Mepps Aglia

[Hurricane]

What colors work the best?  what colors and sizes for  Smallmouth? and what colors and sizes for Largemouth? I don't own any of these but figured i needed to add to my arsenal.. Figured i would go Mepps over Rooster tail..

[Raul]

My first lures were:

 

2 Rapala Original Floating Minnow

2 Mepps Comet 

2 Mepps Aglia

 

Which colors ? Gold and Silver

Which sizes for LMB ? 4 - 5

 

My recomendation is you use a good quality snap & swivel combo, they twist the line with gusto without it.

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

I was having luck with size 3 silver blade white skirt end of this season. And yeah the blades on Mepps seem to spin easily compared to Roosters. With Roosters I seem to have to snap the lure at the beginning of retrieve to get blade to spin. Mepps just start reeling and blade turns even very slow speed.

 

 

 

 

 

[Scott F]

I use Mepps quite a lot, mostly for Smallmouth. My favorites are the #4 plain, no hair, in silver or brass. The #3s work OK too, but I feel the larger ones might have better appeal to larger fish. The small bass eat the bigger lures also. The squirrel tail versions are popular and I think most fishermen have more confidence in those, but over the years, I've caught just as many on the plain ones which are cheaper. Because I do lose these baits, I've saved quite a bit with the plain ones. 

[Hurricane]

Looking forward to trying these out in the river for smallies too..

[Team9nine]

As mentioned, the squirrel tail Aglias with silver blades would have to be considered a "must have" in the Mepps lineup (IMHO), but my favorite for bass has always been the Mepps Black Fury. Size 3 and 4 would be considered standard for most bass fishing. 

 

-T9

[Hurricane]

4 minutes ago, Scott F said:

I use Mepps quite a lot, mostly for Smallmouth. My favorites are the #4 plain, no hair, in silver or brass. The #3s work OK too, but I feel the larger ones might have better appeal to larger fish. The small bass eat the bigger lures also. The squirrel tail versions are popular and I think most fishermen have more confidence in those, but over the years, I've caught just as many on the plain ones which are cheaper. Because I do lose these baits, I've saved quite a bit with the plain ones. 

 By silver and brass do you mean the blade color? thanks for the reply!

[RB 77]

Another vote for gold and silver.

[Scott F]

With the plain versions, the blades are about the only color choices you have! And the plain ones are all I use anymore. Another reason I like the plain ones is that when they catch weeds, they are easier to clean. Either way, Mepps are good baits when you are looking for numbers of fish. Where multiple species are present, you will catch everything on them. Especially pike.

[Hurricane]

6 minutes ago, Scott F said:

With the plain versions, the blades are about the only color choices you have! And the plain ones are all I use anymore. Another reason I like the plain ones is that when they catch weeds, they are easier to clean. Either way, Mepps are good baits when you are looking for numbers of fish. Where multiple species are present, you will catch everything on them. Especially pike.

thanks scott! awesome advise...

[burrows]

I use the #3 black fury I got a couple of different colors I'll post pics in the morning but I haven't thrown them in quite some time now but I used to love them I really use to love the regular gold and red ones I need to go back to the basics maybe?

[jr231]

Dude if I could only have one lure it would be a mepps spinner... I've caught bluegill, perch, crappie, bass, big channel cat and pike. 

 

#3, #4 silver blade and the black fury variations. An often overlooied is the red/orange black fury. It pi.sses em off, from a distance ! 

[BASS302]

My Dad would use either a brass or silver #3 Aglia blade with squirrel tail for largemouth. 

[Raul]

The Black Fury is not an Aglia blade, it's a Comet blade painted black with yellow or orange spots.

[jr231]

6 minutes ago, Raul said:

The Black Fury is not an Aglia blade, it's a Comet blade painted black with yellow or orange spots.

Also

Pink and firetiger dots. 

 

And although this is true .. the black fury is still very effective on bass. 

[The Bassman]

It's neat to hear so much input about Mepps.  I figured they weren't nearly as popular anymore.  Real sleepers for just about anything.  I grew up on them.  #1 silver/squirrel tail cast from a Garcia Brown Conolon rod and Mitchell 300 reel.

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I fish smaller ones in colder water or after fronts (mostly size one to three) by changing out to a larger hook and tying something with hackle that resembles a small baitfish, weigh them down a bit, and fish them really (really) slow on slow days, oh and bend the tie 60 degrees or so, and it will keep it from spinning. Fish will hit these when thy are ignoring most other things.

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[Spankey]

Being a river rat its just part of my arsenal. I have to agree with the above post. They have made slow bite and no bite days into something. I'm partial to the 1/4 oz. Mepps. Seems to be the size for those smallies. 

[burrows]

These are the ones that I was talking about .

[fishwizzard]

Two questions, first, what power rod do you guys run the 3 and 4 sized ones on?

I use them all the time for white perch in the 1/16-1/8oz range and throw them on an L or UL spinning rod but feel like they "tax" the rod on the retrieve and put more bend in the rods then an equally heavy crank or jig.  My smallmouth rods are a ML/F (1/16-3/8) spinning and L/MF (1/16-3/8) casting rods.  Which sizes would work best with them?  I am not worried about damaging my rods, but more that they become hard to steer around cover when the rod is strained.  

 

Second, have any of you tried them with a single hook? I am moving all my perch spinners over as too many tiny fish were just smashing the lure and wrecking themselves on the trebles. And also because I catch pickerels in the same waters and I dislike keeping them in my lap for a second longer then needed.   I have not noticed a decrease in hookups after I switched over, even with a single hook the perch more or less hook themselves as both rods have a bit of bend to them during the retrieve and I would like to switch any larger ones over as well if possible.