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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Currently I have the following bucktails and I'm looking for a some color suggestions for 2 more bucktails finish off my collection:
blade/skirt/size
nickel/black/Double Showgirl
blue & yellow/blue & green (Durado) Double Showgirl
nickel/black & red/double 10 Magnum Tinsel Buchertail
nickel/White,Pearl & Silver Musky Safari Double Hatchet Hypnotizer
black nickel/ dark green & black (Black Bullhead (TB Custom)) Double Cowgirl
Fire Tiger/Fire Tiger/ #12 Indiana blades
I really only fish Bald Eagle and and Lake Independence in MN, so shallow stained lakes.
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | black/orange is a staple must have, especially on many dark water lakes |
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Location: Wisconsin | Chart blade/ black skirt works very well for me on stained lakes |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Gold blades / purple skirt.
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| Copper/copper great in stained waters.
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| Dark water? Try gold blade and tandem yellow tail; and gold blade brown tail; No. 8 single blade. Firetiger blade and black tail; again No. 8 single or willow leaf blade. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Gold on Gold the brighter the better.
By far my most productive color. |
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Location: Detroit River | Hulk Hogan Spanky! |
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Location: Savage, MN | Gunmetal Blades with red and black skirt. |
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| Eagle Tail black/orange, Rabid Squirrel black/green, Mepps Musky Marabou or double red/copper or black/orange-brass. Looks like your current selection is all variants of double blade baits with tinsel. Try some other stuff.
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Peter Stoltman - 8/21/2013 7:16 AM
Eagle Tail black/orange, Rabid Squirrel black/green, Mepps Musky Marabou or double red/copper or black/orange-brass. Looks like your current selection is all variants of double blade baits with tinsel. Try some other stuff.
I do own two Mepps Musky Marabous, 1 white and 1 black & white, but I'm not a fan of marabou bleeding or how long it takes to dry so I don't use them, that's why I didn't count them. |
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| I'd probably be more worried about how a bait catches fish than how quickly it dries. |
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| Huss Nasty - 8/21/2013 8:16 AM
I'd probably be more worried about how a bait catches fish than how quickly it dries.
I agree. Marabou works very well in stained waters. They stay wet all the time for a reason. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Guest - 8/21/2013 8:30 AM
Huss Nasty - 8/21/2013 8:16 AM
I'd probably be more worried about how a bait catches fish than how quickly it dries.
I agree. Marabou works very well in stained waters. They stay wet all the time for a reason.
Why does Marabou work well in stained water? Does it work better than tinsel/flashabou? |
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| All lures have their time and place. Marabou and tinsel will both work at times better than the other. I was trying to make the point that it seems counterintuitive to worry about a lure's ability to dry when you are trying to catch a fish that swims in water... |
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Location: Poynette WI. | I love to use all sorts of materials, tinsel, bucktails marabou, hackle etc. all have there place, but the time and money that goes into making them or whether your buying them, you want them to hold up as long as possible. I give mine a good shake off and never throw them in a closed tackle box wet, i always hang them up in an open box I've made out of a milk crate and down spouts, so they can get some air. After every fishing trip, I get home and take my bucktails out and comb through them. All my lures have been lasting a lot longer, look great and the next time I go fishing there ready to go! |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Huss Nasty - 8/21/2013 9:52 AM
All lures have their time and place. Marabou and tinsel will both work at times better than the other. I was trying to make the point that it seems counterintuitive to worry about a lure's ability to dry when you are trying to catch a fish that swims in water...
The reason I don't like how long it takes to dry is two fold. With my other baits, I leave them on deck for about 10 minutes to dry and then back into the box they go. Keeps things organized and makes sure I don't have baits everywhere, which is a good thing as the boat I fish in is only 16 ft. The other reason I don't like the dry time is because my assumption is that this part of what leads to the bleeding affect that I also don't like. I through the black & white mepps marabou for about an hour, let it sit on deck for 2 hours and it was still damp, and when I pulled it out a week later the black had bleed onto the white. My dad had the same thing happen with a brand new black/chart marabou he had picked up. Fished once for about an hour and when I was looking at it a few days later I noticed that the black had bleed onto the chartreuse.
At the end of the day maybe the muskies don't mind the bleeding but this is my first year fishing for them so I don't know. |
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| The colors bleeding is definitely more of an issue to you than the fish. One of the traits of marabou is that it does not hold dye as well as bucktail or, obviously, flashabou. It does, however, hold a lot more water than any other material. This makes it take a longer time to dry, but also aids when trying to make long casts in the wind. Like I said, they all have their time and place. |
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| i prefer contrast over blended colors caused by bleeding.for this reason i prefer bucktail and flashabou. when fish want something all black then i cast a marabou otherwise no,and trust me the fish where i fish care.i guess that's the reason why there is more than just 1 pattern available.
marabou is a kind of surprise box,you know what you tie or buy but after a while you almost never know how it will turn.
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