I am all about versatility. If I were to get two spinnerbaits what color skirts what blade shape/colors would work best in a variety of situations?

War Eagle Finesse Silver Shiner, War Eagle Finesse Pond Scum Perch. Silver Shiner in the clear, Pond Scum Perch w/any color. Brian.

15 minutes ago, RedHeadAngler said:

What color skirts what blade shape/colors would work best in a variety of situations?

This is my go-to spinnerbait...

WolfyBrandon
 

I'd go with the same skirt on both (chart/white), the first with chrome Colorado/Willow blades and the second with gold blades (same configuration). Chrome for bright days and gold for overcast.

It depends on the kind of water clarity you normally fish in. Clear water I'd go with a white spinnerbait with silver blades (willow/willow) and chartreuse or any other bright colored spinnerbait with gold blades (colorado/willow) for stained water. 

If you fish muddier water or at night then you want to prioritize vibration over flash and I would go for a black spinnerbait with a black or gold colorado blade. 

One thing I like to do is focus mainly on the color of the color of the body and the first blade closest to the line tie because you can always swap out the skirt and blade attached to the swivel for more combination options without having to own a ton of spinnerbaits.

I would go with a white spinner bait for all year and a red spinner bait for spring. You can easily change out most blades so I wouldn't concern myself with that too much. If you aren't willing to change out blades, I would go with one willow and on colorado blade on each. Nice flash and decent vibration. 

Don't limit yourself to just 2.  Get as many as you need to cover the situations you might face.   They don't weigh that much.  Get 5 or 6 or a dozen.  What are you going to do if you are on a spinner bait bite and you lose a bait?  Also, limiting your baits is just asking for it.  Inevitably, you will have bait A and Bait B and you're out on the water and you'll come across some guy who is just nailing them on bait X.  You could have had bait X but NO, you felt like you had to limit yourself to A & B.

Try to make conscious decisions about what baits you might need without limiting yourself to a given number of baits.   That's what I do and I have fewer regrets about missed opportunities than I used to.  JMO

A single willow leaf blade about a number 4  in size on a 1/4 to 1/2  ounce lure would work for me most of the year deep and shallow  . I'd go with a gold blade and a baitfish colored skirt . The exceptions would be night fishing when I  go with a Colorado blade and dark skirt and early spring in muddy water where I go with a larger lure and blades .

Stanley Vibra Wedge 3/8 oz double gold willow leaf white shirt & chart/white skirt!

1. Terminator Original T-1 In chartreuse white shad with the Colorado/Oklahoma blade combo. This will be a great shallow water bait. The Oklahoma blade generates a good amount of lift and vibration while being way more weedless than a Colorado blade.

2. I'd also buy a T-1 with the power pulse skirts in sunfish wit the Colorado/Willow blade combination. 

The great thing about Terminators is they use the Quick Skirt system, so if you buy a few spinnerbaits and a few packs of replacement skirts, you can change colors quickly, and you don't destroy the skirt when you take them off. They work on other spinnerbaits as well, but I'd rather not wait to have the original skirt fall apart or just destroy it before moving them to the quick skirt system. 

44 minutes ago, WIGuide said:

1. Terminator Original T-1 In chartreuse white shad with the Colorado/Oklahoma blade combo. This will be a great shallow water bait. The Oklahoma blade generates a good amount of lift and vibration while being way more weedless than a Colorado blade.

2. I'd also buy a T-1 with the power pulse skirts in sunfish wit the Colorado/Willow blade combination. 

The great thing about Terminators is they use the Quick Skirt system, so if you buy a few spinnerbaits and a few packs of replacement skirts, you can change colors quickly, and you don't destroy the skirt when you take them off. They work on other spinnerbaits as well, but I'd rather not wait to have the original skirt fall apart or just destroy it before moving them to the quick skirt system. 

One important thing I'd like to add is if you're gonna grab some Terminator spinnerbaits/quick skirts make sure they are the PowerPulse kind. From my experience the non PowerPulse Terminator skirts tear very easily whenever you try to change them. 

5 minutes ago, alzun664 said:

One important thing I'd like to add is if you're gonna grab some Terminator spinnerbaits/quick skirts make sure they are the PowerPulse kind. From my experience the non PowerPulse Terminator skirts tear very easily whenever you try to change them. 

Hmm...maybe you've got some bad ones? I haven't had too many issues with them tearing. Maybe a few over the years after considerable service use. Most that I've had tear around the collar have been due to a northern tooth slicing them.

80% of my spinnerbait fishing is done with these three:

Single Tennessee

Single Willow

Double Willow

out of those 3 pretty much my "Jack of all Trades" is the first one.

14 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

I'd go with the same skirt on both (chart/white), the first with chrome Colorado/Willow blades and the second with gold blades (same configuration). Chrome for bright days and gold for overcast.

Ditto 

 

Mike 

Configuration wise I prefer double willow leaf. Silver/gold and Gold/silver. Skirt color is going to depend on the water and forage you fish.

A double willow, white and silver with silver blades at 1/8th or 1/4. 

 

Gold willow with Colorado and a dark skirt same sizes.

I dont see why  double blades are more versatile than single blades . 

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

I dont see why  double blades are more versatile than single blades . 

I think it's just the extra water displacement to attract the lateral line from a further distance.

I would do one white and one black and a single colorado nickle blade 3/8 oz.  When I was a kid all I could get was 1 or 2 spinner baits other than soft plastics. the colors were limited as well. A dark and a light work just fine I caught fish on both year round and never had a willow blade. Heck I never saw a willow blade for years.