twin-arm spinnerbait

[jimmyjoe]

   Lately, McCoy has the V-Twin twin-arm spinnerbait. The old one (for old guys like me) was the Hildebrandt Nugget. They're still available, both skirtless (called the X-rated) and with regular spinnerbait skirts.

   Does anyone use the Nugget? If so, do you use the skirted version or tip the skirtless version with a worm or minnow? And which weight?

 

   If I remember correctly (don't count on it at my age!) the Nugget was said to be VERY snag-resistant, even in rocks. That's important to me because I've got a new rip-rap shoreline opening up.  The thing is, I don't know whether that's really true or not.

   Comments?

 

   Thnx for the help.     jj

[scaleface]

I have a twin arm , dont know the manufacturer and have never used it . Its in my spinnerbait box . It just never occurs to me to tie it on .

[Fishes in trees]

Every other year or so In-fisherman magazine mentions in an article how twin spins are an overlooked bass bait.   I. almost never see any at the various tackle shops I go, so I don't know how great they are or not.

[jimmyjoe]

4 minutes ago, Fishes in trees said:

I. almost never see any at the various tackle shops

   Yeah, I know. None of the guys I know use them for bass, either.  Finding 1st-hand info about them is like finding a swimming pool in the Sahara.         jj

[Smells like fish]

I didnt even know you could get a twin arm new today. I have a few older ones that has come in yard sale tackleboxes and such. I think most of mine are Bomber brand. Bushwhacker if I was to guess. I might also have some Shannon's. Like said above I've never wet these or had the want to. I would fancy a new model though.

[rboat]

Twin spins worked very well when I lived up north. Don't hear or see anything about them in the south. Many years ago, BPS made a double spinnerbait. It had a blade on the top, and a blade on the bottom, and in the middle straight back from the line tie was a soft plastic grub on a hook. It was kind of big and harder to cast, I assume like an A-rig today, but it caught some nice bass up north until I lost it to a pike. BPS discontinued it quickly before I could get another. I believe that was about 1983. Anybody remember that lure?

[FryDog62]

I used to throw a fair amount of the dual blade spinnerbaits - The ones I used most I think Joe Bucher made them primarily for muskie/pike fishing but they worked just as well for bass.  Slopmaster Tandem I think it was called - in the old days I think there was a size large and and XL.  I think I caught more smallmouth on the XL than anything... bronzies have quite the attitude!  

 

The Hildebrandt Nugget looks to be much more compact but I'm sure works great...

[WRB]

The twin arm spinnerbait today is similar to the original Shannon that has 2 arms or spreader wires attached to a extended wire mold  onto the head like a traditional spinnerbait. The "twin spin" of the 6O's that I still use is a different design, the spreader wires are attached to the top of a clevis with the jig head attached to the bottom and free to swing. 

The last commercial "twin spin" was made by Bill Haddock no longer in business.

The advantage of a independant swinging jig is the spinners on the spreader wires allow the lure to helicopter down through the water column while the jig and trailer rotate upwards and swim. The fixed V twin spin needs to be retreived forward and doesn't fall and helicopter with any action. Most "twin spin" strikes occur on the fall or worked slowly along rocky structure climbing up and over everything like a swing jig does with added blades.

Tom

[Beeno]

19 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

I didnt even know you could get a twin arm new today. I have a few older ones that has come in yard sale tackleboxes and such. I think most of mine are Bomber brand. Bushwhacker if I was to guess. I might also have some Shannon's. Like said above I've never wet these or had the want to. I would fancy a new model though.

Molix makes a nice one

[jimmyjoe]

58 minutes ago, Meeno said:

Molix makes a nice one

   Yeah, I saw that. 14,726 blades .... or thereabouts. ?   It looks like a cross between an A-rig and a spinnerbait.

   The main reason that I was interested in the Nugget is that it was supposed to be snag-resistant. (Someone said snag-proof, but there is no such thing as snag-proof.) Literally, it's supposedly safer to let the Nugget drop, set on the bottom 10 seconds, and then slow-roll, than it is to do the same thing with a conventional short-arm spinnerbait like the Hoppy's 5/8 oz short-arm.

