Hey y'all,

 

Haven't seen too much posted on this topic. I am curious about the applications you see for black nickel blades on spinnerbaits. I have a Megabass SV-3 spinnerbait in bluegill color with black nickel blades. Seems like it should be a good bait for this time of year but those black blades are super unique and I wonder if they make the spinnerbait more effective at certain times. 

 

This bait was a Fishmas gift and I am certainly making time to try it and try to catch fish on it. 

For that bait they make sense  for the color. It gives off some flash but not in a unnatural color.  Big Colorado black night baits is where I use black nickel the most. 

 

Allen 

I use black nickel blades on GP colored bait in 50 degree pre-spawn waters. Move to silver and gold blades during spawn and shad spawn. 
By this time I’m no longer throwing spinnerbait or Chatterbait at all and just fishing deep crank or squarebill for moving baits which is actually rare for me. Almost exclusively fishing plastics deep by now. 

11 minutes ago, Cbump said:

By this time I’m no longer throwing spinnerbait or Chatterbait at all and just fishing deep crank or squarebill for moving baits which is actually rare for me. Almost exclusively fishing plastics deep by now. 

You ain’t got grass though, right?

 

Thank you for your comment! 

Presence of grass wouldn’t change anything for me. Blade baits just aren’t a summer bait for me. 

5 minutes ago, Cbump said:

Presence of grass wouldn’t change anything for me. Blade baits just aren’t a summer bait for me. 

I think, from my humble perspective as a Texas N00b, that with the exception of a couple of things, that you are keeping yourself in a higher percentage for big fish in summer by choosing to stick with some lures you mentioned. But spinnerbaits will absolutely catch em in summer, at least in other places Ive been, and I think they also have a place for big summer fish too. I’m thinking particularly of rolling them along deep grasslines 

That’s true. Anything will catch them at any time really. I just have a routine for myself that for me keeps me in a little bigger than average fish. I’m also thinking from a Tournament perspective 100% of the time. 
 

With that said, I’m headed to caddo right now and I plan to throw frogs for fun. And I would never throw frogs in a tournament. Lol 

 

 

if I fished nights I might use that black spinnerbait. 

13 minutes ago, Cbump said:

That’s true. Anything will catch them at any time really. I just have a routine for myself that for me keeps me in a little bigger than average fish. I’m also thinking from a Tournament perspective 100% of the time. 
 

With that said, I’m headed to caddo right now and I plan to throw frogs for fun. And I would never throw frogs in a tournament. Lol 

 

 

if I fished nights I might use that black spinnerbait. 

Yeah exactly. You think based on tournaments and little fish don’t win tourneys. 
 

Fall and winter I think spinnerbait is higher percentage for size. Prespawn too but I think jig surpasses it and perhaps a lipless too. Can’t hurt to throw them all.
 

Have fun on Caddo throwing frogs!!

 

I use black nickel blades on a solid black spinnerbait in the winter and spring on a bluebird day after a strong cold front has passed through.