So I have tied up a few with inch and a quater gibbs willow leaf blade and the top two have double chrome colorado blades at 5/8". Think this should do the ticket or are the gibbs blades to big? Any other colours I should be tying up and are they a bit to sparse?
Here's my attempt at a weedless bucktail with no front hook just a stainless steel cotter pin bent to 60 deg angle like a jig hook. The pin is weighted on the bottom so the fly should shed weed to the bottom like a jig and a stiff, braided wire trailer that should keep the rear hook point up and shielded from weed. Seemed to work well for me but always interested to hear the comments from others.
Thanks for the tip! I may just end up doing all in Gibbs blades then. They do look a little weak to me as well.Sparse is usually better than thick. I don't think the Gibbs blades are too big but watch out with those small chrome colorado blades. I tried one that looks a lot like those and it brought fish in for a while. When it was my turn on the rod, I popped a fish off on the strike with 20lb leader. When retying I noticed the spinner had busted, not the line so I didn't even try using that size spinner again.
I was thinking a trailing hook might help. The coho shredded the buck tail.
That is a great idea! I wonder if you could upload a photo or two of how you hold the hook upright and how you attach the hook?
Weeds can be a super problem bucktailing.