Twin Spins

[Crestliner2008]

Back in the '70's and early '80's, we use to kill the smallies on this type of spinnerbait. They were tied with bucktail. Slow rolling them along the bottom was almost a guarantee of tying into some big girls. Haven't seen them produced in many years. Anyone know of a source that still offers them?

[OkobojiEagle]

Gopher Tackle (of sorts)

oe

[Siebert Outdoors]

Hildibrant makes one. Its not bucktail though. http://www.yakimabait.com/catalog/product.php?productid=16221&cat=302&page=1

[moguy1973]

Talon Custom Lures and War Eagle make them.

Not buck tail but wouldn't be hard to replace the rubber skirt with one.

[NBR]

Shannon Twin Spinners and they worked in the late forties and through the fifties also.

[BASSHUNTER1961]

I assume these are what your looking for.... http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=shannon+twin+spinner

[TNBassin']

I've got one of these. I need to buy a skirt for it.

[A-Jay]

Not a bucktail bait but Terminator Titanium Twin Spin is in this catagory.

A-Jay

[merc1997]

I've got one of these. I need to buy a skirt for it.

the one that you are showing is either a 3j ez rocker or one that is copied off of it. i have made my own twin spins since the late 60's, and i have a rocker head design also, but one that the head hangs in the balanced position while hanging. the twin spin is truly a big bass bait, and kentuckies also have fondness for it. it is just a jig with attractors.

bo

[WRB]

I make my own also that I use a football jig and celvis with wire spreader, small swivel clips with Colorado blades. .

Tom

[merc1997]

a twin spin is a great early spring bait to throw. it will catch those bass that are suspended out off the bank. on say a 45 degree bank, throw to the bank and slow roll back to the boat. the twin spin will slowly gain depth on way back to boat. it takes some trial and error to find the right retrieve speed, but it is a great technique to really sack them. another great bait for this technique is a clevis single spin. a clevis single spin is something that i have never seen available to buy. a clevis single spin has a single blade that runs on the shaft instead of on the end of the shaft at the end of a ball bearing. when fished properly many bass will come when the blade is merely swinging back and forth on the shaft and not rotating all the way around the shaft.

bo

[Crestliner2008]

I assume these are what your looking for.... http://www.ebay.com/...on twin spinner

I never thought about eBay! Thanks!

[WRB]

The Shannon twinspin with the buck tail hair is light weight and falls very slowly through the water column. Shannon also made a heavier lead head model that the hook was clipped onto, the hook had died chicken feathers, the blades a tear drop design. I may have a few in my collection somewhere. We would replace the feathered hook with a 5/0 worm hook and add a 9" Uncle Josh black widow eel for a trailer and slow roll the twin spin along the edges of structure back in the 60's. This combination became known as the "thing" a mystery lure we kept secret.

We started making our own twinspins with spreader wires, football head jigs, vinyl skirts and split tail pork rind trailers, this design twinspin I still use today. The key is fish it slowly, let it fall and try to keep the twinspin within a foot or so off the bottom, vary retrieve speeds until the bass react. Twinspins are not like a today's spinnerbaits, they work better with a slower retrieve.

I will send a photo of a few home made twinspins.. Haddock lures and Markey lures were the last commercial twinspins of this design that I recall and maybe on EBay?

Tom.

[merc1997]

here are some pics of some of the twin spins that tom young and i have used. tom's are picture with skirts. mine do not have skirts on them to show actual design of bait. also, the round head is the older model that i used. the black painted head is the one that i currently use. it is more weedless and hooks better.

bo