Single Colorado Blade Spinnerbait 2025
rowyourboat reply :
Does anyone have any success with these in the early pre spawn? when do you use these? how do you fish them?
CJ reply :
Last year the March BFL on KY Lake was won on a single Colorado spinnerbait. The TVA was pulling a lot of water and the lake was muddy. He was throwing a 3/4 OZ with, I think, a #6 size blade. He was fishing 3-5 ft. deep on flats at the mouths of the bays and in the back of some bays. I fish these spinnerbaits in that type conditions and I fish black ones at night during the summer. In both cases, I slow roll them on the bottom and make sure I'm making contact with the bottom most of the time. Colorado blades put out more vibration than willows so I look for a time I need to make more vibe (less viability). Spinnerbaits are a lure that will work year around and just about everywhere on the globe.
S. Sass reply :
I love spinner-baits. Since I started fishing the Jelly Worm and a single Colorado spinner-bait have been my 2 baits I have always had success with. I fished the spinner-bait year round and never even owned a willow bladed one until a few years ago.
I still prefer a single Colorado blade. I fish them just about any way you can. Open water slow, med, or fast retrieve. Edges of brush piles, stumps, docks, just about any cover I can find. Solid White or White / Chartreuse skirts most of the time. A Black / Yellow skirt has worked well for me as well. All with a Nickle colored blade.
Its pretty hard to fish a spinner-bait wrong. 
LunkerFisher reply :
I have a lot of success chucking and winding 1/2 oz single colorado spinnerbaits in light cover and along dropoffs. I reel em slowly but maintain visibility with the bait 90% of the time. Do that and hold on, the strikes will be violent!
whitwolf reply :
I don't fish spinnerbaits at all and have no confidence In that bait. EXCEPT at night. A black single colorado blade bait Is unreal! I usually fish It on or near the bottom in many different types of cover and or structure.
RHuff reply :
Midnight Special being worked barely fast enough to keep it off the bottom will produce big fish.
papajoe222 reply :
Great bait once the fish start moving in the spring and continues to produce throughout the season. Easy to wake and a killer as a drop bait. I like to shorten the upper arm as I feel it helps with hook-ups when the bait is falling and it also reduces short strikes.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Use to be the first bait I'd use every spring and caught some of my biggest fish of the year every year doing it. Slow, steady retrieve and you'd better have a trailer hook!
Bankbeater reply :
I like to let them sink all the way to the bottom, and then slow roll it back in. I just reel in fast enough so that I can feel the blade turning.
Fishes in trees reply :
A single Colorado blade spinnerbait is my go to search bait in shallowish dingy water. The bait I generally start with is a half ounce Chartruese/purple head with a chartreuse & purple skirt and a white BPS Cajun trailer with chartreuse tips, and a fairly large colorado blade. (the blade is probably a little bigger than a quarter, don't know the size #) In dingy, murky water, I 've had the best luck year in and year out with a copper colored blade. I've tried different brass/gold/silver colored blades, but I generally end up going back to copper. I throw this on 17 or 20 lb mono, almost always around stumps, brush, & stick ups. Muddy water with less cover I'm likely to throw something different.
Changing the subject slightly, years ago, I saw a Bill Dance video on late night TV, where he was throwing a black single colorado spinnerbait, Black with black skirt/black zoom swimming' chunk trailer and a silver blade, in very clear water. He was throwing it a long ways, parallel to the bank and running it sub-surface, but always within sight. He caught enough fish on camera that I tried a very similar bait and it has worked for me from time to time when the fish are shallow in a very clear lake (secchi disc reading 6' more or less) that I fish often.
So, that's my current thinking on colorado blade spinnerbaits.
frogflogger reply :
gurgling on top is a deadly method in pre-spawn
scaleface reply :
I like them . The Midnight Special is the one I use now days . The old blakemore Charlie Campball spinner was my favorite lure when I first got heavy into bass fishing .The Bassbuster scorpion is a classic , I still have only one of them .
MDBowHunter reply :
I like the colorado blades and fish them more then any other spinnerbaits. When you look in the spinnerbait isle almost everything you see is willow leafed and this one of the reasons I use the Colorado blades. I feel it gives something a little different then the next guy. Well at least the majority of the time.
Raul reply :
Stike King's "Midnight Special" spinnerbait doesn't have a "Colorado" blade.
scaleface reply :
On 3/2/2016 at 9:58 PM, Raul said:Stike King's "Midnight Special" spinnerbait doesn't have a "Colorado" blade.
I just looked . Mine does .
WIGuide reply :
Honestly I prefer an Oklahoma blade to a Colorado blade as it's a little more versatile, and comes through grass better. Either will work though and can be used all year. The Colorado will provide a nice amount of vibration which makes it an excellent bait for low light periods as well as stained to muddy water. I also feel they are a better option for cold water. The reason being is both the Colorado and Oklahoma blades generate more lift than a willow leaf blade letting you retrieve the bait slower without just straight up sinking. That doesn't mean you can't slow roll them, but rather you can slow roll them slower. You can also run them at a slower speed up top too. If you up size the blade you can do it slower yet. I fish them that way a lot in the spring, keeping the bait just in sight. You can see that big ol' blade thumping away but still barely moving at you and it puts the fish in attack mode.
Jake the Cake reply :
I've caught 4 this year so far on a Strike King Mini King. Granted that's the one lure I have 110% faith in so it probably gets thrown a lot more than some of these guys.
MDBowHunter reply :
On 3/2/2016 at 9:58 PM, Raul said:Stike King's "Midnight Special" spinnerbait doesn't have a "Colorado" blade.
Sure looks like it here:
Munkin reply :
On 3/2/2016 at 9:58 PM, Raul said:Stike King's "Midnight Special" spinnerbait doesn't have a "Colorado" blade.
All the ones I have do?
Allen
senile1 reply :
I use single Colorado and double Colorados when visibility in the water is poor, or in colder water temperatures. The seasons for the colder water temperatures are typically in mid to late fall and prespawn seasons. I almost always slow roll on the bottom during those times.
Gundog reply :
The fact that you can move them slowly and the blade still turns and the amount of vibration is key when visibility is low and fish are not as active. I match it with a fire-tiger or chart. skirt and a large plastic trailer for added visibility.
mundell88 reply :
This is one of my go to lures during the spring. It fishes really similar to a chatterbait. A lot of vibration and similar look. Really fun bait to fish.
Catt reply :
rowyourboat reply :
On 3/3/2016 at 1:15 AM, Catt said:
ohhhhh. I like! what brand is it????
Catt reply :
On 3/3/2016 at 1:27 AM, rowyourboat said:ohhhhh. I like! what brand is it????
Hildebrandt Go Getter. 
AQUA VELVA reply :
I've been buying black, short arm Zorro spinner baits, putting my own black, round rubber ''tux & tail'' skirt on with a trailer hook and a single, #5 deep cup , gold colo. Also have been getting good results with black chatter baits.I do a lot of night fishing and these produce well for me.
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