1 minute ago, J Francho said:

The only thing I've done that's close to a blades on an umbrella rig is put a spoon on the center wire.  Truth be told, I felt like the spoon alone would have been enough.

I like that thinking though!  My wallet is hurting a bit, maybe I'll sharpie up the blades on one of my rigs instead.  Plus shipping the last few weeks has been a crapshoot.  A non-bladed a-rig might not show up till the 4th of Juy!  If that doesn't work, dykes do!

 

scott

26 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Your comment made me say "Huh..." out loud.  I had a couple days where it was breezy, warm, prefrontal, with intermittent clouds blocking the sun.  I noticed when the sun was bright, a Skinny Dipper on a belly weighted hook was fully hooking fish that were missing a spinnerbait.  Seemed like they were crashing the blades, because they were throwing a ton of slack when striking.  When the clouds blocked the sun, the Dipper was ignored, but the spinnerbait was crushed.  It never occurred to me try combining a plastic trailer and spinnerbait, because I never had any reason to, but I'm rethinking when that might have been the better thing.

I've seen this cloud to sun to cloud affect trout bite significantly, not so much bass, but up your way I can see that being more of a factor in clear water. Gonna keep an eye on it more. I fish a swim jig with a  skinny dipper and a trailer hook quite a bit, started doing that after I took the blades off a spinnerbait with a big trailer and fish liked it. I still prefer fishing a spinnerbait best, if they'll bite it.

4 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

but up your way I can see that being more of a factor in clear water

Most of the water I fish up here is not that clear, but this particular lake is VERY clear.

 

5 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

I still prefer fishing a spinnerbait best, if they'll bite it

Agreed, 100%.