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
• 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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