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Location: KY | This one has had me scratching my head for a while. What are the advantages of a buctail with a solid wire run through to the hook vs. bucktails that have a separate body and tail connected with a split ring like Mepps or Blue fox. I figure each one is a little different for hooking-up, vibration, leverage when fighting, etc. What do you prefer? What wire thickness is best? The thicker the better? | |
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Location: oswego, il | For fighting fish, definitely the one with a separate body woks better as the fish can't get leverage to unhook or destroy the bait. The drawback is they don't cast as well, especially on a windy day. They can tumble and hang on your leader. Both can be good and shine in their time and place. | |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I do not personally like bucks that have the hair tied to the hook for 2 reasons:
1) when muskys nip at the back of the buck (and we have all seen it), their mouth is WAY behind the hook.
2) when you have to cut a hook, or two, guess what? you either have to tie up another hook with hair, or buy one if you don't tie. Now, lets say that you got your confidence buck on, you land a nice fish on it, early in the day, trip, whatever, got to cut the hooks, and don't have another hook with that color hair on it. That buck has mojo, and now you got to throw something else.
With that being said, I like 325# test wire for bucks. Yes, it bends, but you can usually straighten it out on the water, to some extent. I have re-shafted Eagle tails for folks with stainless steel bike spokes, but if you are going to build your own that heavy duty, you need to make sure that you can find beads, clevises, and bodies that have that big of a hole in them. I hope this helps. If you are just starting out building bucks, I am willing to teach people willing to come to Appleton and bring beer and their own hair (and are ready to talk musky).
I hope this helps,
Rob | |
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Location: oswego, il | I like the 325 and 340 as well. I like the leader material better than the soft stainless coiled wire. It has better tensile strength and won't bend as easy. Good points made above. | |
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| Another reason not to have the hair tied on the hook is becouse it narrows the room in the bend and on some I have seen it would not swallow a big Musky's jawbone. | |
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| an advantage of bucktails with split-rings is that you can buy fewer lures and have more options.
get one with a colorado, one with a willow and one with an indiana blade.
get each of them with different color or styles of hair.
apply split-ring pliers and you've got 9 lures for the price of 3... | |
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