Bucktail Blog

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Gabe has spent the last decade in the fly fishing industry chronically obsessed with fish big enough and dumb enough to eat something the size of the family cat. Before Figure Eats, he ran the entire bucktail program at Musky Fool Fly Fishing Company, which mostly meant getting paid to smell like deer hide and argue with dye pots for a living. Bucktail is his love language. Ask him about fiber density and hollow hair and watch an hour disappear. Just don't ask him about how to dye a bucktail jet black or he'll have to throw you in the Flambeau.

Muskies are his one true love, but sitting down at the vise with a high quality tail is where that dream begins. He's a Wisconsinite through and through, still casting long after everyone else has reached for a beer, and still convinced the next cast or the next bucktail is the one.