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Posts: 225 Location: Nordeast Minneapolis | Thought I'd share a photo of my recent attempt at lure-making... My father has tied bucktails for as long as I can remember; when the original Billy Finn (or 'Sir William', as it was known in my family) went out of production back in the day, he and a friend decided they had to take matters into their own hands. After many attempts at refinement, they eventually hit on a construction methodology that worked for them. He taught me when I was probably in junior high, and I got into it in high school. But of course, things like college and moving to the city kept me out of basement lure making (and to a large degree, fishing in general) for awhile. Now that I'm completely done with school and finally have a decent fishing rig of my own, I'm starting to get back into it. And after seeing a $30 price tag on a bucktail at Gander Mountain, I decided to spend an hour or two in my dad's 'Bait Factory' when I was visiting them over Easter and see what I could do. So here they are; the first two bucktails I've put together in over a decade. My thread work was a little sloppy, but hopefully they'll hold together for more than a cast or two. And I don't know how I'm going to pull that double-willowleaf blade through the water. But really, it was just fun to get back into it... it's one thing to imagine the fish you're going to catch with that brand new lure you just bought, and quite another when you're actually making the lure. Anyway, I didn't mean for this to be a long, rambling dissertation. I just thought I'd share, and would love to hear critique/thoughts/suggestions. Attachments ----------------  bucktail_2.jpg (88KB - 89 downloads) | ||
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