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| What diameter wire and do you use for bucktails? Do you use the same diameter clevis or a bigger size? Thanks. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Kind of a personal preference if you are making your own tails.
For a shaft, most use a .50 as do I, but some like the .63 also.
For clevis's, I tend to like the # 6 myself, but again some like the bigger # 8.
It is all up to you.
Good luck. |
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| What kind of bucktails do you want to make? |
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| I’m kind of old school when it comes to bucktails, I like them lightweight with a #8 single blade. The ones I make for myself and family use a .046 shaft with light weight components designed for that wire size. I don’t use weights or split rings and just tie marabou on coil with some feathers.
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Location: Madtown, WI | For the price of material, you'll for sure want to experiment with different size wire, just to figure out what you like. I've landed on the .05 with a #6 clevis. The .06 is probably better for durability, but your hands will thank you for not using it. When bucktails get bent up, just reshaft them.
You'll for sure need a bigger clevis than diameter wire of course, the min for .05 wire I'd use is a #6 clevis and a #8 for .06 |
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Location: Waconia, MN | I use .051" shafts and have never had an issue. For Clevices I would use the conventional style and not the S shaped ones. I have had the stress from both blades pulling on the middle part of the S shaped clevice cause the clevice to snap. This has only happened with the thick .040" Blades but still rubbed me the wrong way. The clevices I use are the "Magnum" sized ones off of lureparts.com. Good luck and have fun! It is a great feeling catching a fish on a lure you made yourself, if you have anymore questions feel free to PM me. |
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