Anybody ever caught a bass on a spinnerbait?

[Chris]

I guess I'll answer this thread like this:

Spinnerbaits are one of the best baits to catch bass under most conditions even clear water if you know what to do and where to throw. In clear water you need to focus on ambush points like points of grass or stumps or places bass will hang out to ambush prey. In clear water you need to scale down your lure and use skirts that are more metal flake and translucent. You also need to speed up your lure and fish it more erratically. This means ripping the bait shaking it stop and go anything like that. You also need to scale down your blade so that you can run the bait faster without causing the bait to lift. You can also do this by adding weight to the hook shaft or flattening the willow blade. By flattening the willow blade when it makes a revolution it is in a tighter pattern. The smaller profile and clear skirt blend in to the surroundings and the bait will not stick out like a sore thumb and will help prevent the bass from figuring out it is fake. In clear water speed and location is what will draw strikes with this bait. You don't want to let the bass have a good look at your bait. Around cover the bass only has enough time to ambush so they don't take a good look at it. The bass are in a different mood and the odds are great that it can grab the bait without moving far because the cover helps box it in. Bass use places like this (ambush points) because it has a natural flow of bait and an obstacle to help pin the bait. When a lure reaches the sweet spot in the ambush point the bass has only a small amount of time before the advantage is gone.  When you target and exploit it then your catch rate goes up in clear water. Other things that will help in clear water is to fish the bait on windy days, cloudy days, or early and later when visibility is lower.

[Chris]

The other way you get them to bite is to force feed them. You put the bait in front of them and force them to react to it. You position your boat at a 90 to the shore cover and cast the bait to high percentage places and rip the bait and kill it. They either grab it on the first few turns of the reel or right after you kill it. By doing this you don't give the bass time to think and they either fight or flight.

[buzzbaitfool12]

What a funny posts...10,000 cast and no fish..time to take up horseshoes or badminton.. ;D..Few things to add about spinner baits..Colorado blades for more lift..I agree with KVDS video about using these for large mouths over willowleafs..Can be fished slower and have more lift than willow leaf or indiana blade..if the fish get a good luck at the bait chances are they wont hit it..Caught nine on Sunday with KVDS 1/2  spinnerbait in chartreuse with trailer hook with biggest going 4 1/2 lbs..I also threw white willow leaf 1/2 terminator with no strikes..and chartreuse...I fish spinnerbaits probably 50%..It is a search bait and once you find like KVD says slow down and fish plastics or crankbaits..It is funny how the only fish you caught was slow rolled..I hate that lol..

[meredmon]

I love them !

New Person to this but had to respond as a female fisherman !!

My husband and I fish a co-ed tournament and have every year since the start of the concept on Center Hill Lake, TN and the only tournament we ever won money was when I (yup, me) caught the majority of all our keepers on a 3/8 oz. chartruesse and white spinnerbait.

I like it because I am not that great a "feeling" the fish bite and then "setting the hook".

[Kana]

i love spinnerbaits, especially right now.   i ve thrown spinnerbaits as long as i can remember fishing, always produced at some point, but there is a technique to them, just not cast and retreive (although  you can get bit that way too) and prime areas to fish them.

spinnerbaits are one of the most popular lures, due to its ease of catching fish (apperantly not for everyone) so i believe fish see this lure quite often, and the pressure of that lure may not get you bit as readily as some other baits might that are seen less often. as a comparison, in japan everytime i go out i see every angler throw a spinnerbait at some point, and a few get bit, but i think the fish have become accustomed to this lure and shy away from it, unless its thier first time to see it (as with dinks).  however, on a recent trip home i had the oppertunity to fish a small lake that sees very little pressure, and the 3/8 oz bait would barely touch the water before a wide variety of mouth sizes came to greet it.  opposite ends of the spectrum, but it happens.  my point, spinnerbaits work, just not everywhere and certainly not all the time, you have to learn the lure, and become proficient at the many ways and places to fish the lure before it become consistantly productive.  And pressure does effect the sucess of any given lure.