Anyone still throwing a single Colorado blade spinnerbait?

[Eddie101]

It appears that Mr. Bill Dance seems to favor the said spinnerbait.  Most folks nowadays are throwing a double willow rather than a single blade. I think I need to start throwing some single blades again based on this video. What do you favor - size, trailer, color etc - and why? 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXMIjTruO0

[huZZah]

I do single, double (tandem and alike), large, small, silver, gold, painted...whatever works. 
 

At night I actually have my best luck in spinners with a single large Colorado. Painted or unpainted hasn’t seemed to matter. 

[Captain Phil]

Over the years I have tried just about every spinnerbait made.  Even made a few myself.  A single Colorado spinnerbait is good for fishing drops.  It works especially well when fishing steep banks.  Throw it to the edge of the shore and let it helicopter down on a semi tight line.  Most hits come when the lure stops and you begin a slow retrieve back to the boat.  Single Colorado baits should be pulled slow or they will tilt sideways or turn upside down. 

[jgordon]

I haven't had much luck myself with them only the old willows. 

[scaleface]

Rarely . I still do at night  .

[Deleted account]

Yes.

[GetFishorDieTryin]

9 of 10 times im throwing a SB its a single Colorado.  

[king fisher]

I give one a try every time I go bass fishing.  Waked on the surface, or crawled on the bottom.  Some days they are the best thing I throw, other days not so much.  I  catch something with them most of the time.  My favorite is black and chart skirt, 1/2 OZ No 5 gold blade.  

[Jigfishn10]

Single Colorado short arm spinnerbait, 1/2 oz , pearl skirt, maybe a few strands of watermelon black flake on top with an olive zonker strip is by far my top producing spinnerbait. 

[Mobasser]

A 3/8 or 1/2 oz single spin was my favourite night spinnerbait. I liked a dark skirt,  #11 pork frog trailer, and a large copper blade.

[GreenPig]

Today

[Jigfishn10]

Love it LinesidesGreenPig!

[Bubba 460]

Use single Colorado spinner baits in muddy water and in the winter, the bigger the blade the better. I call them "thumper baits". Gold, white or black blades

[walleyecrazy]

I use big single colorado spinner baits anytime I'm fishing at night, or fishing extremely dirty water.

[Bankbeater]

I like a 1/2 oz. single colorado spinnerbait when the water is dirty or when I'm fishing in deep water.

[Mbirdsley]

Single Colorado blades seem hard to come by for some reason.  Especially gold or bronze colored single Colorado blades.

 

I really need to bite the bullet and make my own 

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29 minutes ago, Mbirdsley said:

I really need to bite the bullet and make my own 

With a couple of packs of blades, you can make one up on the fly.  I like a shorter arm on a single Colorado, so I trim a tandem down about an inch or so.

[Log Catcher]

I have some of the original Stan Sloane Zorro spinnerbaits in a short arm single Colorado blade. My best luck has come on one in a color similar to War Eagle spot remover.

 

 I would also add I have never tried the lift and drop retrieve shown in the video. I usually slow roll them.

[keagbassr]

Single Colorado's are an early and late season bait for me. They're  all I've used this year so far. I dont worry about water clarity or time of day so much but do prefer copper for cloudy days. For size i use 5's on 1/4 and 3/8ths oz. And 7's for 1/2-1oz.baits. Also I never slowroll or helicopter just straight retreive. 

[TnRiver46]

I still throw them. Just like all other spinnerbaits I throw them when I’m tired of catching fish and need some peace and quiet 

[papajoe222]

I like a single Colorado SB with a short arm, in fact, I've shortened the arms and removed the tandem blade of over half my SBs.  I run them over the top of vegetation and then let them fall into pockets, or at the weed edge. They helicopter down much better than baits with a longer arm. I'd venture to say half the fish I catch on them are on the drop.

[Bluebasser86]

I just made 2 3/4oz black spinnerbaits with #7 hammered copper Colorado blades this morning. Anytime the water is really dirty, they get tossed around. I fish single or double Colorado blades almost as much as willowleafs/Indiana blades. 

[Catt]

Jason Christie Booyah Covert ?

[Str8BraidPowa]

My local lakes are generally stained and have a lot of blue gill and yellow perch, so my go to spinner bait has become a fire tiger colored spinner with single gold Colorado blade. I have not caught a single spinner bait fish on any other color on those two lakes.

[Scott F]

A single, Colorado bladed spinner bait is about the only version I use. Because they aren’t easy to find, I had a guy who makes spinner baits make me up a bunch.