Spinnerbaits

[BASSMAN1301599783]

Hey,

Got a question about spinnerbaits.  When do you fish them with silver blades and when with gold?

Also if you were to fish a spinnerbait in clear water, at this time of the year, with the current water conditions of about 80 degrees, with a high dissolved oxygen rate near the surface.  Around vertical timber about 20ft. deep, how would you fish it?  Sorry for the complex question, but would you burn it through the trees, slowly swim it through the trees, knocking it off of as many trees as possible, or kinda let it flutter to the bottom, slowly wind it back to the boat, and present in a similar manner near like fish holding cover?

Thanks a lot for the help!

[bipr8]

As Per Denny Brauer:

Colors:

White -- clear water

Chartreuse/white -- stained to dirty water

Chartreuse -- dirty water or for smallmouths

Gold Shiner -- in Florida and any lake with gold shiners

Red -- in Texas

Weights

3/8-ounce for any conditions

1/2-ounce for windy conditions, imitating larger baitfish and dirtier water

1/4-ounce for imitating small baitfish, fishing for small bass or tidal waters

Blades

Tandem Colorado/willowleaf -- most situations

Tandem Colorado/Colorado -- dirty water

Tandem Colorado/Indiana -- stained water and in areas that receive a lot of fishing pressure

Single Colorado -- for letting the spinnerbait fall along the cover

Single willowleaf -- in heavy vegetation and for smallmouths

Always vary your retrieve to see what the fish want.

An erratic retrieve around cover often draws a reaction strike.

As a general rule use a slower retrieve in colder or muddier water, and use a quicker retrieve in warmer and clearer water.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Depending on where you are geographically also, what are the bass doing this time of year.  What they are doing here in New England, I'm sure, is much different than Georgia.  

If they are staging deeper, roll deep,etc.

For instance, right now up here, fish are sitting on the deeper ends of all points, primary and secondary, and tight to wood that sits in the 10-15 ft range so I would deep roll banks that are near wood in that depth or out deep on the points as opposed to throwing in the weeds along the shore.

[ajjr]

As Per Denny Brauer:

Colors:

White -- clear water

Chartreuse/white -- stained to dirty water

Chartreuse -- dirty water or for smallmouths

Gold Shiner -- in Florida and any lake with gold shiners

Red -- in Texas

Weights

3/8-ounce for any conditions

1/2-ounce for windy conditions, imitating larger baitfish and dirtier water

1/4-ounce for imitating small baitfish, fishing for small bass or tidal waters

Blades

Tandem Colorado/willowleaf -- most situations

Tandem Colorado/Colorado -- dirty water

Tandem Colorado/Indiana -- stained water and in areas that receive a lot of fishing pressure

Single Colorado -- for letting the spinnerbait fall along the cover

Single willowleaf -- in heavy vegetation and for smallmouths

Always vary your retrieve to see what the fish want.

An erratic retrieve around cover often draws a reaction strike.

As a general rule use a slower retrieve in colder or muddier water, and use a quicker retrieve in warmer and clearer water.

NICE!!!! Thanks for that advice. I pretty much had the basics of that but got some good info that I didn't know reguarding color.

[Nick]

Bipr8 hit it pretty good for general sakes, but be flexible. In clear water, it's still a good idea to tie on a clear/blue glimmer skirt and throw a 3/16 oz. double willow in silver #3 blades.   If the tiny willow blades don't spin as well as they should (often they don't), try taking the very tip end and bending it with needle nose at a right angle to the blade.  That adjustment will kick start the little boogers!

Also do try fluttering a larger willow over the limbs of the pole timber. In both cases I would like to have a chop on the water or try both techniques early or late in the day.

If you can't decide on silver or gold, try a combo.  I've caught some really good bags using one of each.

About that golden shiner comment for Florida, that's the truth!