Spinnerbait... Yea I Know

[buzzfrog]

i searched the forum and still am confused about em. first off i have read you can fish em deep and well anyway, but my friends swear ya gotta keep it close the top were you can see it.

second, if you dont have any spinnerbaits what would you get. i know the differance in blades. and purple and black for night. Also know small blades are for fast and deep,and then big blades or for slow and deep.

now i was gave some new baits for christmas. a few chartrouse, straight whites, whites with black in em, few crawdead colors with craw colored blade. Then a few that are black and a few purple midnight special with rattles. Are these good colors, again I know i said if i didnt have any, so i wanna you to treat it as if i dont have any and tell me what you would get.

[IneedAnewScreenName-972354]

You can fish spinnerbaits many different ways. When fish are holding to shallow cover you can keep your rod tip up and retrieve them fast enought to keep the blades spinning at the surface and create a wake with the spinnerbait. When fish are holding on deeper cover you can let your spinnerbait fall deeper and then keep your rod closer to the water and use a slower retrieve to keep it down deeper. I fish black at night and white and chartruese during the day in water with decent clarity. You can use darker colors as water clarity becomes less. They are very versatile baits and cover a lot of water. I would suggest using a trailer hook on all your spinnerbaits.

[MaineBassFishin]

You might want to watch this vid here http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/spinnerbaits-bass-fishing.html its a great video that explains everything your asking.

[buzzfrog]

holy spit... i just know checked out the videos, it a freaking library i am a happy man, thanks yall

[MaineBassFishin]

No problem glad I could help. If you didn't see them yet either the articles section is even more extensive, it covers pretty much everything you could possibly need to know.

[buzzfrog]

haha plus the articles, guess i am making of monday of it. lol my gf fishes with me aswell, whats your opnions on using spinning gear. i know that vid says not to but i doubt the gf will learn to use a baitcaster, if we find a 6:5.1 gear ratio

[Scorcher214]

haha plus the articles, guess i am making of monday of it. lol my gf fishes with me aswell, whats your opnions on using spinning gear. i know that vid says not to but i doubt the gf will learn to use a baitcaster, if we find a 6:5.1 gear ratio

Nothing wrong with fishing a spinnerbait, crankbait, or a jig, with a spinning rod. I did it all the time when I was just starting out.

[smalljaw67]

The spinnerbait is my favorite lure, and yes they are super versatile and a lot of what you heard is true but you only got part of it. I remember watching Jimmy Houston in the '80s, and his big thing about fishing a spinnerbait was to fish it deep enough that you could just barely makit it out but that was the most important thing, that you could still see it. I believed it for a long time until I proved it to myself that you can catch them even when you fish them deeper than you can see them but that is another story. If you didn't own any spinnerbaits and want to try them I'd tell you to get 4 of them all in a 3/8oz, 1 will be chartreuse and white with double willows, 1 will be chartreuse and white with a tandem indiana/colorado set up. After those two you would get 2 more but in a natural baitfish pattern, one with the willow set up and the other with the tandem indiana colorado, these four blades will cover everything you need.

[buzzfrog]

alright thanx guys, i hav been using my jerkbait rod for my spinnerbaits, since at moment i dont use em enough to justify a new setup, gf can use the spinning then

thank you-ins

[buzzfrog]

hey guess i can highjack since its my thread lol....... my gf is using the spinning reel and catching them lol, I wanna be part of the action so i have been using my jerkbait rod 6'6 M with a cheaper BPS extreme with 12 lb fluro, so is the line good, i have head kvd using 17 lb mono and some using fluro, is there really a differance, i do know the differance between the line,

[craww]

That line is fine unless your fishing in a lot of cover regularly. Spinnerbaits cast pretty decent, so you can go up a diameter or two if you want. I personally prefer mono, 12 yozuri hybrid.

[telmomarques]

CAST THE LURE AND REEL IT IN

that is all

[Hooligan]

CAST THE LURE AND REEL IT IN

that is all

That, most certainly, is not "all."

Using a spinnerbait as a tool to pick apart structure and cover, regardless of depth is far more than a cast and reel. Then again, go ahead and do that, and I'll continue to catch fish behind you, and those like you, and smile all the way to another check in my hand.

[jkarol24]

That, most certainly, is not "all."

Using a spinnerbait as a tool to pick apart structure and cover, regardless of depth is far more than a cast and reel. Then again, go ahead and do that, and I'll continue to catch fish behind you, and those like you, and smile all the way to another check in my hand.

Correct. Make contact with as much stuff as possible, rip through grass, bump stumps, and twitch the rod tip to make the skirt flair.

[buzzfrog]

CAST THE LURE AND REEL IT IN

that is all

starting to sound like some bass thug weekend warrior at my home lake, when i am stuck on the shore trying to learn from them and when i ask them a question i get a smart ass answer

[bigbill]

Spinnerbait fishing is an art i don't care what anyone says. It took me time to learn it and Glenn here helped me out too. My favorite is a 1/8oz spinnerbait in white skirt, with a silver indiana blade with a white 2'' or 4'' cut to fit mister twister split double tail trailer, w/ a trailer hook or a 1/8oz spinnerbait with a chartruese skirt with a gold indiana blade with a trailer hook and a mister twister split double tail trailer 2'' or a cut to fit 4'' chartruese trailer. One shot of yum and hang on. Fishing from shore it works for me.

Presentations;

I can reel it fast enough so the blade slaps the top making it a topwater bait. This blade slap seems to attract the fish even more. Even on a cast when my inline spinner blades slap the water the action picks up. I like to do this over the submerged weeds.

I can slow it down so its just below the surface. I do this over the submerged weeds and in the open channel waters.

I can go slower so its below the sight line to the point we can't see it but its down where we can't see the fish, its in there strike zone. The fish won't show themselves to us to strike it but when we slow it up its in the face sort of speak,. You will find out sometimes this works good too. So slow up the line speed so we can't see it, so its just out of our sight. I do this in the open channel waters along side the weedline.

The most important thing is to get the spinnerbait to run straight with the larger trailer on it.

I still haven't mastered the spinnerbaits yet but i know what works for me.