Use a spinnerbait trailer or not? 2025

drop-shot fool reply :

I used to throw the zoom split tail trailer and my dad asked me why don't you use a trailer any more. I told him, i really don't know. I just stopped using it. it has been so long since i used trailers i can't remember if i caught more fish with em' or not. Any advice?

The Next KVD reply :

I personally don't use a spinnerbait trailer. A spinnerbait is more of a reaction type bait that goes through the water colum fast enough that a fish doesn't get a very good look at it. Just my 2cents.

Sam reply :

I use a trailer with the spinnerbait 90% of the time.

I also use a trailer hook with a spinnerbait.

Try throwing your spinnerbiat without any trailer or trailer hook; with only the trailer; with only the trailer hook; and let us know which technique you like best.

Hammer 4 reply :

I use a small trailer sometimes, but more important, I use a trailer "hook"..

smallie.huntin reply :

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I use a trailer with the spinnerbait 90% of the time.
I also use a trailer hook with a spinnerbait.

Try throwing your spinnerbiat without any trailer or trailer hook; with only the trailer; with only the trailer hook; and let us know which technique you like best.

I have never fished with a trailer hook on my spinner baits before but I bought a couple packs this winter. When fishing a spinner bait with a trailer hook and trailer are you attaching the trailer to the trailer hook or the main hook? (I hope that made sense.)

Also do you guys use trailers on buzz baits as well?

Thanks!

BassFishingMachine reply :

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I used to throw the zoom split tail trailer and my dad asked me why don't you use a trailer any more. I told him, i really don't know. I just stopped using it. it has been so long since i used trailers i can't remember if i caught more fish with em' or not. Any advice?

I really have found myself not using a soft plastic trailer on my spinnerbaits. I suppose if you have a larger bait presence, using a single tail grub, or one of those split tail "spinnerbait trailers" would be worth a shot. But majority of the time I will use a spinnerbait with a trailer hook attached, not a trailer bait.

BassFishingMachine reply :

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I use a trailer with the spinnerbait 90% of the time.
I also use a trailer hook with a spinnerbait.

Try throwing your spinnerbiat without any trailer or trailer hook; with only the trailer; with only the trailer hook; and let us know which technique you like best.

I have never fished with a trailer hook on my spinner baits before but I bought a couple packs this winter. When fishing a spinner bait with a trailer hook and trailer are you attaching the trailer to the trailer hook or the main hook? (I hope that made sense.)

Also do you guys use trailers on buzz baits as well?

Thanks!

I think this picture should clear things up for you http://a.espncdn.com/winnercomm/outdoors/bassmaster/i/P2_BT_Dec04_InPro_Fishing.jpg You attach the trailer hook with a peice of plastic tubing, this tubing should have came in your pack of trailer hooks. There is two ways of attaching the trailer hook with the tubing, one would be to cut a peice of tubing and put it over the eye of the trailer hook, then run the main hook of the spinnerbait thru the tubing that is wrapped around the eye of the trailer hook, this will keep the trailer hook still on the spinnerbait. Although, the way I prefer (any many others I notice), would be to stick the spinnerbaits main hook through the eye of the trailer hook, and then take the tubing and stick it through the point of the main spinnerbait hook, this will stop your trailer hook from flying off your spinnerbait while enabling it to free slide up and down your spinnerbait's hook shank.

As for the buzzbaits, yes I use a trailer hook with buzzbaits, but to me it really depends on the length of the buzzbait's main hook. If the length is pretty long I won't bother with a trailer hook. Like on the 1/4oz Booyah buzzbait the hook is pretty long, I don't use a trailer hook with it majority of the time.

basser89 reply :

For me, I only fish a plastic trailer on my spinnerbaits when I'm fishing stained to muddy water and want to add more bulk to the bait. I'm usually adding a big, bulky grub when I do.

