double-arm spinnerbaits

[jimmyjoe]

   There are still a few twinspin spinnerbaits on the market;

  

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   I have not used these. Every year, I try to use something new, and this coming year this type of spinnerbait is it.

   The shape of these makes them look like bottom-dwelling lures, something to let fall, wait and then snap up a little bit. Is that correct?

   Can anyone clue me in on these as far as tips and tricks?

 

   Thnx.     jj

[Smells like fish]

That bottom pic you have JJ is marketed as a crappie spinnerbait. I have one of them as my local shop sells them for a whopping $8. I plan to stick that lure into a pond bass’s face as soon as spring gets here. I think I also have a Shannon and a Bomber Bushwhacker but never have tried them.  

[Luke Barnes]

Molix makes a three arm, three blade Ike series spinnerbait ive eyeballed a time or two. Never used one though. 

[jimmyjoe]

1 minute ago, Smells like fish said:

I think I also have a Shannon and a Bomber Bushwhacker but never have tried them.

 

   If I'm not mistaken, the Shannon is long out of production. Heck, My Dad had one of those before I was ever born!  As for the Bomber, I never knew they made a twin arm spinnerbait, but I looked it up when I read your post and found a pic of one.

 

  

 

   Learn something new every day!       jj

[Smells like fish]

Dang that’s a beautiful example of one! Too pretty to use. There is some 3 and 4 arm models out that are borderline Alabama rig category! 

[Bluebasser86]

Hart made one awhile back. I tried it, never caught anything with it.

[jimmyjoe]

  

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I tried it, never caught anything with it.

 

   How did you try it, high in the water column, middle or low? Did you let it sit on the bottom or not?    jj

[Bluebasser86]

1 minute ago, jimmyjoe said:

  

 

   How did you try it, high in the water column, middle or low? Did you let it sit on the bottom or not?    jj

Mostly middle and lower, it didn't want to run fast without rolling.

[scaleface]

I have one but never used it . Dont know the manufacturer . 

[Team9nine]

Twin spins were/are winter baits designed to be fished down bluff walls and for bass suspended in timber. Used to tip them with a piece of pork.

 

[jimmyjoe]

24 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Twin spins were/are winter baits designed to be fished down bluff walls and for bass suspended in timber. Used to tip them with a piece of pork.

 

 

   I see.

   Most (but not all) of the info I've gotten about twin-arm spinnerbaits has come from walleye fishermen, not bass fishermen. Therefore, their applicability to bass has been a little hazy in my mind. As always, asking questions here at BR helps enormously. Please keep the tips and tricks coming!   JJ

[Jigfishn10]

I tried the top one @jimmyjoe and found that it was hard to keep from turning over. Granted I only got one and may not have had the best of the litter but it was enough for me not to go buy again. 

How did you do with that one?

[jimmyjoe]

20 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

How did you do with that one?

 

  I haven't used the top two. The top one is a Stanley lure, and I don't remember the middle one. I've used the bottom one, which is a Hildebrandt Nugget, but it's been years ago, and I didn't play it off the bottom.

   Recent conversations with other fishermen have reminded me of this existence of this style of lure, but I was also reminded of the fact that 1) I didn't do well with it years ago, 2) I hadn't used it on the bottom, and 3) there were now newer twin-arms on the market that may (or may not) be better.

   One of the best tactics I've had in some waters is to let the spinnerbait fall to the bottom, and then retrieve it both s-l-o-w-l-y and erratically.

   Naturally, I snag up a lot. I was hoping that this style of spinnerbait might do better for me. I thought it could be retrieved higher in the water column, too (like any regular spinnerbait).

   Looks like I was wrong!   (1:40)

 

 

[Team9nine]

17 minutes ago, jimmyjoe said:

 

   I see.

   Most (but not all) of the info I've gotten about twin-arm spinnerbaits has come from walleye fishermen, not bass fishermen. Therefore, their applicability to bass has been a little hazy in my mind. As always, asking questions here at BR helps enormously. Pleas keep the tips and tricks coming!   JJ

 

On your initial post pics, the bottom one is a walleye version, not a bass bait. They tip it with live bait or plastic and slow drag. The top two are bass versions, but this style of spinner is designed more for vertical fishing and dropping, which is why they roll if you try to retrieve them fast or steady like a traditional spinner. Think jig instead of spinner - pull and drop.

[Jigfishn10]

The thing that drew my attention to the top one was that it looked like the blades and body would run parallel with the surface as the pic is oriented as opposed to the blades and blade arm running parallel and the body more at a 45* angle with the surface. 
All I got was a bait that ran on its side and eventually doing horizontal hula hoops. ?

[jimmyjoe]

    Yeah, I kinda-maybe think I'm seeing a pattern here. ??? 

   To be clear .... I'd like to mark @Jigfishn10 as well as @Team9nine as solutions. You've both helped me a lot. However, the program won't let me give credit to two people at the same time.

    Soooooo ...... "thank you" to both of you.      jj

[WRB]

Caught a lot of big bass on twin spins over the years.

Shannon was the original and had a model with a swing head.

I prefer my own twin springs and there is a post with a photo of both the Shannon swing head model and my home twin spins. 

The twin spin with arms as a solid part of the head don’t like.

I fish twin spins are a helicopter lure fluttering down through the water column vertically, then fish as a jig using the reel to move it. This is how developed my jig presentation and reel set rod sweep hook set technique.

Tom

PS, search Twin Spins ( Oct 2015) and Shannon for more detailed info and photos of my lure.

If you want a photo or a sketch on how to make a football jig=heads twin spin PM your email?

 

[jimmyjoe]

   A picture of Tom's twin spin:

 

  

 

   Thank you, Tom!    JJ

  

[jimmyjoe]

   Tom has said above, " ... I fish twin spins as a helicopter lure fluttering down through the water column vertically ..."

   @Team9nine said above, " ... , but this style of spinner is designed more for vertical fishing and dropping, ..."

   The top picture in the OP is of a Stanley Awesome Twin spin. Stanley's blurb states, " ... This is an awesome vertical drop jig. ..."

 

    Since I'm a shorecaster, I'm not sure that I can use this in the places I fish. I think I'll give up on trying this as my New Bait For The Year, and find something else interesting but more practical for a shorecaster.  ?? ?

 

   Thanks to you all!  jj

[WRB]

19 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

   A picture of Tom's twin spin:

 

  

 

   Thank you, Tom!    JJ

  

This design uses a standard football jig 1/4 to 1 oz that is free to swim and crawl over obstacles plies allows the trailer to swim naturally. Big bass lure they rarely see today. 

Tom

PS, the line tied to the clevis between the spreader wire.

[jimmyjoe]

   Now my only problem is figuring out which lure is gonna be my "new thing" for the coming year. I think I'm gonna start a new thread.      jj

[rboat]

I used a type of twin spin that was sold by BPS back in the early 80's. It looked like a double spinnerbait. A spinner at the top, a spinner at the bottom, and a plastic grub with the hook that came in the middle between the blades straight back from the loop line tie. I don't remember the name of it. I caught many bass on that thing until I lost it to a toothy pike. I have never seen another like it.

[BASS302]

@rboat.

I scanned this from a 1985 BPS catalog:

[jimmyjoe]

5 minutes ago, BASS302 said:

@rboat.

I scanned this from a 1985 BPS catalog:

 

   It look like the passage of time has not given much respect to that design.      jj

[BASS302]

@rboat,

This might be what you had. It was called a Twirl Spin (I found it in a 1984 BPS catalog):