Spinnerbait fishermen 2025
Wurming67 reply :
Which pro fishermen past or present are known for being great spinnerbait fishermen??
scaleface reply :
Jimmy Houston , Roland Martin , KVD , Rick Clunn come to mind .
Harold Scoggins reply :
Hank Parker and Jimmy Houston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cjTpD4NIE
I've always enjoyed watching Hank make those blades dance.
BoatSquirrel reply :
Todays best spinnerbait fishermen are Mark Menendez and Edwin Evers.
Jigfishn10 reply :
KVD; when he first started out made his name with a SB
Brad Reid reply :
Great names listed here for SBs. Clunn, in particular, attributes his success with them to learning from two legendary spinnerbait anglers. One, whose name I have forgotten, fished with SBs all year long, in all conditions.
Catt reply :
Lonnie Stanley ????
scaleface reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 6:58 PM, Harold Scoggins said:Hank Parker and Jimmy Houston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cjTpD4NIE
I've always enjoyed watching Hank make those blades dance.
At 13:20 Hank says when he gets the spinnerbait to the end of the tree to just lets it fade away . Thats a good tip . I do it instinctively anymore . Just lower the rod slowly and slow down the retrieve . You dont have to stop it and let it flutter , though thats a good tactic too . Thats why the most important part of a spinnerbait [ in my opinion ] is the swivel .Cheap swivels just dont cut it .
Catt reply :
David Wharton was pretty good with a spinnerbait ????
tander reply :
Ken Cook throwing Hart Spinnerbaits. Still have some. ????
Jigfishn10 reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 10:48 PM, tander said:Ken Cook throwing Hart Spinnerbaits. Still have some. ????
That's actually a good one. When I first got into bass fishing I had a book that I used to help me and he had a couple of sections on spinnerbaiting. Can't believe I forgot about that. Thanks for posting.
Stan Sloane was another SB guy. Loved his Zorro baits. I had a ton of luck on his short armed versions.
Catt reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 10:58 PM, Jigfishn10 said:. I had a ton of luck on his short armed versions.
Single gold blade slow rolled at night! ????
scaleface reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 10:58 PM, Jigfishn10 said:That's actually a good one. When I first got into bass fishing I had a book that I used to help me and he had a couple of sections on spinnerbaiting. Can't believe I forgot about that. Thanks for posting.
Stan Sloane was another SB guy. Loved his Zorro baits. I had a ton of luck on his short armed versions.
I think I still have a couple of those . They are short arms and not the Bass Busters .
Jigfishn10 reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 1:36 AM, Catt said:
Single gold blade slow rolled at night! ????
Yeah, those were bomb.com at night. Dawn or dusk worked for me as well. Loved the way they helicoptered. Steep drop offs, bluffs or even open water.
In the early spring when you first get a nice warm sun, the warm water surface could be a magnet for bass to gravitate to. Slow roll a shorty, then kill it and let fall on a helicopter?!? Man makes my heart race just thinking about it. ????
Big Rick reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 1:36 AM, Catt said:
Single gold blade slow rolled at night! ????
The famous Zorro Aggravator!! You can also wake it. Avery so often the blade will break the surface and "plops" a few turns. Bass can't stand it!
WRB reply :
Bobby Murry was known as "the thin water" top pro and won the '71 Classic on Lake Mead using a Zorro Aggravitor spinnerbait. Most of the top B.A.S.S. pros fished spinnerbaits in the 70's thru 80's.
Rick Clunn credits spinnerbaits for his early success and KVD got his start using Nichols spinnerbaits.
Tom
The Bassman reply :
Funny they don't get the press they used to. Are chatterbaits that much better?
Wurming67 reply :
Any idea who makes this spinnerbait?
RB 77 reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 6:21 AM, The Bassman said:Funny they don't get the press they used to. Are chatterbaits that much better?
No, Chatterbaits are not that much better. Bladed jigs have been a very popular flavor for a while now, but I generally fish them much different than a regular spinner bait. Although some presentations are interchangeable, I generally prefer bladed jigs in more stained water and closer to the bottom than spinner baits.
BassWhole! reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 8:07 AM, Wurming67 said:Any idea who makes this spinnerbait?
Isabel in Costa Rica.
J.Vincent reply :
Ken Cook, KVD and Jason Christie
greentrout reply :
flatcreek reply :
Ken Cook was good with spinnerbaits.
Catt reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 5:48 AM, WRB said:Bobby Murry was known as "the thin water" top pro and won the '71 Classic on Lake Mead using a Zorro Aggravitor spinnerbait
Billy & Bobby Murray were from Hot Springs Arkansas, they were known for using spinning tackle, light line, & small lures.
