Favorite Spinnerbait Brands, Tips, Tricks, and Trailors

[James Morgen]

Evening Gents!

 

What’s your favorite:

1. Spinnerbait brand?

2. Trailer 

3. Tips & Tricks

 

1. I prefer 1/2oz Santone & Nichols, but have considered using Wan-Wagle, but don’t know how I feel about the skirt and not being able to use a Trailer.

2 My go to trailers are Keitech Fat Impact

 

My tip is that I reel, the stop, and pop the bait, then reel. I also jerk and lure, the reel the slack - like a lipless crank 

 

 

 

[gim]

Original T1 Terminator

 

 

 

 

[GRiver]

I use Walmart spinners, with BPS Bo-Hawg trailers, or with pieces of my used plastics I save.

Sometimes I have to tweak them, but I don’t cry to hard when I loose them. I also with them being inexpensive I cast them in places I probably shouldn’t.

[bowhunter63]

SK Burner with Rage Swimmer. Yo-yo it or run it right under the surface 

[MN Fisher]

SK Banshee with Berkley Pit Boss - like bowhunter...yo-yo or burn just under the surface.

 

Don't worry the skirt - the trailer with the skirt makes it look bigger and more enticing.

[papajoe222]

I'm partial to Stanley VibraShaft and SK's Scorcher. I only run a trailer in the spring and then it's a Kalin's Lunker Grub. If I'm burning it, I run it just under the surface. If not, it's normally a yo-yo type retrieve sometimes popping the rod tip, other times with a quick turn of the reel handle followed by a short pause. The only time I employ a straight retrieve is when I'm slow rolling and even then, I'll occasionally give it a quick burst. I don't mess with skirt colors, but I do experiment with blade sizes and colors.

[casts_by_fly]

Different ones for different situations. I like sk burners in a half ounce if I want to cover a lot of clear water fast. As long as you keep them straight you can bring them in pretty quickly without blowing them out. Off color water I like a Colorado/Indiana setup and slower, so I’ll drop to the tour pro sk or another random in my box. I like the dirty jigs compact a lot as well. Lighter wire and a heck of a thump for two willows. Not a burner type though, more mid pace depending on the weight. 
 

trailer?  I’ve stopped adding them. If I really want one I’ll add a split tail. I still have spinnerbaits rigged with trailers and I’ll fish them until it wears out. 
 

tips?  Fish them. I don’t do my best on them in slick calm sun but wind, low light, night, or dirty water all say spinnerbait. 

[Columbia Craw]

I really like the Dobyns Beast and run a Storm Largo Shad as a trailer.

For a compact, the Megabass SV3 is really good but spendy.  No Trailer.

 

Tips:  unless I’m burning it i want the blades to stop or stall often and bump cover if possible.  
 

I have many other brands and models and fish them all under various conditions. On occasion I’ll add a single tail grub or  SK Blade Minnow.

[Jar11591]

Only brand I fish with now is Strike King Tour Grade. The quality/price combo can’t be beat. And the only one that ever broke on me was replaced with 3 new ones by Strike King when I emailed them. 
 

For trailers I use Rage Swimmers. 
 

As far as tips and tricks, try a 3/4oz double willow spinnerbait. Thank me later. 

[Bankbeater]

I use a variety of brands, and weights.  Most of the time I do not have a trailer attached because I want to try and make that spinner bait look as tight and compact as possible.  Spring and fall is when I do the most catching, usually in some sort of vegetation that is starting to die off, or just turning green and starting to grow.

[Munkin]

Roll my own most of the time. Only factory spinnerbaits I regularly use are SK Midnight Specials. 

 

Trailers sometimes a grub, SK blade minnow, or the Zoom split tail.

 

Best spinnerbaits overall for me are 1/2oz hidden weight in shad colors with double nickel blades.

 

Allen

[Susky River Rat]

I like the z man sling blade. Just got some 6th sense to try. I usually run them slow enough to make contact with bottom or cover.  Rage tails are the main trailer I use. 

[Brian11719]

For spinnerbaits I like a Dirty Jigs Compact Double Willow (tactical shad) or a Strike King Tour Grade Double Willow (white / silver).

 

For trailers I like a 4.5 Spunk Shad (blue gizzard) or a Crush City Freeloader.

