About a week later the same fish followed the same bait two more times. As you can probably gather from this brief tale, bucktails are my favorite bait from opening day through ice-up. Oddly enough, bucktails do not directly resemble anything that naturally occurs in lakes, but the flash, vibration, and interesting hair colors make this bait something a muskie cannot refuse. And the vibration's effect on a muskie's lateral line is what really makes this pulsating lure work. Bucktail spinners are likely the easiest bait in the world to use, and they have caught more muskies than any other lure to ever break the surface.
Color is important when it comes to selecting a bucktail for metro muskies.
In stained water, I prefer orange and yellow with a flame blade, chartreuse and red with a chartreuse blade, and the old standby, black and orange with an orange blade. On clearer waters you'll have better success incorporating less obvious colors. Try a dark green body with nickel blades or a purple and pink model with nickel blades. And without question, my leading color last season for both numbers and big fish was blue. Fish don't encounter blue lure very often.