The reason Bobby was throwing a spinnerbait was in the early classics anglers were only allowed 4 combos & 10 lbs of tackle for an unknown destination.
What was amazing about Bobby he only had 3 B.A.S.S. wins 2 were classics!
Munkin reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 8:07 AM, Wurming67 said:Any idea who makes this spinnerbait?
Strike King
Allen
tander reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 10:09 AM, Catt said:
Billy & Bobby Murray were from Hot Springs Arkansas, they were known for using spinning tackle, light line, & small lures.
The reason Bobby was throwing a spinnerbait was in the early classics anglers were only allowed 4 combos & 10 lbs of tackle for an unknown destination.
What was amazing about Bobby he only had 3 B.A.S.S. wins 2 were classics!
I remember going to some bass fishing seminars that Billy and Bobby put on at Mississippi State. It was sometimes in the late 90, another instructor there was a guy named Dance. ????
WRB reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 10:09 AM, Catt said:
Billy & Bobby Murray were from Hot Springs Arkansas, they were known for using spinning tackle, light line, & small lures.
The reason Bobby was throwing a spinnerbait was in the early classics anglers were only allowed 4 combos & 10 lbs of tackle for an unknown destination.
What was amazing about Bobby he only had 3 B.A.S.S. wins 2 were classics!
I believe Bobby was the only angler using a spinnerbait in Meads clear water and more amazing targeting shallow covers without any cover. My early memory of Bobby Murray was his tour out west to sportsmen shows with Ray Scott promoting B.A.S.S. and wearing Rebel lures hat and jumpsuit.
Tom
Team9nine reply :
According to Clunn, there are no good spinnerbait fishermen left 
12poundbass reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 10:48 AM, Team9nine said:According to Clunn, there are no good spinnerbait fishermen left
Hmmmm I don't know what to make of his statement. I've got a word but I won't say it.
Bruce424 reply :
Jimmy Houston, Hank Parker and Roland Martin are most likely the best.
WRB reply :
Rick Clunn was a innovator of spinnerbait blade design and influenced spinnerbait performance. We think of Clunn's crankbaits, but spinnerbaits was his 1st winning lure.
KVD with his Strike King crankbaits was another spinnerbait specialist before crankbaits.
Blade vibration and spinnerbait wire arm design may have been forgotten in the todays lures because it's taken for standard design.
Details matter.
Tom
greentrout reply :
GENTLEMAN GEORGE COCHRAN
The Strike King Lil Mr. Money
Sam reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 6:58 PM, Harold Scoggins said:Hank Parker and Jimmy Houston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cjTpD4NIE
I've always enjoyed watching Hank make those blades dance.
X2
It is Hank Parker.
Try to find his DVDs on spinnerbait fishing on the Internet and any YouTube videos.
Hank is the master of spinnerbaits.
And his line of spinnerbaits is excellent. Expensive, but excellent.
Crestliner2008 reply :
Back in the early 70's, I received "The Big Book of Fishing" from Lindy/Little Joe. I still have remnants of that much used paper back book, in which Al Lindner designed and advocated the use of spinnerbaits for bass. Not sure of how many of the previously cited pros wrote about this great fishing lure back then, but I'm sure happy that Al did. 
Wurming67 reply :
It's a great lure I fished it almost exclusively than I wanted to Branch out and try other lures to make me versatile of a fishermen,used it the other day and did some serious damage so needless to say gonna be using it allot more ????
QUAKEnSHAKE reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 8:27 PM, scaleface said:At 13:20 Hank says when he gets the spinnerbait to the end of the tree to just lets it fade away . Thats a good tip . I do it instinctively anymore . Just lower the rod slowly and slow down the retrieve . You dont have to stop it and let it flutter , though thats a good tactic too . Thats why the most important part of a spinnerbait [ in my opinion ] is the swivel .Cheap swivels just dont cut it .
The slowest rolling sb I have ever used doesn't have a swivel.
A-Jay reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 1:36 AM, Catt said:
Single gold blade slow rolled at night! ????
Yup ~ !
And the teeth marks on the blade mean it's a good plan
to beef up the split rings & the swivel.
A-Jay
scbassin reply :
How about Ricky Green, & Carl Maxfield he could make a spinnerbait curve to land behind a tree.
roadwarrior reply :
Glenn & Keri May specialize in spinnerbaits, too!
Catt reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 11:18 PM, A-Jay said:Yup ~ !
And the teeth marks on the blade mean it's a good plan
to beef up the split rings & the swivel.
A-Jay
Photographer aint good but that's all tooth marks!
Back when I used to build custom lures spinnerbaits were my speciality... well until Lonnie came along.
