"johnval1" wrote in message
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"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
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Hey all, Joe had built me a new secret weapon spinner bait while I was at
the NWC. This is a dual spinner blade spinner bait, but the blades are
side by side, seems to keep the bait up with less effort.
, but the key
seemed to be keeping the bait up above the dying weeds in about 3' of
water.


OK, where can us mere mortals get these great spinners? I gotta get me a
bagfull of these things.

There are some dual side by side blades available from other manufacturers
if SWL doesn't get one out to you quick enough. I personally have a ton of
SWLs, but there are a few blades I use from other MFGs. For instance the
old light wire Willy Wackers with the thin wire seem to get more bites than
any other blade I've tried including the SWLs. The problem with the Willy
Wackers is that light wire doesn't hold up. Two or three fish or one good
fish and you can count on it breaking on the next one. Its great it if you
don't mind throwing baits away all day long. A firend of mine came up with
a really cool varient of his own design. An old style heavy wire spinner
bait with the upper arm removed and a light wire arm crimped and then spot
welded in place with a metal sleeve. The vibration of this bait is
incredible. If I am fishing badly stained water or working through an algae
bloom this bait comes out and gets slow rolled. A willow blade on this
thing thumps almost like a Colorado blade on an SWL. A Colorado blade will
almost jerk the rod out of your hands on the thump. You may eventually
loose or bend the upper arm, but you won't lose a fish from breakage. Its
an interesting comprimise bait with great charachteristics. Don't get me
wrong. I like my SWLs just fine except for the rubber bands breaking on all
my older baits and leaving the skirts laying in the bottom of my rod locker.
I usually have two SWLs tied on at any given time. A light one on spinning
tackle for submerged grassbed fishing, and a heavy one tied on braid or
heavy mono for deep probing, searching, and fishig submerged standup trees
when the crank bait isn't working.

Anyway... I know how popular SWL is here, but but there are other blades
and each has their benefit.

Another example and one of the reason I had such a hard time coming around
to SWL is that it fouls and snags when spinner flipping. Since flipping a
spinner bait was the first thing I learned how to do with one that bothered
me a lot. Back then in open water, grassbeds, and rocks my first goto was a
crankbait, not a spinnerbait. You smack a tulie on the pitch or flip with an
SWL and you have a 50/50 chance of hanging it up. Forget trying to drop it
through floating cane mats. That is one of the techniques where an old
heavy wire blade does a better job. Of course some folks will ask why in
the heck I don't use a jig or creatre bait to flip those spots. Because
sometimes the blade catches more fish flipped than a conventional flipping
bait.

I personally think anybody who does not have a dozen SWLs with various
blades and skirts is missing a valuable tool in their aresenal. However, be
aware that there are lots of other blades on the market and there are some
things that others do as well or better.

Oh Yeah. That thin arm blade is made by Simon Apodaka of King Cobra Lures.
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Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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