What Am I Doing With All These Spinnerbaits?

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, BigAngus752 said:

Three words for you, brother...Betty Ford Center.  

I make up for it by only carrying one box of crankbaits ?

[pauldconyers]

3 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I make up for it by only carrying one box of crankbaits ?

And just how big is that box?

[fin]

On 2/15/2019 at 6:34 PM, TotalNoob said:

I'm not 100% sure what happened but I seemed to have lost control of the part of my brain that controls reasoning and discipline. It all happened so quickly... There was a small crowd of 6-8 people behind me. I panicked or something and next thing I know I've got 21 spinnerbaits in my basket! I wasn't even counting, I didn't know how many I had until I checked out.

? Similar thing happened to me at one of the Academy sales. There were guys rummaging through all the stuff like a bunch of women at a shoe sale. I was grabbing stuff I didn't really want. It's like when you find bass feeding on a school of shad - they go into a frenzy and bite stuff they normally wouldn't bite without hesitation.

[Bluebasser86]

2 hours ago, pauldconyers said:

And just how big is that box?

One 3730, a deeper 3700 box, and that's all the crankbaits I carry, shallow, medium, and deep divers.

[Munkin]

2 hours ago, pauldconyers said:

And just how big is that box?

I have a Plano spinnerbait box that holds 96 myself. 

 

Allen 

[MN Fisher]

14 minutes ago, Munkin said:

I have a Plano spinnerbait box that holds 96 myself. 

 

Allen 

I feel so inadequate - I have a single 3600 size box that contains all my spinners, chatters and buzzbaits...4 of each.

[Munkin]

3 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I feel so inadequate - I have a single 3600 size box that contains all my spinners, chatters and buzzbaits...4 of each.

I use this one for storage of extra baits.

 

Allen 

[HeyCoach]

I picked up 4, some with Colorado and willow or double willow. 

 

Did anybody find some darker colored spinnerbaits? All my BPS has were white, chartreuse, white and chartreuse, and white with blue and chartreuse top. 

[Boomstick]

That's a great buy, but you should try some with either a single colorado blade, dual colorado blades or a colorado and indiana blade. Basically they produce a lot more thump and less flash and are particularly good in murky water (typically a white/chartreuse color), night (typically black) or early season (typically white or off white colors) when you want to fish them slowly.

 

Those 3/8oz spinnerbaits with the willow and colorado blades are quite effective when the water is between 60 and 70 degrees, but if I had to have just one spinnerbait for the entire season I would pick one of those in sexy shad or mouse color. Later in summer and early fall, the dual willow blades generally produce very well for me.

 

Good luck with your spinnerbait fishing. I am generally fairly successful with spinnerbaits, but I will mention there are some lakes near me I just can't get a bite on a spinnerbait where others where they absolutely kill them! The other thing worth mentioning, is that often fishing from the shore and when I have a day of few or no bites, sometimes fishing a spinnerbait produces where other lures have failed. I figure the fact that I can cover a lot of water and the flash and vibration draws the fish in.

[TotalNoob]

You know it's interesting the responses in this thread regarding the Colorado blades effectiveness. 

 

After my purchase/creating this post I read an article about how spinnerbaits have generally fallen out of favor from tournament anglers in lieu of swimbaits.

 

Anyway, my takeaway from the article was that 1) spinnerbaits are highly effective and 2) there was a lot of favor from longtime spinnerbait fisherman for Colorado blades over willow blades (generally speaking).

[Boomstick]

3 hours ago, TotalNoob said:

You know it's interesting the responses in this thread regarding the Colorado blades effectiveness. 

 

After my purchase/creating this post I read an article about how spinnerbaits have generally fallen out of favor from tournament anglers in lieu of swimbaits.

 

Anyway, my takeaway from the article was that 1) spinnerbaits are highly effective and 2) there was a lot of favor from longtime spinnerbait fisherman for Colorado blades over willow blades (generally speaking).

Generally speaking, I usually have more success with dual willow or willow/colorado blades than anything else, even in dirtier water (which I generally don't end up fishing that much of) as long as the sun's up, but not always. But spinnerbaits are definitely highly effective, and they've been making a comeback with tournament anglers in more recent years as well.

[gim]

Those things wouldn't last very long around here.  Pike would destroy them, one by one.

[Columbia Craw]

Last year prespawn on a 1/2 ounce Dobyns Beast spinnerbait. 

[ResoKP]

I think trailer hooks are very important on spinnerbaits.

