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Old September 26th, 2006, 04:48 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.bass
Bob Rickard
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Default New Secret Weapon spinnerbait

Bob, you evidently haven't seen the new dual blade lure we are testing. You
say: "There are some dual side by side blades available from other
manufacturers if SWL doesn't get one out to you quick enough.", but that
won't do anyone any good. The others have zero in common with ours... they
don't look like it, fish like it, produce like it or do anything else like
it. If it were just another dual side by side lure, we wouldn't consider
putting our name on it.

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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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