spinner flies

[BigFlatBrook]

I know there have been FAOL articles about adding a propeller type spinner to your fly, and I've read them. Thanks!

But, in the recent Fly Fisherman, Dave Whitlock says that adding a spinner to a woolly bugger or other streamer increases the effectiveness by several times. Smallmouth fishing, of course, but I would fish for trout doing the same thing if it worked.

I'm far from a purist, but I am a dedicated fly fisherman at this point, and I'm probably not gonna spinfish any more, although I have nothing against using a "Devil Stick" per ce.

Does anyone out there have any experience with this -- specifically regarding smallmouth?

[jalama]

i don't have any smallmouth experience but i have tyed and tried several variations, mainly clouser types with both propellor and in line spinner attachments and had no success with (or without) them on large jaw bass. i have some ice chenille/maribou crappie creations with small prop spinner that i plan to try this week-end. it always looks good on this site and on the bench but no success 4 me yet - probably not the spinners though. i had good luck with pig boat this past week-end and had one tied with a spinner attached but could not bring myself to try it with the other working so well???

[okflyfisher]

I have added a 3 blade propeller to 2 streamers we use here in Ok for LM bass.
Our waters here are stained or muddy most of the time(Acme Brick has a plant here if you know what I mean) and we are always looking for an advantage. I think the jury is still out but my buddy who fishes more than me is convinced the propellers make a difference. Pistol Pete flies( which have spinners) were originally made for trout in reservoirs

[mudni]

Many years ago I used a Pflueger Pilot spinner
which had a fly tied on a single hook(size with a shaft having a propeller type spinner.It was a smallmouth killer in streams around southeastern Indiana

[BigFlatBrook]

That was interesting! I bookmarked those websites. Thanks!

[meadowlark2]

No experience with smallmouth....but lots of experience with spinner additions to flies for catching LMB, HSB, and BG in ponds. The spinner addition, either as a propeller on a bugger type fly or a blade spinner on a minnow imitation fly adds tremendously to the fish catching.

[Colt45]

Anyone have a picture or link to a recipie for such a fly? tied with a blade/prop?

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Colt45
Tomball, TX

[gqualls]

Check out the 2005 archives, 2nd quarter, and look for spinner'd minner. I've tied some of these and they work just fine.

[flytackle]

I tie alot of flies with in-line spinners. Bass of all varities love them and will push each other out of the way to get at them. I make my own in-line spinners with a Hagens wire former and components from Janns NetCraft and hobby store beads. Here are a few that have been known to make smallmouth abandon all hope:


Professor
Red Hackle
Monster Coachman

As the kids say, these are "the bomb". Cheers, Alec

Like Tom Nixon's spinner, perhaps?


See the recipe here: [url=http://laflyfish.com/flies/tom-nixon-spinner.php:4a810]http://laflyfish.com/flies/tom-nixon-spinner.php[/url:4a810]

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