 

In terms of tricks and tips if you are around cover or aren't allowed to throw an a-rig this would be my next choice. Rod wise I have a 7'3" Victory Marshall that I personally really like and generally speaking I'd say a fast rod but with a little extra bend like a Victory or a Sierra does well with a spinnerbait.

[LrgmouthShad]

No favorite brand. No favorite trailer. Tips and tricks: accurate casts and good hardware to get the blade(s) turning sooner.

[GRiver]

@James Morgen do a search on Glenn’s videos he has one about spinner baits, talks about blades, the lift, trailer, etc.

They sell kits too where you make your own.

 

[ironbjorn]

90% of my spinnerbaits are War Eagle Nickel Double Willow in 3/8oz, and I prefer the Blue Pearl Shad color.

 

I don't use trailers. I prefer a medium retrieve, with occasional stopping and popping. I like to bump into things when I can.

 

One thing I do that catches me fish that, as far as I know, a lot of people don't do, is that I will pitch a spinnerbait into a pocket as if it were a plastic, and I just let it fall. This is just a Hail Mary when there's an opportunity if I have a spinnerbait in hand, and not a specific technique I set out to do. It gets me bites.

[DaubsNU1]

Love me a spinnerbait! I don't have a favorite brand. Like white, chart, and bluegill colors. Double willows are my favorite. 

 

Accurate casts are key for me. Get that SB in close to cover, sometimes I start the retrieve immediately upon splash-down, other times I let it sink for just a second or two.

 

I mix and match trailers. Sometimes a white grub, other times a split tail. 

[Reel]

I make my own from components  I don't pour.  Usually 1/2 oz in white and chartreuse  for smallmouth mainly ( works for largemouth too).  I use willows in 4 1/2 and 3 1/2 size ( white and chart.) Skirts are hand tied and layered. They are glued on so they last till the last strand.  R eyes are also tied with fly tying thread so they don't bend as much.  Loose a bit of vibration but it's OK.  Catch pike and walleyes on them so tying helps.  Don't use trailers.

For smaller baits ( 3/8 oz) for very shallow water on flats, I use a commercialy made Swagy in a kind of bluish color (natural bait). 

[FryDog62]

Have had great luck with this spinnerbait - and no need for a trailer… 

 

[A-Jay]

The SK burner has been a stable in my late summer and early fall brown bass hunts.

And has accounted for several trophy class fish for me.

I fish it fast & high in the water column. 

https://youtu.be/Z95g3H4qmp0?feature=shared&t=85

 

The Megabass V9 Double Willow Spinnerbait has a lot of the features I like

except the hook is just a little smaller. 

Still gets the job done.

https://youtu.be/NpVmd8ll1Dg?feature=shared&t=170

 

More recently the Freedom Speed Freak LM Willow Kilter Spinnerbait has been giving the the previously mentions baits a run for their money.

https://youtu.be/ex3v1uogEcg?feature=shared&t=58

 

I use a SK Blade minnow for a trailer quite a bit.

Mostly for the profile.

A-Jay

 

 

 

[Catt]

Brand: Dealer choice 

Trailers: Nah

Tips: Slow roll following the bottom contour 

Pitching in brush

20'+ structure on the bottom 

[wvhunt]

On 9/21/2024 at 8:28 PM, GRiver said:

I use Walmart spinners, with BPS Bo-Hawg trailers, or with pieces of my used plastics I save.

Sometimes I have to tweak them, but I don’t cry to hard when I loose them. I also with them being inexpensive I cast them in places I probably shouldn’t.

I use a lot of the Walmart ones as well.  Loosing a $1.00 doesn't make me cry like some of the more expensive ones would   I like a curly tailed grub or worm as a trailer.

[Rockhopper]

Oh boy don't get me started.  I am going to refrain and keep this simple.  My opinions derive from buying/using an insane amount of spinnerbaits.  There are TONS on the market, but only a few GREAT ones from a half dozen or less manufacturers. 

 

Dobyn's Beast (thank me later)

Weight/color per situation (1/2 oz double willow shimmer shad 90% of the time in my waters)

No trailer

Cast and steady retrieve

 

I catch more fish on this than all my other lures combined.

[scaleface]

I dont have a favorite brand. Rarely use a trailer. The willow/Colorado combo gets thrown most. Havent lost one in years. Like everyone else says and stressed in Glenns video, casting is the key.

[Rockhopper]

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

https://youtu.be/Z95g3H4qmp0?feature=shared&t=85

I love how you reach down and turn on the camera mid retrieve 😆