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| I have very little experiece with bucktails usually crankbait and jerkbait thrower. I would like to know everybodys choices of bucktails in spring, summer, and fall. Bucktail name, blade type, color and size. I know this is alot of questions but i thought it would be real informative for me and everyone else. Thanks alot in advance!! JD P.S. shallow and deep water. |
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| 99% of all the bucktails that I throw are Doghouse Bucktails made by Darrel Mack. I prefer the French blades or heavy willow leaf blades mainly because they are different than those on most bucktails and therefore give off a different vibration. The color tail which I have done best on is a combination of yellow and orange colored hair. I also try to retrieve them as deep as I can get them to come in without hanging up no matter what the water depth. |
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| In clear water I go with more natural colors. French and willow blades are good but it depends on the depth you are fishing and the weight of the bucktail.
Stained water I use black, orange or chartruse or some combination with those colors. Fluted and colorado are good as well as french blades.
French blades spin the fastest and give off great vibration. Colorado blades give the most lift but spin slower. Indiana is an in between and willow is more for flash.
I make my own spinners. I do have some buchertails, grim reapers, ghostails, rizzo wizzes, mepps and blue foxes but I like to make and use my own. I have better control over weight, size, color and lift for where I want to fish. |
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| My favorite tail overall is the ChickaD. I use em most of the time i'm throwing tails. For a night fishing tail i like shumway flashers or boo tail comboos. For heavy weeds i like lilly tails. There are other good tails too, I just haven't been using much other then chickaDs lately. After your used to casting them its no fun to use most other bucktails because they cast so well.
Brody |
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| Many years ago Steve Worrall set up a number of underwater microphones in the pool at the Holiday Inn in Rhinelander and proceeded to cast every bait that he could get his hands on and recorded it. He had to wait until the hotel bar closed because all the bar sounds were transmitted into the pool. Every bait of the hundreds the Steve cast through the field of microphones had its own unique sound, that included jerk baits like Suicks and Eddie Baits.
The sounds which were most notable to me were the small french blades which screamed when compared to the big fluted
blades which chugged in comparison. If I was a muskie I would hit the small french blades just to stop the noise! |
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| The bucktails I prefer early in the year are Hottails made by Bruce Shumway. I like the small french blade early and switch to the Indiana blade as the weeds come up and I need the bucktail to ride higher in the water. From early July on I switch to Bootails and fish them up until fall.
The stained water I fish consists mainly of the Chippewa Flowage and other Chippewa river system waters. The hot colors for a good number of years has been a black tail with a lime green blade on dark days and a yellow tail with a lime green blade on bright days.
I have recently started fishing more and more clear water systems and more natural finishes seem to work well..black or brown tails with silver, brass or copper blades. At times some very bright and gaudy colors have brought up fish when nothing else works.
Fred J |
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