On 2/3/2019 at 12:18 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

Well, they work  caught a few more bass plus several big white bass on it Friday. 

 

All those pretty colors to choose from, but they bite the white. Sometimes I think fish don't understand how to play this game. ?

24 minutes ago, Hank. said:

All those pretty colors to choose from, but they bite the white. Sometimes I think fish don't understand how to play this game. ?

It's a special white though, old school rubber that really flows nice. Plus those copper blades they never see. Obviously it looked good to them the way they were eating it.

10 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's a special white though, old school rubber that really flows nice. Plus those copper blades they never see. Obviously it looked good to them the way they were eating it.

A white spinnerbait is all I can get bit on lately. If I try to spice it up with different colors, they aren't interested. Copper looks great in the water I fish, but I never have any luck with it. I've never tried any copper blades though. All those you made look great.

 

I was just joking though. One time I was standing in a bait store looking at the choices, and this other shopper asked me if I knew why they made all those different colors, real serious like he was going to let me in on a big secret. He said, "So fishermen will buy them."

On 1/16/2019 at 8:55 AM, fishballer06 said:

Mmm, those hammered colorado blades. I could use a few of those for the rivers downtown. 

On 1/16/2019 at 9:31 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

Hard to find a bait with them anymore, and I love them in dirty water like I fish a lot.

 

Ah, now here's a great argument for making my own spinnerbaits...single-spin colorados in general(other than dark-colored night-fishing baits), and especially hammered blades are increasingly hard to find. Love the copper too.  And they would be great in my own murky local river, which I don't fish often enough. 

In the late 70's   I got my first baitcasting combo , it was a booger to cast . It was a red Ambassaduer 5000 with higher speed gears installed and 5.5' fiberglass Lews speed Stick . Looking through Bass Pro Shop catalog I found the Blakemore C.C.  spinner .  It was a black 1/2 ounce spinnerbait equipped with a number 7 "I believe" cupped , hammered ,  copper , Colorado blade . I bought a couple just so I could have something easy to cast at next club tourney . I won that event with three bass weighing 13 lbs . That was my go to spinnerbait for a few years after that. Roland Martin won a couple of events on big bladed baits and then everybody started throwing them . Kind of ruined it and now I mainly throw them in dingy spring time water .

Did one up with some big willowleafs. This is a good one in for the rivers when they're eating big gizzard shad for some reason.

I was getting some jigs ready too.

Im interested in getting into spinnerbait making. Did u use wireforms or roll your own. Also, do you use an powderpaint air brush to paint them or do u just tap the paint on. Thats my biggest hold up right now because i only have a fluid bed.

1 minute ago, Bdnoble84 said:

Im interested in getting into spinnerbait making. Did u use wireforms or roll your own. Also, do you use an powderpaint air brush to paint them or do u just tap the paint on. Thats my biggest hold up right now because i only have a fluid bed.

I'm using wire forms, both open and closed eye. 

 

I'm using both a powder paint gun and tapping the paint on, mostly the latter. 

 

I wouldn't want to make a lot of them but for the specific ones I want they're working very well and I'm very happy with my decision to make them.