   Like I said .... supposedly.  When you can't lay your hands on a lure and use it to see what it's like, everything is "supposedly".   ?

   I've already lost 2 conventional spinnerbaits in this rock, plus some other lures. The bass don't hit high, they don't hit medium, they hit low. And I think I know why; there are musky in this lake.

   Anyway .... it looks like it will continue for some appreciable time, with the weather we're having this spring.   

   Oh, well. Better than being cooped up.     ?    jj

[jimmyjoe]

4 hours ago, WRB said:

The advantage of a independant swinging jig is the spinners on the spreader wires allow the lure to helicopter down through the water column while the jig and trailer rotate upwards and swim.

   Is this anything similar to what you're talking about, Tom?

 

   https://www.ebay.com/itm/Muskie-Fishing-3-4-oz-DR-Custom-Spinnerbait-With-V-Wire-Twin-Colorado-Blades/121981253709?hash=item1c66a6384d:g:bXIAAOSwSclXMEIW

 

  

[WRB]

26 minutes ago, jimmyjoe said:

   Is this anything similar to what you're talking about, Tom?

 

   https://www.ebay.com/itm/Muskie-Fishing-3-4-oz-DR-Custom-Spinnerbait-With-V-Wire-Twin-Colorado-Blades/121981253709?hash=item1c66a6384d:g:bXIAAOSwSclXMEIW

 

  

Similar, if the wire between the spinnerbait head and wire spreader is above 1/2" long.

Tom

[zell_pop1]

I have a few old small Hilderbrandt Nuggets, occasionally throw them in the river for Smallies and rock bass. Mine have skirts and were made in my hometown like 20 years ago. I also have a few 1/8 Hildebrandt spin dandys-they really catch crappie like no one's buisness. 

Now more snagless? I really do not know I guess the twin arms could sort of act like a weedguard but i never tried slow rolling them though I think some of the walleye guys used to use them that way.

[scaleface]

Just looked at mine . Its a Terminator . It has titanium arms .

[Mobasser]

I have a couple of old twin spins I got in an old tackle box I picked up. They look like the ones pictured. From what I've read about them, some guys used them without a skirt, with a pork eel instead. Somewhere I have a picture of Harold Ensley landing a bass on one at Bull Shoals lake back in the 60s. 

[jimmyjoe]

1 hour ago, Mobasser said:

I have a couple of old twin spins I got in an old tackle box I picked up. They look like the ones pictured. From what I've read about them, some guys used them without a skirt, with a pork eel instead. Somewhere I have a picture of Harold Ensley landing a bass on one at Bull Shoals lake back in the 60s. 

 

   Yeah, most of the feedback I have had on them has been from walleye fishermen, and they tip them with all sorts of stuff. Most of them look at me kinda funny when I tell them I want to use those lures for bass.

   But you're right; bass fishermen have used them, and with some success. They just never caught on. The replies in this thread make that kinda obvious.      ?     jj

[king fisher]

When I was growing up in Eastern WA there was very little bass tackle available.  All the tackle shops, had trout and Salmon lures.  One tackle shop did stock one spinner bait.  It was the Shannon twin spin.  Mine had a red buck tail skirt.

      It didn't cast very well, but caught lots of fish.  It worked great with the blades just breaking the surface.  When I got my first Bass Pro Shop catalogue I ordered a couple single armed spinner baits after that I didn't use the twin spin very often. I  would still use the Shannon on the surface because it would not turn on its side when retrieved fast.  Then I bought a Burke Deadly Duddly, my first buzz bait. and the Shannon twin spin was retired.  I might still have it somewhere, will have to look for it some time.

[Brgoff007]

I used to use the Shannon twin spinner with a green frog pork rind. My uncle introduced me to it. They were a bass catching machine. Haven't used or seen one in years. Black head with brown body.