do spinners work for bass?

[mrpike1973]

hi do inline spinners like mepps work for bass i have tried them for pike with out much luck how about bass

[Nick Kuhn]

They sure do. They work much better on cloudy or rainy days though when bass aren't holding as close to structure. Bass tend to bump it once before striking, so if you feel the blades stop spinning, give them a little pop and fish will often come back and take it.

[tcwin]

I have had great luck with inline spinners for bass. I have worked them in the sandy shallows over/through sparse weeds.

[mrklean]

i really think you can catch almost anything on inline spinners

[herefish101]

Thats one of the best pike lures ever, I cant belive you have had bad luck pike fishing with one. Try putting a trailer, like a small gulp worm on it or a mr twister, then work the weed edges and above submerged weeds, you should be catching pike on that lure. Oh yah, bass like em too.

[shizzy]

i really think you can catch almost anything on inline spinners

X2

my go to is a medium sized Mepps.

[Dylan33]

i really think you can catch almost anything on inline spinners

X3- I caught a catfish on one last summer!

great overall lure

[mainbutter]

I haven't had much luck with inline spinners for bass, though they do hit it.

That said, there was one day this year when I was pike fishing with a mepps "musky killer" (#5 blade inline spinner with a heavily bucktail-dressed treble).. the big LMB were ALL OVER the thing! I caught just as many bass as pike that day.

I fish the same spots regularly with the same mepps spinner and except for that one day the bass have left the spinner alone.

I've also used the same spinner in canada with no bass luck, but the smallies FOLLOW the darn thing on every cast. If I'd brought a much smaller spinner I would have tried it, but you can't bring EVERY POSSIBLE size and color of every lure on a trip unfortunately.

Much like pike, it seems that the bass are either going to be turned way on or turned completely off when it comes to non-food lures like spinners.

[deadeye]

#2 aglia plain hook blaze orange. Can't even count how many bass both smallies and largemouth have fell to that one. Its a bit smaller than some but sometimes I think that really helps when the fish are.more tight lipped. Its a good way to cover a lot of water and still get fish that might not bite a regular bass spinnerbait.

[JBMasterAngler]

I use mepps spinners about 50% of the time when I'm fishing for smallies. I pretty much have 1 in every color. Pike like them alot too, although when I'm targeting them, I use bigger blue fox spinners. Actually, just about all species of fish like spinners, but aside from smallies and pike, other fish I've caught regularly are...largemouth bass, white bass, crappie, green sunfish, stream trout, perch, rock bass, and walleye.

[Phantasy_Fishing]

Bass will bite in-line spinners. From my experience, smallmouth bass are more willing to bit in-line spinners. I catch more largemouth bass on spinnerbaits.