Scared To Put Spinners In My Box

[JWOA]

@ 6 dollars spinners aren't cheap. Especially for a guy that has never fished them. I want to but Im scared because they cost so much. If you could help me out and let me know some good spinners I may just try one out.

[BassinLou]

If your referring to spinnerbaits, there are cheaper ones than $6. Strike king off the top of my head have spinnerbaits for way under $6. Buy a couple and try them out. I would be more concerned on what you are rigging them on.

[Bill B.]

I have half a dozen 1/4-ounce single spins that an old luremaker hand-made about 30 years ago--hand-made right down to a unique hook design. They are bass killers. To me, they are priceless. I still fish with them, and I haven't lost one in at least 25 years. But I always use them with at least 40-pound braid. I double-loop it to the lure eye before I tie the knot. I retie at the slightest sign of abrasion in the line. And, If I hang one up in the brush or on a rock and can't pull it free, I get wet. Happily.

[Scorcher214]

$6 for a spinnerbait doesn't seem that bad to me. Komanchi spinnerbaits are like $12 a piece lol. Strike king is a solid company to go with though. Never had a problem with em except having to re tune them after a pike or feisty bass.

[jsc4324]

Go to walmart and buy the $1 ones to try out and build confidence. They catch fish but aren't the greatest. If you lose one your only out a dollar.

[coak]

Jay,

I would suggest searching some of the content on the website along with pulling the trigger on the Wally World spinnerbaits.  The articles and videos will give you the rudimentary knowledge on how, where and what colors to fish at what times and why.  Spinnerbait fishing is one of the easiest ways to catch fish if you're on the bite and know what you're doing.  It's very rewarding to take what you know/learned, put it into use and see it culminate in a catch.  I would also browse the 'flea market' along with some late season yard sales or clearance items in stores. 

 

P.s.--Another type of spinner that will flat out perform, and is very underrated these days by bass fisherman are Inline spinners. Just saying that's my personal .02

[bigbill]

Are you talking about the inline spinners like the Mepps? These kill my being frugal and cheap when I purchase them. But the mepps #3 Anglia silver blade with the brown bucktail is a bass magnet. The strike king inline is another one in silver blade with a black bucktail.

There are new inline spinners being offered by Joe's Flys there his new 1/4oz bass size. His combination of spin fly and inline spinner is a bass killer. I use his colors in

Blackgnat, glo-tiger, firetiger-apache, mellow yellow, & white Miller.

The blackgnat, firetiger apache are good to start off with.

If your talking about spinnerbaits I'm wrong then, sorry.

If your talking about spinnerbaits my first one was a mini 1/8 or 3/16oz with a white skirt that I change to the blue glimmer skirt, with single silver or gold Colorado blade with a mister twister split double tail grub used as a trailer with a trailer hook. Once you put on and adjust the trailer so it runs straight your good to go. One shot of yum shad scent and hang on. The bass will try to rip it off your line.

After success with the smaller spinnerbaits I use the Mann's classic spinnerbaits now. I use the 1/4oz white spinner bait with the two Colorado or Indiana blades, I'm not sure what blades they are but there gold. They only come with one style blade. I set them up the same as my smaller spinnerbaits.

My two hottest spinner bait colors are white only and hot chartreuse. The blue glimmer skirt rocks in place of the white skirt. Bb

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[J Francho]

A bent arm spinnerbait is probably one of the most weedless and snag free bait you can use.  Throw it, or your money is wasted anyway.

[JWOA]

$6 for a spinnerbait doesn't seem that bad to me. Komanchi spinnerbaits are like $12 a piece lol. Strike king is a solid company to go with though. Never had a problem with em except having to re tune them after a pike or feisty bass.

  To me it does...I dont make much

[deaknh03]

  To me it does...I dont make much

get a couple of the $1 wal mart specials. I think just about every wal mart has them. 

[JWOA]

get a couple of the $1 wal mart specials. I think just about every wal mart has them. 

  I may have to check...our local one didn't have anything there that looked reliable. 

 

 But Thanks your tip is well appreciated,

 

 Jay White

[new2BC4bass]

My Walmarts (have 2 close by) never have sales....at least I've never been there when they had one.  Do you have an Ollie's?  The one I occasionally stop at has Terminator spinnerbaits.  Believe the price was just under $3....$3.50 max.  Of course, you never know what they will have, and colors are always limited.  My local Dick's Sporting Goods carries Strike King and Booyahs.  Light ones start about $3 and go up to around $6.  Like J Franco said, they are quite snag-proof.  Not impossible to snag one, but you would have to work at it. 

[bigbill]

Look for a Wal-Mart clearance box somewhere on one of the bait racks on the floor. They seem to

put all there stuff they want to get rid of like that. The last time I really shopped there they had all the riverside plastics on clearance in a box on the floor.

[Brian Needham]

booyas are hard to beat on the cheap.

 

before you know it you'll be buying terminators like the rest of us, don't worry.

[lmbfisherman]

You can also buy some basic custom ones at your local shop for pretty cheap usually too.  Not 1 dollar, but roughly around 3.33 each, usually 3 for 10 bucks is what I can find around here. 

[bigbill]

They offer strike king mini spinnerbaits for under $2. I think there only 1/8oz. There perfect for shore fishing.