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Location: Northern Wisconsin | i have noticed some of my bucktials have clevises holding on hooks. i thought clevises were for
blades. are they strong enough for hooks?
Edited by fish4musky1 8/28/2006 7:28 PM
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Location: oswego, il | Sure they are. Never had a problem. Use a bogger stronger one. If I was to watch out for anything, look at the holes and make sure they are centered. Every once in awhile one may not be and there may not be much material on one side. Other than that, they are fine. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | I've replaced those with a good split ring after I had one fail on a bait I made. Up to you what ya do.
Pfeiff |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | I wouldn't trust it, like you stated it is designed to spin a blade not hold up to the jaws of a musky. When making bucktails with two hooks on them I bend the eye of the treble hook and slide it on the wire, zero chance of failure when you make it this way. I make most of my bucktails with just one treble hook with the bait being 7-8" long, styled after the Buchertails. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Two words.....EAGLE............TAIL.
Enough said.
Karl
Edited by KARLOUTDOORS 8/29/2006 9:02 PM
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | i dont hae an eagle tails. do they use clevises?
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Location: Girdwood, Alaska | yep, eagle tails use #8's I think. They seem strong enough, and that's the only size clevis I will use for hooks now. I have been experimenting with hanging wolverine split rings off the shaft instead, seems to be working pretty good.
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Location: Minnesota | IMO I would use Wolverine triple split rings. More steel better...uggg
Dr. Grunt |
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Location: oswego, il | You can also try the biggest folded clevis they make. I really doubt you could wreck one of those. |
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| There's lots of tackle that will fail before you make a clevis fail (Bust your line, knot, rod). Be enough of a spazz and you can wreck almost anything. Caught 100's of fish on bootails/bucktails on the front hook, on the clevis to splitring connection.
Suick has screw eyes and a friggin' cotterpin holding the hooks in. Any big fish ever caught on them???? |
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