Very compulsive and nice clean work.BTW yes I am interested in buying some.
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Very compulsive and nice clean work.BTW yes I am interested in buying some.
Thanks for the kind words. As for the time being I do not have any plans to sell bucktails in the near future. They are just a hobby for the time being. :D
Thanks for the kind words. I am working on getting some made in heavier sizes for vertical jigging.
The sizes and prices for now
1.5oz = $4.50
2.1oz = $5.50
2.7oz = $6.50
These prices are for TINS with NO tube or hook, just the stainless steel swivel as shown in the picture. Almost every local tackle shop carries open eye tubes. You choose whatever brand hook, style, size, color tube, bucktail, ect that you want (cost hook + tube is usually about .25-.50).
Remember, TIN is about 12x the cost of lead.
It's also 30% lighter which means the same size TIN will not cast as far as its lead counterpart. However, when the sand eels show up you can drag these tins through the sand and over the bars and they will only keep getting shinier and shinier. Try that with chrome plated lead ones and you will quickly loose the finish.
Thought I would again mention some of the tins that JB was making....I had some hanging in my garage...:embarassed:..one of these nights I might actually fish them....:HappyWave:
I have to take it back! Rumor is there has been a stinky fisherman cruising the shadow lines of the night tides....
Any canal fisherman here? http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...id=19461&stc=1
6oz with forged 10/0 Mustad hook.
That's just a rumor. What I heard....was that stinky fisherman is still fishing from his armchair.:moon: :HappyWave:
Nice bucktails JB.
Folks, if you never got your hands on a JB bucktail, I would encourage you to hit him up and get your hands on a few. Rumor has it that they will be in limited production and he's quitting the business at the end of the year. ;)
^ This is just a rumor.....
but I heard JB found a nice, sweet Portuguese girl....is now going to church every week.....
and by the end of the year, he will sell his boat.....settle down...ask her to marry him....
And they will live happily ever after........:kooky:
....making many little bambinos.....so he can take them surf fishing and crabbing with him.....;)
Of course...this is just unconfirmed at this point.......
"Alleged" intel........
from my armchair......:rolleyes: :laugh: :HappyWave:
** NOTE:
Some of the material in these posts....may have been embellished....and is for entertainment value only.....:HappyWave:
Good idea for the disclaimer. Sometimes without that its hard to tell if you guys are joking or not. JBarbosa got a boat? I thought he was a kayak guy? Getting married too? If so congratulations. Marriage doesn't take away from fishing that much. Just have to make sure you get the honey do list done and then you can fish.
What business? When you don't charge people for product its more of an expensive hobby! lol
You need to come on the boat and do some bucktailing for fluke! And trolling bucktails from the kayak produced bigger bass than plugs this spring for me.
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See disclaimer...!
Boat, Kayak, Surf - they all have their time and place!
jbarbosa getting married congrats and good luck! some helpful hints don't be late to the wedding because you were out fishing! and don't get your wife any vacuums or household stuff for your anniversary you will be in the doghouse! Don't ask me how I know that.:embarassed:
No, I am not getting married!!!!!!
See Dark's disclaimer:
** NOTE:
Some of the material in these posts....may have been embellished....and is for entertainment value only.....:HappyWave:
This just goes to show ya.....
A. Most guys don't read thoroughly..
B Or....some of us just love bustin yer balls that much.. :thumbsup: :HappyWave:
So.....this new girlfriend of yours........Do you have any pics to share? :cool:
Is she hot? Does she pass approval of your parents?
How does she feel about you fishing all the time?.....:scared:
Sorry...Pal.....had to jump in with the others here....couldn't help myself......:ROFLMAO :kiss: :HappyWave:
Sorry JB, miss read that, didn't think the disclaimer was for that.
Any way I should have known better, with Dark not fishing as much he cannot "embellish" on his fishing ventures enough, so I guess its carrying over to other stuff.
Right Dark? :HappyWave: :lynchmob:
Whatever you say Pal....