All of my spinnerbaits have trailer hooks on them.

Better chance of hooking ones short-striking...

[jimmyjoe]

On 2/16/2019 at 11:29 AM, BigAngus752 said:

Three words for you, brother...Betty Ford Center.  

   She uses spinnerbaits, too?   jj

[jtharris3]

The force is strong with you!

[Boomstick]

21 hours ago, ResoKP said:

I think trailer hooks are very important on spinnerbaits.

All of my spinnerbaits have trailer hooks on them.

Better chance of hooking ones short-striking...

This is a good tip as well. I usually do not add a trailer hook or trailer unless I'm getting short striked -- sometimes they just swallow it without it. Also if I'm fishing in weeds, I will throw on a trailer as the trailer hooks tend to pull in a few more weeds and in open water, I'll use a trailer hook.

[Jigfishn10]

On ‎2‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 7:18 PM, Scott F said:

I know I do it all wrong, but most of the time, the spinnerbaits I am most successful with have only Colorado blades and no willow leaf. I think few guys use them because stores like bass pro barely stock them.

I've caught more fish on a single Colorado blade than any other combination. So I guess we're both wrong.

[TotalNoob]

1 hour ago, Jigfishn10 said:

I've caught more fish on a single Colorado blade than any other combination. So I guess we're both wrong.

That's what I was saying about that article I read in Bassmasters, in addition to the feedback here. In the article, it stated that a legendary spinnerbait fisherman caught more heavyweight bass with Colorado or Indiana blades. He also said he never caught a bass > 6lbs on a spinnerbait with willowleaf blades. 

 

It could also come down to quality over quantity? Perhaps willow blades are responsible for greater numbers of caught bass (and some quality size bass) and Colorado blades are responsible for more quality fish (in the bigger picture)?

 

I don't pretend to know but I sure am excited to be throwing my arsenal of them this year! Hopefully I can start developing my own opinions/theories about what blades/combinations work best under what conditions on MY fishery.

[Jigfishn10]

It's the noise @TotalNoob IMHO. A Colorado with it's circular shape puts out a real THUMP! that translates back to your hands but not much flash. Willows are more streamlined and tend to put out much less of a thump but way more flash.

 

So if you're a big bass and hear and feel a thump of a Colorado it may be telling them BIG DINNER (big baitfish) where as a willow or double willow putting out flash in many different directions maybe telling a bass "little snacks" for a school of fingerling bait fish.

 

Conversely, if you're a smaller bass and hear and feel that big thump of a Colorado, they're thinking "that fish is coming to eat ME!

 

Who knows if the above is correct, but we still have hard water up here and need something to write about, right?

[Boomstick]

On 3/12/2019 at 9:13 AM, TotalNoob said:

That's what I was saying about that article I read in Bassmasters, in addition to the feedback here. In the article, it stated that a legendary spinnerbait fisherman caught more heavyweight bass with Colorado or Indiana blades. He also said he never caught a bass > 6lbs on a spinnerbait with willowleaf blades. 

 

It could also come down to quality over quantity? Perhaps willow blades are responsible for greater numbers of caught bass (and some quality size bass) and Colorado blades are responsible for more quality fish (in the bigger picture)?

 

I don't pretend to know but I sure am excited to be throwing my arsenal of them this year! Hopefully I can start developing my own opinions/theories about what blades/combinations work best under what conditions on MY fishery.

Ironically my PB came on a willow/colorado blade - I through it under a fallen tree on what was probably the most perfectly placed cast I've ever made and a mondo smallie hit it just about as soon as it hit the water. I have a feeling the placement had something to do with that and that was an exception and not the norm.

 

But I have read several articles and several interviews with many people who said they catch larger fish on chatterbaits or spinnerbaits with large colorado blades (often single but sometimes double bladed) than on spinnerbaits with willow blades. I would theorize that smaller fish may be intimidated by all the vibration where the larger ones know they can eat it. I also do definitely catch more fish on willow blades, so I think there might be something on your quality vs quantity theory. I've also heard of many people catching double digit bass on larger spinnerbaits, 3/4 or 1oz as well.

 

I definitely plan on fishing colorado blades more this year. Last year I only owned a single colorado bladed spinnerbait -- which I lost in some rocks or on a handle on a dam (can't recall which) near the end of the season. This year, I have plenty of sizes and colors to choose from.

[bigone5500]

Walmart has the strike king non branded spinners for $1.