Favorite Bucktail
 

1. What is your favorite type of bucktail you like to use for Fluke?

2. What is your most productive color?
White, Glow, Silver, Chartruse, Yellow, Pink etc

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Mai-tai! His Bucktails Rule!!! better quality Bucktail than a spro Imho...Better price too and it you can keep it out of the rocks:D the paint holds up forever:)

White

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a picture is worth a thousand words

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4oz spro mullet color w/ stinger hook and a strip

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Do you like the plain white or the Glow.

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Eff the B/T it's all about the teaser Baby! :D

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While on the topic instead of tandem bucktails anyone ever try in tandem hook and skirt w/ a sinker ?

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I like to hand tie my own on CM Tackle jigheads.he uses an owner hook.To me its all about the HOOK.Color doesnt matter to me as much as action and the rite hook but I mostly fish white. I rarely even fish a teaser above my bucktails while flukin.Big fish like the bucktail.

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THAT'S my boy!!!

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so true;)

Alex

I like reg white

We have quite a few guys that use that method and do very well with tandem hook slider/stinger rig with skirt & long strip and sinker.

also

We use alot of skirts above the bucktail with a plain hook and bait

Mike wells loves his smiling bills jigs lmao!!!!

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Hi low spro -

Teaser on top sometimes spro, somtimes hook with skirt sometimes naked

Color varies peding on th area - but usually glow - last year the pinks worked well

G- :cool:

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The type with a hook

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Jerry,i've heard alot about mai tai bucktails where can you buy them???

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hi lo chartruse spro with 4"swimming mullet (pearl) on both, 3/8ths up top and i dont jig anything bigger than 4 oz on the bottom, ill drag big smelt with a 6" cuttle strip behind if the drift is too fast. id have to say 75% of my keepers last year hit the top jig.

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I never seem to keep one long enuff to have a favorite. Catch more on the teaser anyway.

Got some home made purple ones I can't wait to try. Is it May yet?

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Last year I purchased some 4oz custom jigs in guppy style from a local jig maker. They worked out well. Chart/White with a bluefish belly strip & stinger hook got me a pb of 8# at the rocks in early August.

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had the most success with plain round bucktails in white or chartreuse....

favorite is any one I make myself...nothing beats catching fish with your own stuff

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1 oz to 3 oz glow white powder coated and clear coated twice with over sized glow eyes. Owner 5/0 to 6/0 hook with chart or white natural bucktail, not synthetic. Spro is good but the paint chips very easily, and the tail is not tied tight enough so the hair loss is quick. They offer every paint color in glow so you can make whatever combo of glow heads and tail feather you choose.

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A buddy of mine makes my bucktails for me...he uses the guppy mold previously mentioned...his bucktails boxed a lot of fluke for me last summer.

Also agree with the teaser comments - sometimes that's all they want but most of my bigger fish were on the bucktail

Al

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Can you post a pick. Were do you get the oversized glow eyes.

MVP

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I prefer 1 1/2 to 2 oz spro with 10 to 15 lb test in glow with a strip and no teaser.Still looking for the 10 lbr,biggest so far was 8 3/4.

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MVP, Do it mold gives you the size for eyes and hooks that fits the jig you pour. Although they are stick ons, and need to be clear coated to secure the eyes, the recommended size for the mold up to 1.5oz is very small as are the hooks. As for the eyes I ordered 2 sizes larger then stated and they came out well. For larger hooks or other brands this may require alterations to the mold. The eyes glow just as much as the powder coat "looks like a night light in the bathroom." The nice thing is that if your convinced that the glow is attracting fish you can coat them any color in the glow powder, but i do find the white and chart to be the brightest. I will email you a pic if you want tomorrow. I just got sick of loosing the hair and paint on the spros after minimal use and now i can bounce a tighter wrapped product for less then half the price!

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Jigger

Send me a pictures of your bucktails. I bought one of those spro type molds 3 years ago for 3-5 oz. I did not like the hook that they recommended for that mold as it was a huge Mustag hook that looked more like a shark hook to me. As you mentioned I would have had to alter the mold to have it fit a Gami style hook.
I decided to just return mold rather than screw it up.

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hot lips in the ocean 1oz to 3 oz bullet type for bay white

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Gotta love Joe's Mai-tai's :D

White or glo

enough weight to keep it vertical

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t/IMG_0733.jpg
And The Racoon...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...culprit004.jpg

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Hey! I know those jigs!

Wait 'till you see the 2010 models with the new line tie location

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I want one of those racoons..... :D

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Can someone post a picture of what a bucktail with a teaser looks like?
Where do i buy some and do I put anyhting on the teaser or just empty?


thanks

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That can be arranged, hahaha.....it seeks out BIG fluke, just ask Monica.

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Falcon

Love that picture of Bucktail bucket. Those bucktails look like they have been pounding hard bottom looking for were the big boys live. My kind of fluking.

Good luck in 2010,

MVP

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Falcon

Love that picture of Bucktail bucket. Those bucktails look like they have been pounding hard bottom looking for were the big boys live. My kind of fluking.

Good luck in 2010,

MVP