Michigan Muskie Alliance

What`s your favorite springtime bucktail??Please be specific....color,size,manufacturer....and related to what water color type,and your favorite retrieve for 45-60degree water.

Thanx
Dave

Mepps tandem with the french blade black hair with a chartruese blade reeled fast with a part-time buldge.

just curious.....even in 53 degree water???Slight bulge??....makes since..I should try it..I think I go more slow and low tickin weed tops with a huge willow buck,blk/silver,or blk/hot red/orange.

Also like baby buchertails copper.brown...reeled a little faster
bucher willow buck chartruse/blk..
small peterson inhalersw/spin on end
Probably have to throw in some blue fox vibrax silv/white
and a big slim blk/silver,pulled in at moderate speed.

DU

I like the baby buchertail with the copper fluted blade with a brown and orange skirt reeled with a steady retrieve in early spring
MuskyTom

45-55 degree water I'm not going to be throwing a bucktail in spring. Once the water is approaching 60 then I'll start showing them some bucktails. Primarily an Original VooDooTail but if they are suspended just off the break I'll give them a BURNED VooDooTail HeadHunter.

Remember a bulged bucktail doesn't mean it's going fast. A speed tail and a surface bulging tail are two different triggers and only sometimes go together.

I am not sure but I think the mepps would be a speed bucktail wouldn't it?? I mean if it was reeled fast enough to be buldged. I recently acquired some slow moving bucktails they are great looking but man are they slow I am going to have trouble keeping them in the water.

MuskyDan wrote:I am not sure but I think the mepps would be a speed bucktail wouldn't it?? I mean if it was reeled fast enough to be buldged. I recently acquired some slow moving bucktails they are great looking but man are they slow I am going to have trouble keeping them in the water.

Giant killer - yes.

Musky killer - no.

My favorite bucktails I call the Chadsters, made by MMA's very own Chad Sandy. The best components and bucktail, well balanced, perfect! Orange blade and black bucktail has been my favorite for musky in part since I tend to throw blades more in lower light conditions. Brisk retrieve for musky, slow for my lazy pike. I haven't used any bucktails in water below the upper 50 degree range before just this weekend when an Indiana musky took one on a day that nothing else worked for me.

Queenfishers white and grey :D :D . On the serious side I dont throw them either in spring much until after temps are up and weeds are present. But sometimes tossing a Bucktail over open water can be just the off the wall pattern that puts a fish in the boat. Look at Jody Mills??? he seems to live or die by the Bucktail or Marabou plume. Michelle took a hog from very stained water with a large White and Grey tail with white blade . #8 Indiana. made it myself. I make all our Bucktails. The truth is most Bucktail manufacturers just buy all thier components from the same three sources. How they twist them up and the tie them is the difference. Most are copies of others with a new twist. Mine arent much different from Buchers 700 series. Kingfisher

blue fox # 5 or # 6 single treble white or yellow or black skirt copper or nickel blades



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