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| how thick are spanky baits blades #10? and dose anyone build a biat with thicker blades?
also what dose everyone think about doubble 13 blades? or is #10 just fine? |
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| Curious why you want thicker blades? IMO thin blades catch more fish - 13's don't catch fish don't use them  |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Thicker blades turn slower than thinner blades, therefore run deeper. On heavy pressured or clear water lakes that extra depth might mean the difference in getting bit by shy muskies.
If I remember right, blades on Spankys are .040 and the Cowgirls are made with .025 |
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| well you are partially right, since thin blades turn easier, you can run them at slower speeds and the blades will still spin - if you want them to run deeper weight the bait more... |
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Location: Ontario | 0.40 is a lot more durable too. They will not warp or cup and the clevis holes will stay true no matter what. They cast way better and do run deeper. Thin blades really run different and fish like them, but you sacrifice a lot of durability. Caught fish on both, always carry baits tied using both. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | While 040 is more durable and won't warp like a 024 I have found the 040 have a tendency to need to be kick started and sometimes will not spin at all if the lure is out of tune. I moved all of my double 10 (Dominatrix) and double #13 (Booty Tails) to 032 thick blades and this seemed to solve both issues for 10s and 13s. I think Moores lures sells 032 thick blades if you build any for yourself.
James
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Location: Contrarian Island | you can get thicker bladed bucktails from gerry carroll...over the last couple yrs some of the biggest fish in my boat to 54.5" were caught on thicker blades... thin blades don't catch more fish imo... they both work, have a time and place
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Location: Michigan | Spanky's are .040. DCG's , and most others are .020-.025. |
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| Scott's Custom Bucktails has some .040 blades in double 10's and 10 willow .040 also.
Some of his clients put some big fish in the net using them and one is pretty well known guide. He also has produced some pretty awesome custom tails for people.
Musky Ken
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Location: Okoboji | i'll take the thinner ones,,,,just like my women. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I also have used .025 & .040 blades on my baits. I believe lighter blades with a lighter wire will cause more vibration. Look at Shumway's for example. I first started building for durability but now realize heavier or thicker isn't always better for catching more fish. |
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| .40 is far away behind thin blades concern productivity.that's why i never made any spinnerbaits or bucktails whit them. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | I've never considered blade thickness to have a single thing to do with a muskies decision to eat it or not... I personally believe blade thickness has everything to do with durability and weight, so as to get deeper in the water column while the thinner blades like that of the Double Cowgirl will naturally ride higher in the water column in any retrievel speed comparison. Spanky Baits are great bucktails and you can buy/order in two different blade thicknesses, so if you fish the weeds a lot, you may want the lighter/thinner blades, and if you fish weed edges or are throwing in the abyss, consider the heavier of the two.. |
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| I think the biggest thing about blade thickness is the kind of action the skirt has. This is also effected by the size and shape of blades, as well as how cupped the are.
If you notice DCG skirts always have a flare, and the skirt breathes and pulsates. Spanky Baits' skirts just sorta drag behind the lure and don't really do much. As someone else said, the thicker blades require a "kick start" to get them going. I've noticed the painted blades respond the same way at times, but it is mostly on smaller ones, such as Baby Girls and Double Showgirls, size 6 and 8 Colorados, respectively.
If I'm buying a bucktail, it's going to be made by Musky Mayhem with non-painted blades or iodized blades (like the Red/Red DSG), which come in a variety of colors. I really like the ease of getting a custom color through Spanky Baits, but having a bucktail that works is more important to me than what color it is. |
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| I'm not buying thick blades run deeper (with blades actually spinning) Get two nearly Identical baits, say each both weight 4 oz. with db 10's... one has .24 the other has .40 blades ....you can reel the .24 slower with the blades still turning, (this is not my opinion its physics). The slower you retrieve 10's the deeper they run. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | I hear you Justin, but I disagree only because I think you're adding a variable to the equation that I didn't. Heavier blades on a Spanky bait, means a heavier bait versus it's counterpart with lighter blades. Why would you have a bucktail that has lighter blades weigh the same as another pair of tens that are heavier? Thicker gauge wire? Heavier hooks? Two bucktails side by side at the same length each, if one has heavier blades and the other has lighter blades, why do you suppose with blades spinning, they would run at equal heights in the water column at even speeds?
I'm not theorizing this time, I'm talking from experience and being irritated when I want to throw a certain color but only have it in the heavier blades and I'm fishing shallow over weeds.. I have to literally increase my retrieve speed and angle my rod tip higher to keep the heavier bucktail higher in the water column.. What am I missing?
Lighter blades mean a lighter bucktail, heavier blades mean a heavier bucktail. More weight means more drop in the water, despite retrievel speed. It's like shooting two different weighted arrows from a compound bow with the same draw back poundage. The heavier arrow will have the same initial trajectory, but will sink faster than the lighter arrow. |
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| Don't Spanky Baits have more weight than DCGs? I'm talking about the steel or lead weight in the back, no blade weight. |
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| Guest - 9/30/2011 8:26 PM
Don't Spanky Baits have more weight than DCGs? I'm talking about the steel or lead weight in the back, no blade weight.
That's supposed to say NOT blade weight. Typo |
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blade thickness