Favorite Artifical Bait Behind a Blade?

[Tom Sawyer]

Wanted to see what baits people have tried, and what success, or lack off you've had with plastics used behind a spinner rig. Powerbait, Gulp, Impulse, TriggerX,? Shapes? Size? Colors?

[mainbutter]

curly tail anything, paddle tail anything. Scents don't really matter to me. I really like big hammer paddletail swimbaits behind big colorado blades and a heavy weight.

[jigginjim]

I'm thinking of trying the pinched off crawlers by Gulp on the slow death rigs. I may need to use two ball bearing swivels to keep lines from twisting bad.

[Eric_Kruger]

The pinched crawlers work great, I also nose hook almost any minnow plastic.

[kfk]

The pinched crawlers are my first choice on slow death rigs. You'll only need one ball bearing swivel to stop line twist. Use a stiffer fluorocarbon line around 14 lbs. test or so or a heavier mono line for your leader material and you'll have no problems.

[Northlander]

I like the floating gulp crawlers on my spinners when I run out of the reel thing.

[minnesotathorn]

just got back from a week in sd. tried uncle josh's pork nightcrawler for the first time. will probably never buy real bait again. cut them in 1/2 to 1/3's. used less than 2 crawlers per day for the 2 of us.

[gophergunner]

Guys, what exactly is a slow death rig? Sorry for the stupid questions. I'm just getting back on the water from a 10 year hiatus. My daughter got wrapped up in fastpitch, and we spent the last weekend touring the upper midwest every weekend for softball tournaments, clinics, hitting and pitching lessons, etc. Didn't even get to do much ice fishing as the girls play all winter in the domes.

When I drug my boat out of the back yard this spring, I realized it hadn't been licensed since 2004. Still going through the process of refurbing all my gear. My old Ambassadeurs and Schimanos came back to life with a little TLC. The boat needed a LOT of TLC.

[Walleye Bill]

Gophergunner, The Slow Death Rig is one of my favorite techniques. Mustad sells a hook "The Slow Death" and the difference is the bend in the hook. It was pioneered by a couple of guides on Lake Oahe some time ago and is very popular on the Pro Walleye Circuit.

The Presentation gets the crawler to spin and for some reason fish cant not hit it. I'm sure you can find videos of it on you tube or The Next Bite HSOforum. But here is a run down.

You tie the hook on a 4 to 6 foot leader behind a bottom bouncer or inline weight. Take a HEALTHY crawler and thread it on the hook through the front till the front of the crawler is past the eye of the hook. The hook should come out before the shank starts to curl towards the barb so it is a nice line down the shank of the hook. Than you pinch the crawler a half to 3/4 of an inch past the hook. The Slow Death works best when you troll it .7 to 1.1 miles per hour. any slower and it wont spin any faster and doesn't spin as well.

Beads can be run in front of the crawler and also inline spinners. I would recommend a red hook as well. I don't know why but the red hook will produce a lot more fish and not only for this presentation.