I've fished spinnerbaits plenty but never have gotten into "collecting" them like I do cranks, jigs, and plastics.
For the most part, I've stuck to $1 walmart spinners and Strike King KVD spinners. I branched out one time and tried some other kind and the spinner broke on the first cast, so I went back to me normals.
Who are your favorite spinnerbait manufacturers?
MegaStrike StrikeBack, NorthStar Hidden Weight and Siebert Outdoors Cosmic.
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Strike King KVD spinner baits were some of my first. But my favorites are War Eagle, North Star and Seibert spinner baits now.
Megastrike strikeback, Stanley vibra shaft, and Boo yah.
G & G Bait Company, out of Indiana, hand makes each of their spinnerbaits to your specifications. Priced right and work great. The only ones that I'll use now.
I have some old ones from Stanley which I like and still use have many from strike king but recently I am really digging the War Eagle brand.
I like the War Eagle brand. I DISLIKE the bass pro shop brand, they are cheaply made and do not last that long.
Booyah. Sharp hooks, good skirts and blades, and well priced. I will be ordering some jigs from siebert soon and will try their spinnerbaits out.
Brian
War Eagle. I have many brands, and always do the best with War Eagle.
Fishing from shore it's been the mini strike king in white or chartreuse using a mister twister 4" split double tail grub for a trailer. I cut the grubs body to fit the hook. I also change the skirt to the blue glimmer. Add the trailer hook between the grubs body and tail so it's weedless. Put the grub on carefully so it's centered so the spinner bait will run perfectly vertical. Add a shot of yum shad scent and your good to go.
I prefer the larger skirts on the smaller spinner bait so it gives it more body and width. I like to upside my blade to a larger Indiana blade were I can too. The more thump the better.
Or use the spinner bait right out of the package using any trailer you wish.
Mann's classic,3/4 oz.
Revenge or Northstar.
War Eagle and Terminator T-1's.
On 7/30/2013 at 4:44 AM, War Eagle 44 said:War Eagle and Terminator T-1's.
Just ordered some siebert spinners. Would like to try the war eagles too. I recently bought some war eagle jigs and they have become my favorite jigs!
On 7/30/2013 at 12:41 AM, tgm said:Mann's classic,3/4 oz.
On 7/30/2013 at 12:41 AM, tgm said:Mann's classic,3/4 oz.
The Mann's Hank Parker Classic Spinner bait was the first spinnerbaits to ever work for me. I think they forgot about Hank Parker they just call it a classic now what about Hank? I did a search for them and finally found them I ordered a $100 worth of them. They don't offer the 3/16 oz or 1/4oz classic anymore. It's been that long since I seen then.
I was at whits end trying to find these
I have every spinner bait that Mann's ever made.
Secret Weapon are my favorite you can change blades very easily and no bearings to go bad
Booyah and War Eagles - Get 5 quick finesse model. (Haven't got 5 quick yet! HA but have caught some good size bass on them.)
I wish the War Eagles had red eyes on them, but seems like the bass dont care that they do or dont. guess i could nail polish a red eye on them. Just seems funny when the norm seems like most have a detailed jig head on the spinnerbait and the war eagle is as plain as you could get.
Honestly I got tired of buying a $6 spinnerbait and then having to re-build it to what I wanted. Now I just make my own the way I want them in the first place (The one in my avatar I made).
Allen
I like Ko-Man-Chi and Boo-yah but I've caught just as many fish with the "3 for $10" rack cheapies at my local outfitter. In fact, given that I often fish for pike, I almost prefer those.
I don't know if he still makes them or not.. but my favorites were made by a guy that goes by "chunky dunk'n custom baits". Aside from that, probably the booyah original old school one.
I don't really have a favorite, but lately if I'm throwing a spinnerbait, it's something from War Eagle.
I like War Eagles for clear water and Booyahs for dirty water.
I'm a recent War Eagle convert, I love these baits.
Booyah and war eagle
I have tried many brands and the War Eagle is by far my favorite!
These are my favorites
Slongs when im fishing during the day, strike king midnight special at night.
Stanley
I'm trying out war eagles tomorrow.
The way I see it, spinnerbaits don't get inspected by bass (maybe if trailing from the back)...they could never check out the detailing of the jighead. Skirt/blade performance is much more important.
I have 3 brands I buy...Strike King, Booyah and Terminator. I also am starting to like the Ish Monroe River 2 Sea spinnerbaits. Just too bad the couple I bought only lasts after 1 pike hitting it...guess that is what you have to live with in northern waters.
War Eagle and Stanley.
War Eagle is my staple brand with the mouse color seeming to be the most productive. I also have a few Advantage brand spinner baits that have some unique blades that have produced good results as well.
Terminator
On 7/30/2013 at 12:41 AM, tgm said:Mann's classic,3/4 oz.
+1
I find that looking for the Mann's classic spinnerbaits was tough to find. Bass Pro Sops doesn't offer then. I found very few places that has them and some were out of white or chartreuse in the 1/4oz size. This tells me there still popular.
I want to break my norm of using cranks most of the time and try to get away of using the 1/8 & 3/16 oz spinnerbaits and use the 3/8 to 3/4oz spinnerbaits so I can get out of the shallows and into the deeper water. Since I know we're the deeper holes are. Besides the Mann's spinnerbaits I may grab some of the other spinnerbaits mentioned above.
One problem I have my success has only been with the Colorado blades and the Indiana blades. The single Colorado blade and the double Colorado/Indiana blades have been the most successful in a single color skirt too the blue glimmer or the hot chartreuse colors. The gold blades seem to also have the most success. I don't have any success with the willow blades yet. Every time I see Mr Spinner bait Jimmy Houston using the white and
chartreuse mixed color shirts plus the willow blades and having the success he has wha
t am I doing wrong?
Sorry I use only the smaller spinnerbaits from shore but I don't fully understand them yet. I'm the only one using them with success from shore from what I see. I know I adjust them to run perfectly vertical with the trailer plastics.
I'm very careful to install the new skirt all the way around even too
There has to be more to using spinnerbaits then just opening up a new packaged one and tying it on. They never work right out of the package for me anyway. Is there a time of year when spinnerbaits don't work? Or do we need to upsize or down size to continue to play the spinnerbait game all year?
After 20+ years of fishing I have used about all the spinnerbaits on the market. That being said I always use War-Eagle the best in my opinion.
I prefer Terminator spinner baits, I despise having to tune a bait. The Terminator baits have hear skirts and colors, good hooks, and can withstand just about any abuse you can put on them.
I really like Booyah. Strike King KVD and War Eagle are both good too, but a bit expensive. Terminator are nice too. But I go with Booyah most