We launched our boat that chilly December morning and motored straight across the Chesapeake Bay to the Bridge-Tunnel, just off Virginia’s Eastern Shore. My dad and I spent the day chucking white 1 ...

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 ...

I’ve had this old deer tail floating around since I was a kid. It was from my first buck, a half-rack I shot with my Pop-Pop’s 30-30 sitting next to him behind an old field stone wall. Pop mounted the ...

Bucktail jigs are effective offerings for many species throughout the fall season. By varying the weight of the jighead one can ply shallow and deeper areas. “Bucktails are very natural looking,” said ...

In last week’s column I looked at the use of bucktail jigs on lake-dwelling walleyes. Interestingly, bucktail jigs also excel on river walleyes during the fall. In fact, generally our area rivers — ...

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 Then I ran out of bucktail jigs and realized that they had not been replaced by soft plastic ...

The road from Winnipeg to Grand Rapids, Manitoba, is a long one. Highway 6 shoots north along the west side of that inland sea known as Lake Winnipeg. It is a land of sloughs, lakes and rivers winding ...

For generations, the white bucktail jig has been hailed as the most versatile lure ever. So effective is its ability to catch any fish anywhere, bucktails were once stocked in military-issue survival ...