Thoughts on these spinnerbaits?

[Cgolf]

Looking to pick up some new spinnerbaits to me and was curious if I should stay away from any of them? Being that they aren’t the cheapest, will take all the advice I can get. 

 

Strike King Baby Burner 1/4 ounce

Humdinger 1/4 ounce Different blade combos

Nichols 33 mini double willow 1/4 ounce

Northstar compact triple willow 3/8 ounce

booyah mini Shad 3/16 ounce

 

 

[roadwarrior]

Siebert Outdoors  Cosmic Double Willow

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/cosmic-tandem-spinnerbait

 

Compact Double Willow

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/compact-double-willow-mustad-hook

[Cgolf]

2 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Siebert Outdoors  Cosmic Double Willow

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/cosmic-tandem-spinnerbait

 

Compact Double Willow

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/compact-double-willow-mustad-hook

Unless he does a crazy post turkey day sale I am looking at TW or the other fishing sites. I am getting a bunch of tungsten stuff from Siebert my in laws are getting for me as a gift.  

[Cgolf]

Any opinions let me know

[Cgolf]

On 11/7/2020 at 6:34 PM, roadwarrior said:

Siebert Outdoors  Cosmic Double Willow

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/cosmic-tandem-spinnerbait

 

Compact Double Willow

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/compact-double-willow-mustad-hook

Switching up my christmas order and picking up 1 each of the different styled cosmics.

 

Right now the reason I have so many listed above is that this summer I saw a war eagle outfish a strike king spinnerbait 3 to 1 multiple times under post frontal conditions. I got a ton of war eagles, like 20, when outlet bait and tackle ran a deal on them. War Eagles are fragile, but wow did they stick them. So that is why right now I am trying 1 offs of different spinnerbaits. The ones that work I will load up on next year.

 

Thankfully my choices were limited by 1/4 ounce baits which are harder to come by. I have some heavier ones, but never seem to fish them.

 

 

 

 

Todays deal on outlet bait and tackle is on their Wahoo line of spinnerbaits, has anyone tried them?

[heavyduty]

I fish the 3/8 in these and I have been wearing out the smallies recently. This is the 1/4oz version

 

https://www.***.com/elite-series/14-oz-bluegill

[Cgolf]

18 minutes ago, heavyduty said:

I fish the 3/8 in these and I have been wearing out the smallies recently. This is the 1/4oz version

 

https://www.***.com/elite-series/14-oz-bluegill

 

They look unique. Somewhere along the line they did something here to get the dreaded ****. Seems like I remember a mainline company had a flexible arm spinnerbait at one point as well, but don't remember the company.

[Fishingmickey]

On 11/7/2020 at 9:55 PM, cgolf said:

Any opinions let me know

They are too small.  3/8 or 1/2 oz River2sea bling 1st choice, Booyah same weights, second choice. Color is Chartruese, White or Chartruese and white. IMHO.

FM

[Big Rick]

It appears you are looking for a finesse sized spinner bait based on your selections. While I don't have a lot of experience with the baits you've mentioned, I DO have a ton of success with this little jewel. It a War Eagle Mike McClelland Finesse Spinner bait. There are a lot of color options and these blades are very unique in size and shape. It just works. 

 

On occasion, I have been known to trim the longer skirt portion and attach a small paddle tail like a Keitech Easy Shiner. 

 

 

[Cgolf]

57 minutes ago, Fishingmickey said:

They are too small.  3/8 or 1/2 oz River2sea bling 1st choice, Booyah same weights, second choice. Color is Chartruese, White or Chartruese and white. IMHO.

FM

 

For some reason I have had the best luck on this system with 1/4 ounce and 3/16 ounce baits. They must run just the right depth and get bit way more than heavier baits. Since these baits are mostly for the vacation lake that is why I am staying on the lighter side of things. Maybe adding a trailer to heavier baits will get them to ride up a little higher, will have to try that too.

 

For some reason either purple sexy shad or some old smoke purple war eagle skirts were the color this year. I am picking up extra skirts and materials to tie my own too. Years past it was the strike king bleeding bait white and red or white red and smoke. This a pretty clear system that you can see a bait on bottom on a calm day in 10-15 fow.

 

43 minutes ago, Big Rick said:

On occasion, I have been known to trim the longer skirt portion and attach a small paddle tail like a Keitech Easy Shiner. 

