Is anyone using the weedless inline spinners? The Mepps Black Fury is one that I know about. I can't use standard treble hook in lines due to weeds. It also looks like a standard inline spinner could be converted to a weedless model pretty easily. You could use a 4" worm, small stickbait, or another grub style, by removing the treble hook and adding a good quality worm hook. Anyone use these in weedy water for LM bass?

I use inline spinners regularly and the standard Black Fury (treble hooked) even in weeds. I have to clean stuff off the hooks fairly often but they still catch em well. 

Weedless Sally

Tom

PS, update to Snagless Sally. Hidebrandt or Yakima both make them.

I know the Terminator ones work pretty well for pickerel.  Lol

 

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   I used the Mepps Comet Combo, the old one with the Mr. Twister Keeper hook. IMO worst hook for that application. I took it off and used a twistlock hook. Caught a couple fish. Lost interest because the blade kept getting hung up. Once I questioned whether or not that spinner blade was necessary, I found the T-rigged Anaconda a much, much better fish-getter. I see that Mepps is making the Combo again, but I'm not interested this time around.      jj

I use a violent extractor when I’m fishing really heavy slop for pike and musky and still want a blade. It is bigger than what most people throw for bass but I have caught a lot of smallmouth and largemouth on musky sized blades. It also comes in a shirtless model that has a larger hook with a reaper on the back, looks great in the water.

8 hours ago, Ogandrews said:

I have caught a lot of smallmouth and largemouth on musky sized blades.

   I think if the truth could be told, that there have been 100 bass caught on Mepps Musky Killers to every one musky. People don't talk about them, but they're great bass lures.

   In fact lots of the pike and musky lures are great bass lures. If you talk to tournament musky fishermen, they often catch more bass than musky. I don't know whether it's the weather or the season, because I never asked. Maybe I should have. ?

   I'm not saying that I want to carry around a whole slew of Believers, Li'l Ernies, Jakes and Grandmas for lures, but if my shoulder were in better shape I'd be into the musky spinnerbaits faster than you could say, "Fish on!".

   Come to think of it, I have a rod that might handle a 6" Believer ...........      ?     jj

6 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

   I think if the truth could be told, that there have been 100 bass caught on Mepps Musky Killers to every one musky. People don't talk about them, but they're great bass lures.

   In fact lots of the pike and musky lures are great bass lures. If you talk to tournament musky fishermen, they often catch more bass than musky. I don't know whether it's the weather or the season, because I never asked. Maybe I should have. ?

   I'm not saying that I want to carry around a whole slew of Believers, Li'l Ernies, Jakes and Grandmas for lures, but if my shoulder were in better shape I'd be into the musky spinnerbaits faster than you could say, "Fish on!".

   Come to think of it, I have a rod that might handle a 6" Believer ...........      ?     jj

One summer, back in the 80s (way before I'd heard about big swimbaits), I experimented going big with my lures, throwing smaller musky lures and 13" worms. I broke several pond records for myself, and a then PB on a 6" Swim Whiz/Believer. I came away feeling that it would be tough to go too big for LMs.

 

As to the OP, weedless inlines... I don't have any, and agree the Keeper Hook "kept" nothing in terms of my plastic baits. The Aglia #3 and 4 are staples for me, in clear water, esp in cold water before the dense weeds are up. The treble does collect soft veges, but those spinners can come through harder veges if I am deft with them. The blade will stop on the obstruction and allow the hook to then slide over it, esp important with wood. I recently went to a double hook, but haven't caught on them yet. To keep line twist down, I've always modified them by bending the line tie up, off "in-line" (see pic). I think it helps some, and doesn't affect the action. Those simple Aglia's, fished well, seem to be one of those lures that don't give many wrong signals, that say just enough to get fish to bite. It's the only non-jig type lure I've caught carp on. Great bass lure, except when pike and pickeral are around!

