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Location: Illinois-Indiana | When you guys are burning bucktails, which style blade do you prefer and why? |
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Location: MN | Colorado - easier to retrieve and provides a better lift. |
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| Usually a Mepps #5 standard musky killer, single tail. Goes fast, evidently feels good, and runs high, have not seen anything that can out perform this bucktail, common as it is... |
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Location: Belgium | the small voodoo tail jr is weighted enough to burn it without any problems.
I prefer small indiana blades or small willow blades. Why? Indiana for the lift but less drag than a colorado. Willowblades because they have even less drag and more flash than indiana blades.
Edited by divani 6/3/2004 9:59 AM
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Location: Black Creek, WI | Depends on the conditions and where I want my lure to be (deep or shallow). Thus, at one point or another I will burn ALL blade types. Utlimately, I let the fish tell me what blade they want... and incorporate a lot of good old TRIAL&ERROR. That said, my personal favorite for burning is a Willowleaf.... Windells, Mepps, etc.
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Location: Illinoise | Jlong, do weight your Windells or leave them as is? |
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| Can't beat the Musky Candy for burning tails. Small profile and you can cast them a mile. |
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| I like to bulge Colorado blades, but if I want something to bulge at a faster pace, I'll use a mag willow blade. It's got as much lift as a Colorado, and it can also be retrieved at a higher rate of speed without flipping out of the water.
If you are looking for a blade to give you the most speed, you can't beat a French blade....you can beat a Frenchman, in fact, I wish that you would.....but if it's speed you want, go with a French blade. Even the larger ones work well, but they will wear you out.
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| Beaver,
Ditto on that beat the Frenchman idea. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | For speed I like a # 6 or 7 French blade. Easy for these old bones to burn. For buldging, I go with a double French or large Colorado. |
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Location: Rice Lake,WI | All of them. Bulgers rock,mostly use fluted but french,colorado all have their place. I don't mind getting worn out as it's "my exercise" and theres nothing like pounding tails all day covering all kinds of water.Fish as if your ass was on fire! |
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| Well and good but the question is BURNING, not bulging, not flash, not lift, not easy retrieve. I read Jason Long's answer and it gave me a headache. Jason, if there is that much to picking out a bucktail for yourself, you better process that info pretty fast in the boat. At the rate I fish when burning bucktails, if you are in the back of my boat you will completely miss some spots, and I will already have licked the goody off most of them before you pick your baits!! 
BTW my second choice would be Bruce Shumway's maraboo with the french blade, it is actually even faster than mepps #5 but seems to ring a different bell for them, and gives a little less control which can cause some problems in some of my favorite areas. |
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Location: oswego, il | For pure burning, I like a #5 or #6 fluted indiana. There is not alot of drag with them and you can reel them as fast as you want. A willow will do the same thing too.
You can burn any blade but drag is imortant and it can tire you faster. French blades have surprising drag because they spin so much faster than do other blades. Colorado have obvious drag and so do indiana blades once you get to a size 7. |
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| For bulging and high/submergent/exposed weed or any rock try colorado's w/ a single hook (Lilly tail)--you wont be dissatisfied; let it break water occaisionally, you may be surprised! Keep em' light and burn it fast. Start cranking before it hits the water for those exposed nibs......
For weed at 1' or so try smaller french, wider willows, indiana or colorado's w/ trebles
For weed below 1' try any of the above or especially any of the willows and add some length and weight to the bait to both cast it furthewr and entice those big girls
For exceptionally thick weed, slop, reeds, or lilly pads toss a safety pin/ spinner with weight to match your depth--match the blade to the depth/environment
And don't forget, they all love it faster (don't you girls!) |
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| Sorry, left my name off the above. |
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| My favorite burner is the #7 Lakeland which is the equivalent to a #5 Mepps(or Musky Killer). The blade has a "middle of the road" rotation on the shaft which has really good vibration for it's size.Don't need a 7000 to burn this one all day although that's my reel of choice for this technique.With an 8 1/2' stick and a really full spool of line , I'm all set.BOMBS AWAY!!!!!Good question Ralphie! Steve
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Location: Black Creek, WI | FSF,
I can't figure out how my reply could have given you a headache. No technical jargon in that one at all (ha ha). If burnin' is my game, I'll usually start with a Willowleaf and change from there if the running depth isn't what I want (rocks usually = willowleaf and weeds usually = colorado or fluted Indiana).... or if the fish ain't eatin' it. Pretty simple if you ask me.
Actually, I got into burning heavy spinnerbaits last year. Can get 'em deep with lots of VIBE.
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| Try Using a large Colorado. If you want to be able to bring the bait in with less difficulty, also try trimming the hair a little bit. The shorter the hair, the Less Resistance you will have. |
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| I'm always confounded by the "burning bucktails" vs. "big muskies want slow presentations" dilemma. Which is it?! I know, I know, give 'em what they want, right?
Anyway, one of my most productive bucktails is not a burner, rather, the opposite. Hirsch's Ghosttails can be pulled in soooo very slowly, drop a high rod tip and they dive to the bottom, the blade slowly lop lopping around. Start reeling again and the bait slowly rises to the surface. A great bulger. Killer presentation, right, Jason Smith?
When banging it it, I use Buchertail 700s, colorado blade. My personal fav.
Last, I change colors until I get bass to chase the lure. "If the bass will chase it, the muskies will chase it.", and you can tell 'em Ranger said so. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I make my own bucktails for fast running out of old junked tails. Double or triple hair for lift, very little lead, and a 5/0 hook paired with a number 5 or 6 Indiana blade. The lure is big, probably 10" long, but will stay JUST under the water reeling as fast as I can. The blade choice came from the recordings I did. Here's a picture:
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