3 hours ago, Kev-mo said:

You should try Earth Brite to get the tarnish off. It's clay based in a brite yellow and green container. 

I just use Brasso for everything I want to polish up.

On 5/2/2025 at 12:05 AM, greentrout said:

Rooster Tail, Panther Martin, Blue Fox and Mepps all have their unique designs and fish differently.

Could you elaborate? How do they all behave differently? 

^^^

Good Reads ...

https://backcountrycariboo.com/rooster-tail-vs-panther-martin-vs-mepps-spinner/

https://www.mepps.com/mepps-tactics/article/fishing-bass/20

https://www.panthermartin.com/Guide

Good Fishing ...

Good info greentrout thanks for posting.

Yep.  Used them yesterday.

On 4/29/2025 at 12:01 PM, learnin said:

Anyone still using them for river smallmouths?

 

Not river smallies, but for the next twelve trips out.  I chose a Mepps for my One Lure Challenge.

1 hour ago, DogBone_384 said:

 

Not river smallies, but for the next twelve trips out.  I chose a Mepps for my One Lure Challenge.

 

That's a good choice.

I used to burn up those lil pine knot smallies at Elkhorn creek with the mepps bumble bee!

🙌

I've been using them for decades and probably always will.

 

Mepps never quit catching em, A lot of guys just quit fishing them 

Can't beat a Mepps #3 when positioning the boat parallel to the bank.

Also a lot of fun on a ML.

#2 mepps used to be the only lure I would ever use! These days I only use them a fraction of the time. Powergrubs and shad raps are my go to baits now.

Many outings last month, more than half the LMB I caught were on Mepps or Panther Martin's cast just beyond schools of visible baitfish and/or busting bass

I use a roostertail for everything everywhere from mountain trout to saltwater. 1/16 oz in grasshopper in the mountains to a 1/2 oz white with silver scale on the beach (and for stripers). They just work. Once I realized that many models actually come in a single hook model my life was ever more betterer.

I have not targeted bass green or brown with inline spinners but I can attest to my results using Blue Fox vibrax, Panther Martin & Mepps for pike. The blue fox vibrax #5 in fire tiger color with inside brass blade was an absolute slayer of mid teen through mid twenty pound pike across Canada. We had one day where two of us caught a hundred pike before lunch on Great Slave. It was a fish on almost every cast or so it seemed. If I had to choose only one pike bait to use that is the one. 

13 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

I have not targeted bass green or brown with inline spinners but I can attest to my results using Blue Fox vibrax, Panther Martin & Mepps for pike. The blue fox vibrax #5 in fire tiger color with inside brass blade was an absolute slayer of mid teen through mid twenty pound pike across Canada. We had one day where two of us caught a hundred pike before lunch on Great Slave. It was a fish on almost every cast or so it seemed. If I had to choose only one pike bait to use that is the one. 

 

You've fished Great Slave?????? Wow, Dwight. I envy your angling life.

@Swamp Girl yes Great Slave, Great Bear, Tree river, Talston river, Lake Munroe, Scott lake, Lac LaMarte, Georgian Bay and Lake Athabasca all in the pursuit of pike, lake trout & artic char. I was on a mission for sure. Great memories & a few trophies. 

13 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

@Swamp Girl yes Great Slave, Great Bear, Tree river, Talston river, Lake Munroe, Scott lake, Lac LaMarte, Georgian Bay and Lake Athabasca all in the pursuit of pike, lake trout & artic char. I was on a mission for sure. Great memories & a few trophies. 

 

Mepps?  Been using them since the late 60's as a kid, fishing with my dad!

 

Today - I can make them out of various kits and parts & pieces from Netcraft in OH.

 

Right: A real, vintage, Mepps Aglia size 1 spinner.

Left: My version, a hair larger, size 2.

 

 

Orange or yellow Black Fury, yeah. Size 4 catches bigs.

On 5/1/2025 at 5:44 PM, MassBass said:

1/4 oz. Homemade inlines

Could you post some photos of those?

On 4/29/2025 at 3:14 PM, F14A-B said:

I use to sell Mepps squirrel tails back when I was a young teenager.. between using a spinner & a regular ole crappie maribou jig, both worked great. 

I remember seeing the mepps ads  asking for squirrel tails in outdoor magazines. 

22 hours ago, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

I remember seeing the mepps ads  asking for squirrel tails in outdoor magazines. 

 

They still buy squirrel tails. 

My uncle got a giant out of St. Clair this morning on a number 3 aglia! 

 

My son regularly salvages incredibly tough days on a mepps!

On 7/20/2025 at 9:58 AM, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

I remember seeing the mepps ads  asking for squirrel tails in outdoor magazines. 

I still get Mepps catalogs every year, and the last page is an add to send them squirrel tails. Count me in as an Aglia addict.