12 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

   I used the Mepps Comet Combo, the old one with the Mr. Twister Keeper hook. IMO worst hook for that application. I took it off and used a twistlock hook. Caught a couple fish. Lost interest because the blade kept getting hung up. Once I questioned whether or not that spinner blade was necessary, I found the T-rigged Anaconda a much, much better fish-getter. I see that Mepps is making the Combo again, but I'm not interested this time around.      jj

This is what I was going to suggest. Take it with a grain of salt, it has been years since I kept up with the Mepps lineup, but I remember that the Comets would allow you to replace the trailer behind the body of the spinner. You could easily swap it out for an EWG hook and use whatever soft plastic you want t-rigged. I know the Comet doesn't have the black and red or chartreuse blades of the Black Fury, but might be worth a try. Also I guess in theory if it worked well you could paint the blade of a Comet to look like a Black Fury blade.

 

I looked at the weedless Black Fury after reading your post. It does come with the Mister Twister keeper hook which I remember not liking from many many moons ago when I tried it. Given that I might lean toward the Comet/EWG hook option and paint the blade if I wanted the Black Fury blade pattern.

Yes, I've put a twist lock EWG on a Mepps spinner, and I run small swimbaits or action-claw type craws.  It works, but I don't generally catch large fish with it.

15 hours ago, Ogandrews said:

I use a violent extractor when I’m fishing really heavy slop for pike and musky and still want a blade. It is bigger than what most people throw for bass but I have caught a lot of smallmouth and largemouth on musky sized blades. It also comes in a shirtless model that has a larger hook with a reaper on the back, looks great in the water.

Thanks for that; these look great, but I am targeting and want to catch pike. I just don't need to buy any more anything right now + I can't pick what color I would want if I was buying something (I do have a musky killer and it will be interesting to see if bass hit that too).

9 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

   I think if the truth could be told, that there have been 100 bass caught on Mepps Musky Killers to every one musky. People don't talk about them, but they're great bass lures.

   In fact lots of the pike and musky lures are great bass lures. If you talk to tournament musky fishermen, they often catch more bass than musky. I don't know whether it's the weather or the season, because I never asked. Maybe I should have. ?

   I'm not saying that I want to carry around a whole slew of Believers, Li'l Ernies, Jakes and Grandmas for lures, but if my shoulder were in better shape I'd be into the musky spinnerbaits faster than you could say, "Fish on!".

   Come to think of it, I have a rod that might handle a 6" Believer ...........      ?     jj

The two biggest largemouth I have ever caught, actually my only 2 over 5lbs that I officially weighed, were on musky baits. The first was on a 9” black weighted suick and the other was on a walleye colored magnum bull dawg I was ripping through weeds. That 5lbser eating a 15oz bait that is almost 20” long with the tail extended gave me a lot of confidence to throw bigger baits for bass.

3 hours ago, Ogandrews said:

That 5lbser eating a 15oz bait that is almost 20” long with the tail extended gave me a lot of confidence to throw bigger baits for bass.

 

   Yup. And BTW ... those Extractors have a MUCH better hook than the Mepps. As for Snagless Sallys, I've never caught a fish on one.   ?    I think the OP would get much better results by going at this the way walleye fishermen do; treat the blade and the trailer as two separate entities. Why not put a spinner blade ahead of a worm, or a fluke, or any soft bait rigged weedless? Change the color or shape of the blade independently from the bait behind it .... and vice-versa. Think it would work?     jj

11 hours ago, jimmyjoe said:

 

   Yup. And BTW ... those Extractors have a MUCH better hook than the Mepps. As for Snagless Sallys, I've never caught a fish on one.   ?    I think the OP would get much better results by going at this the way walleye fishermen do; treat the blade and the trailer as two separate entities. Why not put a spinner blade ahead of a worm, or a fluke, or any soft bait rigged weedless? Change the color or shape of the blade independently from the bait behind it .... and vice-versa. Think it would work?     jj

I know it would. When I was a kid and didn’t know anything about bass fishing my go to way to catch bass was to cast or troll a bladed crawler harness that is designed for walleye. Would use them on a really short snell most of the time so I can cast them and use a bullet weight up front of the swivel. Caught some awesome fish doing that.