Fish the Mitt Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 10 hours ago, georgeyew said: Also he does not believe any respectable large bass (5 lb +) would ever hit an inline spinner. That's just crazy talk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Raul Posted April 8, 2016 Super User Share Posted April 8, 2016 13 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said: I have been pleasantly surprised by all of the positive replies, where I live if you mention that your using a spinner people will just roll there eyes and mark you as a beginner. That´s because you are in the company of "pros", KVD wannabes & self entitled bass "masters" , right here art BR you are not, we´re just a bunch of fellers that like to ketch fish. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Pondscum Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Used them last weekend for trout fishing. Just caught two trout . I couldn't keep the bass off of them? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish the Mitt Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 Well I certainly appreciate the responses. Regardless of whether one views them as a beginner lure or not, I'm glad we can agree on one thing - they catch fish. In the end, as an angler, that's the real goal anyways. If we can use this lure to help teach and infatuate new anglers, and we can catch fish ourselves, it's definitely a lure you'll see in my box. Cheers..and like always, tight lines gents! (Or should I say in-line) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeth Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 inlines are great. catch tons of spots and smallies on them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter63 Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Blue fox inline spinner with a curly tail trailer is a Smallie killer on the River. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish the Mitt Posted April 9, 2016 Author Share Posted April 9, 2016 6 minutes ago, bowhunter63 said: Blue fox inline spinner with a curly tail trailer is a Smallie killer on the River. This guy knows what's up. Love throwing curly tail grubs on. They slay the bass in the creeks and rivers I fush up here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter63 Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Just now, SemperBass said: This guy knows what's up. Love throwing curly tails on. They slay the bass in the creeks and rivers I fush up here. I use the Rage Curly tail.Awesome combo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish the Mitt Posted April 9, 2016 Author Share Posted April 9, 2016 1 minute ago, bowhunter63 said: I use the Rage Curly tail.Awesome combo I'll have to try it. Can't be any worse than the El cheapo grubs I generally use. If anything, I'll probably have more color selection! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter63 Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Just now, SemperBass said: I'll have to try it. Can't be any worse than the El cheapo grubs I generally use. If anything, I'll probably have more color selection! Yes Sir and i really think they make difference. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr231 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Mepps all day. If I dont catch anything trying my favorite styles. Cranks / worms/ top water. I hit the spots again with a mepps. I like the black fury , and the white tail. Also the browns, oh and the chartreuse. Ha-ha. I like them all ! And seriously have caught some NICE fish on them. Bass, bluegill, crappie, pike, perch, bowfin, and a huge channel cat once. It was over ten pounds. If I could only have one lure for me to depend on, it would be the mepps in line spinner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primetime Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Spinners catch fish. Light line, small Rooster tail is fun. I only use them when I am looking to have fun and just get strikes, I just don't catch big fish on them unless I upsize to a #3 size or bigger, less strikes but better fish. For Trout I used to always go small, #1 size, but you can catch big Bass on a tiny spinner you just have to go through some smaller fish usually. I have a friend who uses 1/8 oz spinners out of the back seat of the boat as a co-angler and does well some days. Spinners catch fish, all gamefish. Just like a Minnow bait.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blckshirt98 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 One of the first bass I caught using a "reel and retrieve" method was on a Panther Martin holographic rainbow spinner while at a Sierra lake that stocks trout. Was the only fish I caught that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User MIbassyaker Posted August 18, 2016 Super User Share Posted August 18, 2016 Some of the "beginner" stigma I think has to do with the tournament-centric view that the serious angler targets bass only and everything else is a bycatch. From this perspective, only a beginner would go fishing without caring much what they caught. In-line spinners catch everything, even fish that don't strike other lures. On the other hand, bass strike almost anything, even lures that don't catch other fish. Thus, in-line spinners are among the least efficient lures for targeting bass and only bass unless you're fishing somewhere that really has only bass. And anyone who thinks in-lines don't catch nice-sized bass needs to go browse the largemouth and smallmouth photo galleries on the Mepps website. Oh, they certainly do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Ratherbfishing Posted August 18, 2016 Super User Share Posted August 18, 2016 My two primary gripes with Mepps is that they do tend to tarnish and the squirrel tail (for dressed spinners), if allowed to stay wet very long, will rust out the hooks. (So don't let them remain wet). And, broadly speaking, inline spinners are not very weedless. BUT having said this, they are very good for catching fish of almost all species. Anyone who poo poo's inline spinners is either a "purist", a novice, or a knucklehead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliyak Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 If the pros are not pushing them, not good baits. LOL Rooster tails for me and I use them year round. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfruits Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 On 4/7/2016 at 11:52 PM, georgeyew said: . Also he does not believe any respectable large bass (5 lb +) would ever hit an inline spinner. im pretty sure this one is over. inline spinners will catch anything. trout, bass, pike, musky, bluegill, catfish, shad... