How Should I Start Making This Inline Spinner? I Need A Strong Ring To Hold 5/0 Hook-Check This Bad Boy Out!!!

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Called the Mepps Dorsal Fin and it can swim just great when grass is everywhere and is a swinging worm hook behind an inline 5/8 oz spinner with a skirt and a detailed and flashy body.

 

I want to make them since $12 is steep, although my buddy has won several tournaments in the past year from the back seat and tells everyone he is using a Terminator inline Spinner since he had a good run at one point and the Snagless Sally and Inline spinners were being sold at a funny rate here in Tampa earlier this year.

 

I feel bad giving away his secret lure but I want to make some of these. I know where to buy all the components and I will get some from Mepps direct, but should I start with a kit or by all stuff on my own? I want to experiment with a willow uv blade mepps uses as well, and this lure handles a 10" worm and runs true....

 

I feel bad telling everyone about this lure since he has been guarding his secret until this morning when I had the pleasure of having it hit me in the back and snag my shirt..The swinging hook and 6" grub with all that detail while I was already down 5-1 and trying to find a white with silver Inline spinner to pitch into grass since this thing actually can still spin after going through a mat and it is deadly using the same technique you would use if you had a beaver under a punch rig or flipped a jig under a dock....All other brands stick in the weeds, underspins were not working, I tried everything, but at $12 I can't afford a lure I will lose for sure quite often.

 

I supply him with all his softbaits for free, and I want to start making inline spinners with modifications like UV blades, different styles etc. but does anyone like Hagen's or Barlows have bodies with this detail? I also think it is the sound and Mepps is awful selling wholesale even with a legit business.

 

Any help making these for less than $12 a pop is much appreciated. Sorry for the Ramble but I have watched this guy win 3 tournaments this year in places where most guys only bring plastics, and he tells everyone it is a laser Eye Bass Pro spinner, but with a 6" grub it is over an ounce and is deadly for sure. Check this out and please let me know how to get started making bladed lures like spinners, buzzbaits, under spins etc....Thanks guys.

 

Here is the lure I love today.

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Somehow it posted 2x and I could not erase. my mistake. Sorry.

[Comfortably Numb]

Nothing very new about that. Get components from Lurecraft, Lurepartsonline, Barlows etc. 

 

Fish wont care about detail. Add eyes if you like.

 

Piano wire shaft

Clevis

Blade

worm weight body

hook.

 

Twist front for line tie

Twist back around hook

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Thanks for replying, I forgot to add that the body had a bouyant silcone material that was buoyant which gave it a different action.I was thinking about just adding some silicone from a tube from Home Depot which comes out clear to the body instead, or slip a few floating gadgets on their...It had a odd swing to it, I still keep a good amount of quality Rooster Tails, Shysters, Panther Martins and Mepps with me but never use them and when I was compariing they would not balance right and it almost doules as a shaky rig/flutter spoon....

 

I watched a video today and my friend is going to help me with the charts and how and why certain bodies are different, and with painting as I am not good with that stuff. I may just trade my friend a lot of soft baits for one of his 3, instead of paying almost $20 with shippingas nobody sells them but Mepps. Good thing is I have a case of the soft bait skirts for swim senkos in white and a case in black, so I can dress up all my trailers to look nice.

 

Last question, line twist was killing me while I was playing around with a box of cheap imported spinners I have and I was just adding hooks and soft baits, changing blades etc...But even a ball bearing swivel was not working.... I need that lure on a scale to replicate it, I have not like a new lure this much since the Chatterbait, although this phase may die if I don't slaughter them next time out.....

 

Is it better to buy best quality  components? also, is it hard to get the double blades to work as I just saw them for first time yesterday and want to try one wiith a 6" senko on the back for a big boy MJ rig.

Thanks Much.....I will let you know what Mepps tells me about the material and components that make it unique. My buddy used that lure to beat some of the best guys around in a few tournaments this year from the backseat and I just figured the guys he was beating were not that good, but I don't follow names of angler's only Timmy Horton and Jimmy Houston because I like their Shows.

 

How does someone pay $20 for an Inline Spinner from Bass Pro that is just squirel hair, and wire? I am going to order from Hagens since they sell Top Props in bulk as well as owner centering pins. I will send you some if they are good!!!

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How much w uld it cost you to make 25 of these? I don't want to buy more than I need or better quality since they offer 3000 blades.alone , I guess I can use extra brass bodies anyhow for rigs.....I may start making my own swim worm rigs as well, I have been paying $5 for my "Stupid Rigs" which I use with a 7" senko as a topwater and when it works it is the most exciting bone jarring strikes from huge fish, but I never use it around others who are not sure if I have any skill. It is not polite to start the morning with 2 ounces of meat splashing down into calm water to get the fish to investigate,and then start reeling a senko with flashy blades and clickers as fast as I can while walking the dog and the deadsticking, waiting and then skipping it a few times before fishing like a maniac again but I did not invent this technique. Roller Rig the guy called it I think, but he knew how to cut and bend the worm better than I do. It has to have a concave face, and I am not crazy, I am making a video this week for you tube to blow peoples minds. 

[Bluebasser86]

That thing makes a ton of noise for an inline spinner. I have no idea where you'd find a body like that for the bait but the rest of it is pretty straightforward. 

[ksboy]

It would be expensive but you could use the head end of a big swim bait if you couldn't find anything else. Of course you could make your own mold of the head of a swim bait and pour whatever color you want.