spinner baits and trailers?

[GSU_LipRipper]

From time to time when throwing a spinnerbait i will cut a trick worm and throw it on as a trailer on the spinnerbait. sometimes on the trailer hook and sometimes i will take the trailer hook off...

Do yall use trailers on your spinnerbaits? If so... what do you use?

thanks

Ryan

[Shad_Master]

I some times use a piece of a worm as a trailer - but I never take the trailer hook off - why would you want to take the chance on losing one that struck at your trailer and missed the lure itself.

[backwater4]

I normally use some sort of split tail trailer, but I also like stright tail worms and even twin tail grubs sometimes. I very rarely use a trailer hook. I'll probably start though. I had some fish come off and hit the spinnerbait short the other day.

[VABassin'14]

I will always use a trailer hook. I lost a huge fish a couple of weekends ago, and I am sure that I would have caught it if I had a trailer hook on my spinnerbait.

[Sam]

Always use a trailer hook on spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and Chatterbaits.

Always use a plastic trailer on spinnerbaits. I suggest Zoom's Split-Tail Trailer in white.

Buzzbait and Chatterbait trailers are optional. If I was going to use a trailer on either I would do so on the Chatterbait.

Use a trailer hook one size smaller than the bait's hook. 

[LilJakeC1]

I always use a trailer on my spinnerbaits when I am fishing muddy water. I use a brush hog in black/red or blue flake to bulk it up and give off more vibration.

[Bassin for Walleye]

I usually don't start off with a trailer hook unless I'm burning one. If i get a short strike I will but I don't like them very much because they have a tendency to get caught way down the mouth for me. As far as trailers I like just a curly tail grub.

[whoopbazz]

I always used a trailer...I bought a whole bunch of BPS Cajun Trailers designed for spinnerbaits. I now I buy spinnerbaits with the "long tapered" skirts, that to me look like a plastic trailer.

As far as a trialer hook...always unless the cover denotates otherwise. Some guys vary the hook pointing up or down depending on the amount of weeds or brush.

[Catt]

I use trailers 80% of the time but never trailer hooks

I use tails of worms, split tail trailers, single or twin tail grubs, plastic chunks, & pork chucks depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.

[Bankbeater]

I never use trailer hooks, I find that they tend to hang up in the weeds.  I usually start off without a trailer but if I don't get any hits I will add one.

[Gangley]

I never use a trailer or a trailer hook.  Haven't had any hookup issues.

[Shad_Master]

I am surprised by the number of responses that talk about not using a trailer hook - I confess that if I am out strictly fun fishing and decide to tie on a spinner bait, I may not add a trailer hook - but if I think this is the lure that I will using when getting my stuff together, it only take a minute to put one on and if I am in a tournament, I defintely want one on there.

Yeah they get snagged once in a while - so do jigs, so do crank baits, so do T-rigged worms.  But it is the hook that catches the fish, not the trailer, not the worm, not the weight, etc.  I guess to each his own, but I just found this really surprising.

[GSU_LipRipper]

I never used to use a trailer hook but in the past few months i have started using them every single time! in general i dont catch a lot of bass with a spinner bait... maybe im not using the right colors? maybe not using the right presentation? not big enough or to small? but i must say using a red trailer hook has produced more fish for me than a silver or black trailer hook!

[Catt]

How does one determine if the trailer hook did indeed catch the bass?

How do we know for certain the bass would not have been caught with out the trailer hook?

[Jigfishn10]

No trailer hook, but I tie my skirts with the rear part of the skirt long like a mullet cut.

I believe that if I'm getting short strikes then something is wrong with my presentation and I'll switch either blades or color or both.

[LA4024]

I don't use a trailer or trailer hook. I actually cut the the skirt to right up behind the hook to make the presentation smaller and it seems that the fish will take it better.  Around here the fish see every make and model spinnerbait that can be sold and most people take them straight from the package to the end of the line with no modification so I think this little trick helps me catch more fish.

[wagn]

Never used a trailer.

Always use a trailer hook. I caught my largest bass ever on a trailer hook. I may have caught it without one, but why take the risk?

I don't see any disadvantage in a trailer hook. it's seems to be just as weedless with a better chance of hooking up

[GSU_LipRipper]

How does one determine if the trailer hook did indeed catch the bass?

How do we know for certain the bass would not have been caught with out the trailer hook?

well you dont know for sure but why take the risk of losing a fish because you dont have the trailer hook? overall it is really just a confidence factor some people have confidence in the bait with out the trailer hook some have more confidence with one its just about what you prefer