Spinnerbait tactics

[TNFL]

What are the most effective ways to work a spinnerbait? Do you: change speeds throughout the retrieve, try to maintain the same speed, move your rod tip to change directions? Just curious!!

[Stainless]

Im a far cry from being a fishing expert, but here's what I do.

I generally try to cast to areas I feel will hold bass, but cast a bit beyond that point and reel through it. Areas suck as casting deep into some reeds, into a gap in the lilly pads, over the top of a submerged log, next to a dock and so on. I never change my retrieve speed in the middle of the retrieve. Some times it works better to reel on the fast side where the blades ripple the surface and sometimes to run it a foot below the surface. The biggest key in my opinion is to throw it and retrieve it through an area you feel a bass may be hangin out.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Tn- To be totally honest, there is not wrong way to fish a spinnerbait. Change your retrieve until you get a hit and duplicate.

I genreally try and retrieve so that I am just over the top of the weeds. Shallow weeds that means I am pulling that bait back much faster than in deep water. And I always... and I mean always... Will change the speed of the retrieve when the bait is about 10 feet away from the boat. You would not believe how many fish will follow a bait and all of a sudden it will stop and it will almost run into it and just hit it all of a sudden.. Give it a shot!

[delmuts]

to add; change speeds, give the rod a jerk,bounce the bait off of structure. i even yo yo the rod to vary the lures movements.

[Deitz Dittrich]

well said del!

[bassman21]

Spinnerbaits are my bait of choice. The other thing that I can add is to change your colors if there not hitting and to also pick colors based on water clarity and sun/cloud conditions. For very clear water and a sunny day, I have my best luck with dark baits, where on a cloudy day I would go to a lighter color.

[outdoor ran]

one of my favorite ways to fish a spinnerbait is to pad walk it. I throw it on the top of lilly pads and put my arms above my head and the rod tip high and real fast. walking it across the pads. Then I let it drop into the pockets. Its hard to hook them at times but it sure can get exciting.