When buying spinnerbaits I recommend to most folks starting out that a 3/8 ounce is a good comfortable place to start. So did it improve hook ups because of the vibration or the slower speed? This gives the fish just that split second longer to inhale the bait. This is twofold however, stepping up in size means that the bait is going to lift higher in the water column on the same speed retrieve, so you will have to slow your retrieve slightly to maintain the same depth. It may not be dark enough to go to a Colorado spinnerbait but stepping up a size with the Indiana blade to get just a little extra thump might work well. Water color hasn’t changed but light penetration has. You’ve been using it and catching fish but today there is a little bit extra cloud cover and the bites haven’t been as aggressive or your missing strikes.
This is a good stained water spinnerbait. A #4 Indiana blade on the bottom and a #2 on the top. For example, an Indiana bladed spinnerbait. All three of these presentations adjustments are can be dramatically changed by simply changing the style of blade but to do minor tweaking, simply changing the blade size may be the better choice. Confused yet.īlade size is a way to fine tune three major presentations in a spinnerbait change the amount of flash, change the depth a bait runs, change the vibration a spinnerbait puts out. So I always refer to this smaller blade as the top blade, unless of course you’re using a spinnerbait where the blades are the same size and then it doesn’t matter unless you’re using a color difference.
If there are multiple blades the smaller of the blades is always on top of the larger blade (or blades). If your holding the spinnerbait by the line tie (as if you were tying it to your line) you will have the head on one side (made of lead or tungsten or some other heavy material) and a or multiple of blades on the other side. Now this is how I describe them and by no means is it an industry standard. Let’s get the position of the blades down first.
I’ll stick with just the 3/8 ounce because it’s the most popular and the ideas behind the blades and what it does to the bait apply to any size for the most part. I seen someone ask the other day on the forum, “what size blades do you put on a 3/8 ounce spinnerbait?” Well that’s a good question and there are a lot of options, so I thought I’d cover a few. However there are thousands of combinations out there between colors, sizes and blades it’s hard to pick which to use.
Spinnerbaits are a great way to catch bass.
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