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18 inch Musky Masher -
Carved out of Basswood and cleared with etex. -
A repainted Riplin Redfin in preferred colors for Lake Trout, six paint colors and 4 coats of clear with added tied rear treble. Still a couple feet of ice here so the paint should be well cured by the time I get out with this lure. -
Good question and since I'm more of a freshwater fisherman I have limited comments on how well it will hold up in saltwater.... I assume the "kingfish" handle is a little misleading...should be "kingfisher" for the bird and not the saltwater fish. I'd tie a few of each and use them and make your own observations for durability. I'd be surprised if bucktail was not the overall preference when you take everything into account but then again I prefer also wood plugs to plastic ones.
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I'm more of a jig tier than flies but I prefer natural bucktail over synthetics also......since the bucktail is hollow it has a different action that I prefer and I can have the hair flair more than synthetics. Also on one tail you will have a variation of hair types...stiffer towards the base, finer toward the end and that's just the white parts.
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Similar to what was mentioned by a couple people already I use a pair of vice grips in my bench vice, you can't rotate the jig so you'll have to learn to spread your bucktail or other tying materials around the collar without rotating the jig. Leave the locking lever out of the bench vice jaws so you can switch out jig heads and a bit of duct tape in the vice grip jaws will provide some cushion between the jaws to hook and add a bit of grip. Cheap and easy.
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16 inch through wire design made from basswood, airbrushed and clear coated with etex -
I made this 9 inch long and 1 3/8 oz double bladed inline spinner using tail hair from a silver fox with some matching hackle feathers for pike and musky here in northern Ontario. The fox hair is much finer than the thinnest bucktail I have used and has more movement when in the water. -
I made this creeper style lure as a retirement gift for a friend that works with CL-415 water bombers when fighting forest fires here in Ontario, Canada. The lure is made out of local basswood and painted to match the actual aircraft colors and lines with the exception of the registration that has persons name used instead. Water based Createx was airbrushed over top of a sealer and covered with Etex for an extra tough finish witch may be overkill since he told me it will never see water and is in a framed shadow box in his house. -
Through wire about 4 inches long -
Prop baits from cherry wood -
Through wire Basswood poppers for musky about 7 inch -
Very nice, I have something similar but since I use it for painting the jigs with an airbrush I used threaded rod instead of dowel, found it keeps the jigs from turning when painting since the hooks are in the grooves.
