Spinnerbait Anglers

[joedog]

Anyone use one of these?
Hear about these?

All input wanted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J4pKrA8q6U

It's been around awhile but I never hear any talk about it.
Now that may have something to do with the $8 price tag.

[bassboogieman]

IMO, just another gimmick. Several brands have tried different ways to seperate the hook from the head & blades. Booyah has one with cable between the head/hook. Other brands employ a swinging upper arm. A trailer hook provides a similiar function. I've tried them and found no difference in the ability to keep a bass buttoned up. I don't fish a trailer hook either but I almost always fish a spinnerbait with a plastic trailer - it seems I get bit and bit solidly when using one than an untrailered (is that a word?) lure.

[keithdog]

I have to agree with Bruce. Just a gimmick to get the green from your wallet to their bank account. I DO NOT believe any bass is going to have difficulty eating any spinnerbait it wants, whether it hit from behind, the side, below, whatever. In fact, I think a conventional spinner bait design with a solid fixed wire shaft will give you a better hook set than one which swivels.

[MallenManson]

I agree with the above.

And I only use my own anymore. Before that, I was a big fan of Dixie Dancers

[Dave63]

It's bull. If they want to eat it, they WILL EAT IT.

[kennethdaysale]

I don't reckon it would cost you any fish and there might be the odd fish that wouldn't get hooked without it but...................
I can't count the times I've been watching a spinnerbait coming back to the boat and watched little 10" bass grab the skirt and run off 2 or 3 feet sideways and I'd have never known if I wasn't watching. Generally speaking most bass worth catching will EAT a spinnerbait with such gusto that it doesn't matter, of course I have seen truly big bass do the lateral grab and slide or just a quick slam and let go, but I don't know if the spinnerbait in the video would have caught any of those fish.

Buy 10 or 15 of them and send 1 or 2 to everybody that posts on this thread and we'll give them a good field test/review

[joedog]

Sounds like a good idea except I have used a hairpin spin bait maybe a half a dozen times in the last 8 years.

I have ZERO confidence or success with hairpins.

AND HERE'S THE FUNNY PART.
When I first started bassing I rode my bike along ways to fish a spillway.
I had a Moss Boss on a rod and a hairpin on the other.
Fished the Boss a couple times before but first time hairpin.
Found a path through the reeds that came from small boats. It wasn't a landing, just access.
Was casting down the pathway and caught 2 like 2lbs. bass. That as HUGE for me and probably any kid.
A kid like 12 came up from a really beat up trashed camper, in a non camping area. Said his dad didn't fish so he was in the camper.
Had a rod but nothing but bobbers and hooks.
Asked alot of guestions which being new to bassing, not fishing though, had litterally NO answers to.
Wanted to know about the lure, which I knew NOTHING about.
Caught one more and I had a long way home so I gave it to the kid and watched him tie it on and off I went.

Now this was just because I figured I could get another exactly the same.
I had no idea what I had soooooo, kind of hard to replace.
Can't tell you how many hairpins I threw down that same set of reads, NEVER to repeat the success.
Ever since then I have NEVER caught hardly a thing on a hairpin BUT Pike.

So I'm probably never giving away another hairpin again. And I have a lot too.

[Captmikestarrett]

It does work BTW. Less lost fish from the pivot at the head. About hookups well that is different. Does not equate to more hook ups. Heck even striper jigs used to mimic mantis shrimp work better with that pivot head for staying hooked.

The best hookup ratio in my safety pin spinners has been the Hard Hook style with two offset hooks.

Capt Mike