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Location: Elk River, MN | I usually always use mister twister type trailers on my bucktails (usually white trailer on black bucktail). Any one tried using? I see "Uncle Josh" brand makes a muskie strip.
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Location: Athens, Ohio | uummmmm, pork rinds, aahhhh!
Actually dad used Uncle Josh a lot on Daredevil spoons for pike, I have a jar of the musky strips but never tried them yet. I was planning on dressing a jig with them. Let us know if you've found a new secret bait in these. m |
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Location: Elk River, MN | I bought a jar for this weekend - so is it voodoo, scent to the fish, dumb luck, or works well? |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | The fried cajun style are quite tasty with a beer 
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| Iactually use them and am no worse than any other lure i use.
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Location: Minnesota | The last two years in Canada I have tipped my Johnson Silver minnow with an Uncle Josh pork rind (yellow) and have outfished my buddies 2:1 each year.
I think they work very well on certain baits.
James
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Location: Bloomington, MN | Years ago (late 60's-early 70's) we cut up and used white women's bathing caps instead of pork rind as "trailers" on our bucktails and spoons. The use of Mister Twisters was not available/affordable at that given time. Cutting up this white bad hair-do protector and wiring them to the back end of bucktails and spoons was a cure-all for cutting off the dried strip of rind the next morning (short term memory problems have always plagued me). My Father met a gentleman named "Butch Harris" during a business trip in the early 70's. Butch was a "Bass Pro", and he manufactured foam injectded crankbaits ("The Fastback"..that ran about as straight as Liberace and the clear plastic lip would fall off after the first weed slap), he also had a line of double tailed soft plastic grubs...someone help me with the name..he advertised in Fishing Facts in the early 70's)...well anyway in addition to the e-Bay cranks my Father received pounds of white plastic trailers. The white bathing caps days were over with, so we then went with the tackle box eatin, paint melting world of plastisol. The slight "tug"..set the hooks days of the bathing cap reveiled little activity until the plastisol twisty showed up. We all have thought that a little Northern had hit when the curly tail has been bitten off, but that is unfortuntely not the case. I have seen two muskies (one over 45"+) that have actually nipped at the tail to the point of biting it off. They live in the water, so they got this swimming thing down pretty well. If you go up to some area where fish don't see a gazillion lures, and believe that a tittilating teaser on the back of your lure will make them eat, you will misss "some" potetnial hook ups. I will never use a lure on the bodies of water I fish with a trailer that exceeds 1" behind the rear hook that I use a straight retrieve on (except them "Dawgs").
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Location: Somewhere on the water!!!!!!!! | I use them and they work great, a lot stronger than the rubber tails and will stand up to multiple hook ups without loosing your trailer.
The only thing you have to watch out for is using them in the summer or any time for that matter and putting down your rod to use another one. When you pick your bucktail rod back up to throw again.............your trailer is now stiff as a board. I solved this problem by laying the bucktail and trailer in the back well of the boat that holds some water, this keeps the trailer wet and you can throw all day long.
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