 

 

 

On the war eagles I have I either pulled off or trimmed the long section of the skirt because I was missing a lot of fish. It appears they were attacking the long skirt because the hook up rate increased after this was cut. I have yet to use a trailer on a spinnerbait, maybe if I try heavier models again. I will go with a trailer to get it to ride a little higher in the water column. 

 

That particular bait looked good too. I was trying to branch out in brands too. I may give it a try though.  Also since I now have a stash of close to 30 war eagles, we will see if the budget allows additions. I have set money to spend on black friday and I have been changing my mind by the minute on what is important lol.

[Boomstick]

I have used the Strike King Baby Burner and Booyah Mini Shad out of this lot, and have also used spinnerbaits by Nichols but not the 33 mini - I have the white pulsators with colorado blades that are fairly small in size, and I like them - I'll likely be buying some willow bladed models for next year.

[jimmyjoe]

   For two years, I tried different small-form-factor spinnerbaits, looking for something that wasn't fragile but as close to irresistible as possible. I found it.

 

   Strike King Li'l Mr. Money. 1/2 oz. total weight. I use any hole-in-one style skirt that I please.   jj

[Mbirdsley]

War eagles are pretty good.  Seems like I get those to hold up better then the booyas and strike king.  The booyas, strike kings and other still catch fish. I still buy them  Just seems like they are worn out after 4-5 bass.  When pike hit them even less catches. 

 

only spinner bait I tried and didnt like were these booyas 3/8 vibra wire spinner baits.  I bought 2 and couldn’t get either to remotely run right. 

[Big Rick]

The most successful full size spinner bait I've ever used is a Stanley Wedge Plus. It's tough as nails as well. Blue Shad has been my go-to color for the cypress stained lakes I grew up fishing. 

 

[Fishes in trees]

I haven't bought any spinnerbaits for the past few years.  Primary reason for this is that several years ago I bought a bunch of War Eagles & Terminators.  Fish can tear up a War Eagle over time, Terminators seem to last forever.   The only time I retire a Terminator is when it gets stuck and doesn't want to come back into the boat.

 

Side note :   even for creek & small river fishing, I like throwing a spinner bait on a bait caster.  Several years ago I had a monster day on the Gasconade throwing War Eagle Screaming Eagle spinnerbaits.  ( These were the small frame ones, with weight behind the skirt, that weighed half an ounce or so ). If I am ever throwing spinner baits in any kind of current at all, these are my first choice.

Don't know why the new set up won't let me edit my previous post.   Beside the point, responding to the original post - got no experiences good or bad with the brands of spinner baits mentioned.   I haven't fished quarter ounce spinner baits for a long time - not since I was a bank bound meat fishing bush hippie.  Those days I relied mostly on an SOB ( small okie bug ).  White or white/ chartreuse with a white or white/chartruese curly tail grub.

[Smells like fish]

Has anybody sampled American Baitworks spinnerbaits? That’s the Freedom part of the Z-man / freedom vibrating jig. They look high quality and are $10. @A-Jay? 

Oops, Freedom Tackle Corp appears to be separate from American Baitworks who is just carrying their product. 

[A-Jay]

On 11/13/2020 at 7:29 AM, Smells like fish said:

Has anybody sampled American Baitworks spinnerbaits? That’s the Freedom part of the Z-man / freedom vibrating jig. They look high quality and are $10. @A-Jay? 

Since I'm such a big fan of these Freedom heads and the bait concept in general,

I picked up two of these baits spring of this past season.

I've had quite a bit of success with the Megastrike Strikeback spinnerbait.

(which features a semi-free swinging hook design) 

seems to increase high speed hook up ratios as well as staying pinned more often than not. 

Both good qualities. 

 

By adding the ability to easily change the hook and or the skirt, I expected this one to be $$$.

My initial impressions of the Freedom Live Action Spinnerbait is that it's a quality bait with decent components, runs true at speed and is easily re-tuned.

(big deal for me as brute Brown Bass routinely mangle burned spinnerbaits)

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Freedom_Tackle_Double_Willow_Spinnerbaits/descpage-FREESPI.html

https://americanbaitworks.com/collections/spinnerbaits-buzzbaits/products/live-action-spinnerbait

However my own 'spinnerbait season' (usually late summer & into the fall) was Horrid.

So I do not feel I was able to offer this bait a fair chance to displays it's full potential.

I will most certainly be giving this one another shot in 2021.