As for the trailer hooks, I'm using one about 99% of the time on my spinnerbaits (always on buzzbaits). The cover I'm fishing has to be extremely thick for me not to use on. I perfer to have the trailer hook move freely, so I put the trailer hook on first and then put a small piece of the tubing on next.

smallie.huntin reply :

Thanks for the help. I missed a bunch of strikes on spinner and buzz baits last year and decided it was time to get some trailer hooks. Nothing like watching your buzz bait get blasted by a bass right on the surface, gets the heart beating fast every time.

Bankbeater reply :

Plastic trailers, no. Trailer hooks, yes.

CWB reply :

I use a BPS Cajun trailer about 50% of the time. I have also used curl tail grubs. The new skirts by Strike King and Z-Man have trailers built in. Seems to be personal preference or confidence thing.

I almost always use a trailer hook though.

burleytog reply :

Zoom Fat Albert TwinTail

50% of the time it works every time.

Tin reply :

No need if you use War Eagles... 8-)

BassnGolf reply :

Zoom tail yes....trailer hook yes....Zoom tail on the trailer hook...yes!

Just my humble opinion

Siebert Outdoors reply :

very rarely do I use one.

Raul reply :

Seldomly I use a trailer on my spinnerbaits, last time I used one was 3 years ago.

Have never used a trailer hook.

roadwarrior reply :

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Seldomly I use a trailer on my spinnerbaits, last time I used one was 3 years ago.
Have never used a trailer hook.

Same here, but I sometimes start with a trailer.

The added weight is sometimes an advantage

for casting, but I have never noticed any difference

in production.

8-)

fishfordollars reply :

Never have used a trailer, but always use a trailer hook.

wagn reply :

like many have said here, I've hardly ever use a trailer, but always use a trailer hook.

I caughy my largest bass ever on the trailer hook of a cavitron buzz baits.

J Francho reply :

No trailer, always a trailer hook. If I hook two consecutive bass on the trailer hook, I'll switch colors.

basser89 reply :

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No trailer, always a trailer hook. If I hook two consecutive bass on the trailer hook, I'll switch colors.

Excellent point! A color change (or even the retrieve style or weight of the spinnerbait for a different position in the water column) will tell you exactly what they will commit to so they crush the bait, not just come up for a half hearted attempt.

Infidel. reply :

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No need if you use War Eagles... Cool

Bingo!

Bassin_Fin@tic reply :

I guess I am the odd ball. I despise trailer hooks.I throw my baits through too much crap to use those things.

I like to use zoom flukes and super fluke jr. as my trailers but only use a trailer 50% of the time usually to bulk up the bait and slow the fall.

Dock Master reply :

I myself have never bought or used trailer plastics but I would like to some this year and see how well they do. I only use trailer hooks when the spinnerbait comes with them.

TrippyJai reply :

Never!

Fishing Rhino reply :

I tried them, but did not like them.

But, I attached them according to the instructions that came with them which was, putting a piece of the tubing over the eye of the trailer. Then, I put the trailer on the other hook.

The problem was, the tubing fit snugly on the other hook, preventing the trailer from dangling freely.

It would get skewed one way or the other on the cast, and stay there, fouling the action of the spinnerbait.

I have had no problem with short strikes, or missed strikes. I have had some bass spit the hook when they jumped but doubt a trailer hook would be of much help preventing that.

I started using 3" Mister Twisters grubs as trailers, then went to the larger size. Even with the longer tail, I have had no problem with short strikes.

I do bump the spinner bait along the bottom at times. It is possible that what I thought was a bump on a rock was a short strike, I doubt it. The reason I doubt it is that I have yet to feel a bump in midwater that does not result in a hookup.

Where I fish has light pressure, so perhaps the fish are not as cautious and therefore more aggressive when they do strike.

zaraspook_dylan2 reply :

i personally have tonnes of success with a shad coloured booyah spinnerbait. i will choose one without a trailor earlier in the day when the bite is on a little more, but when the bite dies down i will switch to a spinner bait with some sort of trailor- i love to put a red feather on it, and i always have a trailor hook on there to.

hope this helps

WIII-60 reply :

No trailer. Gammy g-stinger trailer hooks.

bigmountaineer reply :

Never

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