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Homemade spinners #10223520 08/20/14 12:01 AM
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Hey Denis Christian,

I'm sending you a couple of my Mepps replicas to try. Now that I think about it, these lures will work as well or better than Mepps. I might as well make the challenge because I have nothing to gain, or loose, on the test results. I actually have no idea how they will work. I made #3 and #4 sizes for you to try. In the photo below I show 4 #3's and 4 #4's, and a few that I made just playing around. The larger one on the left has a rattle in the blade. I wonder if that will work or make a difference. I will send you a #3 and #4 to test.

I look forward to you testing them and reporting the great results!

Thank you, and God bless you.


Re: Homemade spinners [Re: Pastor John] #10223566 08/20/14 12:21 AM
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Pastor John: Thank you sir, and I will give them a good and fair test. Fish are still preferring #4 over #2 here at Cedar Creek. I don't use 3s very much but will test and compare to Mepps 3.

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Those look great, PJ. I saw a few home made mepps and yours look the closest to the French tail spinner lures wink

Re: Homemade spinners [Re: Pastor John] #10224109 08/20/14 03:28 AM
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Wow I don't think the fish can tell the difference cheers


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PJ great job. I cant tell the difference. I bet the fish cant either!


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Those look like Mepps to me



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Great work Pastor John. Waiting for a report now.





Re: Homemade spinners [Re: Pastor John] #10224337 08/20/14 11:33 AM
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Thanks guys. My powder coating skills are still very rough. With more practice I hope to improve. I used the parts that I had, without going to extreem measures to get exact duplicates for Mepps. I can bend the wire and put them together in a couple minutes. If I have to powder coat parts that takes a little longer. Easy.

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lookin good! when we fishing! I was looking at the charts and next Monday and Tuesday looks to be real good for Hubbard, Not sure when I can get out to Cedar but maybe we could do a tawakoni afternoon evening on Monday or Tuesday if you are good fore it!


I only fish on days that end in Y!


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You will definitely hook up with a few fish.

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Re: Homemade spinners [Re: Pastor John] #10225109 08/20/14 05:10 PM
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Those do look great and bet they perform just as well as the originals in the hands of the master! Would be curious to know if you can use a little more weight for the body with the #2 blade and possibly prevent having to use split shot to get it down to bottom. I know on Lake Palestine it is getting real close to time to use small baits and I just don't have near the feel with the #2 as I do with the #4, even with the split shot I still have problems. It may effect the action too much but would be interested to know. Awesome job and nice of you send a few to DC for field testing!


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Go with a lead body instead of brass and you would have the weight.

I've started casting my own bodies for spinners. Haven't had a chance to fish with that batch of spinners yet but I'm planning on going out tomorrow and give them a try. Nice thing about casting and painting my own bodies I can build a good spinner for under $0.50.


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Originally Posted By: Streetwalker
Go with a lead body instead of brass and you would have the weight.

I've started casting my own bodies for spinners. Haven't had a chance to fish with that batch of spinners yet but I'm planning on going out tomorrow and give them a try. Nice thing about casting and painting my own bodies I can build a good spinner for under $0.50.


Yours look great too Streetwalker. $.50 is very cheap compared to what it cost to buy and probably even more rewarding catching fish with something you made.


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ATM97 Streetwalker is right. You could easily use a lead body that would give it the weight necessary on a small spinner. There is not a great deal of difference from the #3 to the #2 mepps except the blade. The body is slightly shorter but everything else is the same. I would think we could change the blade on a #3 and shorten the wire some, and put a short shank hook on it and it would be heavy and small.

benp there is nothing I would like more than to fish Monday. Unfortunately I have a year long training program at work that culminates with a presentation to the board. I will be neck deep in work until a week Saturday. I have not been fishing in forever. The only fix I get is bending some wire for lures.

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Pastor John/ATM97: I'm with you on a heavier #2 if you can use lead in place of brass and make the body only slightly larger. The #2 does have smaller hooks, which is important to me when fishing submerged bridges. There's less chance of hooking the rail as I crank it over the rail.

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