"Bob Rickard" wrote in message
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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.
So tell us where we can see it.
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"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"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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