I just got into using a spinner bait and I have 12 pound fluorocarbon. Is that ok for using a 3/8 oz spinner bait?

3/8oz...you should be fine with 12#

Definitely, I use 12# for 1/2 oz spinnerbaits as well. 

No.
The spinnerbait will rotate, levitate, start to smoke, catch fire, jump back in the boat and catch the old carpet on fire. Your fire extinguisher is most likely out of date so it won’t work. The whistle or air horn you supposed to have is nonexistent, you’ll reach for a life jacket that you forgot in the front seat of the truck from the last time your cousin was in town. Since you’ve decided to fish a spinnerbait offshore you’ll take the plunge and try to visualize the last GPS heading you saw. You don’t have a GPS so you swim towards the sun. It’s a big lake. Good luck.

10 or 12 lb will work just fine.

  I use 12# mono or co-polymer all the time.

10 hours ago, 813basstard said:

No.
The spinnerbait will rotate, levitate, start to smoke, catch fire, jump back in the boat and catch the old carpet on fire. Your fire extinguisher is most likely out of date so it won’t work. The whistle or air horn you supposed to have is nonexistent, you’ll reach for a life jacket that you forgot in the front seat of the truck from the last time your cousin was in town. Since you’ve decided to fish a spinnerbait offshore you’ll take the plunge and try to visualize the last GPS heading you saw. You don’t have a GPS so you swim towards the sun. It’s a big lake. Good luck.

And this my friends is the early script for cast away 2. Get all your sneak peaks on all the latest movies here at bassresources. 

39 minutes ago, DomQ said:

And this my friends is the early script for cast away 2. Get all your sneak peaks on all the latest movies here at bassresources. 

I was thinking Ghostbusters....

I use heavier lines for spinner bait fishing.  My reasoning is that spinner baits get bit alot more often when you're smacking them into something, vegetation, brush, bushes, whatever.  Anyway, when I'm smacking my bait into stuff, I'm pretty sure my line is smacking into that stuff too, so I generally use 17 or 20 lb line.    A 3/8 spinnerbait, on the gear that I throw spinnerbaits with, would throw fine.    My guess is that the 3/8 oz spinner bait weighs more once you attach trailer/trailer hook, blades, etc.

On 2/3/2021 at 12:41 PM, Fishes in trees said:

My guess is that the 3/8 oz spinner bait weighs more once you attach trailer/trailer hook, blades, etc.

More so than even those add-ons.

Printed weight is only for the head. Now add the wire, blades, hook and skirt - a "3/8oz" spinner is around 1/2oz before trailer/trailer hook.

On 2/3/2021 at 1:41 PM, Fishes in trees said:

I use heavier lines for spinner bait fishing.  My reasoning is that spinner baits get bit alot more often when you're smacking them into something, vegetation, brush, bushes, whatever.  Anyway, when I'm smacking my bait into stuff, I'm pretty sure my line is smacking into that stuff too, so I generally use 17 or 20 lb line.    A 3/8 spinnerbait, on the gear that I throw spinnerbaits with, would throw fine.    My guess is that the 3/8 oz spinner bait weighs more once you attach trailer/trailer hook, blades, etc.

 

I'm in the same boat. 14-17lb fluoro for my spinnerbait fishing needs, but I'm usually fishing them around wood and weeds, so I like having something that I can horse the fish a little more with. 

On 2/2/2021 at 10:02 PM, 813basstard said:

No.
The spinnerbait will rotate, levitate, start to smoke, catch fire, jump back in the boat and catch the old carpet on fire. Your fire extinguisher is most likely out of date so it won’t work. The whistle or air horn you supposed to have is nonexistent, you’ll reach for a life jacket that you forgot in the front seat of the truck from the last time your cousin was in town. Since you’ve decided to fish a spinnerbait offshore you’ll take the plunge and try to visualize the last GPS heading you saw. You don’t have a GPS so you swim towards the sun. It’s a big lake. Good luck.

*Woah !! ... Can I eliminate those things from happening if I move up to #15 lb. line ? ... Never mind , I'm now spooling up with #17 lb. P-Line CX-X just to be safe !

I use 20 pound Trilene Big Game mono with my spinnerbaits.  Spinnerbaits catch big fish in Florida and we have lots of heavy cover.   If you use 12 pound line to throw spinnerbaits here, a momma bass will eat it and laugh as it swims away.  ?

 

 

Minimum 16# Sniper going to 20# depending on conditions. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

I would ideally prefer 15-17lb just because I'm not of the belief that a bass are line shy when it comes to moving baits so why not be prepared to throw it in cover, but 12lb should generally work fine unless you're going after giants or throwing into heavier cover.