What Makes a Bucktail Jig So Effective for Catching Bass and Walleye? Simplistic in design but lethal in execution, the bucktail jig works magic when fished amongst weeds in the fall. Comprised of a ...

Bucktail jigs have been an efficient fishing lure since the beginning of man. A few feathers or deer hair tied to a weight and dragged through the water, simplicity at its best. And, like many a basic ...

After the original Mister Twister came onto the market, I did not tie a bucktail jig for a couple of years. Then I ran out of bucktail jigs and realized that they had not been replaced by soft plastic ...

In the dim late-afternoon light, I cast toward the bank of the slow-current river pool. Before the bucktail jig had fallen to the bottom, a hungry walleye intercepted it. A couple minutes later, my ...

In the dim late-afternoon light, I cast toward the bank of the slow-current river pool. Before the bucktail jig had fallen to the bottom, a hungry walleye intercepted it.