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Location: Minnesota | Hello... I would love to make my own Dbl Bladed bucktails and I would like to learn how to work with Flashabou... I did make a couple of my bucktails with parts from Stamina Lures... The blades might be a bit heavy for my taste... I found that working with flashabou can be kinda hard... any advices??? any websites I can learn off???
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Location: Bloomington, Illinois | I use skirt collars to make my flashabou skirts...You will need a skirt making tool (something to hold open the skirt collar)...I use scotch tape to tape one end of the flashabou...Tape it tightly but as flat as you can...push the taped end through the collar and pull it through to the desired length...You can use scissors to trim away the tape and to cut the stapled/ wire tied end...It is sometimes easier to go ahead and insert the skirt body through the collar before releasing the skirt tool...I have had problems getting the flashabou skirt to slide on to a skirt body after I make them  Hope this helps....
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| You need to tie the flash onto a coil spring that can later be slid over the wire shaft of your bucktail. There are probably many ways to do this but I have some fly tying equipment and have used it with decent results.
I make my own coil by by wrapping 0.040" stainless wire over a chunk of coat hangar. Trim the coil to length, you will need about 1/2" to work with, but I leave one end on the coil with an untrimmed end that can be clamped while still on the coat hangar in the fly vice. This prevents the wire from spinning on the shaft while tying on the material. Lay a base of thread on the coil with a fly tying bobbin, then start tieing on the flash material. The process is very similar to tying hair if you have ever done that. I use a whip finish knot followed by a coating of super glue to hold the thread in place.
Edited by Pete Yake 12/24/2007 8:43 AM
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| Pete and Muskyme have good suggestions. I buy my coils premade from Moore's Lures as opposed to making them. As Pete said, wrap some thread around the coil before you put the material on it to give the flashabou something to stick to (otherwise the material may slide right off the coil). Here's where it gets a bit tricky. You have to be careful how you load the flashabou onto the coil. The first few I made were lopsided; there was more material on one side than the other. Coming through the water it looked terrible! Big clump of flashabou on one side and the entire hook, wire, and coil exposed on the other!
Take about half the material and place it on one half of the coil. Make a tie. Take the other half and tie it on the other half of the coil. With practice eventually you'll be able to just lay the material onto the coil and be able to eyeball the correct amount for an even load.
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Location: Arena WI | Have any of you ever tied flashabou over existing rubber spinnerbaits? How did you do it and did it look good in the water? I look forward to all responses.
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