How to Use bucktail in a Sentence

bucktail

noun
  • This is a great time of year to work a loud topwaters or bucktails over the weeds.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • For smaller stripers to 8 pounds or so, throw white bucktail jigs around dock lights after dark.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When the surface bite slows, Zaremba switches to bucktail jigs and Rat-L-Traps, which can be worked deeper.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The favorite for stripers at Smith is a white quarter-ounce bucktail, which allows working a variety of depths from almost at the surface to many feet down.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 18 July 2021
  • Pinch an Inch of Nightcrawler When the heavy walleyes move on to the big-water shoals in the late summer, try going after them with a bucktail jig and a 1-inch pinch of nightcrawler.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • 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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