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Musky bucktails/marabous


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It took 5 weeks in the mail due to the horrible weather to get the parts but they finally came, my musky cabin fever is on full tilt so I got to work on some bucktails and marabous. I built them with thick .63 wire and epoxied all the layers of thread, mustad hooks, # 8 blades, and the biggest one has the magnum #10 blades, got enough to make about 40-50 for now, I've made bucktails in the past but it's my first time dealing with the marabou and hackle feathers, I would sleep on them if they were hook-less. :sleeping_02:

 

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7 3/4", 1.5oz

 

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9", 2 1/4oz

 

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11", 3oz

 

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13", 4oz

 

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Now I will have a few boxes of marabous like Lew. :clapping: And the wait for musky season begins.

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Very good looking baits.. I also make them but not the same as yours. Mine are smaller but they do work. I see one there that I know will take fish in Clair. I see your from G Bay. I fished there in 85 and would love to come back there.

I just wanted to say what a nice looking bait they are. Bob

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Sent you a PM Crusty.

 

Thanks Bob, you should make a trip back to GB there are some nice fish out here, but it's tough fishing, you're lucky if you can raise 1 Muskie in a day but there usually big and I love hunting them. I like the small ones and big ones, those big ones can cast or troll, I like trolling the big ones.

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GBay..........

Very nice indeed Bud..they'll get you a few decent fish.

We have a very similar stlye in choice of material and the construction of them.

You should do very well with those babies.

 

How are you bending the wire for the loop..that is a thick gauge. Ive gone through easily a dozen needle nose pliers, even though the first bend and wrap I bend with my fingers.

I use to use the .051 and when you have a decent fish on it can bend your bait beyond repair so I found you must go to the higher gauge as you have.

Next question....are you weighting them and if so how much?........shoot me a PM if you're gaurding the secret.

Great looking Baits.

-peter

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Hey Peter,

If you look at my loops they are not round like usual, but just as good. I bend the wire into a U shape than put it into a vise, bend the top of the U back towards myself, than use small vise-grip pliers to clamp onto the tip of the wire and just pull it around a couple times and cut the extra wire off. (if that makes sense, watch the hooks you don't want to slip ;)

 

I don't know the exact weight because the digital scales I used were in pounds only, so I'll have to pull out the smaller gram scales to get exact weight, but they are very close to what I put above the pictures. They are tied on 1/2oz spring coils, then I add lead weight if I want a little more.

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VERY VERY impressive indeed, John !!

 

Looks like you've done an excellent job and those should put some nice fish in your boat this year.

 

Now you need to build a boo-box to hold them all :thumbsup_anim:

 

BTW, I bought another boo yesterday at the show.......brown with brass, I think it'll work well.

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