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User J Francho Posted August 19, 2016 Super User Share Posted August 19, 2016 Inline spinners only get a bay rap because they do not get through the cover that largemouth inhabit very well, if at all. The bent shaft or safety pin style protect the hook point from weed, wood, docks, etc. In places where this cover is not present, but fish are, they will get bit. Notice I said "fish." Any predatory species will eat an inline spinner. We use them for smallmouth quite a bit. I also have some huge ones for northern pike and musky. A bumble bee pattern spinner is a must have for anyone fishing pre-spawn brown trout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User fishballer06 Posted August 19, 2016 Super User Share Posted August 19, 2016 When the bite is tough during a tournament and I need to fill out a limit, an 1/8oz or 1/4oz Rooster Tail can quickly get me a few fish to fill my limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Further North Posted August 19, 2016 Super User Share Posted August 19, 2016 On 4/7/2016 at 9:12 PM, IndianaFinesse said: I have been pleasantly surprised by all of the positive replies, where I live if you mention that your using a spinner people will just roll there eyes and mark you as a beginner. Those folks who mark you as a "beginner" need to take a trip to Canada and hand the heck on when a 35" - 40" pike or musky slams that "beginner" lure... ...they catch bass too. One of my 6+ pound smallies came on a brown trout pattern #5 Mepps. I've lost count of the number of smallies and largemouth I've caught on them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0463 Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Inline spinners are one of my favorite lures to use. I completely disagree that they are a beginner lure. There's definitely a few was to use them that are very easy and then some that are not. If you fish in a river you can drift fish with them, bumping it off the bottom or keep it just above the bottom and feel for the soft strike, not a beginner technique. Inline spinners will produce fish in any water type and just about everything will at some point chase them, I'm not saying it will always catch fish but, there is nowhere I personally wouldn't try one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsford Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 I don't understand what makes any lure a "beginner" lure. Sure they will catch anything that swims and about all you have to do is cast them out and reel in. I have always been under the impression that catching fish is what's important. If they are biting inlines I don't care who has something to say. They are probably just jealous because you are catching fish and they arent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j bab Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 I just discovered the Terminator Inline Spinner and bought one recently. Genius idea really, a larger size inline spinner with a free-swinging EWG hook so you can add a trailer. I haven't been fishing since it came in, but next time I go out I'm definitely throwing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted August 21, 2016 Global Moderator Share Posted August 21, 2016 I have several #2 Mepp's in my grab and go bag because they catch everything. I really like them in the creeks off the big rivers when the water gets up and the wipers and white bass push up into them. They can be fished very fast and mimic any kind of silver baitfish they might want to eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"hamma" Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 I look at it like this, If im fishing a tourney, I want to target bass only, and will only use one if im currently skunked. and have exhausted all my few dozen finesse techniques Otherwise I kinda shy away from them as the opportunity to twist up my brand new line is always there if it snags something,.and they do easily snag stuff. With the negatives out of the way,.. the positives They work just as all of you have stated, about 30 years ago I had gone so far as to remove the trailing treble hook and replace with worm hook to attach a grub on the end. Nowadays you can find them already weedless on the shelf, not back then though. And that weedless version used to be my go to bait anywhere i found weeds just under the surface. I think I still have it somewhere around here. I havent set up a bass rod for a inline spinner in years just because, I like my spinnerbaits, and that linetwist issue can be a PITA. As for trout fishing? always have a rod or three setup with a snapswivel for a 1/8 oz inline, wont leave the house without them. And do I have "some"? lol ,...ohhh about a hundred or two 1/8 oz in the trout fishin tackle bag. (plus a few dozen larger versions) Mepps, panthers, blue foxes, roostertails, some 30 years old, some brandy spankin new. Im always on the lookout for 1/8 oz inlines while scanning a tackleshop. And will cast or troll them, I dont discriminate. Stripers? Many years ago when I first started striper fishing a rather long odd looking inline spinner caught my eye. It was a long solid wire shafted version with three size 4 willowleaf bladed model with a single hook, and a short piece of 30 lb test mono with another single hook as a trailer hook. I asked the shop owner what thats for and he explained that you add seaworms on the hooks and troll it for stripers. So I bought one,.. tried it, and it worked well, but every so often I was loosing fish near the boat. I saw what was happening one day, they were shaking there heads using the leverage of that long solid shaft to dislodge the hook, So I remedied that,. I now make my own flexible version, and my hook up catch ratio is almost 100%. they work so well I had to start making them for other anglers as I was outfishing the heck out of them, and they'd get really ticked when I showed up at the bridge and drop one of them spinners in the current and bag a fish in a few minutes, when they had been there all day and caught nothing. Do I use inlines? You could say that I do. But when you see me at a bass tourney weight in. You wont see one tied on any of my rods,... unless 90% of the anglers got skunked, and my livewell is wet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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