I had the opportunity to fish Lake Geneva for the first time in years, with my nephew in his jon boat. It has a little kicker outboard, no trolling motor or depth finder.  It didn't matter, this lake is known for its steep drop offs and I fondly remember some awesome smallmouth action on one that's on the north shore. I began throwing a short arm spinnerbait and hooked up with a nice SM just after we got there.  Two hours and four SM later, he still had nothing to show. We were throwing the same Booyah spinnerbait, but I hadn't noticed that when I did the modification, I'd added a second skirt to mine.

The extra bulk and slower fall rate was the difference and upon adding a second skirt, he was finally into fish. We ended up with ten fish combined. I recall doing this (adding a second skirt) to jigs years ago to slow the fall rate. Don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner for S/Bs.

does anyone else make this modification to jigs or spinnerbaits?

 

Never been a big fan, myself, but Rich Zaleski has great success with, and has written much about, what he refers to as a “big jig,” which is partly comprised of two full-bodied skirts as part of the modifications.

I’ve been going the other way for smallmouth.  I’m using two different colors of silicone tabs and only using 1/2 or each tab as well as cutting them short.