Fly Rod Spinner Bait Buddy and Ron turned out a great little video.

Great stuff. I actually had time to watch it, at work... Thanks, Robin.

Cool. I thought it interesting that he started the spinning rig at the spinner end. I start at the other end when bending rigs for jigs. Then again I make them removable and have to slide the retaining spring along a straight wire.

Robin, I am always amazed at what you are able to find, on the Internet. This is another fine example.

I MUST HAVE ME SOME OF THEM!!!!!! I am a spinner bait fisherman. I think they are the greastest thing since sliced bread. Thanks for finding that RR

You can make any fly a spinner bait fly, just by simply buying "jig spinners" at Walmart, Academy, BPS, whereever....

they consist of the spinner, swivel, wire arm, and have a clip to attach the jig to, or in our case, a streamer, to it.


heres a wooly bugger with spinner.. you dont need any weight on the wooly bugger since the spinner metal provides the weight.

That sounds handy! Do they come in "itsy bitsy"?

yes.

if you're talking "duck creek" sized for 1wt, then NO.
but if your talking 5wt and up, sure!

1 wt? No, I know that ain't in the catalogs. But yes, some bassing with a spinnerbait on a five or up would be nice. That six weight from Albright is on the brown truck and that might be a nice way to break it in.

You could use the spinners off your old beetlespins.

Picked these up at Barlow's today, 10 packs for under just $3.00
I guess just tie the Pigboat and pass Go, collect $200 and use these instead of all the wire bending. Much simpler hey? Or bypass tying the Pigboat and just tack on whatever's in your flybox.

I order those from Barlow's all the time and tie up Wooly Bugger jig heads to go under them for my Grandson. He says the fish in Choke love them along with the submerged brush. LOL

I can almost hear Tom nixon saying," The only reason to put a spinner blade on a fly is if you want to catch fish."

Big Dale

I have not put any weight on my Woolly Buggers, except for if I make a conehead one. I guess it would be better if I wrapped some lead on them. I plan to make some for Broken Bow beforehand. I made a gray one today, but put a black head on it with chenille. The rest of the body was gray just like the marabou...then I added a big black head on it. I wrapped the body up to, but not including the head with grizzly hackle. I thought I would see how it performs doing it that way, instead of a conventional Woolly Bugger.

i made a conehead woolly booger

LOL!

I like the use of flash on the head of that fly. If only there were such shiny materials available for the rest of the fly.

LOL oh my...now that was a surprise! Mike you never cease to amaze me with your humor. :-)

Hey Robin.

How are those Barlow's spinner rigs working?

I was playing with the UL spinning rig recently and found that Davy's Knot does not work well on the looped end of this type of spinner rigs. The knot works fine with the R-bend spinners I make, but not with the dual-layer safety-pin style bend.

Apart from the knot, have you had a chance to fish the spinner rigs?

Try the rapala knot Rapala Knot

I tried one down below Denison Dam but promptly lost it. But it sure did look good until the rocks claimed it. No fishing since then so I'll have to report as time goes on. Got kinda busy here lately!

I had forgotten about these old spinner flies .....
Love to drive the purists crazy ...

Nice George, nice. Is that woodchuck, squirrel, wolverine? They look good, whatever the critter.

WOW! That is cool! The bottom one looks like the spinner off an old PICO Texas Trailer.