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Location: Eastern Ontario | What are the top 3 colors that everyone must have in their tackle boxes. Please select only 3. |
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Location: West Bend, WI | black hair,green blade
black hair,copper blade
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | The other choices I like are Black with Pink blade and Purple with Blue blade. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have done well with several colors, it really depends on where i am fishing. Give me flowage brown water, i want a chartruse or gold blade with black or gold skirt/trailer. Give me white/white on green water or shad water. |
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Posts: 303
Location: Valentine, NE USA | My go-to top 3:
Hair-Blade
Black-Chartreuse
Brown-Copper
Skunk-Nickel
But if I could list four, I'd add:
Blue-Pink
BS
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Posts: 148
Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | Black hair/nickel blade
Black hair/orange blade
Black hair/chartreuse blade |
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Posts: 2061
Location: Belgium | black hair/brass hammered blade
black hair/chartreuse blade
all chartreuse tie with black hair/orange blade
I prefer a single colorado blade size 7 on all my spinnerbaits |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | TTT Come on folks 170+ views and only 20 voters. :( I want a true sence of what folks are gona buy and should get it with a couple hundred voters not 20. That's why I posted this poll on M1st. |
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Location: Holly, MI | White/white is a bummer because instead of just catching muskies you get the ocasional huge pike and pesky giant smallmouth.  |
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| As a casual musky fisherman, who needs to travel some to fish muskies Tonka is probably the main musky lake I fish. The past two years in September I have put a musky in the boat using a Shumway Funky Chicken with Orange hair and a Flame Blade. |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | I wish you would have let additions.
I would add black with white blade.
Cool Poll
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| Anything with hammered copper blades and yellow hair. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | black/silver
black/orange
orange/brass(or copper?)
Started to get serious about throwing white/silver for the first time this year and did well, but it'll have to produce just a few more fish before it can crack the top three.
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| Red-Red (shhhh)
Black-Flame
White-Nickel
Anytime anywhere!!! Steve
But if I had just ONE more...Brown-Orange |
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| The hottest two bucktails, by far, for me in the second half of the season were...
Hirsch's Ghostail in Natural Perch w/ White Blade on sunny days
Buchertail 700 with Purple Hair w/ Orange/Yellow Blade on cloudy days
I mostly fish very clear waters. Ane here's more than you probably wanted to know...
That Hirsch's is amazing, it moves sooooo slow, lots of lift, great hooking percentage on swipes (two trebles) and when I suddenly give it slack it doesn't just dive or flutter down. Instead, the blade still slowly spins, providing a following fish with a sudden large profile of a critter slowly heading to the bottom. Triggers strikes from lazy fish for sure. None of my other 60 or so bucktails do that, though most of those are Bucher 700s and Mepps in various sizes. The only problem with the Ghosttail is that it can be tricky to straighten out after boating a fish. If the wire is not straight enough, the blade won't spin on the dive. So I have a few in the box and straghten them out at home.
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| Oh, and another wild observation realted to the poll.....
One ultra clear lake I fish allows me to see the many, many bass tucked under downfalls near shore. I've learned that if the bass don't chase the bucktail, I have to change colors until they do. Best example is in the spring when using Mepps Musky Killers. Some days it's all pink, some days it's natural and copper, some days it's balck and black with the green lettering,and some days it's black and black with the blue lettering. Once I land on a color combo that the bass are hot to chase, I am confident that the muskies will chase it. too.
Late spring I switch to bigger bucktails, usually the Bucher 700s. Always start with Perch hair and copper blade. Keep changing until the bass chase it, then stick with that color.
I have a lot of confidence in this approach. But then, I also suspect that the Earth is a garden and aliens planted humans as food. They'll be dissapointed when they return to harvest us, however. We've gone bad, like broccoli that's been left to grow a week too long. You would have thought they learned their lesson with the dinasaurs. Just goes to show, again, that advanced technology doen't eleminate poor judgement. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Now this is looking like a great poll. Thanks to everyone for sumitting their opinions. |
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Location: Ashalnd,Ky | as owner of Littlebear lures I make and sell a lot of in-line bucktails
the color we sell the most of is this lure
just click the link to view
http://www.kentuckyangling.com/images/spin57.jpg
but this one is my dirty water favorite
http://www.kentuckyangling.com/images/inline04.jpg
good fishing
Trimmer |
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| Perch.....yellow/green/black-gold blade.
Firetiger....chart/orange/red/black-gold blade
Natural.....white/grey/black w black and white hackle feathers-silver blade
I make all of my own, but these are my 3 most productive. Sometimes the Firetiger with a colored blade produces better depending on the water.
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Top 3 bucktail spinnerbait colors