no luck with spinner baits?

[mrpike1973]

so i'm getting ready for a yard sale going through my tackle and realized that i hardly ever get any fish on them. i keep a detailed diary of all the fish i catch and on what. any way in the last 3 years i've only got 5 pike total on them. i also use them alot. any way just wondering if its me or not however i've caught endless bass and pike on a northland mimmic minnow or curl tail grub with a beetle spin type blade.

[Big Bobber]

Probably in my top 2 for bass baits. I have found that willow blades will produce more pike. I like to use white, Chart./white and chart/blue with silver blades. I will use any of these with or without a pork frog chunk. I will cast into the slop and let it flutter into any opening I see, and if I am pitching next to the reeds I will let it flutter before I start the retrieve.

[20lbSloughShark]

Spinnerbaits do work, but seem to be overrated by some. I love them for weeds like pondleaf where you can run a spinnerbait right through it. Under the right conditions they work fine like many other lures. On certain lakes they can be devastating on hammer handles. Most of the time I get bass too. Same with getting walleye when slow trolling for pike. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I think they work better in the fall when pike come back in shallow. I have not had much luck with them in the spring. Summer is hammerhandle and bass time for spinnerbaits unless you can get them deeper.

[HandGunner]

weighed in at 4lb 10oz yesterday on our windy MN day. Casting for pike through the weeds for barley 4 mins before heading to the park playground to play with my little girl. Caught her instead snapped a pic weighed quick and released her asap unexpected catch since for the most part I had a few pike rip me off a day after opener on Mimmics, decided to toss a spinnerbait yesterday that had a grub instead of a skirt because it was sooooooo windy and boom! guess the bass are moving shallow now im excited for this saturday, keep them you might regret it

[CANOPY SAM]

Spinner baits, used at the right time and place, are a dynamite way to hunt for active, aggressive fish. If you're not catching fish on spinnerbaits you're likely not using them at the right time and place.

[th64]

No better lure for use in and around weeds-also great in wood structure.They work well fast slow and in-between-they work deep shallow and in-between.

[Deitz Dittrich]

I guess it has more to do with where you are throwing them and how you are fishing them? Spinnerbaits flat out catch fish, but you should be near structure, your blades and lure speed should match the conditions.

[20lbSloughShark]

I'd like to add that they draw a reaction strike, thats why they work in cover. In the open, especially clear water, if fish get a look at it, they may not hit it.

[CANOPY SAM]

Big spinnerbaits speed trolled along the surface, periodically slapping and splashing the surface, is a great way to catch muskies!

Large Colorado Blade spinnerbaits slow rolled thru deep cabbage, or on the deep edge of breaklines is a great way to catch big pike and bass.

Pitching spinnerbaits into bullrushes, or as Deitz says above, in and around shallow weed growth and cover, is a terrific way to catch largemouth and smallmouth bass.

I've even caught walleyes in rivers throwing smaller spinnerbaits into rocky humps and eddy currents.

Periodically alter the speed and direction of your retrieve, and once in a while quickly stop and start the motion of the bait and you'll trigger more fish to strike.

[fishuhalik]

Hands down, I've caught more big bass & pike on sbaits than any other lure in my boxes. The next would be senkos but those are more of a spring/late fall presentation. In southern MN the milfoil makes em almost impossible to fish though. Also, it seems like alot of bass down here relate to structure & weedlines more than the shallower stuff, so you would probably so better with a c-rig or deep crank, especially in the summer. If you have a good reed bed or a nice submerged cabbage patch, very few baits IMHO will catch more fish. Burn em, slow roll em, it depends on the day. However, if you're fishing after a front, you're usually better off with more of a finesse presentation. I'm in South Texas now & last week I got 30 bass in 2 hours just wade fishing, burning a chart/white colorado blade sbait (my fav for burning) over some submergerged coontails.

[fishuhalik]

I should add, growing up in northern MN we were usually after bass and pike, not one or the other. And since both fish love em, that's what we usually threw

[amateurfishing]

i'm kind of surprised with this post, i am not a very good fisherman and even i have caught BIG bass with these & top water buzz baits...i have even had the big ones get really close and miss em at the last second as well but you sure can see the splash from them