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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | OK, so the big move to big bladed buck tails like the DC10, XX and DCG’s is hot and heavy. With these buck tails after continuous casting, the blades eventually bend. The drag force of the water eventually bends the blades slightly inward. The bending takes place at the tips (where the blades attach to the clevis) and this slight bending reduces the drag a bit and produces slightly less vibration. It makes burning these buck tails a bit easier once this brake-in occurs but I was wondering if fish production drops off after the break-in period? Especially for those of you that fish at night, have you noticed any decline in action once a buck tail is worn in a bit?
I actually was concerned about a bait coming in to easy the other week? Crazy how you complain about how hard they retrieve one day and then complain that they come in too easy the next and consider snapping on a new one!
Any thoughts or experiences in regards to post break in success?
Thanks,
Ed
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Location: Contrarian Island | my experience is it doesn't seem to matter...in fact with some of my new ones i take a small pliers and purposely bend them at the clevis to make burning them easier...sometimes they want them burned, sometimes slow w/ lots of pull is what they want....
just like any bait, they don't always want it retrieved the same way one day to the next, or one hour to the next for that matter...
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| Ed,
I've noticed that the crease you get in the blade from the hooks hitting the back every time you cast seems to change the feel a little, but I never really checked to see of the blades were bent near the clevis. This is why I like the heavier (thicker) blades -- they take a lot more abuse. On the ones with the thinner blades I will usually just step on them to flatten them out a bit when they start getting really beat up.
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| Just step on them huh...Geesh...glad your not my surgeon EA!!
I haven't noticed a difference in performance really. I have some that have caught quite a few fish. Actually had one that I had to keep repainting the blades but finally retired it because it was so bent up and most of the flashabou was gone. I do periodically bend them back out if I notice a significant reduction in drag. But I can never seem to get them back to "like new" drag. But it doesn't really seem to matter.
I likes Brads comment...some days they want them burned...others they like lots of drag and slow rolled....all just part of the puzzle.
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