bucktails

[coldbum]

anyone use bucktail jigs?

I use white or yellow tipped with a crawler for eyes and have had some success

that is what my grandpop  and a fishing mentor... a guy named Homer  used successfully  for years

they do not seem as popular in modern walleye fishing

[TroutFishingBear]

open water fishing for walleye this summer I got 9 one day on a bucktail and bunny leech dropper rig using a spinning rod. The wind was blowing in really hard and it was really cold for the summer and hailing, the fish were cruising the banks and wanted a slow presentation. I had no tube jigs but used this which I found on the roaring fork river the week before. Used it and the eyes like it pretty good. Went back next week completely different conditions caught one more. I bet they would work well icefishing too; especially since you can get on top of the walleyes and don't have to worry about casting distance.
Good luck and tell me how it pans out.

[iceintheveins]

Lindy fuzz e grubs are great walleye lures that have a soft plastic body and a marabou tail. They work great for walleyes and lakers tipped with a minnow head or piece of crawler.

[trapperdirk]

Strange how we get away from things that always were successful in the past and I use bucktails for lakers but haven't much for eyes the past few years through the ice  as I have good success with other things but will try to remember to give them a shake again this winter tipped with a minnow tail and short stinger . I find too that most bucktails I buy I have to trim them back even with the turn of the hook and if i put a piece of minnow on I have to have a stinger in order to consistently hook a walleye because often they strike short on the bucktails .Good bait that works well .

                          TD

[icejunky]

Agreed Trapper..I find alot of the tails are way to long and could use some personal hygene. I just give a qwick trim. I dont use them much myself by my father-in-law swears by them so I keep a couple on hand for him..not to mention if he is out fishing me I thorw one on.

I have seen some new airplane jigs with buck tails this year..It looks like a wierd presentation to me

[TroutFishingBear]

I bought 2 of these lures that are a tube jig, and bucktail included on it around the tentacles. Kind of like a tube jig bucktail hybrid. I bought them from sportsman's warehouse in grand junction. I think they are from the brand tubes and tails or whatever it is called.