Bucktail Question

[Green Light]

joebaggs99, got it! I will try it and share some pics. ;-)

[tysdad115]

Ask and you shall receive, great info here.
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[Mugz]

Been fishing an area for a few years and have had mixed results on different lures. Plugs, topwater, rubber shads, bait, etc, etc. With many outings getting the skunk in a very fishy area. Last year for sh^ts and giggles I threw on a bucktail with a yellow curly tail. Hooked up within my first 10 casts. Ever since then, I will never treat the bucktail with the same attitude. It produces....when all else fails.

[Rockfish9]

there is a good reason buck tail jigs are included in most survival kits.. they work on any predatory fish under a wide variety of conditions.. day or night.. salt or fresh.. if I could have one lure.. fresh or slat water it would be a white buck tail jig..

[Green Light]

Originally Posted by tysdad115

Ask and you shall receive, great info here.
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Absolutely!

S-B rocks! ;-)

[JohnnySaxatilis]

Originally Posted by Mugz

Been fishing an area for a few years and have had mixed results on different lures. Plugs, topwater, rubber shads, bait, etc, etc. With many outings getting the skunk in a very fishy area. Last year for sh^ts and giggles I threw on a bucktail with a yellow curly tail. Hooked up within my first 10 casts. Ever since then, I will never treat the bucktail with the same attitude. It produces....when all else fails.

Had a similar experience this morning, nothing was working plugwise, after an hour of nothing i finally put a 3/4oz white jig with a 55 s uncle josh pork rind, first cast... fish... caught 12 fish total with a few keepers

[seabuggy]

When I was in the Navy, bucktails were in the survival kits aboard the lifeboats. If a better bait for a person trying to survive was available, it would have been in there. I use a white bucktail and a red pork rind. Troll with wire line until dark then switch to the lumber (large wood plugs). This has worked for me at Cuttyhunk and the head for many years, and God willing will tomorrow night

[Sundowner]

Any thoughts on Doc Muller's "The Ultimate Guide to Fishing With Bucktails"? I've read a few of his articles, and I need to learn bucktails.

I'm heading on vacation and the library had that, also got "Island Stripers" from Al Anderson, and bought "A Season on the Edge"-Skinner and "What Fish See"-Kageyama for .50 each.

[chaz]

Bass and blues all day long off the coast of province town trolling,with a white buck tail,just bouncing off the bottom

[fcap60]

I love fishing bucktails but haven't quite found my preference between curly tails and porkrind. Both work, and different fishermen have reasons for one over the other.

[flyvice11787]

Curlytails add some buoyancy to the bucktail. A little more motion also. Rinds are way more durable.
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[Clogston29]

Originally Posted by Sundowner

Any thoughts on Doc Muller's "The Ultimate Guide to Fishing With Bucktails"? I've read a few of his articles, and I need to

Muller's book is good, skinner's bucktail book is better IMO, but I'd recommend reading both.
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[Liv2Fish]

Originally Posted by Clogston29

Muller's book is good, skinner's bucktail book is better IMO, but I'd recommend reading both.
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x2

[Zeal]

Just keep it simple! I'll never be a sharpie but fishing alongside quite a few, the bucktail revolves around simple fundamentals that is generally agreed upon by many: Retrieve it just enough so it does not drag on the bottom constantly but if there is a bottom change your lure will go into the hole/trough/etc. in the fish's face, use the proper weight so it can handle the sweep without looking unnatural in that it can submarine it's way through, just reel if you feel a bump (because the fish will hook itself anyway, when you go to "set the hook" you are basically just securing the hook's place in the fish's mouth), and use pork rind if you are hooking into toothy critters or have a chance of it (i.e. Fluke, Weakfish).

Honestly I've bucktailed with no trailer and still caught fish. It's an extremely simple lure, so fish it simple as well.

The one thing to always keep with you no matter what you are using is to look around at the people fishing. If you see them using a bucktail and not hooking up, look at their retrieve and their timing of their casts (you almost always want to cast into when a wave breaks and the white water forms). If it is legit, try and do the opposite of what they are doing! I've driven people nuts (to the point where I'm not invited to go anymore with them making fishing lonely) doing simply that. If they are dragging it through the sand and emphasizing twitching, then make your retrieve a little quicker and swim it. You'd be amazed. You will have some days where the fish strictly prefer the bucktail dragging through the sand (usually around sand eel time).

Even though this is a bucktail topic I have to say this: if it isn't working, don't bind yourself to just the bucktail! That's why we have other plugs! You can work a diamond jig and a storm shad almost the same exact way you would a bucktail and produce very well!

Lastly, if you have a bucktail that loses its hair, don't throw it out. Save it for times you will put bait on it or a rubber tail/bass assassin/etc.