A-Jay

 

 

 

[J Francho]

Can't say that I ever felt bass had any leverage against a spinnerbait. $10 is a lot for a spinnerbait. I'm not sold. Been using basically the same design for over 30 years with virtually no change in the design, and for good reason. 

[YoTone]

Strike kings burner is one i like at times.  going full blast on retrieves, which that ones good for can trigger some nasty bites.

 

tw usually has strike king for 30% off on black fridays too.

[Cgolf]

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Since I'm such a big fan of these Freedom heads and the bait concept in general,

I picked up two of these baits spring of this past season.

I've had quite a bit of success with the Megastrike Strikeback spinnerbait.

(which features a semi-free swinging hook design) 

seems to increase high speed hook up ratios as well as staying pinned more often than not. 

Both good qualities. 

 

By adding the ability to easily change the hook and or the skirt, I expected this one to be $$$.

My initial impressions of the Freedom Live Action Spinnerbait is that it's a quality bait with decent components, runs true at speed and is easily re-tuned.

(big deal for me as brute Brown Bass routinely mangle burned spinnerbaits)

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Freedom_Tackle_Double_Willow_Spinnerbaits/descpage-FREESPI.html

https://americanbaitworks.com/collections/spinnerbaits-buzzbaits/products/live-action-spinnerbait

However my own 'spinnerbait season' (usually late summer & into the fall) was Horrid.

So I do not feel I was able to offer this bait a fair chance to displays it's full potential.

I will most certainly be giving this one another shot in 2021.

A-Jay

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, J Francho said:

Can't say that I ever felt bass had any leverage against a spinnerbait. $10 is a lot for a spinnerbait. I'm not sold. Been using basically the same design for over 30 years with virtually no change in the design, and for good reason. 

 

To exactly what J Francho is saying, wouldn't a trailer hook essentially give you the exact same thing? Seems like the only time I lose fish is when they wrap me around a reed. I just found I had to keep the skirt short to increase my hook up ratio. When  I left the long tails on in the center of the skirt I got a lot of pulls without a hookup. Removing the long tails it was game on.

[A-Jay]

3 hours ago, cgolf said:

 

 

To exactly what J Francho is saying, wouldn't a trailer hook essentially give you the exact same thing? Seems like the only time I lose fish is when they wrap me around a reed. I just found I had to keep the skirt short to increase my hook up ratio. When  I left the long tails on in the center of the skirt I got a lot of pulls without a hookup. Removing the long tails it was game on.

I rarely use a trailer hook.

A-Jay 

[Big Rick]

14 hours ago, A-Jay said:

I rarely use a trailer hook.

A-Jay 

Where I fish a spinnerbait using a trailer hook means two things: I'm either staying hung up in tree roots and snags, or I'm not putting the bait where the fish live and thus wasting my casts, time, and effort. That's why the freedom line is so attractive to me. Attach a Zako, or any other soft trailer, and the bait is rendered weedless. That gives me the confidence to put it where they live without fear of ruining the honey hole by hanging up.

 

YMMV 

[Cgolf]

36 minutes ago, Big Rick said:

Where I fish a spinnerbait using a trailer hook means two things: I'm either staying hung up in tree roots and snags, or I'm not putting the bait where the fish live and thus wasting my casts, time, and effort. That's why the freedom line is so attractive to me. Attach a Zako, or any other soft trailer, and the bait is rendered weedless. That gives me the confidence to put it where they live without fear of ruining the honey hole by hanging up.

 

YMMV 

 

15 hours ago, A-Jay said:

I rarely use a trailer hook.

A-Jay 

I am with you guys I hate trailer hooks too. The only spinner that has one left on is a 3/16 strike king that has a #7 willow as the trail blade for fishing during cold fronts. Got the idea from KVD and besides looking goofy it really catches fish. The trailer hook is needed though to get a hook point out near the end of that big willow. 

[Captain Phil]

I agree trailer hooks on spinnerbaits are a PIA.   Unfortunately, if you don't use one you are missing fish.   If that doesn't bother you, don't use one.   Your fishing day will be a lot less of a hassle.  You won't have to worry about unhooking all those short strikers.   :>)

[Team9nine]

The problem with manufacturers (and anglers) is they all use/package their spinnerbaits/buzzbaits with these giant, full-sized trailer hooks, which IMO is the wrong approach. Throw ‘em out and downsize and you’ll solve all kinds of problems, including short strikers and excess hangups.

 

This is all you need. I have a lifetime supply: