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hum...looks like the board tanked, and some new posts are missing...so I'll post again!  So i got a bunch of bucktail making stuff on ebay, and tried it out for the first time last night! here is my first effort. Looking back on it now, I have a few thoughts: - I dont' think i like the skirt material. its kind of wierd stuff...kind of a nylon type lacing material.... - looks like the blades might be too close to the skirt. - its a 4/0 hook, and that might be too small for this size of bait. all this and i haven't even put it in the water yet!!! So please share you thoughts on what might be done better next time, or anything like that! its about the same size/weight as a showgirl, and has #8 french blades. thats a quarter for referance.  Thanks for any input! Attachments ----------------  lure.JPG (35KB - 89 downloads) | |||
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| scolba |
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| Ah, cool....thanks for the tip man. the next one is going to be a bit longer! Heck, you can have the rest of this material. lol...well, maybe i better hold off till i see it in the water like you say. But I CAN tell you what it is. Its stuff called CraftLace.....i got a bunch of the 10 yard hanks with the lot of stuff from ebay. http://www.tonercrafts.com/shopping/Master_Category/CraftLace/index... looks to be VERY cheap! I started with this stuff because I don't have a real good setup to do the hair or feathers yet. working on that though. | |||
| scolba |
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| OK, heres my next one. This is my first attempt at tying hair! So how do you guys get more hair on there without the head getting too big???? Length - 8" Weight - 2 oz. Its kind of like a mepps giant killer, but im guessing because of the size and weight this sucker is going to run DEEEEEP. Attachments ---------------- DSC_0011.JPG (73KB - 78 downloads) DSC_0012.JPG (76KB - 89 downloads) | |||
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| scolba |
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| I actually tried tying on a weighted coil this morning! haha...hooked is right! it was synthetic hair this time, though, and i still found that i couldn't get the hair as thick as i wanted, though the synthetic stuff was much harder to work with. do i need to maybe use bigger bunches or something, or just go with 3 or more layers rather than only 2? I am using 220 denier....that was the thickest they had at gander last night. Think that will be sufficient?? | |||
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