what is your all time favorite spinnerbait

Please be specific:
Brand
skirt color
weight
blade type
trailer or no trailer hook
tail, split tail, or other plastic on hook

That would have to be the Super Dixie Dancer 3/8 oz. tandem spinner with silver Indiana and Willow leaf blades with a white or chartruese skirt. The next best is brown/orange skirt with hammered copper blades. Just love the way they work.

Thanks any others????

Strike King Pro Model 3/8oz…White/Chart w/silver/gold blades. Sometimes a trailer and a trailer hook.

there are 2-Strike King ,John Fox Model, 3/8oz chartrues&white nickel blade the other is a Charlie Cambell 5/8oz big cupped #7 colorado blade, Yellow&White never any trailers both are out of production now late 70’s or early 80’s I am almost out of both now. my son will soon be happy I don’t have them to kick him on special occassions

Stan

Instead of harvesting everyone else’s choices, I’d be curious to hear a few of yours. With all of your tournament experience I bet you could teach us a thing or two.

As far as the fluke goes, I’d bet you are trying to make it something it’s not. MANY people over-work it (a dying shad on the surface is not darting around like most people try to make the fluke look). The fluke needs to look good to the bass…not the bass fisherman.

D-nort you , I and most everyone here knows that there are hundreds of better bass and bass tourney fisherpersons here than me…I just choose to make the sacrafices that are required to get around the country to fish a lot of different places. .

But regarding my favorite spinnerbait, it is, has always been, and will probably always be double willow, Chart/White skirt, in whatever weight matches my presentation, something I have mentioned here more than once… I’m still not a brand name guy on spinnerbaits, you are just as likely to see me buying my spinnerbaits off the 1.79-2.79 rack , I usually don’t use a tail, or a trailer, and the only surprise to some might be that I also use micros for bass.

But to put things into perspective if you see a spinnerbait on my line more than 10 days out of the year for Bass and they are producing better than something else, it is a different year for me. Spinnerbaits are actually my go to bait for Northern Pike.

There is one exception to everything I have said about spinnerbaits and bass. If you find me guiding for musky and the bite is all daybreak and sundown for musky , we will most likely be throwing a homemade spinnerbait in the middle of the day. The best way to explain it is a bucktail without the bucktail… we use a large bright ,usually Colorado blade, a large bright long body split tail, and a good size bright twister off a trailer hook. The reason is probably obvious… its a larger muti-species lure… Musky/N. Pike/Bass and consistantly every year in north central Wisconsin it brings the largest bass to the boat. This year a LM, 23 incher in Musky Bay on Wisconsin’s Pelican Lake.

And guess what I harvested that one from a guide customer who fishes multi-species events. Some folks seem to think they have cornered the market and discovered or reinvented everything all by themselves. Not me .. I have said here on this site several times, that nearly everything I know about fishing from the last 51 years somebody taught or showed me.. then I spent the thousands of hours of “time on the water” making those things others told or showed me work to the nth degree for me.

Just in case it is important to somebody my favorite presentations for bass are finessseee worms,(about 10 varieties) , mizmo tubes, and rattle trappie baits whenever hornytoad type baits can’t be used. I would estimate that about 85% of the time from first good pads and slop to last slop anywhere on the Upper Mississippi they can be played you will see a hornytoad type bait on the end of 65 Stren superbraid on the pole in my hand. I harvested that one from Jeremy Crawford… actually Jeremy showed me that slop frogs catch frequent fish (something I have never mastered in thick pads) , and since I’m much more apt to be fishing pockets in pads, slop only (very few pads), or emergent weeds the horny toadie type body works better for me.. I went from a 25% hook-up to around 75% when I switched to horny toad type baits. It is way too much of a pain in the but for most folks to deal with , but I actually texaposed the hook or even when I have kept my tackle up, with a hook that fits perfectly in the frogs crotch with only the very tip of the hook barely under plastic. Something I harvested from two great guys from Georgia. When the hook is rigged and set that way there is no 1 or 2 second wait to set the hook, and you almost always have an angle on the hookset depending on which way you sweep the rod.

The rattle trappie type bait and the finessee worms seem to work all over the country, but I was hoping to harvest some insight into other presentations with the series of questions I have recently asked on this site.

Happy Hook-Ups d-nort

favorite spinner bait 1/4 oz White, tandem indiana blade, Black Jack Lures Spinnerbait. one of the finest ever made.

next is a 3/8 oz Chartreuse/ Blue / Purple Black Jack Lures Spinnerbait. tandem with an Indiana and a Colorado blades.

I also prefer to make my lures have two color blades. meaning instead of all silver, I use a copper and silver or a gold and silver combo.

Black Jack Spinnerbaits are the finest spinnerbaits that I have ever used in the past 35 years of fishing.

I purchase spinnerbaits based off the quality of their hook…period. And trust me, just because a spinnerbait looks awesome and is expensive does NOT mean it has a good hook (ie…War Eagle). The longer and bigger the hook…the better!