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Location: Holly, MI | There are now a few bucktails out there with one or two Single hooks. Anyone using them? Seems like it would be much more weedless. Single hooks seem to penetrate better when hooked but maybe not hook up quite as often as trebles.
How about a teaser blade behind the bucktail? Lots of these available now too. Love 'em? Use 'em? They are easy to add with a piece of wire and a swivel.
Also how many are adding plastics off the back of the treble? Matching or contrasting color? |
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| Everything has its time and place. If you have one of those days when you have a lot of follows, but no strikes, add a trailer or plastic tail. It makes a difference on some days. If you haven't had any follows or strikes all day, add a little something.
You can add a trailer easy enough with just a piece of wire, a swivel, and a blade. I like the silver or gold trailers.
The single hook thing is a different story. It seems to vary depending on where you are. People in Minnesota love them, people in Wisconsin don't have much luck with them. |
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Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | Most of my casting Bucktails have triple hooks, with plastic trailers on the small Bucks.I troll weed edges with 9-11 inch single hook Bucks(Eagle Tails), which I highly recommend for certain lakes that have long extended weed edges. |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | I have used the Charlie's bucktail, very weedless like they advertise. I also have some Eagle tails. Haven't caught anything on them yet(the eagle's are new, the water frozen..lol..). I don't think I cast the Charlie enough. Now for the teaser tails... I have had the best luck on any Bucktails I cast using the ones I got from the guys at Fudally, not sure what brand they are. I have used some Berkely power grubs with absolutely no luck, so gave them away. I actually felt the scent on the berkely stuff was too strong despite having luck for walleye with the stuff. Color, any as long as its white, regardless of bucktail color so far. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The signature the bucktail has in the water is pretty impressive JUST from the blade and clevis. I don't think a soft plastic tail does much more than add contrast to the overall signature, because anything it might do sound or vibration wise is muted so badly by the blade noise. I tried tail/no tail on spinnerbaits, and honestly cannot say I found ANY difference in numbers of fish. Weight? Height the lure runs? Sure. That's why I add a tail.
Tail spinners are another signature added. I'm not at all sure what they do, if anything, except make it more difficult to reel the lure in. Again, I have used them alot and can't say there is any noticiable difference between a bucktail wit or without the tail spinner. I like them, though, because they look so cool.
I lose lots of smallish muskies on single hook bucktails, probably because i set the hook too hrad and open a gash in the fish's face. I don't lose many big girls on them, probaby because it is MUCH harder to tear a gap in a 45" fish than it is in a 35" fish. |
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