Team9nine reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 11:18 PM, A-Jay said:Yup ~ !
And the teeth marks on the blade mean it's a good plan
to beef up the split rings & the swivel.
A-Jay
On 12/24/2018 at 11:38 PM, Catt said:
Photographer aint good but that's all tooth marks!
Back when I used to build custom lures spinnerbaits were my speciality... well until Lonnie came along.
So all these fish are eating the blade and not the body?
Jigfishn10 reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 11:18 PM, A-Jay said:Yup ~ !
And the teeth marks on the blade mean it's a good plan
to beef up the split rings & the swivel.
A-Jay
I’m heading to FLA in a few weeks, I may have to steal that trailer idea...with your permission of course?!?????
A-Jay reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 11:47 PM, Jigfishn10 said:I’m heading to FLA in a few weeks, I may have to steal that trailer idea...with your permission of course?!?????
Permission ~ What Permission ?
You know darn well I stole it from another Basshead somewhere along the line.
Do It !
btw - a large tip Black sharpie turns most any color 'trailer' into a 'Night Bait'
So I purchase / use whatever's on sale . . .
A-Jay
Catt reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 11:47 PM, Team9nine said:
So all these fish are eating the blade and not the body?
No sir they eating the whole thing ????
Operator Error
A-Jay reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 11:47 PM, Team9nine said:So all these fish are eating the blade and not the body?
In my case Yes - most definitely.
And it's 95% Smallies for me too.
Took me a while to first, figure out why I wasn't getting hooks into these 'savage strikes' and
Second, why my 'Blades kept coming off'.
Started 'upgrading the split rinds & swivels (Sort of a PIA) but I didn't loose anywhere near as many blades afterward.
Deal for me is once I feel the strike, just keep reeling until the rod rods.
If they had hit the blade only, often times they come back and eat the hook & trailer.
Happens less with a swimbait trailer (we can all have an opinion as to why) and a good slathering on Megastrike adds incentive.
A-Jay
Jigfishn10 reply :
LMAO @A-Jay, I was trying to be polite...How'd that work for me...LOL
Anyway, that should be bomb.com on those green FLA lakes.
Thanks for posting that.
Team9nine reply :
On 12/25/2018 at 12:12 AM, Catt said:
No sir they eating the whole thing ????
Seems like you'd end up missing quite a few if they ate the whole thing, similar to what A-Jay mentioned. Other than holding the blades, it's the upper arm that helps create the weedlessness by protecting the hook. Shouldn't matter whether it's a bass or a stump.
Catt reply :
On 12/25/2018 at 1:16 AM, Team9nine said:Seems like you'd end up missing quite a few if they ate the whole thing, similar to what A-Jay mentioned. Other than holding the blades, it's the upper arm that helps create the weedlessness by protecting the hook. Shouldn't matter whether it's a bass or a stump.
The difference is my spinnerbait not only has a short upper arm but a short lower arm placing the blade directly over the hook. The wire is also thinner allowing it to collapse much like a weed guard on a jig.
And yes I often have to reshape the wire after a couple fish.
Wurming67 reply :
I wish more companies made 1/4 oz with tandem nickel blades and white shirts I seem to do really good with that combo and size
Catt reply :
I hate to take over @Wurming67 thread but I need to add!
If I'm throwing a short arm spinnerbait it's at night & around wood.
When I say "slow rolled", I mean it's on the bottom, reeled just fast enough to keep it upright.
I do not use a trailer or a stinger hook, I prefer a old school flat rubber skirts, & a #5 Colorado blade.
I purposely ricochet it off stumps, crawled up & over logs, & weaved through brush.
Yes some of those scratches & missing paint are due to this but the majority aint!
ww2farmer reply :
On 12/24/2018 at 6:21 AM, The Bassman said:Funny they don't get the press they used to. Are chatterbaits that much better?
NO!!!
Chatterbaits are just another tool in the box.
I made the mistake of moving away from spinnerbaits in favor of swim jigs and chatterbaits the last 4-5 years, thinking those 2 baits would replace the spinnerbait for me....WRONG! After a few times of getting my rear end handed to me in tournaments that had strong spinnerbait bites, I realized the error of my ways, and spinnerbaits are back to being a big part of my arsenal once again.
WRB reply :
I have been to several seminars where Hank Parker, Jimmy Huston, KVD and Rick Clunn were guest speakers. Rick Clunn always talks about spinnerbaits, the others are pushing their latest sponsors tackle and may or may not include spinnerbaits. I don't believe Clunn has a canned presentation they are all different and when he is at the podium speaking the other pro's are there listening instead of standing in the back visiting.
