Fishing bucktails

[xtreme_visions]

Looking for some advice on fishing bucktails. Types, sizes, teasers and so on. Any advice would help.

[nitestrikes]

Depends on if you are fishing from the surf or the boat. On a boat, I use a straight bucktail and pork for many predatory species, bass, blues, etc. With fluking from a boat, I will use a bucktail on the bottom with a piece of gulp or a chartreuse teaser 18" above that. From the surf when using bucktails I just use the plain bucktail dressed with pork. If you fish rocky areas like Montauk you will lose a lot, so don't get too fancy or you will spend a lot of unnecessary dollars on gear that you will leave behind in a rock crevice. On the sand beaches it is not that critical,

There are some good threads here on bucktails and techniques

tying bucktails to tackle
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?6147-tying-bucktails&highlight=fish+bucktails

fishing bucktails
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?5310-Fishing-bucktails&highlight=fish+bucktails

history
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?2745-History-of-the-bucktail&highlight=fish+bucktails

deep water and inltes
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?1135-Techniques-Jigging-deep-water-or-Deep-Inlets-with-fast-current&highlight=fish+bucktails

Some others
Reading the water, if you are casting a bucktail into water that doesnt hold fish you are wasting your time, try reading this thread
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?5633-How-to-Reading-the-water&highlight=fish+bucktails

Becoming a better fisherman
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/showthread.php?7198-How-do-you-become-a-better-fisherman&highlight=fish+bucktails


Hope they helped. In LI fishing the bucktail is my #1 go to in colder water and times when the fish are not that active. By fishing on the bottom you find out quickly if they are there or not. Good luck

[xtreme_visions]

Thanks for the help

[7deadlyplugs]

Low and slow, especially this time of year.