Mepps

[Scott F]

12 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

No, that's your grandfather's spinner talking. Any spinner including Mepps will twist if you pull them fast enough, and as sometimes that's the ticket it's going to happen, not to mention that if you are fishing a particular piece of cover or arc on a piece of current, you want that back for the next cast as quickly as possible, kinda like pitching. Sure, if you just slow roll it the length of the cast, twist will be kept to a minimum, but that is just not a very effective way to do it. I like a tiny bb swivel a foot or so ahead of the spinner, instead of one on the lure, but both work.

If you choose to crank the lure faster than it’s designed to run and the lure twists your line, that’s your fault, not the lures. Crank baits will do the same thing if you crank them too fast.

[Bassbuster93]

#3 dressed mepps is my go to for river smallies.

[NYWayfarer]

I prefer other brands over Mepps. My favorite in-line spinner for Bass is the Blue Fox Vibrax. Snap swivels are a must when using these lures.

[Deleted account]

12 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

I prefer other brands over Mepps. My favorite in-line spinner for Bass is the Blue Fox Vibrax. Snap swivels are a must when using these lures.

I keep hearing Vibrax in upstate NY from a bunch of guys, I roll my own, but the Vibrax did well in the St Lawrence and Grass recently.

[Yuddzy]

I used to fish these a lot for pike on casual trips to the local lakes. (32 acre lakes, real small) My first Northerns were all caught on these Mepps Syclops Spoons in varying colors. (The 12 gram size was my preference)

 

Of course many who've fished for musky and larger pike have probably tied on one of these at some point. I prefer the singles to the tandems usually. 

 

[PressuredFishing]

They have gotten insanely expensive, 4-5 bucks and in line spinners for me don't lost more than half a dozen fish before the wire gets bent past no repair and they don't spin well anymore. I buy blue foxes are cheaper, but I have had great luck on the 20packs for 20$ on Amazon, cheaper and they usually come with a nice case.

[FrnkNsteen]

For me it's Mepps Fury with orange or yellow dots or Blue Fox Vibrax in chartreuse. Both great for smallmouth. I like the Musky Killers too if casting for northerns when up north

 

Never really noticed a lot of line twist issues unless you try to burn them too fast

[slonezp]

23 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

I prefer other brands over Mepps. My favorite in-line spinner for Bass is the Blue Fox Vibrax. Snap swivels are a must when using these lures.

Killer for pike

[PhishLI]

On 5/14/2022 at 7:28 PM, NYWayfarer said:

My favorite in-line spinner for Bass is the Blue Fox Vibrax.

I threw the #2 and #3 Super Vibrax like a nut when I was a kid. Chucking and winding them never got old, and I caught nearly every species in the lake including the occasional bullhead. I can't say I chose it over anything else beyond thinking it looked the coolest to me. I could also go to the salt and catch snappers all day long with it. Once I got my hands on a weed less Hawaiian Wiggler spinner and was able to fish the pad fields that's all I wanted to do. For no particular reason I haven't tried a Vibrax out since I started back up, except for the type with the minnow I found at a flea market.  I can say that last May a #3 Mepps black/yellow and black/orange saved the day at a new lake where they were seemingly immune to most of my usual tricks. I never purchased the Mepps I have, but found a gaggle of them over time snagged in bushes and logs while wading. Never came across a Vibrax, but maybe I'll pick some up now. Thanks for the reminder.

[Deleted account]

15 hours ago, PhishLI said:

I could also go to the salt and catch snappers all day long with it.

As a kid, I couldn't wait for fall when the snappers were all around and getting larger, often there would be small weakies and stripers under them as well. I don't think there is anything they wouldn't bite. I'd rig a sabiki made of small hooks and aluminum foil with a 1 oz sinker at the end and catch them 3-5 at a time, and bell bottoms!...

[PhishLI]

5 hours ago, Deleted account said:

and bell bottoms!

Oh, the shame.

[Tucson]

Has anyone tried replacing the treble with a single?  That would let you use a trailer of some kind also.  Although maybe a trailer would cause too much spin.

[volzfan59]

I've always liked Rooster Tails, but started using Joe's brand with great results. I am interested in the Mepps "Bronze Slammer" line of inline spinners. I'm going to Chattanooga TN next week. I'm going to check them out at BPS or Sportsman's Warehouse.

[TnRiver46]

On 5/11/2022 at 9:41 AM, Jigfishn10 said:

Always did well with these:

Sorry for the old pic. These are still in my tool kit.

That pic reminded me. Way back in the day, me and some other trout guides were tying up some egg patterns, y2ks, and other bright gaudy flies. One of our coworkers walks in, takes one glance at all the extremely colorful tying table, and says “did Walt Disney barf on the table or something?” ?. 
 

 

On 5/15/2022 at 8:17 AM, Deleted account said:

I keep hearing Vibrax in upstate NY from a bunch of guys, I roll my own, but the Vibrax did well in the St Lawrence and Grass recently.

 Blue fox is muy bueno 

[TnRiver46]

7 hours ago, Tucson said:

Has anyone tried replacing the treble with a single?  That would let you use a trailer of some kind also.  Although maybe a trailer would cause too much spin.

All the time! We used spinners a lot growing up fishing the great smoky mountain national park, they have to be single hook there. Lots of nearby gas stations actually sold rooster tails with single hooks, if not you had to cut two off with pliers because where the hook eye attaches was all enclosed. It was east to pull the single hook spinner through shallow rapids full of sticks and not get hung. You lost an extra fish or two but it was worth it not to deal with snags, I used the single hook version even in places trebles were legal 

[Dogface]

On 5/11/2022 at 4:02 PM, WRB said:

Mepps Comet Mino (with the soft plastic minnow) can be good for bass. 

Tom

 

 

My son was catching SM over a shallow rock pile with a Comet a few days ago. It started producing when the NED rig stopped working. Unfortunately its still in the rock pile. ?

 

There are some rock piles and islands in the Thousand Islands I fish regularly. I usually use grubs but when the grub bite cuts off I can usually pick up a few on a Mepps.  

  

[Deleted account]

2 hours ago, Dogface said:

 

My son was catching SM over a shallow rock pile with a Comet a few days ago. It started producing when the NED rig stopped working. Unfortunately its still in the rock pile. ?

 

There are some rock piles and islands in the Thousand Islands I fish regularly. I usually use grubs but when the grub bite cuts off I can usually pick up a few on a Mepps.  

  

There is no reason to loose spinners in cover, I bend down (or is it up) the bottom facing point, (you could also nip it off) and fish it on 10 braid with 12 lb mono leader. Very few get wedged in there so tight that they won't bend out and come home.

[padlin]

Took out my grand son today, @ 17 he had never caught a fish. Put a single hook #2 Mepps on a light spinning rod and he caught somewhere around 20, 1/2 LM. 1/2 blue gills. Can't beat a Mepps when you just plain want to catch fish.

[bowhunter63]

I have always had luck on Mepps with Black feathers or a twister tail. They have never  stopped catching Smallmouth. People just quit throwing them.