It's hard to figure out...my arnchair keeps getting in the way....:HappyWave:
So I've been doing a bit more wreck/reef fishing the past two weeks and loosing a bunch of jigs every trip.
I tied up a dozen beautiful fluke jigs and I applied the final top coat last night. I set them to spin on my homemade drying wheel.
It looks like I did a poor job of balancing the weight because in the time it took for me to use the bathroom and come back one of the jigs came loose and was banging around on the others as the wheel spun. So I have chartreuse bucktails with white paint on them and white bucktails with chartreuse paint on them and bumpy uneven surfaces. :(
Its not like the fish care what they look like but this candy chartreuse paint job I've been playing with was pretty sick!
It will make donating them to the bottom that much easier ~.~
Don't worry about ones that got a little color mixed in with the others. Or the finished product. Think of the lead part as a delivery system for a teaser above or a trailer or piece of rubber or gulp at the end. The fish are not that picky. If action is slow it is usually because less fish are in that area. Good luck.
^ JB..... take what bucket says with a grain of salt. He's old, retired, and has time to fish almost every day. (Maybe I'm just jealous) ;) You have to wonder a bit about those old farts. :laugh: :thumbsup: :cool: :HappyWave:
Tell ya what....
I know what a perfectionist you are.....
Since those bucktails are no longer perfect....they are probably of no use to you....
Once the colors run together and the finish is no longer absolutely smooth....fish just won't want them anymore....:rolleyes:
Send them to me, and I'll dispose of them properly for ya......in a safe and environmentally friendly manner...;) :HappyWave:
Hogwash. Every day on the internet there is another know-it-all claiming striped bass numbers are not down, and there are more bass than ever. The problem is.....
1. we just don't know how to catch em. :kooky: ;)
2. Or they are just offshore, and therefore invisible to most of us now. :rolleyes:
Yep...that must be the reason we are not seeing em like we used to.
Dark i think you are always going to have the trolls. They have nothing better to do and are probably unhappy in their own sad lives. So they have to keep putting stuff online that is not true. If someone can't see that fishing is off, they would have to be blind. Just my .02.
Yes, I am retired and it's good to be able to get out there and fish for my morning exercise. Whether I catch or not it's still worth it to me. You are not too far from being old yourself. You are welcome to shoot the breeze any time.:):HappyWave:
Still my favorite jighead style to date.
Canal, 6oz with 10/0 Forged Mustad Hook
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Canal, 2oz with 8/0 Forged Mustad Hook
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Sometimes you just get bored with tying the plain old fish catching white bucktail & red thread ultra minnow combo...and what you end up with is a 1.5oz Ultra Minnow in Electric Chicken or as some like to call it now Tutti Frutti.
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This was a 4oz Ultra Minnow jig head that had been sitting on my tying bench for well over a year. I absolutely hated the way the pink paint job came out and out of the 5 or so shades of pink bucktails that I had none matched it even remotely. I was showing some friends how to tie bucktails and one of them loved the color so I said what the heck I bet I can make it work.
The end result was a mixture of blue, chartreuse and white hackles along with blue, purple, chartreuse, white, salmon pink, and fluorescent pink bucktails. I can't help but to think that the jig would look even better on a shiny tin jig head...maybe next time http://www.stripersonline.com/surfta...ault/smile.gif
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Killer jig heads for stripers off the beach featuring heavy duty forged Mustad hooks.
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1/2oz jig and the bigger brother at 1-1/2oz
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Awesome bucktails do you think you will ever be making enough to sell them? And if so how much? thanks
Like Surferman said, awesome.
Incredible workmanship. :thumbsup: :HappyWave:
Nice looking bucktails.
Its a possibility over the winter, I always said I would sell a few here and there to offset the cost of getting new molds. Most of these molds are not cheap :(
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Nice work JB...
Very nice work there.
been a while since I posted anything in here.
Sea Robin bucktails for flukehttp://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...id=20325&stc=1
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...id=20324&stc=1