Spinnerbaits with painted blades

[nickw234]

I was just wondering under what conditions do you guys throw a spinnerbait with painted blades? I just picked this one up at my local tackle shop.

[senko_77]

I really like painted blades on cloudy days and on windy days.  If it's cloudy and windy, then I like it even better

[Blade-Runner]

Mudd(ier) water, night.

[Hot Rod]

Cloudy days and/or muddy water.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

I really like painted blades on cloudy days and on windy days. If it's cloudy and windy, then I like it even better

x2, it isn't something I throw out in the sun.

BTW that sexy shad SB looks realy cool man!

[backwater4]

I throw white blades w/ a little gold glitter a lot. Also all white buzzbaits. White seems to work for me under all conditions. Probably just confidence in it.

[basser89]

Brightly colored blades (chart or orange), I'll like throwing in stained to muddy water and low light conditions. But painted blades like the one you have pictured, I'd throw in clear water with a high light conditions.

[flippin and pitchin]

Nice bait.  Chartreuse willow blades on cloudy days for smallmouth.

[ww2farmer]

Any time smallmouth are my target with a SB, or in a darker stained water with little to no sunlight. I also like a "semi" painted blade in extreamly clear water. I paint just one side of the blade to reduce the flash, seems to work for me pretty well.

[A-Jay]

A white bait with 2 white willow blades can be a hot bait.

Burning them rapidly just under the surface when the water is hot in summer and the fall migration when both bass and shad are schooling up are both proven tactics.

A-Jay

http://reviews.ebay.com/Spinnerbait-Tactics-Burning-White-Spinnerbaits_W0QQugidZ10000000004402547

[soccplayer07]

I really like painted blades on cloudy days and on windy days. If it's cloudy and windy, then I like it even better

x2, it isn't something I throw out in the sun.

BTW that sexy shad SB looks realy cool man!

great looking bait!

[River Rat316]

A white bait with 2 white willow blades can be a hot bait.

Burning them rapidly just under the surface when the water is hot in summer and the fall migration when both bass and shad are schooling up are both proven tactics.

A-Jay

http://reviews.ebay.com/Spinnerbait-Tactics-Burning-White-Spinnerbaits_W0QQugidZ10000000004402547

My 3 largest bass have come doing this in the fall, I only use a single willow though, largest came in 44 degree water doing this!

[basscrusher]

Most of the spinnerbaits I have w/ painted blades are the Strike King Red eye special.  I tend to throw this lure under alot of conditions, but my success on it, I think, is more because its a smaller profile lure, not because of the painted blades.  I try not to overthink it and I just throw it.

[A-Jay]

A white bait with 2 white willow blades can be a hot bait.

Burning them rapidly just under the surface when the water is hot in summer and the fall migration when both bass and shad are schooling up are both proven tactics.

A-Jay

http://reviews.ebay.com/Spinnerbait-Tactics-Burning-White-Spinnerbaits_W0QQugidZ10000000004402547

My 3 largest bass have come doing this in the fall, I only use a single willow though, largest came in 44 degree water doing this!

Very cool - I have not taken any mogan bass like this but it is Definitely one of my favorite ways to fish in the early fall. I have never used it in that cold of water. If you don't mind sharing, what size (ounce) bait do you throw for this and what is the single blade size you prefer ?

A-Jay

[Bass_junky]

Very cloudy skies or muddy water. Never ever on clear water

[River Rat316]

A white bait with 2 white willow blades can be a hot bait.

Burning them rapidly just under the surface when the water is hot in summer and the fall migration when both bass and shad are schooling up are both proven tactics.

A-Jay

http://reviews.ebay.com/Spinnerbait-Tactics-Burning-White-Spinnerbaits_W0QQugidZ10000000004402547

My 3 largest bass have come doing this in the fall, I only use a single willow though, largest came in 44 degree water doing this!

Very cool - I have not taken any mogan bass like this but it is Definitely one of my favorite ways to fish in the early fall. I have never used it in that cold of water. If you don't mind sharing, what size (ounce) bait do you throw for this and what is the single blade size you prefer ?

A-Jay

Since they are usually shallow or "shallower" in the fall around here its usually a 3/8 with a #4 I believe it might be #3.5 though. in the 1/2 ounce its a 4 or 4.5.

The day my PB came the water was on a little warming trend, we had a super cold October and then a brief warming the 1st week of November so the water actually warmed up to like 42 or 43. I started fishing slow with jigs and plastics and only had 2 smaller fish after like 3 hours. I was actually giving up but was only a couple minutes away from the ramp so I put my tm on high and started gunning a spinnerbait down what was left of the old weedline. I think on my first 4 casts I had 3 fish with 2 of them being pretty solid. So I went to a couple areas I had hit earlier with good points running out of pads and just smacked the heck out of em, ended with like 40 fish that day, all on that same spinnerbait. I have had other days (not as great but close) in fall that you would think slow would be the name of the game, but that reaction strike was working!

Here is a solid fish from this fall, you can see the white blade sticking out of its mouth. It was another cold day water temps of mid to upper 40's I believe, couldn't buy a bite slow but ended up picking up 4 that would have weighed over 16lbs (good for around here) on the spinnerbait before my little boat couldn't handle the winds that were whipping up!

[River Rat316]

As you can see from the pic, it is neither cloudy, or muddy water, so there are no absolutes, water clarity was around 4-5' on this lake. I also have lakes that have 10-12' clarity levels where I can work a 1oz bait in the summer down to 20+' with a #4 blade and pick up fish when I am searching with the same setup, white bait with white blade.

[A-Jay]

As you can see from the pic, it is neither cloudy, or muddy water, so there are no absolutes, water clarity was around 4-5' on this lake. I also have lakes that have 10-12' clarity levels where I can work a 1oz bait in the summer down to 20+' with a #4 blade and pick up fish when I am searching with the same setup, white bait with white blade.

Nice Fish. I was skeptical when I first read about burning a white on white blade but it didn't take long to make a believer out of me. I've had all my success on a double willow but I have already made plans to heave some single blade jobs out there and see what happens.

Thanks

A-Jay

[BassThumb]

High, muddy water in the river and smallies get the chartreuse blades.

[Primus]

I've done well at times fishing white blades during the rain in clear weedy lakes as well as stained water.

[hookset on 3]

Brightly colored blades (chart or orange), I'll like throwing in stained to muddy water and low light conditions. But painted blades like the one you have pictured, I'd throw in clear water with a high light conditions.

Right-on basser 89, 

   I also use painted blades in clear water with full sun. Sometimes a real shiny silver or gold blade will spook more bass than it catches.

I've been known to take a sharpie to the willow blades that will contrast the skirt and just take the shine down a little.

For example: chartreuse skirt- lite purple coloring on a silver  blade.

  citrus skirt - lit orange coloring on a gold blade. looks just like a yellow perch.

Try it.