The last time Clunn was speaking he discussed blades and how he selects them for specific conditions and baitfish. We think of a willow blade for example only by size and color, Clunn selects willow blades based on how fast they spin, how much water they push, how they lift, how they match the baitfish, flash, hammered vs polished, cup, wedge shapes etc, etc. He spent 30 minutes non stop on just willow blades. Details matter.
Tom
new2BC4bass reply :
Wow. I don't know which professionals used spinnerbaits, but it looks like I am in good company. 
My 2 biggest bass were on spinnerbaits. Whenever I am practicing or trying out new gear, a spinnerbait is on the end of the line at least 95% of the time. I hate losing lures practicing, and it is almost impossible to hang one up.
Glaucus reply :
My first truly amazing day of fishing was thanks to a 3/16oz Strike King Lil Mr Money spinnerbait. Caught my PB LMB of 7lbs on that thing, as well as 40 or so other LMB, good ones and dinks alike. That was nearly 7 years ago. And that's a 7lb North Central Illinois LMB too. Absolutely amazing. That really turned me on to spinnerbaits, and that season that's mostly what I did. For some odd reason, since that day and since that season, the spinnerbait bite has been few and far between for me.
Jigfishn10 reply :
On 12/25/2018 at 2:55 AM, Catt said:I hate to take over @Wurming67 thread but I need to add
You thread hijacker you....LOL
Good point none the less
Wurming67 reply :
On 12/25/2018 at 2:55 AM, Catt said:I hate to take over @Wurming67 thread but I need to add!
If I'm throwing a short arm spinnerbait it's at night & around wood.
When I say "slow rolled", I mean it's on the bottom, reeled just fast enough to keep it upright.
I do not use a trailer or a stinger hook, I prefer a old school flat rubber skirts, & a #5 Colorado blade.
I purposely ricochet it off stumps, crawled up & over logs, & weaved through brush.
Yes some of those scratches & missing paint are due to this but the majority aint!
No prob bud!Thanks for sharing!
scbassin reply :
Catt I fish it in the day time also. Get up in a stand of Cypress trees & bring it thru the Cypress Knee's you had better be paying attention because you might get your arm broke, the shade helps out. Carl showed me that little goodie.
Glaucus reply :
On 12/25/2018 at 3:06 AM, ww2farmer said:NO!!!
Chatterbaits are just another tool in the box.
I made the mistake of moving away from spinnerbaits in favor of swim jigs and chatterbaits the last 4-5 years, thinking those 2 baits would replace the spinnerbait for me....WRONG! After a few times of getting my rear end handed to me in tournaments that had strong spinnerbait bites, I realized the error of my ways, and spinnerbaits are back to being a big part of my arsenal once again.
Chatterbaits are better for me but it's anecdotal and really a personal thing
stratoliner92 reply :
On 12/23/2018 at 8:23 PM, Catt said:Lonnie Stanley ????
His spinnerbaits was what I fished 50% of my time when living in Florida many years ago. Lots of bass, jack and BIG mudfish on 'em????
GReb reply :
Spinnerbaits are the most versatile lure in your box. You can modify the same lure to do whatever you need. Understanding how different blades produce certain flash, water displacement, vibration, lift/sink, spin speed, etc if a daunting task but is certainly fruitful. Small changes to match your conditions can be the difference in catching a 3 and 20. There’s a reason some of the most successful fishermen are also the best spinnerbait fisherman. They catch fish all 4 seasons, day, night, clear water, and murky water coast to coast.
whitwolf reply :
I'm glad I saw Rickey Green mentioned! I went to a seminar of his in Little Rock back in 1981. It was informative and he stayed around afterwards and shot the bull with everyone. He was a great guy and sat there for two hours answering questions and telling stories well after the seminar was over.
Green Hornet reply :
Jimmy Houston, KVD, and Hank Parker. KVD's video on spinnerbaits pretty good too.
MIbassyaker reply :
Can you be a competent & versatile bass angler without being comfortable with spinnerbaits?
How often I throw a spinnerbait has gone up and down over the years, but I simply can't ignore that (1) about half of my "high-numbers-caught" days were due to a spinnerbait bite, and (2) my current PB is a spinnerbait bass.
scaleface reply :
Lures go hot and cold for me . Last year spinnerbaits were hot spring through fall .
Mobasser reply :
I'll always have some spinnerbaits in my box. Like all baits, they have their time and place. When their on- their on! Single or double blade, different colors, they all can be excellent.
BassWhole! reply :
On 1/6/2019 at 12:43 PM, MIbassyaker said:Can you be a competent & versatile bass angler without being comfortable with spinnerbaits?
No.
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