Spinnerbait Blade Colors

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Gavin,

Have you tried the gun metal at all. I'm thinking for a small in-line for trout.

Mostly Silver, Gold, and Black...have some with White, Chartruese, and Flo. Orange for dingy water.

[Mitch f]

Jerry, Seriously?

If the success was even remotely favorable you wouldn't have to be reminded!

I bet those old chartreuse bladed spinnerbaits are buried somewhere that you don't even wanna go, with rotten matted skirts laying under them. LMAO!

I bet you've got your old favorite lures that you couldn't do without then, and wouldn't dare pick one up today for some unknown reason. My is the Chomper...when they first came out I used them every time I went out, now I bet I haven't used one in 4-5 years. Funny how that works, I bet they will still catch fish!!

[fishinwrench]

Heck yeah Choppers still catch fish! They are a Winter bait for me here on the lake, when the bass wont eat a jerkbait I can.usually put together a solid limit with a 5" Chomper.

I special order them without garlic though

It's been years since I had a good spinnerbait bite going... that sucks too because I love to throw them.

I guess my newest pet 'gear bait' is Stanley's Bull Ribbit, that thing is a freakin riot!

[Old plug]

I started try a white spinner bait when I was up the lake the other day. Maybe i should have. The water color was about perfect for it.

[Terrierman]

this got me to thinking (now I have a head ache, thanks), but I used to use spinnerbaits with chartruese blades and matching skirts quite a bit. It was a pretty good combo, especially very early in the morning and in early spring with murky, warming water. Might have to try one again. Thanks for re-opening that brain cell.

Chart blade and blue skirt is a go to color for me

[kirbydog]

Silver and gold with a white or silver skirt for me. Sometimes a skirt with a little chartreuse in it if the water is stained. With a spinnerbait I think you're getting a reaction strike and color doesn't matter all that much cause a fish mostly reacts to the flash and vibration.

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[LarrySTL]

I have done well at times with copper blades both at night or daytime, and I keep hearing that Great Lakes folks use chartruese blades burned at top speed for SM. I have done OK on a black painted blade at night, and sometimes done very well on florescent orange or flor red with some black in it in water that is normally clear but at the time was solid mud. All this was on lakes.

For a few years almost all I used was a tri-color white/chartruese/blue skirt with whatever blade(s) were on the one I grabbed from my box, and I seemed to do about as well on that as the years before, or after, when I tried to figure out The Right Colors.

[Al Agnew]

On my twin spin, I put gold blades on some and silver blades on others, and never really notice what blade color is on the one I pick out of the box to put on, so I guess it doesn't matter. I always used to pick out gold blades on sunny days and silver ones on cloudy days, until I kept reading stuff saying that you should do just the opposite. Still never saw that it made any difference.

The fish print blades make absolutely no sense to me, since the blade is spinning way too fast to actually see the print on it unless it's fluttering to the bottom, maybe.

[RSBreth]

I do use different blades at times - sometimes orange or yellow or chartreuese works better on Spots and Smallies more than Largemouths.

The tip about Great Lake Smallies works on our reservior Smallies and Spots, too - burning a compact but heavy spinnerbait in hot colors can get the Bass fired up in certain conditions.