How to Use bucktail in a Sentence

bucktail

noun
  • For smaller stripers to 8 pounds or so, throw white bucktail jigs around dock lights after dark.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The tailgater also has lots of white bass and some stripers from now through March as the fish run upstream to spawn—catch them on shad or white bucktail jigs.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Stripers are hitting white bucktails around lighted docks at night.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Outlook: Guide Dale Hines reports: Stripers good on bucktail jigs; white perch fair on jigs and worms; all other species slow.
    Bruce Janssen, kansascity.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Find or tie them on longshank hooks for easy retrieval, and Polar Flash bodies instead of bucktail.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Stripers remain active at night under dock lights on live minnows or white bucktail jigs.
    Joe Songer, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • For larger splake, use tube jigs or bucktail jigs to imitate suckers.
    Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Plus, a single bucktail, jar of paint, and pack of stick-on eyes will provide enough material to make several spoons.
    Popular Science, 25 June 2020
  • Outlook: Muskie Guide Service reports: Muskies spotty on bucktails or crankbaits in shallow water in back of coves; crappies fair (but small) on jigs or minnows 6 feet down over brush piles; black bass spotty.
    Bruce Janssen, kansascity, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Since it was first published in 1938, Trout by Ray Bergman has become a bible for anglers, owing to its clear, authoritative descriptions of trout and how to catch them, whether with dry flies, old-school wet flies, streamers, bucktails, or nymphs.
    Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2020

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