1 hour ago, riverat said:

 

 

Welp, looks like the secret is out. I've been using this skirt for years in the Atchafalaya Basin and the oxbow lakes I frequent during late winter and early spring on a spinnerbait with either an Uncle Josh white #800 spring lizard pup or a #11 pork frog trailer.

 

 

There are no secrets in bass fishing silly goose!

 

… 

 

at least not while I’m around to find them

1 hour ago, riverat said:

 

 

Welp, looks like the secret is out. I've been using this skirt for years in the Atchafalaya Basin and the oxbow lakes I frequent during late winter and early spring on a spinnerbait with either an Uncle Josh white #800 spring lizard pup or a #11 pork frog trailer.

 

 

Also thanks for the tip on the pork frog I think it’s about time I stuck one on a spinnerbait 

9 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

If you were able to rig it inside out, the outer white would flair once you stop retrieving showing the inner red. Kind like a fish when it flairs it's gill plates showing it's gills.

Yeah, I know, I think of this crap when it's cold. ?

Might be time for therapy.

 

 

I have always rigged these type of skirts inside out.

 

 

15 hours ago, riverat said:

Welp, looks like the secret is out. I've been using this skirt for years

 

Ever throw a black-n-white skirt?

6 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Ever throw a black-n-white skirt?

Love that combination! ?

17 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

There are no secrets in bass fishing silly goose!

Nothing but on YT "fishing" channels...

20 hours ago, Deleted account said:

That thing is just begging to be turned into a short arm. I so wanna reach over the net and snip that wire...

How'd I do?

 

 

I can go shorter too. But this also shows the "white and red" skirt

1 minute ago, LrgmouthShad said:

How'd I do?

 

Oh yeah!

13 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I can go shorter too. But this also shows the "white and red" skirt

Yeah, if it's going to be dedicated to mostly pitching to cover or helicoptering, you can go really short. Measure twice, cut once.

13 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Yeah, if it's going to be dedicated to mostly pitching to cover or helicoptering, you can go really short. Measure twice, cut once.

Will be like a lot of my single colorado's. Mostly use them for rolling along the bottom. I honestly have no idea about the difference between 'super-short' and 'short' armed spinnerbaits. Just using those as relative terms. I cut that one to be about the same length as my Nichols single colorado's which I love for slow rolling. Looks like the booyah one I cut is just a hair shorter

 

Edit: So thank you for the advice there on when to go a lot shorter on spinnerbait wire arms

27 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Will be like a lot of my single colorado's. Mostly use them for rolling along the bottom. I honestly have no idea about the difference between 'super-short' and 'short' armed spinnerbaits. Just using those as relative terms. I cut that one to be about the same length as my Nichols single colorado's which I love for slow rolling. Looks like the booyah one I cut is just a hair shorter

 

Edit: So thank you for the advice there on when to go a lot shorter on spinnerbait wire arms

Like

That Short

9 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

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Throwing those I found out why they put a weedguard on them. I had taken it off ?. They just get stuck on everything without it, lol. 

 

Cool night-time spinnerbait though

8 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Ever throw a black-n-white skirt?

 

I don't throw a black-n-white skirt as much as I have in the past but I have used it successfully. I have a family member that uses this color combination quite a bit and swears by it.

 

As a side note, I use the rubber spinnerbait skirts on the vast majority of my spinnerbaits. I've been using them since I started fishing as a kid and was using an H&H spinnerbait. It's not that I don't have any confidence in silicone skirts, it's probably more habit than anything else.

 

 

9 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Ever throw a black-n-white skirt?

More like tossed and knocked over a lamp, but yeah...

39 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

More like tossed and knocked over a lamp, but yeah...

I think you'd catch more fish if you fished outside

White is the color I usually start out with. I don't think about why it works, unless it doesn't work.

22 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

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Could you share the info in this spinnerbait? it looks exactly what I didn't know I was looking for. 

 

 

On 1/27/2022 at 6:09 AM, Gera said:

Could you share the info in this spinnerbait? it looks exactly what I didn't know I was looking for. 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Zorro_Baits_Short_Arm_Aggravator_Spinnerbait_/descpage-ZSAA.html?from=BASRES

On 1/25/2022 at 8:44 AM, Deleted account said:

You're welcome.

The saying “That’s stronger than new rope” comes to mind… 

On 1/27/2022 at 7:17 AM, Jigfishn10 said:

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Zorro_Baits_Short_Arm_Aggravator_Spinnerbait_/descpage-ZSAA.html?from=BASRES

 

thanks!!!! just purchased a few.. starting with this exact one, I have never used a black and blue spinnerbait. 

 

Here in Iowa, I haven't had crap for luck with white spinnerbaits.  Predominantly black with red accents has worked way better for me, for whatever reasons.

5 hours ago, Gera said:

 

thanks!!!! just purchased a few.. starting with this exact one, I have never used a black and blue spinnerbait. 

 

I make my own, but that was the inspiration.

 

The short arm spinnerbait is by far the most productive spinnerbaits I ever used. 
 

Good luck!

On 1/24/2022 at 10:00 PM, Gera said:

Hello everyone, 

I moved a few years ago up north where lakes don't have shad (blue gill and perch are the main forage) Where I come from white spinnerbaits kill it. I'm so used to fish them that I use them here regularly and never thought about switch to the colors of the hatch .. I don't have any fishing friends in the area so I don't have any direct source of information. 

 

What you guys think makes the white spinnerbait so successful?? should I be looking at other colors?? I bought a few Picasso spinners and all in white variations when I thought about it for the first time. 

 

thanks for your comments!

 

 

 

My best guess is its more so the flash and just stark contrast of a white or white and chartreuse bait coming past them that excites them into biting, think of a pink or merthiolate worm in the spring, who knows why they go nuts over em but they sure do. and on another note years ago pros used to use bright white worms such as slug-gos and other brands that are now defunct and they would twitch those baits right under surface almost year round and catch fish so sometimes its just the curiosity or excitement that gets em to eat.

A white spinnerbait with white blades; willow, colorado, or combo, has proven to be an excellent dirty water bait for me