) dreamcatcher when alot (almost all) are throwing a double 10 of some type, make or model. Sometimes it is good to be different...but there are sometimes when it is not... HA!
FISHFINDER101
Posted 3/9/2016 6:47 PM (#809156 - in reply to #808246)
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Location: Poynette WI.
Yup the majority of the bucktails I use are made of bucktail. My favorite has been white, which is from deer I've harvested myself, with a orange #8 or copper blade. Probably m best bucktail last season with around 20 muskies caught on just the orange blade alone.