Hank Parker Spinner Bait

[Mr Swim Jig]

I saw these today on the Hank Parker show, they look very promising.  I just ordered a couple of these so I guess we will see.  Only available on hie web site at the moment.

[Fishes in trees]

Mann's used to market a Hank Parker spinnerbait.  Just went to their website.   It is now longer the "Hand Parker Classic Spinnerbait".

Now it is referred to as the "Classic" spinnerbait.  I have a couple of the old ones and the pictures look the same to me.  IDK, Manns and Hand Parker might have had a labeling issue.   . . .   imagine that , , ,

How many different companies have retailed the "Guido Bug" with Guido Hibdon's picture on the package?    A couple that I know of - Gambler & Luck-E-Strike.

[scaleface]

Those look interesting . I wonder if the rubberband is used if it will scare the bass when released .   It will pop them inside the mouth .

[Mr Swim Jig]

8 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Those look interesting . I wonder if the rubberband is used if it will scare the bass when released .   It will pop them inside the mouth .

I was wondering the same thing, Hank was using bands for braces.  I don't think they have quite the stretch and pop of a regular rubber band.

11 minutes ago, Fishes in trees said:

Mann's used to market a Hank Parker spinnerbait.  Just went to their website.   It is now longer the "Hand Parker Classic Spinnerbait".

Now it is referred to as the "Classic" spinnerbait.  I have a couple of the old ones and the pictures look the same to me.  IDK, Manns and Hand Parker might have had a labeling issue.   . . .   imagine that , , ,

How many different companies have retailed the "Guido Bug" with Guido Hibdon's picture on the package?    A couple that I know of - Gambler & Luck-E-Strike.

These are a brand new spinner bait designed by Hank Parker and they just went on sale yesterday on his web site only at the moment. 

[S. Sass]

Holy smokes - $9.96 each + Shipping and Handling! 

We are talking about a Spinnerbaits. Over $20 for 2 baits. I hate to sound negative but He didn't just invent the wheel here fellas. 

I'm passing on price alone unless it has a guarantee to produce a keeper every other cast. 

[SDoolittle]

I don't see anything special about them. A fish shaped head with the weight under the skirt? Northstar has been doing that for years. The rubber band thing is nothing more than a gimmick, and unless they figure out a way to do the same thing with a trailer hook, it's pretty pointless. I wonder how much research was put into bending the wire. I could have saved them some time on that. Almost all of my spinnerbaits are bent all to hell. 

[avidone1]

1 hour ago, S. Sass said:

Holy smokes - $9.96 each + Shipping and Handling! 

We are talking about a Spinnerbaits. Over $20 for 2 baits. I hate to sound negative but He didn't just invent the wheel here fellas. 

I'm passing on price alone unless it has a guarantee to produce a keeper every other cast. 

I agree.  Lucky craft ruined the bait market by posting big sales with ridiculously priced baits.  Now it's almost at the point where they've got us believing that if a bait isn't expensive then it's somehow inferior and won't catch fish.

A spinnerbait is a jig with a blade on it.   You can shape, bend it, put rubberbands on it, bullet head it , bobble head it and make it sing holy praises out of it's ass, but it's still a jig with blades

[greentrout]

Hank Parker won the Classic using this spinner bait.  All gold Indiana blades that rotate freely. They are made with a very thin wire that can be mauled with a vicious strike. I own several of 'em and they have served me well.

Good Fishing.

[S. Sass]

3 minutes ago, greentrout said:

They are made with a very thin wire that can be mauled with a vicious strike. I own several of 'em and they have served me well.

Good Fishing.

Do you know what wire diameter "very thin" is? I see .035 is common for the smaller size a lot. 

[Tmmytomato]

I have used the Hank Parker Classic (Mann's) for many years and still have maybe eight still in the package.  I will not pay $10 for a spinnerbait - paid I think around $5 or maybe even $6 when I got the last bunch a few years ago when I found them at a reduced price. Good spinnerbait for sure but $10 is too steep, regardless of whose name is on it.

[greentrout]

5 hours ago, Tmmytomato said:

I have used the Hank Parker Classic (Mann's) for many years and still have maybe eight still in the package.  I will not pay $10 for a spinnerbait - paid I think around $5 or maybe even $6 when I got the last bunch a few years ago when I found them at a reduced price. Good spinnerbait for sure but $10 is too steep, regardless of whose name is on it.

