Put them on the outside board with snap weights ( enough to keep them in the water) and have at it!

 

Hate to hear it. I swear by bucktails. Boards may help.

 

How fast are you guys trolling those bucktails?

 

3.5-4.2

 

We did our best up there with 4 & 5 oz weights with snaps on both ends and put them inline, attach one end to your main line and the other end to a 4 to 5 foot leader to the bucktail. Our best leads were 50 to 75 back, just depends on where the fish are at in the water column. By the way the best bait we ever ran up there that caught more fish than anything was a fire tiger lil ernie. Sometimes that good bucktail bite can be pretty far out in the lake in " deeper water " 18 to 20fow. Black with chartreuse blades and hulk hogan were always good colors. Good luck.

 

Thank you

I certainly running them correct

 

read a great article on trolling bucktails. I was running them too close to the boat (short leads). the article said to run them 75-125 feet back and very shallow (like 3 feet down). I will try again Sunday on LSC

 

read a great article on trolling bucktails. I was running them too close to the boat (short leads). the article said to run them 75-125 feet back and very shallow (like 3 feet down). I will try again Sunday on LSC

I’ve found you need to slow down a little to run blades. 3.5 mph is my max speed with blades out.


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I put one maybe 8 feet back in the prop wash with the tip buried no weight. Dead serious

 

“Prop wash skies” 👍

 

Still can’t get bucktails going. I’m beginning to think they need to be ran under 3.5mph

recently bought some smaller mepps Muskie size to try off boards. I will report results

 

Ordered some Spanky’s today to try

The smallest size they make, Firefly. 4.5"

I think success will be better using the smaller ones. They should pull good behind boards. I figure we do great use 5" lures on LSC so why not a bucktail the same size.

 

When we went with guide Chris Button up on LSC, I believe 4 of our 8 in the boat came on trolled bucktails. He used a substantial weight in front of them.

 

good to know. thank you

 

You can get them down using the larger dipsey divers but with larger/heavier baits, you need to crank them pretty tight. I’ve run them with crankbaits at CC. Haven’t caught anything but I know they work.

 

I’ll try dipseys

I purposely bought some small size spanky firefly’s to do it

 

I've had good luck just putting a down rigger ball down approx. 10' and letting back about 10' of line. I've used spoons as big as muskie mayhem spinnerbaits. You just need to make sure the release will be able to handle the spinnerbaits.