marabou vs bucktail

[smoothlures]

They are too different to compare, really. Marabou is much softer, but bucktail has a great action when swimming (rising and falling) especially with longer hairs that crappie jigs don't often get. Say you catch 50 fish on 1 marabou jig and 1 bucktail jig, the bucktail would still look better and have more left, just because it's stronger than marabou.

[skiptomylu]

I think marabou is a great material for crappie, and believe it or not the tail hair of these smaller southern deer make some very good crappie catching bucktail jigs. There is a guide on kerr lake Va. that almost exclusively casts and retrieves these jigs over brush piles. He uses the finer hair on these local deer tails and doe tails are even better, anyway his nickname is fishdoc, and he boats literally thousands of crappie every year, the bait he uses consists of a 3/32 collared head with the barb cut off, not painted, red 210 flat waxed thread and a semi sparse wing of about 2 inches. google fishdocs crappie bucktails. I made some of these bucktail jigs for a friend who lives down there and he catches a lot of his crappies by deadsticking the bucktail next to the pilings of the bridges in the summer and winter, I got him on the sickle hooks too and he loves me for it.

Mudd the only big Northern Bucktails I bought was when I first started with it. After that I only tried to buy Southern Bucktails just for that reason and it ties better!

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[deathb4disco]

They are too different to compare, really. Marabou is much softer, but bucktail has a great action when swimming (rising and falling) especially with longer hairs that crappie jigs don't often get.

Agreed. Bucktail is used a LOT in long saltwater jigs and flies. Even the smaller bass flies I use are bucktail. If I could keep the bass off them, I'm sure they would also catch crappie.