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Location: Illinois-Indiana | What is your favorite style of bucktail and why? |
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Location: Oak Park, IL | Ralph, I tend to like the Indiana over the Colorado as a compromise between qualities of lift/retrieve speed/depth in the water. In the waters I fish getting deep is not really a factor, and contrary to most I tend to really crawl my various spinners to try and entice less active biters.
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Ralphie:
I like the Wilow for night fishing, but use Colorado most of the time.
Mike Hulbert
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Location: oswego, il | I like colorado blades. They have good lift and vibration but spin slower than fluted indiana and french blades making the drag a bucktail has no worse. Fench blades actualy spin the fastest. My dad really likes willow blades and they are very underrated. A key to a better willow blade bucktail is getting the blade to spin as far away from the lure shaft as possible.
With a willow leaf we use a large clevis and but that against a big bead. Part of the blase will actually ride on the bead. We have tried running the clevise against a small bead and they seem to just run flat. Also, the willow leaf blade bucktails don't sell as well. I have not even taken an order for one. |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Wow, this is a tough one. I like my bigger bucks like Musk-a-doo with the fluted blade, but then a smaller one like Musky Candy I've got set up with custom Power Glow painted Colorado's. Then you got your oddball baits...you know, stuff thats rubber with no hair(inline spinners). My Mepps Musky Minnow has a willow and I have a tube bait spinner called the Musky/Pike Magic with Custom Painted Power Glow Indiana blades(non fluted). And Finally to confuse matters I've got my safety pin Spinnerbait with both a colorado and a willow on the same bait... Yeah, sure the last 3 aren't technically "Bucktails" but they got the blades in question.. I'm gonna vote other on this one...
Edited by kevin 11/29/2003 3:02 PM
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Location: Valentine, NE USA | Ralph-
I do best with a Colorado. Not too many guys around here use a Colorado blade so the fish aren't very acustomed to it.
Brian Sanger
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Colorado for more lift more thump and most muskies. 
Edited by Trophymuskie 11/29/2003 9:33 AM
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | ttt |
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | TTT |
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | 160 views and only 23 votes, I guess nobody uses bucktails.:( |
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| Colorado because it has more lift and that's what I need in the timber infested waters I fish. I'm really not too experienced with willow leaf blades, which I understand run deeper, but I don't throw bucktails for deep fish in open water, instead I use cranks or spinnerbaits on those waters.
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Location: NeverNever Lake | I perfer Colorado's even though Indiana is closer. Never been to Willow Leaf but I'm sure they have alot of geat blademakers there. |
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