Me, too. I now stick with It's a Humdinger & BPS company brand. Get it done at a decent price. But Parker's spinner bait with those Indiana gold blades with a white skirt put a lot of bass in my boat. Used all of 'em down to 1/8oz size 

[SDoolittle]

My PB was caught on one of those cheap, $1.00 spinnerbaits they sell at Wal-Mart. These days, I'm having my spinnerbaits custom made for $5.00. I'd have a very hard time paying much more than that for a spinnerbait. 

[smalljaw67]

19 hours ago, S. Sass said:

Do you know what wire diameter "very thin" is? I see .035 is common for the smaller size a lot. 

They are originally made with .032" or .035" wire, and that is thin for the 3/4oz size bait Hank normally used. There are 2 reason why that bait was ****, the thin wire with large blades caused it to vibrate like mad and to compensate for the thin wire, the shortened the distance from the head to the line making it a little stronger and they used a closed loop further reinforcing it. The other thing is that reels were much slower than they are today, if you use that exact same spinner now with even a 5.3:1 reel, it would be on its side unless you really slowed it down because that bait is terribly unbalanced but the reels at that time were slow. The newer "Classic" baits have downsized the blade, increased wire diameter as well as it has added distance between the head and line tie, all those changes made it compatible with todays faster reels and longer rods.

[smalljaw67]

Well I had to go to Hank Parkers website and check the new spinnerbaits out, as a spinnerbait maker I'm interested in the new design and I'll give you my thoughts based on my experience. The first is the head shape, yes, having a narrow profile does allow it to come through the water better, I myself use a minnow head profile that is narrow and it works. The wire, well he is using really thin wire and it is stainless, .028"-.029" is what he states, that is extremely thin and most manufacturers that used that size wire ended up going to a slightly larger diameter, Revenge is one that used .029" diameter and went to .032" when anglers complained that after 1 large 4lb-5lb smallmouth the bait was toast. Now they did a couple things to try to alleviate that issue, they used a closed loop line tie and they added a bend, that extra bend is like a sproat bend in a hook, that tighter bend makes it harder to bend out and the same deal with the spinnerbait, it will keep the wire from bending at the head which is fatal to a spinnerbait. Overall I think it is a good design but I think if you catch a few big fish it will be done, I've made spinnerbaits with .029" diameter wire, I now use .035" for all but 1/4oz which I use .032", I still get nice vibration with a little more durable bait. Let us know how it works, I like the design even though I think the wire diameter is on the extreme side.

[Jaderose]

H&H all the way.  Just a little over a buck

[RockChalk1]

Ordered a couple on June 18th. It' now October 16th and they still haven't arrived. The website says allow 8-10 weeks. Must be shipping from China.

["hamma"]

The "original" Hank Parkers Classic spinnerbait made my Manns bait co. (Tom Mann),..In the white color 3/8 oz is what I got my personal best bass on. I have several 1/4 oz, 3/8 oz and 3/4 oz with me on my boat always.  I have white, chart., white/chart blue/chart.,... Did I say ALWAYS!,...lol

 They work wel,... umm,  

err,... AH,...No, no,... I must be mistaken,... they dont work at all, if you have any taking up space in your tackle box lemmie tell ya they are utterlly useless. You can mail them to me and I will properly dispose of them for you. The gold blades will chip, and fade, the skirts melt off, and the wire is so thin they sometimes break,...yeah,.., yeah,...thats it. 

(In my best jedi impersonation),... you will mail all of them to me,..immediately. I am the certified disposer of these lures,,... you will mail them to me!

 lmao

[Michael Beda]

Be very careful with Hank and The Powell Group. I ordered these spinnerbaits after watching his show June of 2017. After not receiving an order confirmation via their website, I was promised the order went thru and I would get them, there were delays.... then nothing. I disputed the order via PayPal but then was promised again I would get them there were delays. I cancelled the dispute. (my bad) I never received them. I have left numerous messages with The Powell Group, Daniel Dye & posted to Hank Parker. Daniel said he would issue me a refund in December..... it never happened.

[A-Jay]

Hello Michael and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

Interesting first post (15 month old thread)

A-Jay

[WdyCrankbait]

My father died in April and he always used them.  Needless to say I picked up several from him including one still in the original Mann's packaging!