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Location: Belgium | what are your favourite color combo's for spinnerbaits (so not inlines). I like black hair with a hammered brass blade, black hair with a chartreuse blade, brown bucktail with lots of orange hackle feathers with an orange blade with the black/brass one being the best color overall
Looking to get some inspiration for new combo's. I want to try white/blue bucktail with hammered nickel blades and maybe all chartreuse and all orange
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | White is a very good choice for pike. I use white and red, white and orange, and white and black alot, with matching blades. I make all mine with the round living rubber. I also do some custom mixing of colors. Here are a batch I built today for the Sabaskong trip. these are 1.5 ouncers, with 45 count skirts designed to run through the reeds and heavy slop.
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Location: Rhinelander | Was wondering where you buy skirts and jig spinners from.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I buy the living rubber in one pound rolls from Stamina, and make my own spinnerbait forms with a Do-It mold and .040 to .051 wire. |
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Location: Valentine, NE USA | Dirk-
I never see this pattern mentioned in anyone's favorites, but Pike in my are LOVE Purple/Chrome. You have to beat 'em of with a stick!
Brian Sanger
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Location: Holly, MI | Have to second the White. Sometimes hard to find with white head, white blades, and white skirt. The big smallies hammer them too, and can rip them up. Musky, pike and bass. I also like my black skirt, black twistertail, black head, brass blades from grim reaper. |
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Location: Belgium | sworrall, I was actually referring to bucktail color combo's not skirts but I guess that makes little difference?
snowcrest, do you mean purple hair with a nickel blade? One time I caught some nice pike (for the water I was fishing in that is) on purple with a chartreuse cristalina blade. never tried purple/nickel |
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Location: Belgium | has anyone tried a fluorescent green blade? I've ordered some and I wondered what color bucktail I should add ... I'm getting orange, chartreuse, white, blue and dark green bucktail hair |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I used to tie mine with Bucktail too, but was amazed how tough the living rubber is, and switched. It is WAY less money, and much easier to work with. I can use one skirt for two years, and if it gets too chewed up, take off the trailer hook, build and install another in about 2 minutes. Colors are almost anything you can imagine. Green blades go well with white and black combos, and with yellow and white, plus anything mixed with green hair. |
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| Steve, the two you gave me are GREAT. They've caught a bunch of big bass and pike while musky-hunting, especially the white one w/ pink on the tip of the blade. Thanks a bunch. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Thanks Steve for the information, I tie most of my bucktails with hair, but I'm starting to switch to rubber.
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Location: Belgium | steve, I use both styles of spinnerbaits but I enjoy tying bucktails when I don't need to tie a bunch at a time. I have caught on both styles but more on rubberskirted ones. I only started catching on the bucktails this year |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Sounds like a strange combo but it works in gin clear water on tigers:
1 oz or 1 1/2 oz head with a black/ blue skirt and a black nickle #6 colorado blade.
Works for me......
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How does one cure a bucktail once it is boned out? I throw away about 10 a year from our group, seems like a waste. I could tie up a BUNCH of 'naturals'. |
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Location: Neenah, WI | Figure 8 Baits make a awesome spinnerbait called the boss.
The Fire tiger colored one with orange and silver blades has treated me very well.
Hook'em Hard
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Location: Holly, MI | If the hair gets too thin it can be removed with a razor knife. Cut away the thread wrappings and wind some more on. I just re-tied one with a huge bunch of maribou (yet to test it). |
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Location: In the slop! | Steve, you can tan those tails pretty easy. Once they are deboned and defleshed, (scrape them good). I like to shampoo them in a 5 gallon bucket. Hang them up so the hair can dry, when dry lay them on a flat surface and cover the skin with pickling salt, (non iodized) and let dry a few days.
I did about ten last January this way and the hair is still holding. A taxidermist friend of mine gave me some tips on this and it worked well.
Good luck, Mike Jensen. |
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