Colorado or Willow leaf

[Musky Fever]

What is your favorite type of bucktail blade and why?
Colorado or willow leaf

[ToddM]

I like colorado blades. They have good lift and vibration but spin slower than fluted indiana and french blades making the drag a bucktail has no worse. Fench blades actualy spin the fastest. My dad really likes willow blades and they are very underrated. A key to a better willow blade bucktail is getting the blade to spin as far away from the lure shaft as possible.

With a willow leaf we use a large clevis and but that against a big bead. Part of the blase will actually ride on the bead. We have tried running the clevise against a small bead and they seem to just run flat. Also, the willow leaf blade bucktails don't sell as well. I have not even taken an order for one.

[fishstalker]

colorado blades have good lift, and are good for boiling a bucktail just under the surface. The willowleaf spins faster with less resistance, so the buctail will run deeper. use as fishing conditions dictate.