Bucktail jigs are effective offerings for many species throughout the fall season. By varying the weight of the jighead one can ply shallow and deeper areas. “Bucktails are very natural looking,” said ...

What Makes a Bucktail Jig So Effective for Catching Bass and Walleye? Simplistic in design but lethal in execution, the bucktail jig works magic when fished amongst weeds in the fall. Comprised of a ...

After the original Mister Twister came onto the market, I did not tie a bucktail jig for a couple of years. Then I ran out of bucktail jigs and realized that they had not been replaced by soft plastic ...

In last week’s column I looked at the use of bucktail jigs on lake-dwelling walleyes. Interestingly, bucktail jigs also excel on river walleyes during the fall. In fact, generally our area rivers — ...

Bucktail jigs have been an efficient fishing lure since the beginning of man. A few feathers or deer hair tied to a weight and dragged through the water, simplicity at its best. And, like many a basic ...

The road from Winnipeg to Grand Rapids, Manitoba, is a long one. Highway 6 shoots north along the west side of that inland sea known as Lake Winnipeg. It is a land of sloughs, lakes and rivers winding ...

I’ve had this old deer tail floating around since I was a kid. It was from my first buck, a half-rack I shot with my Pop-Pop’s 30-30 sitting next to him behind an old field stone wall. Pop mounted the ...

We're out here on the water with our Boatless Angler, though not boatless today! We're going to spend a couple hours this ...

This week Ivo and the gang take you out to the saltwaters of Cape Cod where they jig up and fish for a mixed bag of different ...

Starting in the early 1960s and for years to come, Millie’s Bucktails were all the rage among Sebastian Inlet snook fishermen. Carl and Millie Garrettson, a husband-and-wife fishing team from ...

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