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Location: Bloomington, IL | hum...looks like the board tanked, and some new posts are missing...so I'll post again! 
So i got a bunch of bucktail making stuff on ebay, and tried it out for the first time last night! here is my first effort.
Looking back on it now, I have a few thoughts:
- I dont' think i like the skirt material. its kind of wierd stuff...kind of a nylon type lacing material....
- looks like the blades might be too close to the skirt.
- its a 4/0 hook, and that might be too small for this size of bait.
all this and i haven't even put it in the water yet!!!
So please share you thoughts on what might be done better next time, or anything like that! its about the same size/weight as a showgirl, and has #8 french blades. thats a quarter for referance. 
Thanks for any input!
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| Actually, you will like that skirt material when you see it in the water. I would love to find material like that. The hook should be fine. Blade spacing is important, my rule of thumb is that I like 1/4"(a bead for me) spacing from the bottom of the blade to the skirt. You may run into issues getting the blades started. Great looking bait by the way, keep up the good work. | |
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Location: Bloomington, IL | Ah, cool....thanks for the tip man. the next one is going to be a bit longer!
Heck, you can have the rest of this material. lol...well, maybe i better hold off till i see it in the water like you say. But I CAN tell you what it is. Its stuff called CraftLace.....i got a bunch of the 10 yard hanks with the lot of stuff from ebay.
http://www.tonercrafts.com/shopping/Master_Category/CraftLace/index...
looks to be VERY cheap! I started with this stuff because I don't have a real good setup to do the hair or feathers yet. working on that though.
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Location: Bloomington, IL | OK, heres my next one. This is my first attempt at tying hair!
So how do you guys get more hair on there without the head getting too big????
Length - 8"
Weight - 2 oz.
Its kind of like a mepps giant killer, but im guessing because of the size and weight this sucker is going to run DEEEEEP.
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| Very good for a first attempt with hair. I gave up on tying on the hook, and tie on a coil or a plastic sleeve. You can tell when you are getting good at working with hair, when you don't have much skin left on your thumb and index finger tip.
I always found it easier to tie with finer thread, but I tied jigs for years before I made my first bucktails. Buy some coils, or take a piece of plastic out of the inside of a pen and use that. Wrap it with your thread so it doesn't slip, and start at the bottom and keep going up, turning it and adding hair as you go. Then dress the head and slip it on the shaft. You'll see how much easier it is, and your lures will be much harier. You can buy coils, weighted coils or plastic fly tubing at lots of places. I only use the tubing because I have some left from making Lake Michigan flies.
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Location: Bloomington, IL | I actually tried tying on a weighted coil this morning! haha...hooked is right! it was synthetic hair this time, though, and i still found that i couldn't get the hair as thick as i wanted, though the synthetic stuff was much harder to work with. do i need to maybe use bigger bunches or something, or just go with 3 or more layers rather than only 2?
I am using 220 denier....that was the thickest they had at gander last night. Think that will be sufficient??
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