Twin Spin Prototype

[Al Agnew]

Not sure how well the loose connection between the jig head and shaft will work, but it may be great.  Since I make my own twin spins out of spinnerbait heads (I cut off the shaft at the R-bend and reshape into an eye, so mine are rigid between head and shaft), I will note a few things from many years of using them:

You will need a wire shaft loosely attached to the eye, slightly longer than the arms, to which you should tie your line.  Otherwise, your line will continually tangle around the arms.  If you use braid, it will REALLY tangle around the arms.

The loops on the ends of your arms have that little tag end sticking up.  In use, the blades and swivels will often flip around the ends of the arms, and that little tag end will catch them and keep them tangled.  You want the ends of the arms to be as streamlined as possible for this not to happen.

Personally, I like the shaft to be shorter.  Your mileage may vary.

I use mine almost entirely as a fast-moving, high in the water column lure, often bulging the surface on the retrieve.  To that end, I use fluorescent yellow and white more than any other color, with natural brown next and black last.  And the trailer is very important in my opinion.  I use curly tail grubs for the trailer.

 

[Guest]

  

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[rps]

Great comments! Thanks!

 

[dtrs5kprs]

A loose connection between the wire and the eye is a great feature. It lets the jig kick up over cover better, making the entire bait less likely to roll over.

[Flysmallie]

16 hours ago, rps said:

I am sure it would. I just don't know if many would voluntarily go back to the salt packed jars that rusted.

I would. 

[Norm M]

 put vaseline around the threads of your pork rind bottles , solves the rust issue .

[rps]

Prototype II incorporates some of the suggestions made above. I went back and adjusted the first one as well.

 

[rps]

I moved the gold blade harness to a lighter jig I tied and made a silver blade harness for the black jig. As I make the twin spin harnesses, I find the task becomes easier.

 

 

[Guest]

Looking good!

[Fish24/7]

those royal blades are neat!

I was looking through an  old rod locker  on friends dock for a minnow dipper and I found some homemade twin spins in pretty bad shape. They were 1 yellow,1 black and 1 green buck tails ,sewing thread , musky gauge wire  with the hook that had the biggest barb I've ever seen on a hook that size and it looked homemade too. Guessing 5/8oz.? The blades were tiny like what you'd find on a beetle spin maybe a size smaller. When I touched the hair it fell off in my hand. Buddy said they were probably 45+ years old and his uncle had made them specifically for Bull Shoals.