Spinner Rig Material for Toothy Critters

Thought I’d see if anyone has some good advice on line type/material to use for making up some walleye spinners? There’s a catch. We fish a lake in Canada where the bigger walleyes hang with the pike, and pulling your average spinner rig costs you about 15 per day.

I tie some of my own, and I’m wondering if I should go with single strand wire in a lighter lb.age or floro. Obviously, I’m looking for the lightest/thinnest/most-transparent option for the spinners, yet still doing a good job of keeping the pike from biting me off. Advice?

Joel

I have tried the multistrand wire that can be tied but found it to be too expensive – a big fish in a net can put kinks in it in a hurry. So I use single strand trolling wire in the 17 lb. test diameter using a hay-wire twist. It still gets kinked on a big one but the 300 ft. spool I bought 15 years ago has many more years to go even if I give even more of it away than I have already. I tie up several for each trip to Canada and cut them apart when they get kinked. That way I have the beads, clevis, hook(s) and spinner blade to make another in the cabin that evening. I started out making mine 30 inches long but have cut back to 12″ to keep them light. I tie a fluorocarbon leader between the steel and the swivel to get a total leader length that I want. In a group of 11 people that I fished with, they all thought the leader would spook the fish. After 3 days, some of them were cutting up their remaining pre-made fluorocarbon leaders as supplies to tie up their own on some extra wire I had along.

I have been using hard mono for the last few years, it has worked for me even tying on to the end of my casting rods.

I have two spools one 12lb and a 25lb the 25lb is sort of tought to tie knots with but its tough.

Not sure where to find any anymore, I could use some more, getting a little low.

http://www.tygerleader.com/

Have not tried this yet – but it looks interesting…..

A little spendy, but if it lasts for a few fish, it shouldn’t be too bad………

Tim

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http://www.tygerleader.com/

Have not tried this yet – but it looks interesting…..

A little spendy, but if it lasts for a few fish, it shouldn’t be too bad………

Tim

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Tygear is the exact material I used for those toothy critters in Canada.We use a bunch of it down here for crankbaits when fishing wingdamns in the summer.Primarally 15 # & 30# test. Expensive? Not really as compared to the # of leads or spinner rigs you can tie from a bag of it.It really saves on lost cranks too.I even tied up some for my jigs as well.It does not kill the action of a crank.Be sure to tie it EXACTLY as per the directions on the package!

We carry it here and happy to put some in the mail if anyone has interest.