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| This is for Ppl that are fishing lakes with lots of pike and musky where the bulldawgs are getting beat up alot. How do the tails hold up? Not how long, but about how many fish do u think it would take to rip off the tail? Planning a trip and would like to know how many spares to bring. Thanks |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Seen them casted off in the first few casts and others catch 15 muskies and lots of pike.... |
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| That's what I figured... thought id ask anyway |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Don't throw those tail-less swimbaits away. I think Andy from Shack Attack still makes tails, I do with Tackle Industries (3 sizes) and I think you can pick up Tyrant tails in some stores and that is plastisol and compatible with most swimbaits too.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | My experience has been that when a musky strikes a Dawg,(Mag Dawg, Pounder, or Double Dawg) It almost always has been hooked on the front hook........ Only once in the last four yrs. have I had to replace a tail on a dawg........... With that said, I have a pack of replacement tails on hand from Throne Brothers . Just in case. I do keep a torch in the boat for Dawgs that have been torn up.
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| What kind of torch? Do u just melt the rips with it? |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I also carry a torch and a bottle of mend it or spike it....I use a small butane torch.... |
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Location: Tonka, MN | Never had a tail rip off but for teeth marks I like to hot knife it. Seems to get the plastic to hold better. Never used Mend It though. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Dirt1123 - 3/23/2012 10:54 PM
What kind of torch? Do u just melt the rips with it?
Just a small butane torch will do.
Just heat both sides up untill they start "dripping" and then join both pieces together and wait a minute or two.
(Tip) It's a lot easier to do with 2 people.
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| would one of those cigar lighters worker? or is that what you are talking about when you say small butane torch? |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Lighter-Torch,...... Think about it,...... A lighter is not a torch.
Go to the Hardware store and ask "an Older person" about a "Torch" hopefully they have worked there for more than 3 months.
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| Torch vs. lighter - torch is for major structural defects. The flame shoots deep into body cuts and is a great tool for major reconstruction. To add a new tail to a Dawg, torch or Mend-It. For outer tail work, a torch is too much, too hot. Use a lighter or Mend-It instead.
Mend-It works better on clean-cut surfaces, flame works better on rough-cut surfaces. |
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Location: North/Central WI | This is what you need. Bought this one at Fleet Farm for $25. Works great...
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | NateOz - 3/25/2012 2:59 PM
This is what you need. Bought this one at Fleet Farm for $25. Works great...
Bingo, That will get the job done right. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Pencil-type soldering iron works great, a little less carnage than a torch, but doesn't work in the boat. Mend-It works quite well, too. |
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