Bucktail Technique

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Originally Posted by NIB

I have read Doc's book with great anticipation as I love the jig it is one of my favorite lures.I thought it was only OK at best.Seemed like a commercial for uncle josh.

That's what I was thinking reading it, NIB.

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

That book is on my "To Read" List this year.

So I got 1st Dibs if you decide to sell it...

TDF, you can have my copy if you like, PM me and we can figure something out.

Originally Posted by Mike P

Doc is a lot like Daignault. His experience is in a very closed universe. Frank says no great fish are ever taken on poppers, and that bottle plugs are only worthwhile as casting weights for teasers.. Doc believes that the bucktailing techniques used in the shallow Long Island inlets are universally adaptable. Cast and bring in a bucktail on a slow steady retrieve in the Canal, and the biggest bass you'll ever catch is about 18".

The funniest thing that Doc ever wrote was that an angler would be undergunned using a Penn 750 SS

And by the way--swinging hooks hang up more than fixed hook, based on my experience fishing the Canal. I can hang a Crippled Herring a lot easier than I can hang a fixed hook bucktail.

I got the same feeling, Mike P, seems like a good technique in the right spot, but I kind of expected more from a book that refers to itself as the "ultimate guide to fishing with bucktails". I do fish a lot of shallow estuary areas and I will put this technique to use. I think the information he gives would make an excellent article on bucktailing, but a whole book was kind of a stretch.

Thanks to everyone for their replies.