Tying Marabou Bucktails

[Fishermantom81]

I would like to make a bucktail similar to the Shumway Giant Flasher.  Does anyone have a video or an easy explination of how to tie the marabou?

[toadfrog]

Prolly need to see the lure .

[smalljaw]

The way the marabou is tied on those big spinners isn't hard to do, you just need the right material and a lot of it. If you use blood quill marabou you would need about a 1/4oz bag to tie 1 bait but I bet they use a woolybugger marabou which you would need only half the amount. It isn't a big secret on how those are tied, it is actually pretty basic as they aren't hackle tied but instead full plumes are tied in by the stem. If you never tied any marabou them a video will help, the easiest thing to look for on youtube os a marabou jig, just look that up, the videos you want to see are the ones in which a plume is tied in by the stem instead of tied in at the tip and then spun around the hook. If you still need help I'll try to do my best.

[smalljaw]

Prolly need to see the lure .

 

TF, those are musky spinners, I didn't even have to look them up as a friend of mine uses them and I actually replaced a lot of feathers on his when they get beat up.

[toadfrog]

Figured as much . Don't get a whole lot of those down my way . The ones I have done I cut the blood quill back some and didn't tie in the naked part of the quill . Seemed to me they broke out more easily than if you cut them back as far as possible .